Enmore Park Plan of Management - Land

ENMORE PARK – PLAN OF MANAGEMENT7.5 AccessEnmore Road is a major vehicular route linking to King Street and the Sydney CBD. Assuch it supports several bus routes with stops on the park frontage (routes 355, 423,L23, 426, 428).The park is bounded by roads to all sides, with the northern and eastern boundariesflanked by Llewellyn Street and Enmore Road, both of which are also busy collectorroads that support high daily volumes of traffic.Southeast corner entryPedestrian AccessThere are a number of entry access points across the park, however existing formalentrance treatments are focussed on the three entries on Enmore Road. The EnmoreRoad entries each have heritage elements and provide important contributions to parkcharacter. Entries occur to each park corner with centred entries to all frontages exceptfor Llewellyn Street. Entries receive varying intensities of use with the most heavilyutilised to the north eastern corner and central eastern edge (opposite Addison Road).These two entries also have signalised pedestrian crossings, which is a contributingfactor.To both the Llewellyn (north) and Victoria Road (south) frontages a degree of informalentry also occur through the flush park edge.Vehicular access gateEnmore Park incorporates a number of pathways that have generally remained in thesame locations since the 1930’s. The most significant exception being the east-westavenue extension from the central garden bed to Black Street adjoining the pool, whichwas not implemented until the 1970’s.There appear to be several key links that support the greatest pedestrian movement.These are:• The central pathway from Enmore Road to the centre of the park• The path from the north west to the south east corner (that deflects slightlyaround the central feature)• The path from the Enmore Road central entry to the north east corner.The park user survey undertaken in preparation of the 1991 POM also identified that thepath running from the centre of the park to the south-east corner is the most heavilyutilised path. This may reflect a linkage through to Marrickville Metro.Enmore Road centralentranceCycle AccessCycle access through the park is common as it lies on a movement corridor from east towest with both Llewellyn Street and Victoria Road linking to Addison Road. Kerbscurrently reduce the safety of cycle access through the park on the shared use paths asthere is reduced ability for cyclists to avoid pedestrians.Vehicular AccessThe park provides vehicle access to police, service and emergency vehicles, as well asthe Magic Yellow Bus play group that visits the park once a week and pool maintenancevehicles. Pool vehicles enter the park from the gate at Victoria Road and travel throughthe park some distance to access the pool buildings. The grass along this route isvisibly worn and compacted due to vehicle access.Enmore Road southern entranceParking is limited to on street areas to Black Street, Victoria Road and Llewellyn Streetand is a combination of ninety degree angle and parallel parking. This parking provisionmust service both park and swimming pool users, and is currently not line marked(which may limit the maximum effectiveness of this parking during high use periods -Saturday morning swimming lessons etc).Environmental Partnership 66October 2012