Enmore Park Plan of Management - Land

Conservation Management StrategyEnmore Park3.4 Summary Statement of Significance.Enmore Park has local historical and social significance as the first public park to be establishedin the Marrickville area, following a petition from local residents. It is much used and esteemedby the local community, and its original layout and fabric is mostly intact. It is representative ofmany late Victorian era public parks in the Sydney region created under the impetus of the PublicParks Movement of the 1880s and embellished, possibly through funding under theUnemployment Relief Works, in the early to mid 1930s.Level of Significance: Enmore Park is of local significance.For further details, please see the State Heritage Inventory Form at Appendix A.3.5 Landscape Items of Heritage Significance: Rating and Conservation ActionsPATHSKey Plan for pathsHeritage ratingsIt will be noted that many of the ratings are given values between one and the next higher one.This is because although the item may be ‘high’ in the context of the Park itself, it is not really‘high’ when compared with others in the wider Sydney metropolitan context. The ‘high’ ratingis used here to indicate that this is an important element for this Park, and should be retained.Mayne-Wilson & Associates19Conservation Landscape Architects