For the sunny weekend of 18-19 of March 2023, Christchurch hosted the inaugural ITM New Zealand SailGP as a leg of the international league. In Whakaraupō/Lyttleton Harbour, crowds gathered from across Aotearoa and overseas to watch hydrofoiling F50 catamarans from nine different countries race, approaching speeds of 100km/h.
Wellington City Council made the decision to demolish the earthquake prone underground carpark in the south-west corner of Frank Kitts Park. The Fale Malae Trust is proposing to build a Fale Malae which would, subject to landowner approval and resource consent, replace the car park structure with a smaller footprint and include multi-purpose spaces with Pasifika inspired architecture, as well as public facilities and a café. The design for a national Fale Malae at Frank Kitts Park has been drawn up, and the community was consulted with in April 2023 to ascertain their thoughts on the proposal.
South Melbourne Market was established in 1867 and is the oldest continuing market in Melbourne. Over time, the Market has undergone regular improvement and expansion to accommodate the growing needs of its traders and local community and ensure its compliance with changing regulations.
The City of Port Phillip conducted community engagement between 3 November and 3 December 2023 to gather feedback from the community and traders regarding proposed amendments to the South Melbourne Market, enabling the Market to further improve user experience and adapt to the changing needs of its stakeholders.
Christchurch was devastated by earthquakes in 2011. This significantly disrupted residential and business land supply, as some land could no longer be lived or worked on.
The Environment Canterbury Regional Council (ECAN) & Partners were tasked with putting land use policies and rules in place to assist rebuilding and recovery of communities (including housing and businesses).
Broad engagement with the community was desired to identify interests and issues to inform the Land Use Recovery Plan (LURP).
Future Melbourne 2026 is a community collaboration project led by The City of Melbourne to develop a long-term strategic plan to ensure Melbourne’s legacy as a liveable and competitive city over the coming decade. The project refreshes the Future Melbourne 2008 plan, which has guided all aspects of the city’s development, prosperity and liveability. The community was invited to share their ideas and vision for the future.
Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) is a partnership between Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, and the NZ Transport Agency. It is working with the people of Wellington to develop a transport system that supports their aspirations for how the city looks, feels, and functions. The programme partners want to support Wellington’s growth while making it safer and easier for you to get around.
The City of Sydney, as it grows, aims to support an active and diverse evening culture and economy. To support this aspiration, The City of Sydney produced a discussion paper outlining plans for the future of Sydney’s nighttime economy. They proposed three actions: to allow businesses to trade later without obtaining an approval, to simplify the process for artists to open creative spaces, and to balance the impacts of live music and performance venues.
The City of Melbourne (CoM) launched a community consultation process around the redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Market Precinct, engaging Global Research to provide a report with the findings of this consultation. Melburnians were asked to provide their views on how they think a new 1.5-hectare public space, Market Square, should be used.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government sought the services of Global Research to review the already-completed analysis of comments received during a public engagement consultation. We were asked to review and assess the suitability of both the method and the coding process so that the client could be sure that they had received robust and trustworthy work.
Red Deer is a growing city of 90,000 people in Alberta, Canada. To create viable alternatives to single occupant vehicle travel the city aims to design and facilitate integrated movement and to provide transportation choice as the City grows. With the help of 8-80 Cities (Toronto), and Gehl Architects (Copenhagen) the City developed ‘The Mobility Playbook’ to assist with its transportation network planning.
From April to June 2023, MosaicLab, a Melbourne based community engagement consultancy, conducted a community consultation process to update the City of Greater Geelong’s Waterfront Masterplan.
The resulting document will guide development and public realm upgrades along the Corio Bay foreshore throughout the next 10 to 20 years. The City of Geelong’s aim was to engage with people who live, work and visit the area to understand what they value and the future changes they wish to see. Feedback from this engagement will be used to prepare a draft Masterplan for the waterfront.
In late 2022, the Christchurch City Council (CCC) sought the opinions of people in the Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour and Koukourarata Port Levy areas to assist with the Coastal Hazards Adaptation Planning programme. The purpose of the research was to better understand local and community values and priorities in relation to the coastal environment now and in the future, as the impacts of climate change are felt through increased coastal flooding, erosion, and rising groundwater.
The City of Port Phillip (CoPP), Victoria, Australia is developing a Public Space Strategy to create a vision and blueprint for the future of public space. A draft Strategy document was prepared, outlining the challenges, outcomes and actions required to realise the full potential of the network of parks, gardens, streets, foreshore, and urban plazas. The Port Phillip community was asked to rank outcomes and projects outlined in the draft Strategy, justify their choices, and offer further suggestions for the improvement of the Strategy.
In June 2019, the City of Sydney ran the ‘Shaping Sydney 2050’ workshop, to solicit ideas from stakeholders about what they wanted the future of Sydney to look like. This event drew 283 stakeholders from a variety of community sectors including: cultural; economic; environmental; governance; planning; public domain; social; and, transport.
The Wellington Central Library was closed to the public in March 2019 due to new guidelines for concrete buildings revealing a high level of potential failure in a significant earthquake.
A public engagement consultation ran between 27 July and 7 September 2020 to examine preferences for the Central Library redevelopment. The consultation process invited the public to comment on five options for a redevelopment of the Central Library, three with different levels of remediation, and two which proposed a new build.
The City of Melbourne (CoM) undertook a public engagement to better understand what matters to Melburnians when it comes to ageing. This research was created to inform the development of CoM’s, Melbourne: A Great Place to Age strategic plan, which aims to create “a more connected community that brings people together in their local neighbourhoods, and ensures older people are supported to fully participate and feel valued and respected for their unique life experience.”
The Victorian Planning Authority (VPA) and City of Melbourne’s (CoM) vision for Moonee Ponds Creek is for it to become “a thriving corridor that supports the liveability and resilience of the city”. To achieve this aim, CoM sought community feedback on the draft Moonee Ponds Creek Strategic Opportunities Plan, which highlights strategic opportunities and management issues along the creek. The creek is envisaged as an exemplar corridor for water management, public space and community activity, active transport, biodiversity, heritage and culture.
