Queensland All Abilities Playground Project

• About the project
• Playground site locations
  • Ayr
  • Blackwater
  • Broadbeach
  • Capalaba
  • Edmonton
  • Gympie
  • Landsborough
  • Logan Central
  • Mackay
  • Mossman
  • Mount Isa
  • New Mapoon
  • Normanton
  • Pialba
  • Texas
  • Thuringowa Central
  • Yeppoon
• Design Framework
• Pioneer Park
  • Physical development
  • Sensory
  • Learning
  • Facilities
  • Accessibility
• Resources
• Contacts

New Mapoon All Abilities Playground

Council:

Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council

Playground location:

Between Bond and Langie Streets, New Mapoon

Size:

approximately 6400m²

Council contact:

CAT (project managers) Senior Technical Officer Andre Grant on (07) 4031 0505 or email andre.grant@icat.org.au

Site background

Sunset near New Mapoon

New Mapoon's community park project, which includes an all abilities playground, forms part of a wider strategy to enhance play opportunities for the region's children and their families.

The proposed site is located near various community facilities, including a day care centre, Family Resource Centre, activity centre, youth centre and also bus stops.

The New Mapoon community identified the need to have a play space to support after-school activities, as well as general usage, providing developmental and social activity for children, families and the wider community.

The project has also been identified as a "community build" project, which will provide local residents with valuable opportunities to learn new skills and trade practices in the construction of the park.

Planning and design

The Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT), a not-for-profit organisation run by an Indigenous board of directors, was engaged to project-manage the New Mapoon community park project.

Community members play an integral role in ongoing decision-making relating to the project, providing constant feedback as part of a high-collaborative planning and design process. Underpinning this process was the early establishment of a community committee and an information hub at the Family Resource Centre.

The planning phase saw community members discuss and identify their vision for the community park. Images of different play elements and spaces were used to show what would be achieved.

As part of the park's design phase, which commenced early 2009, the community is also helping to put their visions and ideas into concept designs by participating in 3D-modelling and mapping exercises, surveys and by providing feedback to visual imagery, such as flash cards.

For more information, contact CAT or the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council.

Last reviewed: 11 November 2009