Water Police site
Pyrmont peninsula - Where families connect, with the water and each other
Now
After a prolonged battle between residents, the State Government and the City of Sydney, the fate of 1.8 hectares of Pyrmont foreshore formerly home to the Sydney Water Police has been decided. Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s mob stepped in with $11 million to secure the handover – a figure well short of the $30 million windfall the Government had negotiated with developers keen to build 13 storeys of offices and apartments – but a triumph for the public housing tenants fringing the site and Sydney as a whole.
Future
The site has been levelled and all existing structures removed to make way for a park continuing public foreshore access from Woolloomooloo to Blackwattle Bay and beyond – a 14km stretch along the Pyrmont Peninsula. The park itself will carry a design allowing people to experience a variety of activities, in open and sheltered areas, in the shade of deciduous and evergreen trees and to engage with and access Sydney’s primary natural asset – the water.