Refresh Vaucluse and Diamond Bay

Parsley Bay | Rose Bay | Diamond Bay

We're holding a series of project information sessions where displays and information about the upcoming project construction work will be available. The project team will be available to answer your questions.

Parsley Bay

Date: Saturday 22 March 2025

Location: Parsley Bay Reserve

Time: 12 pm - 2 pm

Rose Bay

In person session: Monday 24 March 2025

Location: The Scots College Early Years Centre, 2 Carlisle Street, Rose Bay

Time: 6 pm- 7:30 pm

Online session: Thursday 27 March 2025

Time: 6 pm- 7 pm

Please scan the QR code below to register:

Diamond Bay

Date: Saturday 12 April

Location: Eastern Reserve

Time: 10 am - 12 pm

We look forward to seeing you at one of our sessions.

At the beginning of February 2025, drilling work started for the new 1.8km wastewater pipeline from the Parsley Bay Reserve car park to Carlisle Street, Rose Bay. The underground drill will reach the surface at Carlisle Street in the coming weeks with the remainder of the pipeline alignment on Carlisle Street to be trenched where it will connect with the existing wastewater network that goes to the Bondi WRRF.

From Monday 31 March 2025 we will be starting work to dig the drill exit pit, complete trenching work, and then install the new pipes from Carlisle Street to Parsley Bay. For the safety of pedestrians, motorists and the community, some changes to traffic and parking are required on Carlisle Street and the surrounding area while this work is being completed. The work will be completed over 4 stages throughout the next 12 months. Please click here to view the Carlisle Street community notification for Stages 1 and 2.

Carlisle Street | Stage 1

Work activities from 31 March 2025 include:

• Site compound establishment

• Site set up for underground pipe exit pit on Carlisle Street

• Temporary removal of approximately 15 parking spaces on Carlisle Street

• Relocation of accessible parking space about 10 metres towards Fernleigh Avenue.

We understand this work may impact the local community and thank you for your patience and understanding while we complete this important work. Traffic controllers and signage will be in place to help pedestrians and motorists around the work sites.

From 13 January 2025 we will be conducting potholing along Carlisle Street and Dover Road (approximately 15 metres south of the pedestrian crossing on Dover Road). The work will last up to three weeks, weather permitting.

To minimise traffic impacts, we are planning this work during the school holidays. Our work will involve small sections of digging, trenching and saw cutting on the road and parking will be restricted, and areas of ‘no parking’ will be in place. To minimise parking impacts, we will be staging our work in sections as we work along Carlisle Street and Dover Road. The areas of ‘no parking’ will be clearly delineated with traffic barriers and signs advising of dates when no parking will apply.

To ensure the safety of our crew, residents and road users, traffic control and signage will be in place. You can find out more information about our work here.

Thanks for your patience during our work.

We thank the Vaucluse community and visitors to Parsley Bay for their patience during our project work in 2024.

Over the Christmas period the site will be shut down from December 20, 2024 to Jan 6, 2025.

If you have an urgent enquiry about Sydney Water services during the holiday period, please contact our faults line on 13 20 90.

Have a safe and happy Christmas holiday!

From Monday 13 January 2025 to Monday 17 February 2025, we will be delivering and installing pipes on Hopetoun Avenue. Water trucks will be periodically parked on Hopetoun Avenue to facilitate the removal of excess water until the end of July 2025.

To prepare for underground drilling, we will establish an exclusion zone on a section of the pedestrian path and nature strip on Hopetoun Avenue. This area will be used to unload pipework and install it along the closed pedestrian path leading to Parsley Bay Reserve. To help manage excess groundwater, water trucks will be temporarily parked on the shoulder of Hopetoun Avenue to connect to the and remove water as needed during our work. Up to 8 truck movements a day may be needed, depending on the volume of groundwater. Hopetoun Avenue will remain open to traffic and we will have traffic management in place to direct construction vehicles to our work area and to safely guide pedestrians and road users.

The work area on Hopetoun Avenue is shown on the map below.

From Monday 6 January 2025 to Friday 31 January 2025, we will be delivering the underground drilling equipment to our construction site at Parsley Bay. The project team anticipates that we will start the construction of the pipe installation in late January 2025.

Temporary removal of parking on Parsley Road

The delivery route for the drill rig will remain open to traffic, however some parking on Fitzwilliam Road (approximately 4 spaces) and the eastern side of Parsley Road (approximately 20 spaces) will be temporarily removed for up to 7 days over a period of 4 weeks. This will provide safe access for delivery vehicles and to maintain traffic flow during the unloading process. The equipment will be unloaded on Parsley Road before being transported down Horler Avenue. Areas of ‘no parking’ will be clearly delineated with traffic barriers and signs advising of applicable dates. We will release parking once the deliveries are complete.

The map below shows where the parking will be removed.

We thank you for your patience during our work in Parsley Bay.

New amenities at Parsley Bay by mid 2025

Sydney Water has awarded the contract to construct the new amenities at the Caretaker’s Cottage to Gartner Rose, an experienced construction company with expertise in renovating heritage buildings. Gartner Rose is coordinating construction work and site access with the Parsley Bay pump station main work contractor Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure (ACI) to minimise our impacts to the surrounding community. Both Delivery Partners will be working together to schedule heavy vehicle movements to and from the site, minimise worker parking in local streets, minimise changes to pedestrian access and combine construction progress update for the local community.

Although actual construction work is planned to start later, the site establishment will commence week starting Monday 14 October 2024. The new amenities building is expected to be completed in mid-2025, weather permitting.

For more information please access the notification distributed to residents on Friday October 11, 2024.

The project has reached significant milestones in September 2024.

In Parsley Bay we will be demolishing the existing amenities in preparation for constructing the new pump station, starting construction of the new amenities at the Caretaker’s Cottage and closing one of the pedestrian access paths from Hopetoun Avenue and the access path from Parsley Road to ensure public safety.

In Carlisle St Rose Bay, we are preparing for construction of a new wastewater pipeline in Rose Bay. This includes service investigation and potholing work along Carlisle Street and Dover Road. This work is scheduled to start in the week commencing 30 September 2024 and will last up to two weeks, weather permitting. To minimise traffic impacts, we are planning this work during the school holidays.

We have issued notifications to residents in the Rose Bay and Vaucluse area to advise of our work.

You can read the Parsley Bay notification in full and the Carlisle St notification here.

We thank you for your patience during our construction work.

Thanks for meeting us on Saturday September 7, 2024.

On a beautiful Spring Day in Parsley Bay, we met community members at the Parsley Bay Reserve to update everyone on our construction progress.

Thanks to everyone who attended and asked us questions about the purpose of the project, our construction schedule and how we will minimise construction impact to the community.

We will continue to meet with the community throughout the construction period and provide updates on our progress to build the new pump station and new amenities on the ground floor of the Caretaker’s Cottage. Temporary amenities will be available adjacent to the kiosk before the old amenities block is demolished.

Throughout construction visitors will continue to have access via to facilities at Parsley Bay including the children’s playground, park and beach. Access to Parsley Bay will be maintained via Horler Avenue, Fitzwilliam Road, The Crescent and the additional northern access path on Hopetoun Avenue.

Many thanks for your patience during our construction work.

We would like to provide you with an update on the progress of the project and invite you to meet the team in Parsley Bay Reserve on Saturday 7 September 2024.

Please follow the link here to read the latest newsletter.

We look forward to meeting you on Saturday, September 7 between 10am and 12pm in the Reserve near the Kiosk.