Redland City Council has awarded a contract worth more than $2.15 million to rebuild and upgrade the adventure playground at Capalaba’s IndigiScapes Centre, although families will have to wait a little longer to discover exactly what the finished play space will contain.
The Landscape Construction Company Pty Ltd secured the contract on 18 August for an estimated $2,157,272.15. Council lists the project as the “IndigiScapes Adventure Playground, Capalaba”, while the original tender called for a principal contractor to construct a “rescoped and upgraded adventure playground and associated works”.
While those records establish the scale of the investment, they reveal considerably less about the individual attractions that will eventually fill the playground. Other Council documents, however, provide a clearer picture of the broader work planned for the site.
Accessibility and safety are part of the upgrade
Council’s 2025–26 Capital Works Program says improvements to the IndigiScapes play space will include new play equipment, wheelchair-friendly pathways, improved lighting and soft-fall safety surfaces.
The playground forms part of a wider program of work across the Redlands Coast Eco Precinct, which brings together IndigiScapes, disability support organisation Myhorizon and the proposed RSPCA wildlife hospital.
When Council endorsed funding for precinct infrastructure in 2024, it identified about $1.9 million for outdoor-space renewals covering playground renewal, landscaping and safety and accessibility improvements. A further approximately $4.4 million was allocated to precinct connections, including parking, walkways, road connections and drainage.
Those earlier allocations are separate from the newly awarded $2.15 million playground contract and should not be treated as an itemised breakdown of its cost. They do show, though, that the playground renewal has been developed as part of a broader effort to improve how visitors move through and use the precinct.
IndigiScapes already has a nature-play tradition
Rather than creating a playground on an unused patch of land, the project will rework an established family attraction at IndigiScapes.
Council has previously promoted an adventure play area with a flying fox, wooden balance-beam obstacle course, water pumping station and sandpit, alongside the centre’s education trail and hedge maze. The latest tender’s description of a “rescoped and upgraded” adventure playground points to a substantial renewal of that existing offering.
Accessibility is one of the clearer themes in the information released so far. Wheelchair-friendly pathways are specifically included in Council’s capital program, fitting with the wider precinct planning that has placed greater emphasis on accessible connections between facilities.
What remains less clear is how that approach will translate into the playground equipment itself. Council’s publicly available information does not yet identify particular accessible or sensory-play installations, so it would be premature to assume they form part of the final design.
The finer details are still to come
For a contract of more than $2.15 million, perhaps the biggest unanswered question is what families will actually see when the project is finished.
As at 2 September, publicly accessible Council information does not spell out the individual pieces of new play equipment, the playground’s final footprint or how different parts of the space will cater for children of different ages. Details about shade and seating are similarly difficult to establish from the material released so far.
There is also no reason to assume that the 18 August contract award marked the beginning of construction. Awarding the contract establishes who has secured the work, but the available records do not yet provide a firm basis for saying when crews will move onto the playground site or when the upgraded space will open.
IndigiScapes’ setting adds another consideration because the centre combines recreation with environmental education, native gardens and bushland. While the wider precinct program includes landscaping and environmental objectives, the material available for this playground contract does not establish specific tree removals, habitat works or ecological restoration measures.
For now, the public record gives Capalaba families the broad outline: IndigiScapes is receiving a substantial renewal of its existing adventure playground, with new equipment accompanied by improvements to accessibility, lighting and safety surfacing.
What more than $2.15 million will ultimately deliver on the ground will become clearer when Council reveals the detailed design.
Published 2-Sept-2026
