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This half day course is designed for ALL professionals.

Parks and recreation amenities are crucial to strong, healthy, liveable places. Ensuring provision of public open space is strategically prioritised though our local and state government planning systems is key to the success of our town, cities, and landscapes. If you are considering commencing work on a new strategy, either to undertake in-house or developing a brief for a consultant, this course will walk you through the potential elements to include and factors to consider for each.

Initially we’ll consider why you might need a strategy by considering what issues you are looking to respond to and how a strategy can help to resolve these problems (or not!). This will help you to identify which elements, tasks, components you might need to consider when creating a strategy that is actionable for your organisation and community and won’t just site on the shelf.

To assist in developing a project brief or business case to develop a strategy we’ll introduce a logic model for collaborative diagnosis which will focus on achievable outcomes that solve the most important issues and identify what is required from the strategy to have this result. The result is a project plan which is tailored to what you need, and is less likely to become a cumbersome, all-encompassing document which will not get implemented.

We’ll consider the standard components of an Open Space Strategy and explore how these components can assist in solving complicated open space issues. Our overview will help you understand the inner workings of a strategy to give you clearer insight into the tools that may be most important for your circumstances. We will discuss timing, cost, inputs, outputs and what makes them most effective. These include:

• Community and stakeholder engagement
• Internal working groups and reporting
• Classification framework (park categorisation by function and hierarchy)
• Mapping
• Performance assessment
• Needs assessments, precinct provision analysis and benchmarking
• Gender impact assessment
• Service standards (levels of service)
• Decision making tools
• Guidelines
• Policy development

This course is the first of a two-part series, the next component is 'Tools to measure the functional performance of parks and open spaces' which will provide additional detail on performance assessment, classification frameworks and service standards.

Learning outcomes

• Appreciate the full spectrum of options for open space, recreation and park planning project scopes of work
• Understand the concept of “level of service” in respect to parks and recreation provision, development and operation
• Identify opportunities to influence parks and recreation provision through numerous planning documents and processes
• Understand the role of benchmarking for the ongoing improvement of parks and recreation provision
• Improve engagement approaches and techniques for addressing issues of public space and other similar shared resources

Presenter

Kristin Davies
Principal Strategist, Emerge Associates.
Kristin has held senior and management positions across local governments and in private practice where she focussed on strategy, social policy, sport, social infrastructure, open space planning, land management and integrated placemaking. Kristin is currently the National President of Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA) where she has been a board member since 2018.

Joey Boothby
Senior Strategist, Emerge Associates.
Joey Boothby is a Senior Strategist at Emerge Associates, with a focus on community infrastructure, play and recreation planning. Joey has a strong commitment to meaningful and effective strategy development process including collaboration throughout, inclusive engagement and well considered practical planning.

Emerge Associates is an integrated landscape architectural, strategy and environmental consultancy practice, with approximately 70+ staff spread across offices in Melbourne, Perth, Margaret River, Brisbane, and Hobart. Founded in 1999 with the ambition to bring together innovative landscape architecture design and technically outstanding environmental science, Emerge offers a unique view point.

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If you cannot attend a course for which you are registered, you must cancel your registration no later than 14 days prior to the course. Registrations cancelled more than 14 days prior to the course date will not incur any fees and a full refund will be granted. If you cannot attend and you are within 14 days of the course date, you can transfer your registration to another PLANET course (of the same value) or to another person as a replacement attendee, provided we have at least 48 hours’ notice of your decision to transfer. We cannot issue refunds or credits.

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