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.

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

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