Projects

Guidelines for Planning Social Infrastructure

SGS, together with Andrea Young Planning Consultants, Briggs and Mortar and Elliott Whiteing Pty Ltd, was commissioned by the Queensland's Office of Urban Management to develop social infrastructure planning guidelines for use in the South East Queensland context.

The project provided a non-statutory guideline for social infrastructure planning; articulated current and innovative funding options for land acquisition, establishment and operation of community facilities and services across the range of types of social infrastructure; and identified mechanisms for implementing the framework at a regional and sub regional scale. The project won the National Planning Institute of Australia's National Award for Planning Excellence in Social and Community Planning 2007. The Queensland government has published the guideline and it is available online at
http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/resources/guideline/ImplementationGuideline5.pdf