Save Epping's Forest Park – Take a stance in protecting your community

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About Forest Park, Epping

Forest Park is a family-friendly reserve in Epping, with a playground, picnic areas, tall trees and plenty of open space, it's a lovely spot for a family day out.

Tucked away off Blaxland Road and not far from the busy traffic of Epping Road, this sunny and peaceful family park boasts a surprising amount of space. There’s plenty of shade if the weather is warm, while there’s no shortage of open, grassy space to explore. You can set up for a game of soccer or cricket (albeit on a sloping pitch), or just let energetic kids run themselves ragged. Take a moment to help us protect this local piece public recreation space. Please HAVE YOUR SAY to help SAVE Epping’s Forest Park.

Learn more about Save Epping’s Forest Park Action Group

Join Forest Park’s Social Community.

Help our local community to retain Forest Park in all it’s beauty and heritage value for future generations from proposed local development. Go to our Community Page to follow ‘Save Epping’s Forest Park’ and share and like to create awareness for this community group at: Facebook Community Page

Get the details on the Rezoning and Development Proposed by Austio Property Group.

This planning proposal is requesting to have 6,665 metres squared of public recreation land rezoned to build a 20-storey unit block. Epping needs to have MORE useful space and recreation land, NOT LESS. Find out More…

Our Action Group finds this development proposal is AGAINST PUBLIC INTEREST and we ask you help support the following actions:

To keep the former Epping Bowling Club site as public recreation land… To keep current zoning under the Local Environment Plan… To prevent overshadowing of Forest Park… To preserve our trees… To allow for infrastructure consideration… And to consider appropriate commercial to residential floor space ratios for Epping. Get the details.

Protecting our Local Heritage for Epping's Current and Future Generations

A path runs diagonally through the gently sloping park from Blaxland Road to Forest Grove. The path takes you to the park’s centrepiece, a war memorial, which is the site of an annual Anzac Day dawn service.

This memorial was actually first erected in 1922 on the corner of Beecroft Road, to remember those who gave their lives in the First World War. But the monument was obstructing local traffic and, in 1937, it was moved to its current location in Forest Park.

Heritage Site - Forest Park Anzac Memorial

In 2015, Forest Park venue was packed with almost 4000 veterans, families, and representatives of local primary and high schools wishing to pay their respects to our country.The obelisk in Forest Park was built in 1922 as a World War I memorial at the intersection of Bridge St and Beecroft Rd. The names of the 24 World War I soldiers who were killed, nine of them at Gallipoli, are commemorated on the memorial. Among the wreaths laid on it by Epping RSL Sub-Branch members, schools and Bennelong federal Liberal MP John Alexander, Epping state Liberal MP Damien Tudehope and Parramatta City Councillor Pierre Esber, were two bunches of colourful flowers. 1000 plus people have signed our Petition to help preserve this local heritage site.

Thank you to the 1000 plus people who signed our Petition. The Petition has been delivered to Amanda Chadwick, Administrator for City of Parramatta and is now closed. We believe

We continue to need your support and will be asking for you to make submissions when the Forest Park, Epping Planning Proposal is put on Public Exhibition. Please follow our

To express your concerns about the Forest Park Planning Proposal directly to Council Clr Andrew Wilson Lord Mayor City of Parramatta Council PO Box 32 Parramatta NSW 2124 Phone: 98065198

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