About Five Dock Park

Five Dock Park is a well activated and valuable recreation and community space featuring:

• An active sports field with grandstand including toilets
• An under four year old children’s playground
• A district skate park
• A half-sized basketball court
• Extensive passive recreation spaces
• Covered picnic and barbeque facilities
• Existing fenced off-leash dog area
• The former Five Dock Bowling Club (EOI for new lease arrangement closed 29 March 2019)
• Five Dock Park Tennis Centre
• Five Dock Baby Health Centre

What the community has told us

Five Dock Plan of Management – Discussion Paper Consultation

Options discussed by the community during the consultation process, included:

• Retain the fenced off-leash dog park and enlarge the fenced area to the east to include a larger open grassed area.

Individual community comments included:

• Extend east to/towards Ingham Ave
• Enlarge dog park, but as two separated fenced areas for big/small dogs
• Dogs need open space to run, not enclosures
• Remove, too small, most dogs still using areas outside enclosure anyway
• Reduce area
• Reinstate former un-fenced off-leash dog area near Tigers Five Dock Club

• Install lighting to enable dusk/evening use of the fenced dog park.

Individual community comment: especially for winter use

• Install irrigation within the fenced dog park to assist in grass and landscape maintenance.

Individual community comments included:

• Poor grass maintenance
• Better surfacing, is muddy when wet

• Clarify and provide consistent signage (on-line, published and on-site)

Individual community comment:

• Signpost park as off-leash dog area at entries
• Enhance enforcement.

Recent off-leash dog consultation

Many community members who participated in the other two above-mentioned consultations also raised concerns with the existing fenced off-leash dog park at Five Dock Park:

• ‘Cage of rage’ due to the small restricted area
• ‘Dirt bowl’ resultant from small area being repeatedly utilised without ongoing maintenance
• Dogs require breadth of space for exercise.