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Caring for our parks - Badgers Park Old Bar

General maintenance and care for our public shared assets are often overlooked and taken for granted. Just like the cleaning that goes on everyday in any household - unseen but making life better for everyone.
I was lucky this morning to catch the Greater Taree Council staff (I think) with the mower in our park. They keep the grass beautiful and it is a nice piece of open ground. Thank you to the staff who do this and probably receive no recognition and appreciation for what they do. This allows us to use it more readily and there is a patch of purple weed type flowers that spring into life again after it is mowed.
Sadly, I suspect that it is the lovely open mowed look that has developers questioning its 'use' when it could be sold so readily for profit. The park looks so fantastic in its mix of unkept bush and mown grass. We are so lucky to have these small suburban green band parks in our neighbourhood. This is a legacy of town planning given to us by previous Council's based on the idea of what constitutes a good planning for development, but now under threat. In saying this I also acknowledge that the entire lands belonged to the Biripi nation not so long ago and was taken from them. They also were seen not to use it in a valid way so didn't have any ownership in new laws. What is the answer? What type of use or value to citizens is valid to keep our green spaces now?
See the latest news on the threat to our parks.
Look at completing the online submission again as the questions seem to have changed. See here.