Lord Mayor Clover Moore will launch Harold Park’s newest community space on Saturday 18 August.
Located at the Tramsheds, the bright and modern community hall can host up to 250 people every day of the week. It can be hired by local residents and businesses for events, meetings, yoga classes, play groups and more.
Visitors to the Harold Park community hall this weekend will be treated to live music, free gelato from Gelato Messina and coffee from Heritage Bakery and Pizzeria.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the hall was an important community facility for the growing Harold Park precinct.
“The City fought hard over many years to retain control of the planning decisions for Harold Park, rather than lose them to the old State Part 3A planning laws that robbed communities of having a say,” the Lord Mayor said.
“Together with the local community we had many important wins on this site, including the dedication of the 3.8 hectares of new public open space which was formerly private land.
“This community hall was another win. In designing the hall, Nordon Jago Architects took inspiration from the Rozelle Tram Depot which operated on the site from 1904 to 1958.”
The City worked with Nordon Jago Architects to design the fully accessible space, which features a sprung floor, acoustic panelling, a kitchen to service events, presentation screen, hearing loop, tables and chairs, and a breakout space with couches.
The federation-style Rozelle Tram Depot opened on 17 April 1904 and was built to service the newly electrified tramway that ran to Balmain, and later to Leichhardt and Drummoyne.
By 1918, the depot accommodated 200 tramcars, making it the second largest depot in New South Wales. At its peak in the 1920s, the depot employed 650 staff.
An increase in cars and expansion of the bus network across the city eventually signalled the end for Sydney’s trams, and Rozelle depot closed in 1958. A few years later in 1961, a century after the first horse-drawn tram travelled along Sydney’s streets, the last of the electric trams made their final run from La Perouse to the Randwick Tramway Workshops.
One of the four tramcars in that procession, R1 1995, is now restored and housed in the renovated Tramsheds at Harold Park.
Harold Park community hall launch
Date: Saturday 18 August 2018
Time: 11am-12.30pm, with official opening by the Lord Mayor at 11.30am
Where: Level 1, Harold Park Tramsheds, 1 Dalgal Way, Forest Lodge
For more information, visit cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/community/community-services/venues-for-hire/harold-park-community-hall
For media inquiries or images, contact the Media Team, phone 0400 331 027 or email mediateam@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
For interviews with Lord Mayor Clover Moore, contact Jack Begbie.
Phone 0481 759 580 or email jbegbie@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
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