Enmore Park Plan of Management - Land

Conservation Management StrategyEnmore ParkEnmore Park changed its name after 1944 to D.V. Cochrane Park in honour of the Laboralderman and mayor, but after he failed to fall in line with Labor policy, he was expelled fromthe party and the Council changed the name of the park back to Enmore Park in 1959.Figure H14 – c. late 1940s or early 1950s, showing the Enmore Road entry to the park. Note that the rowsof Phoenix palms which led up to the park’s central circle from the late 1910s had been removed andreplaced by mixed shrub borders. Source: Marrickville local history centre.By the early 1950s, the Phoenix palms along the central Enmore Road entry to the park had beenremoved and replaced by mixed shrubberies, in line with the fashion for mixed shrub bordersseen commonly in Sydney park and institutional gardening at that time. Planter bed features andpathway plantings made between the late 1930s and the early 1950s can be seen clearly on thebelow 1951 aerial photograph, most of these works being carried out near the Enmore Roadfrontage of the park.Figure H15 – Aerial photograph from 1951, showing the maturing plantings within the body of the site andthe various planter bed zones adjoining Enmore Road. Note especially the circular planter sector(arrowed) near the south-west corner of the park. Source: Marrickville Council.Mayne-Wilson & Associates12Conservation Landscape Architects