Customers Who Won PLA Awards

Congratulations to Tweed Shire Council and the City of Greater Bendigo, both celebrating wins in their state 2019 Parks and Leisure Australia Awards.

Street Furniture Australia is proud to be part of these award-winning projects.

Rowan Robinson Park – Park of the Year

Tweed Shire Council’s $22-million Kingscliff Foreshore revitalisation links the beach with the new central Rowan Robinson Park, and the CBD.

“After years of storms and fears about the economic viability of Kingscliff with the retreating foreshore, confidence is now restored with the completion of the central park,” say the PLA Judges.

The park was named in honour of Rowan Robinson, a popular Kingscliff High School student and local Surf Life Saver who lost his life serving in Afghanistan in June 2011.

Since opening, the park has become the main gathering area for large events such as music concerts, Anzac Day parades and major Surf Life Saving events.

Landscape Architect Ian Bentley led the design for Council, he says, “Before Rowan Robinson Park there wasn’t a place in Kingscliff for large gatherings, to watch bands, to accommodate thirty kids at a birthday party or a place to hang out and watch others pass by. With its completion the community now have that heart, that central location that connects coffee shops and beach users, walkers and birthday party goers.”

Street Furniture Australia is proud to have contributed moveable Forum Seats, Sun Lounges for basking, Cafe Tables, Park Seats and family-friendly Park Settings (six wheelchair accessible), as well as Semi Hoop Bicycle Parking.

See the Kingscliff Foreshore case study.

Eaglehawk Regional Play Space – Playspace Award (>$0.5M) (Joint Winner)

The City of Greater Bendigo’s $1.3M Eaglehawk Regional Play Space features a series of play and adventure zones for children of all ages, inspired by the Banjo Paterson poem ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle.’

The eaglehawk-shaped playground, built beside Lake Neangar, was designed by City of Greater Bendigo’s landscape architect Gary Lantzsch and opened September 2018.

It includes a butterfly themed junior play area, ‘Where Angels Play,’ to celebrate the life of the late Baby Zayden Veal Whitting, whose family and friends helped raise funds towards the new space.

The park is joint winner of a Playspace Award for the PLA Victoria and Tasmania state chapter, alongside the Eltham North Adventure Playground.

City of Greater Bendigo Director of Presentation and Assets Debbie Wood says the award recognises the creativity, planning, and community collaboration that went into developing and constructing the space.

“We are very proud of the play space which has since become one of Bendigo’s busiest and most well used. It’s great to see it’s been recognised by the PLA in this way,” she says.

Products supplied include 80 colourful Cafe Stools, custom tables and two Arqua Drinking Fountains, one a specially-tailored child size bubbler.

See the Eaglehawk case study.

Congratulations to all State winners. The national winners will be announced at the PLA Awards of Excellence Gala Dinner, 29th October, Crown Perth, Western Australia.