Patrick O'Neill

August 3, 2024

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Shaping the future of South Melbourne Market ~ City of Port Phillip

Patrick O'Neill

August 3, 2024

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Shaping the future of South Melbourne Market ~ City of Port Phillip

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.

Patrick O'Neill

August 1, 2024

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Future Melbourne 2026 consultation ~ City of Melbourne

Patrick O'Neill

August 1, 2024

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Future Melbourne 2026 consultation ~ City of Melbourne

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.

Pixelsmith

August 1, 2024

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Late Night Opening Hours ~ City of Sydney

Pixelsmith

August 1, 2024

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Late Night Opening Hours ~ City of Sydney

Global Research was engaged to report on submissions received on proposed changes to the planning controls for late night trading in the City of Sydney. Sydneysiders were asked for their views on where and when late-night trading should happen in Sydney.

Patrick O'Neill

August 1, 2024

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Let's Get Wellington Moving ~ Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and NZ Transport Agency

Patrick O'Neill

August 1, 2024

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Let's Get Wellington Moving ~ Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and NZ Transport Agency

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.

Patrick O'Neill

August 1, 2024

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Open and Creative City consultation ~ City of Sydney

Patrick O'Neill

August 1, 2024

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Open and Creative City consultation ~ City of Sydney

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.

Patrick O'Neill

July 31, 2024

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Queen Victoria Market: Charter Consultation ~ City of Melbourne

Patrick O'Neill

July 31, 2024

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Queen Victoria Market: Charter Consultation ~ City of Melbourne

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.

Patrick O'Neill

July 31, 2024

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Haig Park Master Plan ~ coding and analysis peer review ~ Australian Capital Territory Government

Patrick O'Neill

July 31, 2024

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Haig Park Master Plan ~ coding and analysis peer review ~ Australian Capital Territory Government

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.

Patrick O'Neill

July 31, 2024

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Imagine the Yarra ~ Melbourne Water

Patrick O'Neill

July 31, 2024

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In 2017, Melbourne Water conducted an extensive and deliberative consultation project on behalf of the Victorian Government to inform the development of a strategic plan for the Yarra River. The consultation process is ‘Imagine the Yarra’ and was conducted in two phases.

Pixelsmith

July 31, 2024

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A growing Canadian city deciding its transportation future ~ Red Deer Mobility Playbook

Pixelsmith

July 31, 2024

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A growing Canadian city deciding its transportation future ~ Red Deer Mobility Playbook

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.

Patrick O'Neill

July 30, 2024

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Spatial Plan (2020) and Draft District Plan (2021) ~ Wellington City Council

Patrick O'Neill

July 30, 2024

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Spatial Plan (2020) and Draft District Plan (2021) ~ Wellington City Council

In the 30 years between now and 2050, Wellington expects to welcome 80,000 new residents. The Draft Spatial Plan was produced as a guide to a compact, resilient, vibrant, prosperous, inclusive, connected, and greener Wellington that accommodates this projected population growth. The Draft Spatial Plan informed the District Plan, which acts as a blueprint for the functioning and decision making of Wellington City Council (WCC).

In late 2020, the WCC sought feedback on the Draft Spatial Plan. 2,897 citizens submitted to the engagement. Wellington City Council solicited general feedback on the Plan, posed questions about a range of specific issues, such as intensification, character retention, and suburban rapid transit centres, and prompted submitters to discuss development options in clearly defined areas.

Patrick O'Neill

July 29, 2024

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Geelong Waterfront Masterplan ~ City of Greater Geelong

Patrick O'Neill

July 29, 2024

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Geelong Waterfront Masterplan ~ City of Greater Geelong

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.

Patrick O'Neill

August 8, 2023

Mining recent engagements for insights: Informing Wellington's 2023 Long Term Plan ~ Wellington City Council

Patrick O'Neill

August 8, 2023

Mining recent engagements for insights: Informing Wellington's 2023 Long Term Plan ~ Wellington City Council

Wellington City Council existing public engagement results for insights re-interpreted to inform planning for the 2023 Long Term Plan. Understanding the value in the information collected over successive years and wanting to ensure the best use is made of their resources, they asked Global Research to reconsider existing data, and repurpose it to tell a story about what the community thinks and feels about priorities, challenges, and opportunities for the city.

Patrick O'Neill

July 8, 2023

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Coastal Hazards Adaptation Planning ~ Christchurch City Council

Patrick O'Neill

July 8, 2023

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Coastal Hazards Adaptation Planning ~ Christchurch City Council

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.

Patrick O'Neill

March 30, 2023

Cycleways Survey ~ Christchurch City Council

Patrick O'Neill

March 30, 2023

Cycleways Survey ~ Christchurch City Council

In 2020, The Christchurch City Council wanted to track how the developing cycleway network was perceived by both users and residents living on cycleway routes. To find out how people experience the newly constructed cycleways, CCC commissioned Global Research to repeat and build on a survey they conducted in 2018 which examined cycleway perceptions.

Examining reactions to new cycleways feeds into a broader set of Christchurch City Council aims to provide safe, convenient, comfortable, and attractive options for city travel.

Patrick O'Neill

March 28, 2023

Imagine Peninsula 2040 ~ Cochrane Research Solutions and Mornington Peninsula

Patrick O'Neill

March 28, 2023

Imagine Peninsula 2040 ~ Cochrane Research Solutions and Mornington Peninsula

Global Research was contracted to work in partnership with Melbourne-based research company, Cochrane Research Solutions to code and analyse a large amount of data for Mornington Peninsula Shire in the Australian state of Victoria. The project was a visioning exercise to ascertain people’s values and hopes for their communities to the year 2040. It elicited over 2,500 responses.

Patrick O'Neill

February 15, 2023

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Public Space Strategy ~ City of Port Phillip

Patrick O'Neill

February 15, 2023

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Public Space Strategy ~ City of Port Phillip

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.

Patrick O'Neill

February 14, 2023

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Shaping Sydney to 2050 ~ City of Sydney

Patrick O'Neill

February 14, 2023

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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.

Patrick O'Neill

December 6, 2020

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Central Library Redevelopment ~ Wellington City Council (WCC)

Patrick O'Neill

December 6, 2020

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Central Library Redevelopment ~ Wellington City Council (WCC)

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.

Patrick O'Neill

April 13, 2020

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Melbourne: A Great Place to Age ~ City of Melbourne

Patrick O'Neill

April 13, 2020

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Melbourne: A Great Place to Age ~ City of Melbourne

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.”

Patrick O'Neill

February 19, 2020

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Moonee Ponds Creek ~ City of Melbourne

Patrick O'Neill

February 19, 2020

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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.

Shaping the future of South Melbourne Market ~ City of Port Phillip

Future Melbourne 2026 consultation ~ City of Melbourne

Late Night Opening Hours ~ City of Sydney

Let's Get Wellington Moving ~ Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and NZ Transport Agency

Open and Creative City consultation ~ City of Sydney

Queen Victoria Market: Charter Consultation ~ City of Melbourne

Haig Park Master Plan ~ coding and analysis peer review ~ Australian Capital Territory Government

Imagine the Yarra ~ Melbourne Water

A growing Canadian city deciding its transportation future ~ Red Deer Mobility Playbook

Spatial Plan (2020) and Draft District Plan (2021) ~ Wellington City Council

Geelong Waterfront Masterplan ~ City of Greater Geelong

Mining recent engagements for insights: Informing Wellington's 2023 Long Term Plan ~ Wellington City Council

Coastal Hazards Adaptation Planning ~ Christchurch City Council

Cycleways Survey ~ Christchurch City Council

Imagine Peninsula 2040 ~ Cochrane Research Solutions and Mornington Peninsula

Public Space Strategy ~ City of Port Phillip

Shaping Sydney to 2050 ~ City of Sydney

Central Library Redevelopment ~ Wellington City Council (WCC)

Melbourne: A Great Place to Age ~ City of Melbourne

Moonee Ponds Creek ~ City of Melbourne

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