Have your say on the draft concept design!
Provide your feedback below by 11 November.
The new Akers Road park (20-32 Akers Road, Lawnton) will replace the much smaller Allsop Park (9-11 Allsop Street, Lawnton) which will eventually be decommissioned. This new park will provide more than ten times more open space for the community to use for play and recreation.
We know from Moreton Says surveys that communities value parks and green space. Investing in public parks is a long-term strategy for Moreton Bay’s sustainable future. This investment will support a thriving City where people want to live, work and play. Great parks provide our communities with their unique identity and sense of pride. Proximity to well-designed and well-managed parks and green spaces can affect lifestyle, health, place character and biodiversity.
This project is proudly funded by the Queensland Government’s South East Queensland Community Stimulus Program in association with City of Moreton Bay.
Community Feedback
To better understand current and future needs and inform the new Akers Road park design, we sought input from park users and neighbours between 28 May and 25 June 2025.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to share your thoughts with us.
From this input, we heard:
- protection of flora and fauna, particularly for koala habitat, is important to many community members
- park spaces and facilities are important to the growing community
- participants’ top priorities were pathways for scooters and bikes, and play for younger children
- most attendees at the pop-up were immediate neighbours who had questions on what future development in the area would look like and other considerations such as access, traffic and drainage.
Draft Concept Design
With the input you provided, we have focused on:
- play features that encourage all users, including a bike pump track, basketball key, climbing structures and accessible play structures
- retention of existing native trees and addition of more trees for shade
- areas of mass native planting that incorporate rain gardens for drainage and buffering of neighbouring properties
- setting parking into road verge to minimise parked cars narrowing of road width.
Have your say to help us refine the plan. You can provide your feedback by:
- Completing the form below
- Emailing yoursay@moretonbay.qld.gov.au
- Calling 3205 0555 and speaking to the Community Engagement team.
Click on the icons on the plan below to read what they are.
Next steps
What you tell us will be considered alongside community needs across our city-wide network of parks, best practice landscape design principles, site constraints, and funding, so we have the right plan in place for this park. A final plan will be released here in early 2026.
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