Kidsafe National Playspace Design Awards Showcase
Kidsafe Australia, has announced their 2025 National Playspace Design Awards 2025.
Since their last celebration of great places to play in 2020, many more playgrounds and play spaces have been created across Australia and Kidsafe uses these awards to publicly recognise excellence, innovation, inclusivity and most importantly community involvement.
This year Kidsafe Australia acknowledged the importance of community engagement and their innovative approaches to embracing risky and challenging play whilst integrating the use of sustainable resources.
Congratulations to the following award recipients:
Category 1a: Preschool/Long Day Care
Winner: Fit Kidz Learning Centre, Box Hill, NSW
Designer: Urban Landscape Projects
2a: Infants and Primary Schools
Winner: Galston Public School Quiet Playground, NSW
Designer: Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
Highly Commended: Hurstville Grove Public School, NSW
Designer: Outhouse Design
3a: Public Playspaces - up to $500K
Winner: Fagan Park Children’s Forest - Hornsby Shire Council, NSW
Designer: Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
3b: Public Playspaces - $500K - $1M
Winner: Karlkula Bush Park, Hannans, WA
Designer: Nature Playgrounds
Leyster Meares Award goes to:
East Cottesloe Nature Trail – Town of Cottesloe, WA
Designer: Nature Based Play