This brief report by Venue Group Consultants dated August 2007 (Revised version) includes layout plans and costings, with a five-year horizon.
Review Status: Pending
trails; play spaces; sports facilities; cycleways and footpaths; dog exercise areas; private gardens; urban design; urban ecosystems; sustainable architecture; turf management
This brief report by Venue Group Consultants dated August 2007 (Revised version) includes layout plans and costings, with a five-year horizon.
Parks and Recreation Portfolio Planning
This is a presentation that I gave at the Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA) 2024 National Conference in Brisbane.
The presentation outlines the portfolio approach to planning for parks and recreation.
Brisbane Free Tree Book 1988: Trees are Great for ’88
Brisbane City Council’s free tree programme is designed to encourage the citizens of Brisbane to participate in the enrichment of our City environment. By choosing trees for your home from the species listed in this booklet, you will be helping to make our City even more pleasant to live in by the time we celebrate our nation’s Bi-Centenary in 1988. Through this scheme each Brisbane ratepayer (including commercial ratepayers) may receive two free trees per calendar year for planting within their property boundary.
MidCoast Recreational Boating Infrastructure Plan 2024 – 2035
This boating infrastructure plan is part of the MidCoast Parks and Recreation Planning Portfolio.
It covers more than a hundred individual boating assets, which include boat ramps, pontoons and jetties, across our coastline, rivers and lakes, many of which are sensitive ecosystems. The Plan not only focuses on the assets but also on the activities that are conducted on the waterways, and which use the facilities. Environmental protection is the main focus of the Plan.
This report presents the proceedings of a seminar in November 1992 on the Design and Management of Aquatic and Recreation Facilities. It is credited to the Ministry of Sport and Recreation of the Western Australian Government and the City of Gosnells. (7.4 MB). The report is about 66 pages, with the final few pages appearing to have been mis-numbered.
This Final Report, Stanthorpe Shire Sport & Recreation Facility Needs Study (9.3 MB), by consultants Sinclair Knight Merz, is dated August 1997. About 82 pages.
This compilation (29 MB) has far more useful information about the resources of the Brisbane Forest Park region than the title suggests. There are valuable accounts of the region’s natural resources, for just one example. This copy is lacking pages after 286.
Management Perpectives
Regional and Community Perspectives – Dr. David Pitts 1.
Management of Brisbane Forest Park – Mr. Bill Carter 5
Management of National Parks – Mr. Mark Gough 11
Water Catchment Management – Mr. Bill Huxley 17
Mt. Coot-tha Management – Mr. Ross McKinnon 45
Forestry Management – Mr. Geoff Swartz 51
Park Resources
Research and Management of Geo-resources – Mr. Errol Stock 61
Soils – Mr. David Aust 73
Vegetation – Mr. Peter Young 83
Aquatic Resources – Mr. Hamar Midgley 99
Animal Resources – Dr. Kristene Plowman 105
Archaeological Record & Implication Introduction – Mr. Bob McQueen 109
Historical Record – Mr. Peter Marquis-Kyle 115
Counting the Users – Dr. Lex Brown and Ms. Leanne Wilks 121
Educational Uses by Brisbane C.A.E. – Mr. B. Cooke & Mr. I. Marsh 129
The Data Base
Rainforests – Mr. Bill McDonald 1.53
Open Forests and Woodlands – Professor Trevor Clifford 165
Climbing Plants – Ms. Elwyn Hegarty 169
Lichens – Dr. Rob Roberts 181
Themeda/Imperata Grass under story of Open Eucalypt Forest – Mr. Hendrik Dierich 187
Ecology of. Ferns and Fern Allies – Mr. Peter Bostok 189
Life Expectancy of Leaves of Wilkea macrophylla at Mt. Glorious – Dr. Rob Rogers 195
Vertebrate Fauna – Dr. Kristine Plowman 199
Management Studies – Mr. Peter Ogilvie 223
Utilisation of Lantana camara by Birds and Small Mammals – Dr. Peter Driscoll and Mr. Greg Quinlan 239
Habitat Utilisation by Rattus fuscipes and R. tunneyi – Mr. Neil White 247
A Suggested Timing for Controlled Forest Burning Based on Observations of Fledgling Vulnerability in Moggill State Forest – Mr. Peter’ Slater
Management Influences
Community Influences – Mr. Ken Stevenson 263
User Impacts in Rose Gum Flats. Picnic Ground – Mr. David Bluhdorn 269
Futures for and around Brisbane Forest Park
Recreation Planning For The Future – Ms. Dale Anderson 279
A possible future for Brisbane Forest Park – Mr. Bill Carter 285
A Viewpoint from the Department of Forestry – Mr. Peter Cranny 289
National Parks – Mr. Noel Dawson 295
Workshop Reports
Floristic Data Base Implications, Deficiencies and Recommendations – Dr. Bob Johnson.. ………….. 303
The Animal Data Base Dr. Greg Gordon & Dr. K. Plowman 307
Notes on Seminar-Management Influences – Dr. John Waite. …… 315
Notes on Seminar-Management Influences – Dr. David Lamb…… 319
Waverley Park is located in Bondi Junction in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. It is the largest park within the Waverley municipality. It contains passive recreation space, sports facilities, contemporary play facilities and an extensive path network.
The WPMP is a contemporary PoM that contains up to date thinking on public open space management and provides the framework for other PoM produced in recent times.
Are your headstones and memorials safe?
Xyst, an international parks and recreation consultancy with a presence in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, has helpfully supplied a briefing note explaining some common risk conditions in cemeteries. Xyst’s special expertise is in the creation, maintenance and management of parks, public open space and community facilities.
MidCoast Sports Lighting Plan – Final
In 2022 and 2023 MidCoast Council developed the MidCoast Open Space and Recreation Strategy 2023-2035 (OSRS). The Strategy is a twelve-year plan to manage both the public open space in MidCoast along with the activities that take place on that space.
The Strategy includes a comprehensive Action Plan, that detailed many actions that need to be undertaken throughout the public open space portfolio to bring it up to contemporary standards. During the development of the Strategy and its Action Plan it was identified that much of the built facilities located on our public open space, in particular our sports facilities, were at an unacceptable standard, or could be expected to reach the end of their life during the lifecycle of the Strategy.
One of the planning recommendations contained in the Strategy’s Action Plan was the development of a Sports Lighting Plan. The purpose of the Plan is the identification of all existing sports lighting infrastructure, in particular the lighting poles and luminaries, and the identification of new sports lighting infrastructure that would be needed in the future. The Plan deals with sports facilities only and does not detail lighting provided in passive public open space.
The purpose of the Sports Lighting Plan 2023 – 2035 is to:
Deliver a comprehensive and prioritised plan for the provision of contemporary sports lighting to sports facilities in the MidCoast region.
The Sports Lighting Plan 2023 – 2035 aims to:
Provide a plan that will guide Council in planning for and providing infrastructure that meets the community’s needs for night-time sports.
The Plan contains the current asset list as well as a future works schedule for our sports lighting infrastructure.