Boronia Park

Boronia Park

Whilst not officially a suburb, Boronia Park is certainly a destination and well known amongst locals for its shopping strip on Pittwater Road and Boronia Park Public School also on Pittwater Road. Boronia Park also offers large residential blocks and wide streets. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s subdivision took place throughout the area, which saw an increase to the local population and lots of families moving to the area.

The most recognised feature of the Boronia Park precinct is Boronia Park Reserve, which was dedicated on the 16 December 1887.

At approximately 24 hectares, Boronia Park is the largest area of open space in Hunters Hill. This popular park offers a range of leisure and recreation activities, as well as organised sporting uses, based on the area’s sizeable and environmentally significant bushland areas combined with a range of sport and recreational facilities and assets.

Boronia Park offers a rare combination of natural bushland areas, managed parkland settings, and developed sports fields and facilities that are not found elsewhere in the local government area. The Park:

• protects three endangered ecological communities, and provides valuable habitat for a range of native animals including several threatened species, with information signs explaining these values to visitors:
• is part of a regionally significant wildlife corridor linking Sydney Harbour and Lane Cove National Park;
• is the focus of on-going weed control and bush regeneration measures;
• is a listed heritage feature under Council’s LEP, and includes several items of Aboriginal cultural;
• heritage significance and European historic heritage value;
• provides three full-sized sports fields (two floodlit);
• has been a venue for rugby union for over 100 years, and includes the historic grandstand at Oval No. 1;
• includes a turf cricket wicket (at Oval No. 1) and three high standard, lockable, cricket practice nets;
• has two sealed and one grassed netball courts;
• offers a junior playground and a mixed age playground;
• is heavily used by people enjoying casual or independent leisure and recreation activities;
• offers a range of scattered park and picnic furniture;
• is a popular venue for personal trainers, fitness groups, dog-walkers and other small group users;
• is an important visual element for both the local streetscape as well as views to and from the area;
• is traversed by the Great North Walk and offers a choice of internal bushland walking tracks;
• is the venue for community events such as the annual Moocooboola Festival, Food and Wine Festival and Carols by Candlelight;
• provides access to the Lane Cove River; and
• performs valuable stormwater management and water quality functions.