Save Westleigh Park is an alliance of local community advocacy groups who want a fair and balanced outcome for Westleigh Park, the ecologically sensitive bushland, and for the amenity of local residents.

The Westleigh Park Master Plan must give priority to the protection of the ecologically sensitive bushland on the site. We stand for:

No mountain bike tracks in the areas containing the Critically Endangered Ecological Community of Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest or the Endangered Ecological Community of Duffys Forest.
The closure of all tracks in and near endangered ecological communities and ecologically sensitive flora.
The preservation of fauna habitat.
The restoration of bushland with a priority to areas where tracks have been built illegally.
No night riding.
Any tracks that are retained are reconstructed to ensure rider safety and must not damage surrounding vegetation or cause erosion.
No synthetic turf on playing fields.
Playing field lighting must be consistent with the Australian Standards including Control of Obtrusive Lighting Effects, to minimise impacts on nocturnal animals.
The closure of playing fields by 9pm to minimise disruption to resident amenity and wildlife.
The remediation of the contaminated parts of the area that embraces the latest technology to eliminate the risk of pollution entering surrounding bushland.
Any second access road must be for emergency access only. It must not be a public road that will increase traffic impacts on local residents.

What’s this all about?

Hornsby Shire Council purchased a block of land from Sydney Water in June 2016 to cater for the needs of the whole community. Very quickly their staff realised that there was a high diversity of species present (244) in the bushland part of the Westleigh site including five vegetation communities, two threatened ecological communities, 4 […]

Thank you to all of you who attended Wednesday’s Hornsby Shire Council meeting, particularly those of you that spoke and to the many more of you who watched online. While the outcome to exhibit the Draft Master Plan for Westleigh Park as published was disappointing, it is by no means the end of the story. […]

Council are about to put the Westleigh Park Master Plan on public exhibition. See the Council Business Papers. There are still 7km of tracks through the the sensitive bushland and an unacceptable amount of tracks through the Critically Endangered Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest and the Endangered Duffys Forest. These tracks apart from 2 are not shared […]

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Special Flora at Westleigh

Boronia fraseri
Darwinia biflora
Galium australe
Lasiopetalum joyceae
Lomandra brevis
Rhodamnia rubescens
Syzgium paniculatum
Tetratheca glandulosa
Calochilus paludosus

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Special Fauna at Westleigh

Ring-tailed possums - favourite prey of the threatened Powerful Owl
Swamp wallabies
Feathertail and sugar gliders
Grey-headed Flying Foxes (listed as threatened), large bent-winged bat, eastern horse-shoe bat and the little forest bat
Red-bellied black snakes
Blue-tongue lizards
Red-crowned toadlets (listed as threatened)
Dural land snails (listed as threatened)
Powerful Owls
Bearded Dragons