Looking for a new name in the neighbourhood.

There’s a 4ha parcel of land without an official name in Carey Bay. 

At some point in its history it was Hale’s dairy and The Pony Club. It is currently a leash free area for neighbourhood fidos, carries stormwater from the surrounding hillsides into Puntei Creek and some parts of it have regenerated into the Endangered Ecological Communities, Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest, Swamp Schlerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplain and Coastal Saltmarsh.

The map on the sign at the gate says Hampton Street Reserve but the Council does not have an official name. Some locals are keen to give it a moniker, so what are your suggestions? 

The Geographical Names Board prefers names of an Aboriginal origin or historical background. Names associated with people are normally only given posthumously.

Lake Mac libraries has some great local history pages where you can search suburbs and get ideas. There’s also a webpage called Forgotten place names of Lake Macquarie .There are several names mentioned associated with the Toronto-Coal Point peninsula including 

• Bundee, Bondee: Shown on early maps, Bundee is the Toronto-Coal Point peninsula. Bundee means a narrow place, any narrow point of land. It is a corruption of the Awabakal word punte or puntei.
• Dereh-bambah: The Aboriginal name given to the Toronto Coal Point Peninsula. Also called Punte.
• Ebenezer: The name of Lancelot Threlkeld's second mission at Toronto.

You can post, email or hand deliver any suggestions to any of the committee contacts, we’ll then compile the list of suggestions for community comment and put the preferred recommendation to LMCC next year.