Liverpool City Council is currently responsible for the care and management of the former St Luke’s Anglican Cemetery, now known as Liverpool Pioneers’ Memorial Park. The cemetery was established in 1820 and remained in use until the 1950s, when the Crown gave care and control to Liverpool City Council. In the early 1970s, Council transformed the cemetery with the creation of a rest park for the Liverpool community’s use.
In 2010, Liverpool City Council commenced the refurbishment and reinstatement of the cemetery by returning 300 original burial headstones and creating new pathways, lighting, fencing and formal contemplation areas.
As a former cemetery, the park and its archaeological deposits are considered to be of state significance and therefore warrants guidance and protection to ensure any further works undertaken within the park, including maintenance, restoration and the installation of new monuments, considers this significance and seeks to minimise the degree of impact.
Liverpool City Council is publicly exhibiting the Preliminary Design proposing a landscape upgrade of the northern end of Liverpool Pioneers’ Memorial Park. The park is bounded between Macquarie Street and Northumberland Street and on the north by the Hume Highway.
The Preliminary Design proposes a range of improvements including :
- A children’s play space
- Re-purposing the area of the large mound
- Installation of park furniture including picnic shelters and seating
- Landscape improvements including new garden beds and tree planting
- Connection and improved pathway access through the northern end of the cemetery
- Additional interpretive signage
HAVE YOUR SAY
Council invites residents and interested members of the public to view the proposed preliminary design and provide feedback by completing the survey below by 30 November 2022.
Written submissions concerning the preliminary design are also invited and should be received by 30 November 2022 (quoting file no. 2021/4042) and addressed to:
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Liverpool Pioneers Memorial Park (2021/2042)
Locked Bag 7064
LIVERPOOL BC NSW 1871
Or alternatively, email to lcc@liverpool.nsw.gov.au (quoting file no. 2021/2042)
Comments received will be reviewed and analysed, and the concept design will then be finalised in response to the comments. The Final Design will be uploaded here for public viewing once it becomes available.