Reviewing our trial dog off-lead areas - what's your feedback?

The City of Cockburn is reviewing the rollout of our dog off-lead areas in the Animal Management Exercise Management Plan and wants to hear your thoughts.

About this review

The City consistently seeks to find and evolve solutions, supported by community consultation, to ensure that all our residents (including the furry ones) can share our beautiful open spaces in the best way possible.

In 2020, the City released its Animal Management and Exercise Plan 2020-2025 (AMEP), which introduced a ‘traffic light indicator’ trial to provide a way to share our parks/reserves and maximise potential dog exercise areas available. The traffic light indicator approach proposed to trial 27 parks/reserves as dog off-lead exercise areas when not in use by schools and clubs. The trial was scheduled to be a three-phase roll-out.

The City is proactively reviewing the roll-out of the AMEP’s ‘traffic light indicator’ trial to ensure its success.

As part of this review, we are seeking community feedback on AMEP listed parks/reserves that:

• Have already been trialled as off-lead areas
• Are soon to be zoned as off-lead areas
• Were scheduled to be trialled as off-lead areas but may remain as on-lead areas.

Community feedback will help inform the next steps.

Traffic light indicator parks and trial phases

*The City initially trialled Len Packham Park in phase two, but it will now be reviewed as a potential on-leash area.

Next steps

City officers will review feedback to inform a report to Council on how we plan the remainder of the AMEP traffic light indicator rollout.

Council will consider this report and rule on an outcome at a future Ordinary Council Meeting.

How to participate

Closes 4pm, Monday 29 April 2024
	Feedback form Complete the questions in the feedback form below Hard copies are available at Cockburn Libraries and on request
	Email Write to us at [email protected].
	More information Ask a question in our Q&A tool Phone 08 9411 3444