Do you, your friends or family visit Croydon Playground Reserve in West Croydon or might in future? We would love to hear from you!
We are replacing all play equipment in each of the play spaces in Croydon Playground Reserve in the 2025/26 financial year.
We need your feedback to understand what's most important to you about the local play spaces you visit and what would encourage you or your family to visit more often.
Read on for more information about the space, what's included in the playground renewal, and to look at examples of other playgrounds renewals of this size for inspiration. Then, please take a few minutes to help your children or young people in your life to share their play preferences using the online feedback form on this page. The feedback shared will help shape the new playground, which will last for the next 15 to 20 years.
About the space
Croydon Playground Reserve is bound by Queen Street and Day Terrace in West Croydon. It includes two playgrounds - one senior playground (eastern side) and one junior playground (western side), shelter and picnic settings with extra seating, bins, electric BBQ, a single-use, automated public toilet, basketball backboard and hoop, and perimeter fencing.
Dogs are allowed on leash only inside the reserve.
The playground is a higher-level 'Neighbourhood' playground. Neighbourhood playgrounds should have good quality 'standard' play equipment, an appealing landscape, and will include some special, more unique play features for young people to enjoy.
What's included in the renewal?
The following elements are included for consideration in the Croydon Playground Reserve playground renewal, dependent on the budget:
- All existing play equipment within both Junior and Senior playgrounds.
- Accessibility and inclusivity principles, for example rubber softfall, access paths, and inclusive equipment for varying abilities and ages.
- More tree and shrub plantings, if suitable, to provide natural shade, increase our citywide canopy cover, and for biodiversity and urban cooling.
Note: While not included in the playground renewal, we are considering the installation of a drink fountain in 2025/26 (when we renew the playground) if this proposed improvement is approved.
Renewal of the basketball area is a separate project scheduled for 2026/27.
What's not included?
The following new or replacement reserve or amenity elements are not considered as part of a playground renewal process:
- Public amenities such as public toilets, shelters and picnic settings.
- Electric BBQ or drinking fountain, though these can be considered separately.
- Fixed shade structure/s over the playground, unless specifically included.
- Fitness equipment - this infrastructure is separate from playground infrastructure. Installation of fitness equipment is a dedicated project identified due to high demand or a dedicated budget.
- Other sporting accessories outside of the existing basketball hoop and backboard. These are considered under a dedicated budget program if they're assessed as being suitable for or required for the site.
If you feel any of these elements need to be considered for this location, you can share this feedback on our Customer Portal by selecting 'Feedback' and specifying what you're requesting at this reserve and why. This feedback is considered in future reserve upgrades or improvements.
Otherwise, you can also contact your local elected member who may put in a request for the money under the annual budget process to have the improvement considered.
Existing playgrounds at Croydon Playground Reserve
What could a 'Neighbourhood' playground look like?
Below are images of other recently renewed Neighbourhood playgrounds to show what might be possible at The Avenue Reserve.
If you're looking for something to do these school holidays, you might like to visit some of these playgrounds to see what features you like the most.
The locations of the recently renewed playgrounds pictured below are:
- Sunningdale Reserve Playground, Sunningdale Road, Fulham Gardens
- Sparrow Reserve Playground, Thirteenth Avenue, Woodville North
- Birkdale Reserve Playground, 26 St Andrews Way, West Lakes
- George Jones Reserve Playground, cornern Oliver Avenue and Riverway Drive, Fulham Gardens
- Devonshire Reserve Playground, Devonshire Avenue, Fulham Gardens
- Eileen Harris Reserve Playground, Cedar Avenue and Croydon Avenue, West Croydon
- Wilford Reserve Playground, Prior Avenue, Seaton
- Wastell Reserve Playground, Wastell Court & Arthur Street, Pennington
Contact Us
Have questions or want to learn more about a project, contact us below:
| Phone | (08) 8408 1111 |
|---|---|
| council@charlessturt.sa.gov.au | |
| Website | www.charlessturt.sa.gov.au |
| In writing | PO Box 1 |
