New neighbourhood playground at Flinders is a winner with young Scarlett

The mother of two-year-old Scarlett and two older boys had her first look at the new Village Green park on Tuesday after Shellharbour City Council upgraded it.

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Ms Marks said she wasn't a fan of the old park.

"The wood was old, they could get splinters and they could fall off heaps of edges," Ms Marks said.

"I very rarely went up there, it just seemed too dangerous for the young kids."

But the brand new playground is a winner as far as Ms Marks and Scarlett are concerned.

"She could get up to the big slide by herself and go down it," Ms Marks said.

"And she could climb up on the spider, and get herself up on the swing. So it's a lot more friendly for the younger ones."

Shellharbour Mayor Marianne Saliba said the council was aware there were a number of older parks in the area and was focused on upgrading parks when it could.

"Usually our staff will go out and examine it and make sure that the equipment is safe," Cr Saliba said.

"When it gets to the stage where it's really not safe, or it's costing us so much for repairs, then we'll make a determination to actually replace them.

"And when we replace them, we replace them with great new facilities that the kids love."

It is the first of two nature-themed parks to be unveiled by Shellharbour City Council - the other being at John Sheppard Reserve at Albion Park.

Designed and built by Unanderra's Moduplay, the two parks cost a combined $240,000.

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