Rushcutters Bay Park and Yarranabbe Park
Conservation Management Strategy
Woollahra Municipal Council
Darling Point, NSW
Rushcutters Bay Park and Yarranabbe Park (including the Sir David Martin Reserve and Plantation Reserve, and the sea wall) are heritage-listed harbourside parklands in Sydney’s inner eastern suburbs.
For nearly 150 years these parks have been a popular space for organised sport, swimming, boating, leisure and play.
Woollahra Municipal Council engaged GML to prepare a conservation management strategy for the sections of the parks that lie within the Woollahra local government area.
In collaboration with specialist landscape adviser Ari Anderson, GML undertook site investigations, targeted historical and archaeological research to augment the significance assessment undertaken when the parks (including part of Rushcutters Bay managed by City of Sydney Council) were jointly listed on the State Heritage Register.
GML graded the significance of the park’s built and landscape elements, and integrated current historical archaeological and Aboriginal heritage reporting, and proposed conservation policies to assist Woollahra Municipal Council in its future decision-making for the parks.
GML’s conservation management strategy provides the necessary heritage management framework to help protect the heritage values of these layered, complex foreshore parks, while meeting the needs of the local community.
