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Building Sustainable Communities on the Urban FringeTopics included:
Casey, 19 August 2002
Planning Committee This forum was organised by:
With the participation of:
We thank all presenters for sharing their time and experiences. Special thanks to the City of Casey for their generous assistance in hosting this event, in particular Cr. Graham Smith, Arn Maree Jenkins and Brendan Fitzsimmons.
Casey Proceedings9.30am: Opening Address Cr Graham Smith has been a Councillor for the Mayfield (Cranbourne) Ward since March 2000, and Mayor since March this year. Graham is 40 years of age, married, and has three young children. He is a keen supporter of the Richmond Football Club and enjoys Go-Kart Racing. You may be interested to also know that the Mayor was one of the first successfully treated Leukemia patients in the 1960s under the care of Dr John Colebatch, Royal Children's Hospital. When not carrying out Council duties, he is involved in Business Management & Consulting pertaining to fleet and earthmoving applications. 9.45am: Why Built Environment? This presentation will give an overview of some of the theory and evidence linking the built environment with wellbeing, give a brief history of the Planning and Health forum series, and outline the days' events. Biography: Iain Butterworth joined the Local Government Team in 2001 to assist in the development of the Municipal Public Health Planning Framework. With a background in community psychology, his interest is in the built environment and its relationship to sense of place, sense of community, participation, health and wellbeing. In 2001 his doctoral research in this area received the American Psychological Association's Emory L. Cowen Dissertation Award for the Promotion of Wellness. He has many years' community development experience in the areas of HIV education and support, disability advocacy training, and environmental adult education.
10.00am: Local Perspectives on Planning and Community Development Phil Dalling holds a B.Ed and Grad Dip (Ed Admin). Phil's previous role was Manager, Primary Care (SMR). He has a strong interest in strategic planning for public health and wellbeing. Mental Health of Families in New Urban Estates This presentation will explain the development and priorities of Cardinia's Community Health Plan 2001-2006 and show how many of the same issues were echoed in the Municipal Public Health Plan recently released by neighbouring City of Casey. Priorities have included strategies for improving supports for families with children and addressing needs in the area of mental health. The Health Plans draw strong connections between these priorities and the role of government in building community spirit and providing opportunities for social participation. Together, Casey and Cardinia were successful in winning a grant, through the State Government's "Municipal Public Health Good Practice Program", to explore the specific issue of postnatal depression in new urban areas. This presentation will explain the aims of this new project and how it will involve women themselves in exploring the full range of possible responses to this important issue. Responses may include service interventions, community interventions, policy and planning and the women's own sense of connection (or disconnection) to their natural and built environments. This presentation will draw links between the marketing of new estates and the perceived strength and assets of established communities. It will also touch on questions about the driving and resisting forces for residents in accessing and influencing their natural and built environments. Biography: Sally Everitt currently holds the position as Social Planner with Cardinia Shire Council, and is working on major projects for the Strategic Planning Unit, Community Planning Division, including: working in partnership with others to implement Cardinia's Community Health Plan, developing sustainability and triple bottom line indicators for Cardinia and the development of its Public Transport Strategy Plan. Sally has postgraduate qualifications in both management and women's studies. Sally has worked in Local Government for more than 10 years and the non-government sector for a 15 years. Her focus has been in community services provision and planning. She graduated as an early childhood educator in mid 70's working in both rural and urban areas. She moved into planning and management of family and children's services in the mid 1980s at the Cities of Knox, Berwick, Pakenham and St.Kilda. Recent positions have included Standards and Evaluations Officer, for Community Services at the City of Melbourne and Manager of the Commonwealth Government's Family Resource Centre in the Narre Warren for 5 years (1993-1998), focusing on community development, social research and services planning in the south eastern growth corridor.
Building New and Developing Housing Estates Into Communities Meeting the service and infrastructure needs of a rapidly expanding City is a significant challenge for any Council undergoing major residential growth. But transforming the bricks and mortar of new housing estates into communities is a process that goes beyond the traditional experience of local government. With a current population of more than 190,000 and increasing by approximately 3,000 new residents each quarter, the City of Casey is Victoria's fastest growing municipality and the third fastest in Australia, behind the Brisbane and Gold Coast City Councils. The majority of these new residents choose to move into local new housing estates within the City. In understanding and continuing to address the infrastructure and service delivery needs of new residential regions, the City of Casey has developed a unique program that helps new residents build their estate into a community. The program began in 1999 with the appointment of a New Estates Community Development Officer - the first role of its kind in Victoria and a role unique within Australian Local Government. The various initiatives and strategies that make up the New Estates Community Development Program help to create the building blocks of communities and work towards developing vibrant, active and diverse neighbourhoods where people can enjoy a sense of identity and belonging. This unique program has a distinct focus on community building, where active citizenship, empowerment, and the development of local social capital and a sense of community are key ingredients. Biography: Caroline Bell has been Team Leader of Community Development (of which New Estates Development is one of a number of positions) for over 4 years with the City of Casey. Prior to this, Caroline held a range of management positions within the Commonwealth Employment Services. Her qualifications include Grad. Certificate of Management, and Master of Business Administration from Deakin University. Caroline has also had first hand experience of living in one of Casey's new estate developments and the difficulties associated with this. (Caroline Bell will present this paper on behalf of Tammy Sheedy, Casey's New Estates Community Development Officer).
Place Attachment and Well Being Through the development of the Mornington Peninsula Health and Well Being Plan, local communities on the Mornington Peninsula have been involved in a number of community development activities based on people and places. Findings from these projects indicate that many local communities on the Mornington Peninsula strongly connect their own health and well being with the health and sustainability of the local environment around them. For many there is a strong sense of place, with connection to activities and other people. If we offer a range of opportunities with and for the community to participate in place making we also open up avenues for increased diversity. It is this diversity that makes our places and our communities more interesting, vibrant and healthy. The session aims to:
Biography: Jenny Macaffer is currently employed as the Social Planner with the Mornington Peninsula Shire. She has long history of community development and social activism. She has worked in a range of fields in the community, including the mental health area, community housing, and in special needs with all ages. Jenny has also taught community development and social planning at a number of tertiary institutions. Jenny's experience of working with many communities in hardship has taught her the importance of involving people in shaping their own lives and places. This includes fostering confidence that people can contribute to a more hopeful and meaningful future: a future that connects people together in a more compassionate and dignified world. She believes that creative and healthy communities are better placed to undertake collective sharing and learning, explore opportunities to grow partnerships and interdependencies, promote sense of belonging and optimism for the future, and encourage and support community spirit through times of adversity.
11.30am: What Can Happen When Planners Work Together Kelvin Walsh trained as an architect and town planner. He has extensive experience in urban and rural strategy development and design, master planning, project evaluation, dispute resolution, community participation processes and developing responsive processes to ensure viable and implementable outcomes. This experience has included work nationally and internationally for situations in which new responses and models have been required. He has pioneered participation processes for residents and neighbours in a number of suburban communities in Melbourne, focussing on ecologically sustainable development. He recently completed a three-month sabbatical in Barcelona towards his Masters Degree.
City of Casey C21 Strategy Casey C21: A Vision for Our Future is a whole-of-community strategy incorporating social, economic and environmental needs and it encourages community participation. It is directed towards the delivery of five specific outcomes relating to employment, equal opportunity and access, prosperity, youth and the environment. C21 draws on extensive research, the knowledge of Council staff and the input of the wider community. Involving Council staff ensures that knowledge and skills gained can be used to implement the strategy. It has also promoted understanding of the inputs, rationale and outcomes of C21 and encouraged staff to 'own' the strategy. Extensive consultation and providing information on C21 has fostered community understanding, participation and support-more than 2,500 individual concerns and ideas have been gathered. C21 is an evolutionary project with actions to be developed over the next 10 years. The resulting strategy links social, economic and environmental needs with services, plans and outcomes. By understanding the implications of population growth and anticipating possible changes locally and globally, the municipality is in a position to plan to respond to those changes. C21 will help to ensure that service and infrastructure needs of the community are delivered when and where they are needed. By looking forward, it should anticipate the Council and community capacities, skills and knowledge needed to prosper in the future. This conceptual model for strategy development could be easily transferred to other municipalities and cities throughout Australia and in other countries. Biography: Greg Bursill holds a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Planning) with Honours, from the University of Melbourne, and has worked in strategic planning at Casey since 1996. With Casey due to be amongst Australia's five most populous municipalities within 10 years, Greg's challenge as Team Leader - City Planning has been to find ways to manage this population growth.
Checking Our Vision: A Timely Review (Bringing People and Place Together) This presentation will describe some of the recent work to bring the Shire's Community Plan Vision 2020, the Municipal Strategic Statement and the Public Health Plan together and the key underpinning strategies around township development, community development and creating a living and learning community. Biography: Mark Doubleday is the Manager for Community Development and Partnering with a focus on community development as a means of developing sustainable communities and townships. Key areas of responsibility include development of the Public Health Plan with a health and well being focus through community capacity building. Mark has been with the Shire of Yarra Ranges for 15 months moving from the Northern Territory after 14 years working for Territory Health Services and Territory Housing in policy and operational roles. Prior to that Mark worked in the private community services sector in the Territory for 8 years. Passions in life include family, bushwalking and mountain bike riding.
The Wyndham Household Panel As one of Victoria's designated growth areas, planning is a particularly important topic in Wyndham. Council has committed to ongoing community consultation through this period of growth, even identifying 'community centred governance' as the essence of what characterises Wyndham City Council. This commitment raises other questions. Residents may like the idea of consultation, but they want to know that staff time and resources are being spent on building roads - not talking about building roads. How can we engage the community in ways that provide real value - that are cost-effective, and also don't put too much burden on busy people? Even more importantly, we know that planning issues are complex and a certain level of knowledge is needed to ensure informed choices. Some people have this level of knowledge, but their perspective may not be representative of the community as a whole. How do we resolve this issue? What kind of community consultation is truly useful to planners, rather than a 'tick off the box' exercise? This presentation will discuss the techniques being used to address these questions - the Household Panel, PhotoFutures, the 3 + 2 principles, and Wyndham's moves towards an integrated database. Emma Williams is Corporate Planner for Wyndham City Council, where she has three main areas of responsibility - facilitating Council's corporate planning and quarterly reporting processes; facilitating development of a long term community vision with input from 2,000 residents and local stakeholders (auspiced by a group of community leaders rather than by Council directly); and management of Council's core research and consultation program. Before coming to Wyndham, Emma conducted a number of national and state research projects in both Australia and Canada as a research and consultation consultant, specialising in project design, including observational research. In 2001, Wyndham won a National Innovation award for the Household Panel, one of the elements of Wyndham's research program.  Wyndham's Household Panel and other alternative forms of consultation (356kb, pdf)
Building Sustainable Communities by 'Joining the Dots' Three separate but very much-related 'strands' intertwine in Michael Kennedy's presentation:
Biography: Dr. Michael Kennedy has a widely varied background. He has worked in the public and private sectors, in public and private companies, in very large organisations and in smaller ones. Over the last fifteen years, in particular, he has been a driver of organisational change, revisiting organisational objectives, then creating structures and cultures that will achieve the agreed objectives. Michael came to local government as chief executive officer of the Shire of Hastings on the Mornington Peninsula in 1993, in anticipation of the sweeping reform of local government that created the Mornington Peninsula Shire, in December 1994. After four years as the City of Boroondara's first permanent CEO, Michael returned to the Peninsula in early 1999. Michael has augmented his extensive experience as a practitioner with doctoral study, undertaking a Doctor of Business Administration focused on public sector organisational models. Michael has studied public sector reforms across the OECD, including Australia, and has studied a range of organisational leadership models which he believes have relevance to the public sector. Michael is also a retired Aussie Rules umpire and marathon runner, and a triathete-in-training.
1.45pm: Strategies for Integrating Local Planning - Panel Discussion Don Welsh is Chief Executive Officer of Cardinia Shire Council. He began with the Council in April 1998 after three and a half years as CEO of Colac Otway Shire Council. Don holds Undergraduate and Postgraduate qualifications in Civil and Municipal Engineering, a Master of Business Administration and Diploma of Company Directorship. Don is a Director of MAPS Group Limited, which provides contract services to Local Government. Don is also on the Chisholm Board of TAFE and several Local Government and State Government Working Groups. His business experience spans almost 30 years, 20 years in Local Government, where he has worked with fast growing municipalities that require a balance between the environment and development. Don is a member of Local Government Professionals, Australian Institute of Company Directors and International City Managers Association. Catherine Dale is Chief Executive Officer of Nillumbik Shire Council. She has worked previously as Director, Planning and Development with the City of Boroondara, and was Manager, Corporate Projects with the City of Frankston. Catherine has also worked with the State Government. Ms Dale has a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Education, a Bachelor of Music, and is a qualified Town Clerk. Catherine is guest lecturer at AIM, Monash University, and Victoria University of Technology. She is the author of a book, Corporate Planning in Local Government. Catherine is a Member of the Metropolitan Strategy Reference Group and VCAT Reference Group. She a Board Member with the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA), and Library Board of Victoria, and is a Fellow of the Local Government Professionals (LGPro). Heidi Dixon is currently working as Community Development Manager with the Urban and Regional Land Corporation, where she is working with a range of stakeholders to develop vital and sustainable communities within metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. Heidi has extensive experience in working with communities across Victoria to assist them to achieve their goals. Heidi has worked in a wide range of roles including with the private development industry, government, church and not-for-profit sectors. She supports an integrated planning approach to ensure comprehensive analysis of the issues and an integrated response. Heidi has long-standing interests in the areas of social justice and affordable housing and is currently a member of the Board of Anglicare Victoria and a Director of the Inner City Social Housing Company. In 1989, Heidi wrote the National Anglican Social Justice Statement on older Australians entitled "Too Old to Choose? Away from work, Heidi is a very keen horse rider and is currently training her beautiful thoroughbred horse "Proud Pack" for eventing competition. Rob Dagnall is Community Development Manager with Delfin Lend Lease. He has spent the past three years in a broad community planning/development role, working across a wide range of issues, including leisure, culture, open space, health, human services, education, economic development, transport, safety, and so on. Following a two-year period in Adelaide, he is currently working across four Melbourne-based DLL projects at Caroline Springs, Pakenham, Craigieburn and Maribyrnong. Rob has a degree qualification in Engineering, with postgraduate qualifications in Leisure Planning and Management. Rob has spent most of the past 15 to 20 years working in a variety of broad community planning and management roles within local government in Victoria, including periods at Springvale (pre-amalgamations) and Manningham and Port Phillip (post amalgamations). Rob has also spent a period of time working at the State Government level, principally in a regional sport and recreation planning/consultancy role, and working as an independent consultant. Rob has a particular interest in integrated local area planning, public/private partnership developments, and high quality urban design. Facilitator, Stephanie Knox
2.45pm: What does the 2001 Census Tell Us About the Need for Strong Local Planning? The Centre for Population and Urban Research investigates population movements in Australia and their social, economic and environmental implications. It provides a focus on both population and urban issues. The Centre has been working with Casey in its future planning. Dr Birrell will describe the issues identified in the 2001 Census and other research that have implications for planning in urban fringe districts. Biography: Dr Bob Birrell is a Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University. Dr Birrell has been directing the Centre for Population and Urban Research since its inception in 1992. He is joint editor of the Centre's demographic journal, People and Place (http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/) Dr Birrell has worked as a consultant for the Australian Institute of Management, the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, the Victorian Department of Human Services, the Cities of Monash, Casey and Hume, the Sydney Morning Herald, and other organisations. Dr Birrell received his PhD in Sociology from Princeton University. His interests cover social and economic consequences of migration to Australia, demographic change, and welfare and family issues.
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