Protect Coleman Park and Carnarvon Golf Course from Cementery Expansion
Community Update on Carnarvon Golf Course:
Metropolitan Memorial Parks is currently running a survey about future burial needs, including the proposal to convert part of Carnarvon Golf Course into a memorial park. Following the community rally to protect this space, everyone is encouraged to take part in this survey to share your thoughts about the proposal.
Have Your Say!
You can have your say by completing the feedback form at the bottom of the page via the Metropolitan Memorial Parks website . Sharing your views helps ensure a full rang of community perspectives is heard, so please consider sharing the survey with neighbours, clubs and local networks.
Thank you to the thousands who signed the original petition and attended the rally. Your support sent a powerful message: our community values and will fight to protect its precious green spaces.
While the parliamentary petition has now closed, new information has come to light. We have since learned that Coleman Park, a much-loved and heavily used local sports park next to Carnarvon Golf Course, is also being considered by the NSW Government for future cemetery development.
This is unacceptable.
A new community petition has been launched to call on decision-makers to act on the following
- Direct Metropolitan Memorial Parks to immediately remove the lands on which Carnarvon Golf Course and Coleman Park sit from any list of potential cemetery expansion sites.
- Direct the NSW Government to honour its commitments to protecting green open space and parklands, especially those near Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs).
- Require Metropolitan Memorial Parks (MMP) to investigate and consider alternative cemetery sites outside a “30-minute” drive from Sydney’s inner suburbs—especially locations where urban green space is not under threat.
Our parks are not vacant land—they are vital community assets that support health, connection, sport, and biodiversity.
👉 Sign the new petition today and stand with your community to protect Coleman Park and Carnarvon Golf Course.
