Ipswich in Spring 2024

SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP CONTINUES TO BLOSSOM

The popular Nerima Gardens will be revitalised with a new master plan in consultation with Ipswich’s sister city Nerima City, Japan.

garden is to create a place of peace and tranquillity, a place to meet nature and calm the spirit. However impacts by native flying foxes have caused partial closures of the gardens for safety. The revised master plan for Nerima Gardens will consider responses to climate change, long-term sustainability, environmental values and challenges, including flying foxes. The updated master plan will also seek to establish an ongoing level of access for the local and broader community to enjoy the beauty of the gardens, which is renowned as a major draw card for the City of Ipswich.

Ipswich City Council recently welcomed a delegation from sister city Nerima City to progress an update to the master plan for the popular Nerima Gardens in Queens Park. The six-member delegation represented the Nerima Gardens Renovation Task Force (NGRTF), who is working with council officers, including landscape architects, open space planners and field services officers, to map out the future of the Nerima Gardens. Nerima Gardens first opened in 2001, featuring a careful balance between local and Japanese characteristics and natural elements including Nerima’s floral emblem, the Azalea, and Ipswich’s own Eucalyptus curtisii . The gardens are inspired by the sister city link between Ipswich and Nerima City, Japan, and the philosophy of the

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