Planning Design Forum daily wrap 17 March

The final day of the Planning Design Forum was a busy day for the team. Final meetings with key stakeholders were held and the remainder of the day was dedicated to producing designs, plans and draft recommendations for presentation to the community in the evening. The design team worked hard to produce illustrations and 3D models based on the input from the first four days of the Forum.

From 5pm community members were invited back to the hall for a presentation of the work in progress from Forum leader Mike Day. Approximately 60 people attended, including many participants from the first two days of the Forum, Councillors and John McGrath MLA Member for South Perth.

It was evident from the presentation that a lot of ground was covered through the Forum, with topics ranging from the big-picture vision of what the area might be in the future through to consideration of built form, public spaces, transport and governance. There was so much material to present that the allotted time of one and a half hours easily stretched into two.

The City would like to thank everyone involved in the Forum, in particular those who gave up their time to attend and share their views. A wide range of interests and points of view were represented by the participants and were discussed openly and respectfully throughout the five days. The views and the ideas raised were truly inspiring and the overwhelming theme throughout the week was the enormous potential of this area.

The report and recommendations from the Forum will be finalised over the coming weeks. There will be a public open day with opportunity to further discuss and comment on the Forum outcomes as soon as possible after the report is finalised.