At its meeting on Tuesday 18 February Council considered a report including community feedback and decided the following:

1. That Council adopt the Plan of Management for the Rozelle Parklands and Easton Park.

2. That Council commit to undertaking traffic design work for future traffic calming, angle car parking design and the development of new raised pedestrian crossings to the parkland in 2025/26.

3. That Council note that the sporting fields at the Rozelle Parklands could and should have been made available for community use by Transport for NSW many months ago.

4. That Council call on Transport for NSW to immediately install posts and line markings, and grant permission for local clubs to use the sporting fields to be used for the pending winter sporting season.

5. That Council note that despite continual engagement from the Council executive staff, including the General Manager and the General Counsel, that proposed Care Control and Management Agreement from Transport for NSW cannot be agreed to in its current form due to the following deficiencies:

a) the Agreement and its terms are more like a lease agreement rather than a Care, Control and Management Agreement because it deals with rights as landlord and a tenant rather than handing over the Parklands to Council to take care, control and management;

b) the Ausgrid site and construction compound located within the Parklands and the “Western Harbour Tunnel Egress” as part of the Western Sydney Tunnel Project are undefined in terms of their scope and impact on the Park;

c) a term in proposed Agreement allows that TfNSW can carve out by Gazette Order, at any time, any part of the Parkland at its discretion, and Council cannot oppose the carve out;

d) the Agreement requires, on short notice, that users of the sporting fields must vacate if and when TfNSW needs to access these areas;

e) TfNSW requires Council to take on all the risk of the existing contamination and responsibility for the contamination cap across the Parklands, even if there is an event/incident not caused by Council; and

f) the proposed agreement states that the $20 million to be paid to Council in funding Council’s activities on the land and surrounding parks will be managed through a separate funding agreement which has not been provided.

6. That Council write to all sporting clubs that made submissions in Council’s EOI process for use of the grounds, updating them about the failure of Transport for NSW to make the fields available for use or to conclude the Care Control and Management Agreement.

7. That Council retain current cycling/pedestrian path through the Rozelle Parklands with the view to complete future works to separate the pedestrian and cycle path in the way of soft plantings or another suitable option.