Dreaming Melville Capturing Community Aspirations A Community Planning Approach

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Dreaming MelvilleCapturing Community
AspirationsA Community Planning Approach

• May 2008

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• Melville Visions
• Community Planning
• Relationship Framework
• Neighbourhood Planning

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The Consultative Process

• Focus Group meetings
• Workshop with Youth Advisory Committee
• Interviews
• New multimedia community forum
• 9,000 community surveys
• An interactive website and chat room.

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What we explored with our community

• What makes a Liveable City?
• What social, economic and environmental changes
  could impact liveability in the City in the next
  10 to 20 years?
• What can we do to minimise the adverse impacts of
  change?
• What trade-offs are acceptable to protect and
  enhance the overall liveability in the next 10-20
  years?
• What should our corporate and strategic planning
  include to accommodate community expectations
  along with reasonable metropolitan growth?

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Liveability areas explored

• Built Environment
• Accessibility
• Natural Environment
• Sense of Community
• Opportunity Equity and Choice
• Sense of Place

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General Strategic Findings

• Strong commitment to City of Melville
• Fond memories of the past
• Concerns on traffic, planning and safety
• Concerned about growth
• Genuine concern about the future
• Residents want
• A long term vision
• Community driven development
• Better transport solutions and use of existing
  infrastructure
• Politicians to make socially, economically and
  environmentally sound planning decisions

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Community prioritiesAmong residents
of residents
Q. Please read the following list and select
three areas which you think should be highest
priority for the City of Melville? Base
resident sample
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How the Information is being used?

• Community Plan
• Base data for future Neighbourhood Plans
• Review of Community Planning Scheme No.5
• Identified key areas for attention in the Local
  Planning Strategy
• Inform many urban planning/place planning
  projects
• Considered in the review of corporate process and
  business planning.

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Community Planning
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Community Planning challenges traditional ways of
working by shaping the future development of
communities around outcomes defined by citizens.
Community Owned-Council Led-Delivered Together ?
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What is a Community Plan?

• Identifies community aspirations
• Relies on creating partnerships and relationships
  with the community
• Drives the Corporate Plan
• Integrates with the Citys planning and service
  delivery
• Provides a vehicle for good governance (good
  decision-making)?
• Provides umbrella for Neighbourhood Plans

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Community and City Roles

• Provider
• Partner
• Funder
• Regulator
• Monitor
• Facilitator
• Advocate

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Process

• Community Planning Portfolio
• Project Plan
• Change Management Plan
• Stakeholder Plan
• Communication Plan
• Internal Reference Group
• Literature Review
• Analysis of Melville Visions
• Community Aspirations
• Goals
• What exists now
• Opportunities
• Strategies
• Stakeholders
• External reference groups

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How is the community involved?

• Community engagement - the process of involving
  communities in the prioritisation and development
  of services in their own area.
• Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)?

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Community Aspirations

• High-level statements about what a community
  thinks important for its
• well-being.
• Community aspirations can broadly be described
  as the communitys desired vision in relation to
  their present and future social, economic,
  environmental, and cultural well-being.

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Community Themes
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Seven Priorities

• Begin Neighbourhood Planning
• Create an age-friendly City
• Build a safe and secure community
• Change our behaviour to consider how our actions
  today will affect the generations of tomorrow
• Facilitate suitable housing options
• Facilitate sustainable transport options
• Monitor the impact of major developments

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Plan Structure
What we said
Currently we have
Future opportunities and challenges
Taking Action
Stakeholders
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Neighbourhood Local Community Place
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Why Neighbourhood Planning?

• Many diverse areas each with own distinctive
  characteristics, qualities and community
  aspirations
• Opportunities for local communities to come
  together to develop an action plan tailored to
  their own neighbourhood

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Neighbourhood - Definition

• A collection of local communities determined by
  physical boundaries, neighborhood hubs (e.g.
  Libraries), district shopping areas, major parks
  and other infrastructure.

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Local Community- Definition

• An area within a Neighbourhood that has a
  quality or character which distinguishes it from
  other areas. There are no fixed rules for what
  makes a local community, but they may be
• Geographical - based around where people live
• Interest - based around issues such as
  conservation, social justice, sport
• Identity - based around on sharing a common
  lifestyle, age, culture

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Place - Definition

• A discreet location within a neighbourhood where
  an activity or project may exist for a finite
  period of time.

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What is a Neighbourhood Plan?

• Record of the planning process, a living document
  
• Contains information about the characteristics of
  the local community and its people. 
• Details the social, cultural and environmental
  aspects within the neighbourhood.
• Examines issues and opportunities and proposes
  actions or projects. These may involve service
  delivery, capital works and community action
  within that neighbourhood. 

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Neighbourhood Community Development

• Helps local communities to
• identify, prioritise, obtain support and action
  local community aspirations
• enhance public places in terms of use, diversity
  and safety
• develop a sense of place and identity that
  reflects local culture, heritage and character
• incorporate and coordinate other opportunities
  into their Neighbourhoods

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Relationship Framework
Just Communities Approach
Citizenship Leadership Principles Just Communities
Philosophy Policy
Governance
Management
Engagement

• Agenda forum
• Council meeting
• Consultation in
• Agenda items
• Community Plan
• Neighbourhood
• Plans
• Election workshops
• Induction Program
• Policies
• Training

• Project Management
• Communication
• Strategy
• In-house consulting
• IAP2 training
• Stakeholder
• Management Plan
• Just Communities
• Annual report
• Customer Satisfaction
• Survey

• Reference Groups
• Asset Mapping
• Friends Groups
• Willagee Alive
• Resident Assns
• Support to clubs
• organisations
• Reps on Boards
• Community
• Leadership Program
• Leases
• Website

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Sustainable Communities

• Well run
• Well designed
• Well connected
• Well served

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Strengthening Local Democracy

• Local Government Act 1995
• European Charter of Active Citizenship
• participate in decisions that affect their lives
• have a voice and opportunities to put forward
  their opinions
• have access to information about decisions and
  activities that affect their lives
• participate in public consultations
• communicate their evaluation of public and
  private activities that affect their well-being
• have access to public officials

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Community Leadership

• All citizens encouraged to share responsibility
  for future community well-being by
• acknowledging the representative role of elected
  members
• considering whole community
• participating in opportunities to have input
• collaborating respectfully
• becoming active citizens.

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Just Communities Project
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Purpose

• An action research project to establish and
  support a national network of Councils interested
  in promoting community wellbeing by strengthening
  local democracy.
• Identification of local government approaches
  that will strengthen local democracy and advance
  community wellbeing.

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Participants

• Ku-ring-gai (NSW)?
• Orange (NSW)?
• Parramatta (NSW)?
• Sutherland (NSW)?
• Baulkham Hills (NSW)?
• Bankstown (NSW)?
• Hurstville (NSW)?
• Penrith (NSW)?
• Mackay (QLD)?
• Brisbane (QLD)?

• Prospect (SA)?
• Salisbury (SA)?
• Knox City (VIC)?
• Moreland (VIC)?
• Moonee Valley (VIC)?
• Melville (WA)?
• Palmerston (NT)?
• Hobart (TAS)?

Local Government Community Services Association
of Australia Centre for Local Government,
University of Technology, Sydney
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Audit Tool Development

• Just Communities Audit Tool
• CLEAR Model
• GEM (governance, engagement, management)?

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Framework
Corporate Governance Decision-making
Community Governance, Democracy Wellbeing
Management
Community Engagement
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CLEAR

• Can do resources and confidence to use
• Like to a sense of involvement
• Enable to infrastructure of organisations
• Asked to mobilising people
• Responded to listened to and see response

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GEM Audit Tool

• Governance
• Ensure effective community representation
• Provide and demonstrate community leadership
• Make decisions aligned with community aspirations
• Demonstrate appropriate values and behaviors
• Make accountable and transparent decisions

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GEM Audit Tool

• Engagement
• Develop effective relationships with community
• Have the resources and knowledge to participate
  (Can Do)?
• Have sense of attachment or belonging that
  encourages participation (Like To)?
• Provided with resources and support
• (Empowered To)?
• Encouraged to participate (Asked To)?
• Provided with the outcomes of engagement/consultat
  ion and reasons for decisions (Responded To)?

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GEM Audit Tool

• Management
• Have a culture that encourages citizen engagement
  in decision-making processes
• Have systems that support the decision-making
  process
• Ensure adequate resources are available to
  support the decision-making process
• Communicate effectively with citizens and
  stakeholders

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Summary
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Preferred Model
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• Great communities don't just happen! They are
  created, nurtured and sustained by caring and
  involved residents.
• We need to re-discover community by working from
  the bottom up and inside out. We need to
  strengthen the capacity of local communities to
  solve their own problems.
• Community Planning is the key process in
  empowering communities. (Peter Kenyon)?

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Thank You
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