Badangi — a pre-1788 landscape

In 2019, James and his colleagues Colleen Morris and Christine Hay were acknowledged by the National Trust and the Institute of Landscape Architects, both State and National, with awards for their study: AILA (NSW) Landscape Heritage Conservation Listing Project. The study included ten sites for listing on the State Heritage Register –we hope the first to be elevated will be Badangi. The study area for this proposed listing began as a fragmented group that evolved to be understood as an amalgamation of two of the listings and the area considered essential for retaining and interpreting its heritage significance was expanded threefold over the time it has been under consideration by the Heritage Council of NSW.

The Badangi Natural and Cultural Landscape is a largely intact natural landscape situated on Sydney Harbour.  It is the characteristic landform of the Sydney escarpment and includes remnant bushland and a rare remaining estuarine tributary: small forested stream, flowing to an intertidal mud flat and into the harbour.  The land comprises a series of public reserves around the Wollstonecraft peninsula. To the west, around Gore Cove are Holloway Park, Greendale Park, Smoothey Park and Milray Reserve.  To the east is Badangi Reserve and to the south is Berry Island Reserve, which is now connected to the mainland.

Meeting at 1:30pm, at end of Shirley Road, Wollstonecraft for a 2:00pm start.