{"id":29432,"date":"2024-10-04T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29432"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:01:31","slug":"community-invited-to-spring-into-gregson-parks-reimagined-playspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/community-invited-to-spring-into-gregson-parks-reimagined-playspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Community invited to spring into Gregson Park\u2019s reimagined playspace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

City of Newcastle is ready to celebrate the completion of the $3.5 million playground upgrade at Gregson Park with a family friendly community event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With fences coming down ahead of the long weekend, City of Newcastle will welcome the community back into the space with a fun-filled event on Tuesday 8 October with free activities and entertainment for all to enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrating Indigenous traditions, the area includes a bush tucker garden and yarning circle to encourage knowledge sharing, in addition to traditional play equipment, a range of accessible and nature-based play options, and an upgraded, accessible amenities building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new play space includes equipment for a range of ages and abilities, including a six-metre-high climbing tower, trampolines and a balance obstacle course, as well as a softfall mound with slides, rope and rock-climbing elements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"GregsonGregson Park’s renewed playspaceOther features include a seesaw rocker, swing set and sandpit with waterplay feature, along with an accessible carousel and whizzers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opportunities for passive and active recreation have been created to re-activate the much-loved park, with additional shade, formal and informal seating, footbridges, a new covered picnic area, while exercise equipment delivers an outdoor gym experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maddie\u2019s bench continues to be treasured within the heart of the new playspace for the community to use as a space to rest, reflect and enjoy the surroundings of Maddie\u2019s favourite park.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

City of Newcastle is proud to have delivered accessible infrastructure for everyday activities, with various pieces of equipment that will be suitable for everyone, including those with limited mobility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

City of Newcastle invites the community to celebrate this renewed playspace with family friendly activities being held between 10am to noon on Tuesday 8 October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event will feature free face painting, an ice cream truck and coffee cart, roving entertainment and music. City of Newcastle\u2019s Environment team will also host fun nature-based activities to keep children busy and engaged.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the latest information about the free community event visit newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/gregsonparkplayspace<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City of Newcastle is ready to celebrate the completion of the $3.5 million playground upgrade at Gregson Park with a family friendly community event.  With fences coming down ahead of the long weekend, City of Newcastle will welcome the community back into the space with a fun-filled event on Tuesday 8 October with free activities and entertainment for all to enjoy.  Celebrating Indigenous traditions, the area includes a bush tucker garden … Continue reading “Community invited to spring into Gregson Park\u2019s reimagined playspace”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29433,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29432\/revisions\/29433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}