Astrolabe Park was partly used as a municipal landfill site for the City of Botany Bay beginning in 1938 and continuing intermittently until 1978.

Botany Council also commented that Astrolabe Park should be protected and preserved as it was "well located to provide pedestrian access to residents of Daceyville without the necessity of crossing major roads".

[5] In 2015, Football NSW proposed building a synthetic field at Astrolabe Park to be used for soccer games.

[10] Meredith Wallace of Bayside Council describe this proposal as "unbelievably terrible", and this plan was also abandoned.

[11] In 2022, the University of New South Wales and NSW Rugby proposed holding public rugby matches with 5,000 attendees at the adjacent and privately operated David Phillips Field, and using the grass at Astrolabe Park as a parking lot for those matches.

[13] NSW Rugby lodged another appeal in November 2023, this time to the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales.