{"id":950,"date":"2018-12-07T15:11:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=950"},"modified":"2018-12-07T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:11:59","slug":"construction-starts-on-stockton-drawcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/construction-starts-on-stockton-drawcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction starts on Stockton drawcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction has started on a $1.9 million playground and skate plaza precinct at Griffith\u00a0Park, Stockton.<br \/>\nThe South Stockton Active Hub will be delivered by a specialist skate park construction firm and be built in two parallel rows shorter than the single 140-metre length first envisaged.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Stocktoninside.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Construction-starts-on-Stockton-drawcard\/Stocktoninside.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"Stocktoninside.jpg\" \/><strong><sup>Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes with Stockton residents at Griffith Park<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\nThe facility, which was revised following community feedback, will be situated at the southern end of the park adjacent to the harbour and a greater distance from neighbouring Hunter Street houses.<br \/>\nLord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said the playground will be complete with flying foxes, slides, climbing nets, swings and skate facilities, would draw more people across the Hunter River.<br \/>\n&#8220;This new playground will help to revitalise the Stockton foreshore by creating a vibrant, healthy and active outdoor-friendly space for the community,&#8221; Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The final design fits in perfectly with the existing amenities. We fielded submissions about a range of issues relating to the playground and skate plaza and, where possible, the concept plan has been amended to address them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"overview-stockton.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Construction-starts-on-Stockton-drawcard\/overview-stockton.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"overview-stockton.jpg\" \/><strong><sup>An artist impression of the South Stockton Active Hub at Griffith Park\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\nAmong the changes are a reduced construction footprint and a design closer to the water to reduce noise impacts to Hunter Street residents.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Active Hub precinct will be built adjacent to existing outdoor sporting fields and recreation areas, allowing for adults and children to eat, play and socialise at their leisure.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe urban skate plaza and playground will be part funded by a $450,000 Newcastle Port Community Contribution Fund.<br \/>\nParliamentary Secretary for the Hunter Scot\u00a0MacDonald said he was excited to see this great community project come to fruition.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is great to see this project progressing that will activate Griffith Park for the Stockton community,&#8221; Mr MacDonald said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The NSW Government is pleased to partner with City of Newcastle\u00a0through the Newcastle Port Community Contribution Fund to deliver projects across Newcastle Harbour.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe playground will also include a lookout crane tower, accessible spinner, sand pit and a social area with shelter, barbecue and picnic table.<br \/>\nFeatures for the urban skate plaza include rails, angle ledges, hubbas, kerb cuts, A-frame kicker, zig zag ledge and a half pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction has started on a $1.9 million playground and skate plaza precinct at Griffith\u00a0Park, Stockton. The South Stockton Active Hub will be delivered by a specialist skate park construction firm and be built in two parallel rows shorter than the single 140-metre length first envisaged. Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes with Stockton residents at Griffith Park &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/construction-starts-on-stockton-drawcard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Construction starts on Stockton drawcard&#8221;<\/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-950","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\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}