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A Victorian council is seeking to amend an obsolete set of rules that prohibits visitors to a popular park from performing a number of seemingly innocent activities.
The rules established more than a century ago prohibit visitors to Footscray Park from cycling, playing sports and having orange peels on the premises.
At last week's council meeting, the council of Maribyrnong proposed to start taking action to remove the strict rules, the Herald Sun reported.
The current rules state that even engaging in a simple activity such as playing cricket or biking requires the written permission of the council.
A detailed set of rules for Footscray Park has been published in the Footscray Independent in 1916, with some more reasonable than others.
Here are some examples of rules defined for the park:
- It is forbidden to enter or stay in the park to interfere with modesty in clothing, language or behavior.
- No one may leave bottles, orange peels, clothes or bedding on them.
- No one shall put in the park horses, cattle, sheep or other animals.
- Stray dogs found in the park will be destroyed.
- No person shall ride a bicycle in the park without the permission of the council.
- No person shall engage in cricket, football, tennis, lacrosse or any other similar game in the park without the written permission of the board.
The Ministry of Environment, Lands, Water and Planning (DELWP) is expected to lead the regulatory change. Councilor Simon Crawford stated that these old rules were no longer working.
"Our historical arrangement was extremely restrictive and it went into the details, which is ridiculous nowadays," he said. Herald Sun.
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