Lights, Camera, Action!

St Leonards Park is one of the oldest public recreation spaces in NSW, featuring the iconic and industrious forecourt of the prestigious North Sydney Oval. Now overhauled and reopened to the public, it has converted the once fragmented landscape area into an accessible, free flowing landscape where all elements unite collectively to provide a grand entrance to St Leonards Park!

We are proud to announce that Miller St Forecourt has WON 2 AWARDS!  Growth Civil Landscapes won a SILVER AWARD for Commercial and Civil Construction $1.5m - $3m for this project at the The Landscape Association NSW/ACT 2022 Landscape Excellence Awards! We are also thrilled to announce that Miller St Forecourt at North Sydney, WON the 2021 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space,  which was designed by Gallagher Studio in collaboration with North Sydney Council.

The open plan design encapsulates twenty-four advanced native cabbage tree palms (transplanted and craned in), offering a unique natural shade sail for a sizeable segment of the forecourt area, whilst providing unrestricted pedestrian movement for North Sydney Oval events and park users.

The forecourt surprisingly transports to a spectacular level at night with our newly installed lighting design, highlighting key elements of the landscape that invite you to explore the architectural elements of the forecourt area.

Works incorporated heritage fig tree protection and environmental management, site establishment and preparation, temporary fencing, demolition, earthworks, formwork, hard landscape elements including vehicle control bollards, custom concrete circular seats, street furniture, granite paving, bus shelter relocation, deconstruction of existing sandstone walls and reconstruction of new utilising same recycled material with new capping, services adjustment and installation, stormwater drainage, pits and connections, irrigation works, lighting and electrical works, on-grade concrete slab and granite paving, dimension stone and informal sandstone works, concrete kerb and gutter, asphaltic concrete, steel edging, tree grates and pits, modifications to existing entry gates and fencing, infrastructure for future vehicle security access control and garden preparation and planting.

With the Master Plan of the Park Upgrade aiming to achieve a balance of uses while protecting, preserving and enhancing the Park’s heritage values and character, we have delivered on point!