The voice of the community in decision making process is an important requirement to establish quality products or services that fulfil their needs and demands. In the field of open space managementin Washington, USA, the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (2005) stated that involving citizens representing diverse community of interests, in all stages (from goal setting to programme and project design) will produce a system that is more responsive to the community’s diverse needs. The voice of the community should be taken more seriously since any decision could affect their lives.Mohamed Anuar and Saruwono (2013) added that the public has the right to know on what is happening in the surrounding environment and the right to get involve in decision making process which particularly affect them in places where they live and work. In order to develop a liveable city and healthy community, planning for parks is an extremely important matter (Saffuan, Ariffin and Amin 2013). Therefore, Shing and Marafa (2006) suggested that practitioners and authorities should initiate more public participation opportunities because park users are the major stakeholders and could ensure the success of urban parks. For example, a dialogue session between managers or planners and representatives from various community groups is important to know what their needs are and to generate new ideas. Another method, the Q methodology, is used in recreation and leisure research for assessing people opinions, beliefs, attitudes and perceptions (Ward 2009). Q methodology received increasing attention among researchers to assess community perception and was widely used in parks and recreation management. The crucial stage of Q Methodology is the collection of concourse as items for respondents to rank order, which could produce a theme for some groups of people, who share similar views or perception.Driver (1999) explained that the origin of BBM approach was from a workshop conducted by Driver and Peterson in May 1989 to assess