PLAYGROUNDS, interactive fountains and a maze on the Leschenault Foreshore are what a local group hopes will keep the area free from high-rises and more accessible for the community.
Save Our Shores Bunbury hope their self confessed “extreme” idea will stimulate more debate about what could be done with the vacant land.
The closing date for public submissions about the Bunbury Waterfront concept plan ends next Thursday August 5.
SOS Bunbury is a community action group set up by concerned Bunbury people wanting to protect its beautiful city and its waterways.
Member Jo Clarke said their concept for the foreshore focused on “softer” alternatives than high-rise buildings and concrete walkways.
“We’re going to extremes at the moment to say stop the rezoning and have it for community based development,” she said.
Ms Clark said the group realised the entire foreshore would not be left completely free of development.
“We are not anti development but we want any development to be done sympathetically to preserve and enhance Bunbury,” she said.
“And we don’t want it to stay as it is now, which is wasted space, although valuable wasted space.”
The group hopes that Bunbury council use their plans to negotiate an alternative to what LandCorp had proposed in its structure plan.