The Albert St Park is just one of many properties the council is considering selling off to raise money to help pay for its public works projects that lack sufficient funding. 

Goulburn Mulwaree Council is holding a public hearing about the Albert St park on Thursday, April 11 at 6pm in the Council Chambers. 

The hearing is being chaired by an independent person. 

Concerned residents have sent submissions sent to the council and to the Goulburn Post in an effort at raise awareness about the moves.

Resident Cameron Bell objected to the move.

"Parks are important components of our city. They are increasingly rare in this day and age, and they must be held on to, and treasured," he said.

"As a resident of Albert St, I have walked with my children to and from school through our park for eight years. We have watched the plovers raise their chicks there each year. I have pushed my kids on the swings there since they could walk. I taught my son to kick a footy there. I watched my kids summon the courage to climb the tree. We have all felt the health benefit of having a green space near or house.

"Please don't sell our park. Once it's gone we can never get it back. Please think of our children. please consider the well-being of our community."

His wife Sarah is an early childhood educator and she attested to the benefits to children of the availability of open green space to promote physical learning through play.

She said the Albert Street park swing set provided a convenient destination for mini-excursions with her family day care children and that her children enjoyed having this space to play with their dog.

Social ecologist Danielle Marsden-Ballard wrote that urban green spaces need to be preserved.

"All streets need trees, and your health directly relates to how many trees on your street, and how close you are to parks. House valuations are also improved by green treed streets and small parks close by," she wrote.

She said parks have a multitude of unseen beneficial outcomes called ecosystems services.

"These include helping with urban storm water control, urban habitat for bird, lizards, possums and insects, and as a counter to the Urban Heat Island effect, assisting with urban air quality, and quietening the growing noise of a developing city, to name just a few," she wrote.

Another resident Niki Shepherd also wrote a submission.

"The green space is already on a very small block, developing half of it will destroy the quality of the current benefits enjoyed by the community," she wrote.

"This is a public green recreation space. Goulburn has so much development currently taking over the outskirts of our beautiful city. Please do not let our city's green spaces become even more housing development. It is wrong and it is bad for the general health and well being of Goulburn's valuable residents.

"If any further development were to happen at Albert Street park it should be to enhance the health and well being of our community such as with the planting of more shrubs and plants or perhaps another play area like the one that has been constructed at Gibson St Park. 

"Some public seating so people can comfortably sit at the park like the seating constructed recently along the Wollondilly track, even an outdoor gym and perhaps a picnic table and barbecue."

To sell the land, the council first needs to reclassify it from community to operational land. 

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