Background

Dunbar Park is a key location for the Avalon Beach community.

We committed to several actions to improve some of the amenity of Dunbar Park and surrounds in the Avalon Beach Place Plan. The improvements for the park are intended to make it more appealing and useable for a range of activities, including comfortable places for people to meet, gather and play, improved lighting, and space for performances and events.

We consulted with the community on concept plans for Dunbar Park from 29 May and 26 June 2024.

The implementation of improvements to Dunbar Park would be staged in accordance with funding and scheduled to minimise disturbance to the community. Improvements proposed included:

• lighting to provide a sense of liveliness and safety
• providing pop-up play spaces and active play elements
• increasing public seating, picnic benches and tables
• increasing footpath widths where required
• providing shelter for shade and weather protection
• opportunities for arts and performance spaces
• installing new bike parking.

Our concept plan was preliminary which meant, where appropriate, we took our community's feedback into account as we progressed to detailed design.

We asked you to view the concept plan and tell us what you thought by completing a short survey or emailing or writing to us. Comments closed 11:59pm Wednesday 26 June 2024.

Design concepts follow our public space design guidelines - you can read Public Space Vision and Design Guidelines - Northern Beaches for more information.