Construction is underway on upgrades to Gordon’s Point Hut Pond playground and Chisholm’s Alston Street playground.

Both upgrades follow community consultation and will provide Canberrans with better places to play.

Work is taking place between the hours of 7 am and 5 pm Monday to Friday. If required, work may be undertaken on weekends between 8 am and 4 pm.

Both play spaces will feature First Nations artwork by Bradley Mapiva Brown.

Point Hut Pond playground, Gordon

Staged work has started at the junior play area and will move to the Maliyan nest.

Point Hut Pond District Park – including the toilets, picnic facilities and barbecues – will still be open during the construction period.

The basketball court will remain accessible with partial closures only.

Junior play area key features:

• nature play including stone and timber steppers with artwork and timber balancing stilts
• play opportunities including a vortex climber and a rocker
• new softfall throughout the play area
• retaining all existing equipment from the playground.

Maliyan nest area key features:

• Maliyan nest climber with slide, suitable for junior, pre-teen and teen play
• slide and scramble slope
• nature play elements including timber and boulder steppers
• informal seating opportunities with sandstone blocks.

There will also be more seating added at the basketball court, interpretive signage, cultural design elements and landscaping.

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Alston Street playground, Chisholm

Exciting additions are coming to Alston Street playground.

Key features:

• nature play with balancing and climbing elements including stone and timber steppers and recycled fallen tree trunks
• all ages and abilities accessible spinner and nest swing with softfall beneath both items
• play opportunities including climbing poles, a pommel walk and vortex as well as a brown snake sculpture to climb on
• retaining existing equipment from the playground including the combination unit, swings and rockers
• picnic tables, shelter and seating
• existing shade sail retained and improved with cultural artwork on its posts as well as on the upgraded basketball hoop and backboard
• concrete path with animal imprints
• nine new trees and landscaping including groundcover, native grasses and shrubs
• improved drainage throughout the playground and improvements to the carpark surface.

Alston Street playground will be closed while upgrades are underway.

The closest alternative playgrounds are the Caroline Chisholm playground and the Chisholm shops playground.

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