By Cathy Jones (2024)
The reserve takes its name from Coxs Creek tributary from Cooks River, which commences around Water Street Strathfield South and travels west towards Greenacre. Coxs Creek Reserve is a bushland reserve and its closest street is Sylvanus Street Greenacre. It is located behind residences and accessible via an entry near the corner of Sylvanus Street and Drone Street.
Coxs Creek Reserve was formerly part of a larger site (less than 2 hectares) owned by the Australian Telecommunications Commission (Telecom), bounded by Roberts Road and Wentworth Road Greenacre.
In 1992, the Telecom site retained a considerable area of remnant bushland. When Telecom sought a rezoning of the land prior to its sale in 1992, Strathfield Council exercised an area of 1.55 hectares in the southern eastern portion of the site pending further investigation of the area’s conservation values. Following reviews, the area was gazetted as a Environmental Management Area under the Strathfield Local Environmental Plan (LEP) in 1993.
This section of land was dedicated to Strathfield Council by Telecom in early 1994, to be managed as a bushland reserve.
