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Blue Mountains City Council is upgrading the play space at Neate Park in Blackheath and adding a new accessible path between the skate park and the play space.

The upgrade, funded with a $100,000 grant from the Crown Lands Improvement Fund, will replace the ageing equipment at the play space with similar Moduplay elements.

This is the most cost-effective use of the grant money to benefit the whole community and enable the upgrade to include accessible elements.

“Neate Park is a centrally located play space that is popular with local families and with visitors to the Blue Mountains, given its location on the Great Western Highway,” Mayor, Cr Mark Greenhill, said.

“It’s important that we ensure our many parks across the Mountains are upgraded to current Australian Standards.

“While most of the equipment will be similar to what was there before, the existing slide will be upgraded to a dual slide and the existing swing will become a dual bay swing, with an inclusive nest swing and two standard junior swings.

“Replacing the equipment rather than a major re-design means we have budget from the grant to build an accessible path across the slope from the existing path at the skate park, to the play space.”

The accessible path will link to an accessible picnic shelter at Neate Park, that will be built as part of a major upgrade to Blackheath Village starting later in 2022. This is a separate project funded by the NSW Government Liveability program and will include new safety lighting and footpath improvements at Neate Park.

Work on the Neate Park play space upgrade will start on Monday 14 February 2022 and is expected to be completed in March 2022.

For more information: bmcc.nsw.gov.au/neatepark

Photo: An artist’s impression of the new play space at Neate Park.