A9 Community Development and Placemaking
A9.01 Community Development
A9.02 Strong Neighbourhoods
Section Summary
Section Summary
Building strong neighbourhoods that are safe, vibrant and resilient is key to Community Development success. Below are the 4 key elements to providing these spaces:
The needs of the community underpin the approach to community development and place making. Developments should deliver a diverse and significant range of a ordable housing dwellings with an emphasis on a mix of social and a ordable accommodation options.
Strong Neighbourhood Considerations Checklist:
Community Development Considerations Checklist:
Safety
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Design that increases feelings of safety and security
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Emphasis should be on providing long-term, quality, social and a ordable housing to support lower income households to live close to services, transportation, and jobs. Significant emphasis on the sustainability of the community and opportunities to support formal and informal resident connections are underpinned by quality, durable and long-lasting design. Emphasis on the ground-floor open areas, driven by a vision to support an integrated neighbourhood comprising a diversity of people. Designs supporting community development should include provision for accessible, welcoming spaces on HCA sites, where residents and the broader community can gather, engage, access information and services, socialise, participate, learn and grow. The common spaces and the engagement activities that occur there, should be designed to attract integration between not only social tenants, a ordable tenants but their broader neighbors from the local neighborhood. Spaces will include the community rooms, onsite outdoor well landscaped open spaces that encourage socializing and community gatherings along with co-located o ces.
Design that assists in the reduction crime and antisocial behaviours
Improved community perception of location
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Vibrancy
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Design that focuses on increased opportunity for community interaction Enabling residents to feel an enhanced pride, ownership and sense of place Activated communal areas and gathering space through design and materiality
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Cohesiveness
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Design that improves the connection between people and place Design that increases positive interaction and experience Design that invokes feelings of mutual responsibility regarding communal areas
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Inclusivity
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Welcoming neighbourhoods
Increased access to groups, social and cultural events Improved opportunity for community participation
A9.03 Local Organisations
Lending from and partnering with local organisations is mutually beneficial for creating strong and resilient communities. Some of the local organisations we would look to connect with may be:
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Local Councils
Health and recreational facilities
Charities
Employment Services
Financial Services
Health and Medical providers
Educations facilities such as Tafes or Universities
Other service organisations / partners
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