Sydney MP Alex Greenwich, who swam fully clothed with then-Coalition minister Rob Stokes at the site’s opening, said on Friday: “Sydney’s only ‘city beach’ is about to become even cooler and safer.
“I’m excited to join tourists, office workers and Sydneysiders to jump in the water this summer and
enjoy these community-led improvements.”
The upgrades are designed to improve accessibility and expand the swimming area. Credit: Jessica Hromas
Kamper said the upgrades were part of a broader agenda to improve accessibility around Sydney’s harbour foreshore, and the government was “committed to ensuring Barangaroo remains a vibrant, accessible foreshore that reconnects people with the harbour”.
Stokes had ordered his department to investigate options to allow swimming at Nawi Cove, which sits in a busier section of the harbour where ferries and other boats operate nearby, possibly with a floating pool. A spokesman for Kamper on Friday said there were no updates on any such plans.
Yasmina Bonnet, of the Millers Point Resident Action Group, said the community had been advocating for an expanded swim area and improved accessibility into the water for the elderly and less mobile at Marrinawi Cove.
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“Sydneysiders love a good harbour swim. If the larger Nawi Cove, just near Barangaroo metro station, was also swimmable in the future, that would be fabulous.”
Community groups and the City of Sydney have pushed for more harbour swimming spots, including at Nawi Cove on the western side of Barangaroo Reserve, Pirrama Park in Pyrmont, Beare Park at Elizabeth Bay, and Glebe’s Blackwattle Bay.
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