Peacock Point. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) selected Sydney Harbour Parks as one of the most significant projects between 1966 and 2000. Description Illoura Reserve was constructed on an abandoned waterfront site known as Peacock Point that was reclaimed for public use by creation of a public park. The site had been stripped of all indigenous vegetation and used as an industrial site and then abandoned and fenced off. The lessee, Maritime Services Board, in 1970 instigated a clean-up and landscaping project before it handed the land over to the council as a public reserve. A combination of responding to the site, identifying and relating to the environment and paying respect to the future visitors inspired the vision for the reserve at Peacock Point. Although its natural features had been removed the underlying sandstone survived: banks of fill were scraped back to reveal the rock features beneath. Stone steps and paths were incorporated into the levels emphasising the natural stone. A large viewing platform and stairs constructed from recycled wharf timbers connects the levels and celebrates the unique waterfront location and its views to the city. Construction materials consisted of materials recycled from the site and other demolition sites around Sydney. Using a language of sandstone retaining walls and flagging, massive timbers and native plants with large areas of mulch rather than grass, the park gave the harbour side Peacock Point location back to the community along with an entirely new experience of enjoying an urban bush environment. Mackenzie set about re-establishing an abstracted version of "bushland" using local plant species which linked the park to the other headlands in the harbour: "There is a distinct ecologically-based progression from Casuarinas at the water's edge, through leptospermum and westringias, to melaleucas and eucalypts. The mature figs which edge both parks enhance the sense of progression from the water's edge to the tall canopy of the woodland, and define the beginning of the urban areas." Mackenzie not only used the materials of Sydney Harbour such as sandstone blocks and wharf timbers but he created an urban park with a strong sense of its location on Sydney Harbour. A restoration plan for the reserve designed by Bruce Mackenzie and Associates was adopted by Leichhardt Municipal Council and implemented to ensure the original design intent was conserved and reinstated. Heritage listing Iloura Reserve is an outstanding twentieth century urban park that was