Pokemon GO: All Pokestops removed from Peg Paterson Park at Rhodes

Kathryn Wicks

At last, Rhodes can finally get some sleep.

Disruptions caused by Pokemon GO players swamping the riverside suburb ceased around 7.30pm on Monday, when it became apparent the vital Pokestops had been removed from Peg Paterson Park, which is surrounded by apartments.

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Hundreds of gamers had been gathering in the park each night since the craze began on July 6 because it had three intersecting Pokestops, allowing gamers to catch large numbers of quality Pokemon.

The latest update to the app appears to have removed the three Pokestops.

Residents celebrated the end of the chaos, which included traffic jams, rubbish left strewn in the park, driveways being blocked, noise until the early hours of the morning and children's play equipment being used by adult Pokemon players.

Sunghoon Choi, who lives above the park with his young family, told the Herald last week: "There is loud shouting throughout the night, people dumping rubbish and cigarette butts and constant traffic jams."

Canada Bay Council had been encouraging residents to petition the game's creator, Niantic, to remove some of the Pokestops from the park.

It had been spending ratepayers' money on additional garbage collection and ranger patrols.

Intersecting Pokestops (left) have all been removed in the game's latest update.

Residents were looking forward to "stray trolleys being the biggest issue in the area again", one wrote on Facebook.

Gamers turned their attention to a park in Bankstown.