Algie Park

Great little park in the heart of Haberfield. Great kids play area with climbing apparatus, slide and swings. Plenty of space for the kids to run around and the dogs to play (lease on zone). Also some great shade around with plenty of tree coverage.

Update 20/5/25. The toxic and invasive non-native Orange Trumpet Vine has been removed subsequent to my substantial 20/8/24 update attached to the main review. It is a really nice suburban park with a soccer field for games and training (goal posts appear to be in place almost all year round), clubhouse, change room, equipment and toilet facilities, and flood lighting of the field. A fine facility for young soccer players and competition play. Home ground of APIA Leichhardt Tigers. It also has a lovely children's play equipment area; and there is otherwise enough space around the soccer field to stroll around - with trees and some flower beds - most obviously very old.The soccer field is levelled and is in a basin to the surrounding remainder of the park. If there is a quibble to be had with the park, it is probably that its design does seem to be increasingly generic for this size of park in this area. If it is big enough for a soccer field, related amenities buildings and flood lighting, put them in or upgrade them, so it is much more sporting field than parkland (on which sport is also played). Then, a variety of sundry other "secondary" features in the space left over. Such "secondary features" can easily be too many and too crowded upon one another; but in fairness to Algie Park the children's play equipment is tastefully situated in relation to the fringe of the park flower beds and trees (only). Not terribly far away, only 1400 steps away, Hammond Park is a nice complement to Algie Park. It has a soccer field (and cricket pitch), but this area of the park is not levelled, the goal posts are not in place for as long each year and the amenities buildings smaller (though upgrading to better accommodate both sexes is overdue). It is more parkland than sporting field. This can be seen in use of all of this park more often for unorganised activities; somewhat contrasting to Algie Park where the soccer field seems to be tacitly somewhat off limits to anything other than soccer (and short of grass in key soccer pitch areas - like in front of goals). Redevelopment of Hammond Park seems to be going ahead in the near future on Algie Park lines. Has its merits for certain; but so did the variety - the different emphasis - of the two fairly close parks of comparable size for a broader base of residents. Update 15/12/23. The soccer goalposts are down and Park looks a treat (fourth last photo). A touch hot this summer to make full use of the grassed open space on every day. Update 20/8/24 The soccer season has taken a heavy toll on the grass this year (last photo); the resumption of games and training a week or two too soon after the heavy rain of Autumn and early winter. The Inner West Council will have its work cut out to restore the park this year. Otherwise, near the Alt Street entrance to the park there is a enormous flush of the beautiful orange flowers of the Orange Trumpet Vine (Pyrostegia Venusta) a plant introduced to Australia from South America. However, despite its beauty, this vine is a destructive and aggressive invasive vine and what it has done to a nearby tree, what it will do to all trees that it attaches to, is rather sad to see (and nonetheless a macabre beauty). All parts of the vine (flowers, leaves and sap) are toxic to humans and all mammals. Many dropped flowers can be reached from the park - so take particular care of small children and pets in the vicinity. The Inner West Council has no control policy for this vine; though its invasiveness and toxicity is widely known and verified by the Department of Primary Industries.

Nice park. Well kept grass.

Nice little park quite well kept

Very nice park: playground, soccer field, trees. More trees have been planted and that will make it great.