BARANGAROO POINT RESERVE SET TO OPEN

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Sydney CBD’s new six-hectare Harbour foreshore park will officially open next month. The opening of the park, called Barangaroo Point Reserve, on August 22 will mark the return of the foreshore to the public for the first time in more than 100 years.

The Governor of New South Wales, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret'd) this week joined Years 3 and 4 students from historic Fort Street Public School, to plant the final tree.

Designed by renowned landscape architect Peter Walker of PWP Landscape Architects in conjunction with Johnson Pilton Walker, Barangaroo Point Reserve is inspired by the original Harbour headland that existed prior to reclamation, circa 1836.

The park is home to 75,000 native plants and 83 species of trees and shrubs, all of them native to the Sydney region.

The park is part of 11 hectares of public domain planned for Barangaroo. It is the beginning of a series of new parks and civic spaces culminating in 50 per cent public domain throughout Barangaroo.

Key features of the new public parkland include:

• The Cutaway, a cultural space built inside the headland that can accommodate up to 5,500 people 
• New pedestrian and shared cycle paths and direct access to the Harbour 
• New public lawn areas, including Stargazer Lawn with views of the Harbour Bridge 
• Nawi Cove, the large cove situated between Barangaroo Point Reserve and Central Barangaroo
• 10,000 sandstone blocks excavated from the sandstone on site and 6,500 sandstone blocks used to create the naturalistic foreshore.