Aberfeldy Park is a suburban park at 76 Aberfeldy Avenue in Highland Park, Auckland, and it holds a five-star rating from its single Google reviewer, who met others there to collect signatures against the site being developed into high-rise housing. Parks like this are the quiet workhorses of a suburb: open green space that needs no booking or fee, where a walk, a kick-around or ten quiet minutes on a bench is the whole point. Regulars learn a reserve's rhythms — which corners catch the afternoon sun, when the school run clears it out, where the grass dries first after rain. In a fast-growing city like Auckland, small reserves can face development pressure too, so anyone fond of a local park does well to keep half an eye on council consultation plans. Highland Park has this pocket of open space on Aberfeldy Avenue, and its neighbours plainly mean to keep it that way.