A first step on this journey is a residents’ meeting to be held at:
Ottoway Community Hall
10am Saturday 18 January 2025
(cnr Jenkins & Grand Junction Road)
…where we hope residents can share ideas for the Loop and plan for the future.

Update - The Rosewater Loop meeting on Saturday 18 January was a great success, with 70 community members attending. Thanks so much to everyone who participated.

Here's our first issue of In the Loop with a summary of ideas shared at our first community Loop meeting.

Approximately 150 people attended the Rosewater Loop community update on 15 February 2025 at the Rosewater Bowling Club. Preliminary plans for greening the Loop were presented. They can be viewed here.

Here's our second issue of In the Loop with a report on the community update held last Saturday. 

Cleaning the Loop

10am - 11.30am Saturday 1 March 

North east corner of Evans Street and Marine Terrace.

Update! We welcomed 25 community members to the site and our volunteers collected 13 bags as well as piles of hard rubbish.

Thanks to everyone who took part - the area looked so much better after the clean up. Keep an eye out for GRL news for future clean ups.

Here's our latest issue of In the Loop with news of recent happenings around the Loop. Let us know if you have suggestions for our next issue.

Our next Community Gathering is coming up soon!

10-11am on Saturday 5 April

North-east corner of Evans Street and Marine Terrace.
There's a shady place under some big trees (same spot as our clean up)
An opportunity to meet community members and continue our conversations about the Loop. Bring along a chair (we will have a few) & a drink. Hope to see you there!

Update: We had a good gathering of more than 20 people with positive connections made amongst community members.

Thanks to everyone who has completed our Loop survey. If you haven't done it yet here's the link

Here's our latest issue of In the Loop, with a range of perspectives from around the Loop.

Cleaning up the Loop 21 June 2025

On Saturday 21 June 30 community members held a cleaning and weeding blitz along the Rosewater Loop, between Newcastle Street and Eastbourne Terrace. Rubbish, rubble and weeds were cleared before we enjoyed a home made morning tea.

In the Loop Issue 5 with the latest news from around the Loop can be found here

Planting the Loop - Thanks to the more than 40 local community members who turned up on Saturday 28 June to help with planting the Loop. Over 1000 plants went in along the Hardy Street section.
Read all about it in our latest newsletter, In the Loop Issue 6.

Planting the Loop - Saturday 26 July - many thanks to the 35 community members who came out on a chilly morning to plant the next section of the Loop near Newcastle st.

Loop catchup - 9 August, Gillman Marshalling yards

More than 20 community members helped to mulch, tidy up and add to the plantings. Thanks to all who helped.

Thanks to the 20 community members who joined us to

tidy up and weed along the Hardy street section of the Loop on 30th August.

Here's issue 7 of In the Loop

Update on our first Loop Walk -14 community members along with 4 canine friends joined the Loop walk on 11 September.
We'll have news of our next walk soon. Here's the Loop walk map

Access to the Loop is currently restricted while work takes place on the path.

Sincere thanks to all the community members who having been helping to weed and mulch the plantings over the past few months. We have a group of volunteers who will be helping to water over the summer.

Here's our final issue of In the Loop for 2025, with a look back at our community effort this year.

We look forward to more progress along the Loop in 2026.