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The World's Largest Park?

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
7 December 2004 - 7:00am

The creation of a new Western Sydney Parklands is predicted to be the largest park in the world.

The park new park will stretch "27km from Blacktown to Liverpool along Eastern Creek and the hills of Hoxton Park, taking in 5,500 hectares.

...[T]he population of Sydney's western suburbs would balloon to 2.2 million by 2020 and the park would allow those people access to more recreational activities.

[T]he parkland would be within 20 minutes' drive from any part of Western Sydney, and the 'only growth' that would occur would be that of trees."

Full Story: Carr: park to be lungs of Sydney's west
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, October 25, 2005
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