Fernhill Estate Foundation Plan of Management to 2026

Mulgoa, NSW.

Status

Completed

Year

2021

Scale/budget

Collaborators

Western Sydney Parklands, Frost*collective,  Danièle Hromek ,  Dominic Steele Consulting Archaeology, Ashley Brown Architects , Topdeck Communications

Client

Western Sydney Parklands

About

The Fernhill Estate is an exceptional landscape of natural and cultural heritage significance. It is on Dharug Country, close to Gundungurra Country, at the base of the Blue Mountains.

Fernhill Estate was purchased by the NSW Government in 2018 to bring this significant Estate into public ownership for the first time. The purchase of the Estate for the people of Greater Sydney is a significant part of the NSW Government’s bold vision to grow, connect and care for the city’s parks put forward in the 50 Year Vision for Sydney’s Open Space and Parklands.

Fernhill Estate Foundation Plan of Management to 2026 establishes the custodianship and stewardship for Fernhill Estate. It has been developed with the community and stakeholders to shape and guide, plan for, protect, activate and celebrate this special place over the next five years.

Our role

Through a Yerrabingin Design Jam session, we collaboratively created the Connecting with Country vision and approach for Fernhill Estate Plan of Management, with the Dharug community and the Western Sydney Parklands team.

A cultural landscape approach was taken to protect and enhance the Estate’s natural and cultural built and landscape values.