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Perth is growing. By 2050, the State Government estimates that an additional 800,000 homes will be needed to facilitate this population growth. To minimise the predominant north-south coastal urban sprawl for which Perth is known and to negate the environmental, economic and social impacts that accompanying growth, around 47% of these additional homes will be built in existing suburbs. The opportunity for the Town of Bassendean was to be intentionally develop a strategy that envisioned the future of Ashfield, Bassendean and Eden Hill. In working with Creating Communities, the community was given a lead role in the planning process.
Of the additional 800,000 homes in the wider metropolitan, the State Government has earmarked a target of 4,150 homes within the Town of Bassendean by 2050. This ambition was the catalyst for revisiting and revisioning the current (2015) Local Planning Strategy.
In partnering to co-create this strategy for the future, Creating Communities began with the most significant constituents of the stakeholder group: the community.
Utilising our Opportunity Model to explore the nexus of government, business and community aspirations, we worked with all stakeholder groups to uncover the potential creative and lasting solutions that the situation made possible.
Population growth scenarios such as this, without the appropriate scaffolding of purpose and possibility, can be a breeding ground for concern among local communities, so engagement needed to be extensive, informative and transparent.
Working alongside Anthony Duckworth (Fairplace.), Creating Communities developed a range of engagement initiatives, including design workshops and stakeholder forums, as well as an Ideas Hub and online polls. This diversity of consultation options provided a broad context for engagement increasing not only the number of people responding but also the breadth of demographic encompassed.
BassenDream: Our Future was one of the most extensive community engagement processes ever undertaken by the Town and resulted in a range of strategies and policies to facilitate better environmental management and sustainability, developments that preserve trees and green space, transit-oriented developments and a reflection of local heritage.
In all, twenty-one discrete engagement initiatives engaged with a combined total of over 3000 people.
The engagement wove together the suite of multi-disciplinary strengths within Creating Communities from strategy, engagement, facilitation, events production and data analysis, to creative development, writing and photography to enable the ultimate development of the future vision and strategy.
By focusing first on community values and the overall vision for the future, BassenDream Our Future considered how the planning needs of the Town could reflect community and stakeholder feedback, needs and aspirations.
The report and recommendations are now being used to develop a new Local Planning Strategy.
In reflecting on the engagement process, one Town councillor stated that the report and recommendations were the most informative and transparent document presented to him in his eight years as a councillor.
This was an extremely significant community engagement activity which has helped us develop a really clear understanding of what is important to the people of the Bassendean community for the future of their district. Our community has said that they want town centre revitalisation and vibrancy and this project is about enabling this. It is about creating the right settings for a thriving economy and jobs in the local community.
We wish to acknowledge the custodians of the land on which our office sits, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation and their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection to land, sea and culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region. Further, we recognise the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to the lands, waters and communities on which we have built and co-create communities over the past three decades.