Chapter Three |
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GLR 2 - Shipwrights Bay |
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| Sub-section |
| Start and finish |
Carss Park / Poulton Park (Hurstville Grove) |
| Distance |
5.0km |
| Grade |
2-3 |
| Main features |
- Shipwrights Bay Reserve and Bald Face Point Reserve
- Kyle Williams Recreational Reserve and Donnelly Park
- Poulton Park
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| Description |
Route predominantly along street footpaths and potential on-road shoulder cycleways on quiet suburban streets (2.0 km). Walking tracks through Shipwrights Bay Reserve, Bald Face Pt Reserve and Kyle Williams Recreational Reserve (3.0 km). Links with mangrove boardwalk in Poulton Park. Potential shared use link from Carss Park along Beach Street, through Dover Park, Princes Highway, footpath under Tom Ugly's Point Bridge - linking to (potential) Shipwrights Bay walkway and Sutherland Shire routes. |
| Opportunities and constraints |
- Limited opportunities and prohibitive cost of increasing foreshore public access
- Opportunities to improve access to existing foreshore reserves and maintain natural values
- Shipwrights Bay Reserve - remnant foreshore bushland with good environmental/scenic values, bush regeneration required, great potential for bay wide natural walking track
- Kyle Williams Recreational Reserve - good natural walking tracks through bushland - access points difficult to find/ no signs/ residents mowing grass into reserve
- Legacy House
- Kyle Bay Reserve and Donnelly Park - good resting/vantage points
- No footpaths - East St/M Dodd Cr/Gold St/Waratah St/Terry St/Queens Rd
- Redin Place Reserve - unclear access near houses/no signs to Poulton Park
- Poulton Park - potential to restore natural creek, bush regeneration and improve walkway/cycleway networks
- Connells Point - shows the impact of residential development on natural foreshore features
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| Actions |
- KCC - investigate potential of Shipwrights Bay Walk (Tom Ugly's Point/ Castle St)
- KCC/DIPNR - investigate damaged and unsafe cliff staircase in Shipwrights Bay Reserve (near Castle St)
- KCC - resolve Legacy House public access
- KCC/bush care groups - improve management of Kyle Williams Reserve - reverse residential privatisation of public land, Shipwrights Bay Reserve bush regeneration and community weed education
- KCC/RTA - Signs/ on-road shoulder cycleway marking/ bike barriers and lockups - clear signage of walking only trails
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| Priority |
B |
| Estimated cost |
$40k |
| Key stakeholders |
KCC/RTA/bush care groups |
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Rationale:
Development limits foreshore access in this part of the Way. The proposed route follows quiet residential streets, avoiding those with steep slopes and uses links to foreshore parks - Shipwrights Bay Reserve, Dover Park, Bald Face Point Reserve, Kyle Williams Reserve, Donnelly Park and Poulton Park, to enable people to reach the Georges River.
The route also promotes expansion of Shipwrights Bay Reserve walkway and links with Sutherland Shire sections of the Great Kai'mia Way. |
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• Lower Reaches 
Sutherland Shire Environment Centre | Suite 4 (1st Floor), 2-4 Merton Street, Sutherland NSW 2232