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Lower Plateau Road Reserve
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Location & Description
Lower Plateau Road Reserve is located on Bilgola Plateau overlooking Pittwater. The reserve is more than 130m above sea level and occupies 0.7 hectares.
Walking Tracks & Access
The reserve is bounded by residential properties and there are two access points off Lower Plateau Road. There are no formal tracks in the Reserve due to dense vegetation and steep land form.
Plants
The vegetation is Red Bloodwood-Scribbly Gum Woodland dominated by Red Bloodwood (Corymbia gummifera), Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus haemastoma) and Smooth-barked Apple (Angophora costata). The canopy height reaches 10 to 15 metres.
Animals
The Reserve provides refuge for native animals living locally (e.g Boobook Owl) as well as food resources for passing birds. There is a variety of flowering plants including Banksias and extensive rock outcrops.
Special Features
- Lower Plateau Road Reserve provides a small example of urban bushland and a record of the pre-european landscape present in the Bilgola Plateau area
- it provides visual amenity along the Peninsula Ridgeline and views to Pittwater and the Western foreshores
- it provides habitat for a diversity of fauna species in the context of urban bushland in the Sydney Region
- it provides an corridor link along the Peninsula for the movement of fauna to larger Reserves such as Angophora Reserve
- it contributes to the landscape quality of Pittwater and the peninsula and provides a record of the original landscape and the changes wrought by urban development
- it is an educational resource and a contact point with nature for residents
- it allows urban residents to undertake informal recreational pursuits in a bushland setting
Related Info
- To find out more about Lower Plateau Road Reserve, download its Plan of Management
- Find out more about Pittwater's amazing Vegetation Communities
- See the native animal species lists for Pittwater