Building Bayswater

The outcomes of the Building Bayswater process have been used to inform the draft Local Planning Strategy (LPS). The draft LPS has now been finalised and is to be considered by Council at the Ordinary Council Meeting to be held 30 April 2019.

A copy of the agenda is available on the City's website at the following link

The City of Bayswater are proud to have won a 2018 Planning Excellence Award in the 'public engagement and community planning' category, alongside planning consultants Shape Urban for our Building Bayswater Project..

Presented by the Planning Institute of Australia, the awards aim to recognise excellence in planning. Thank you again to the community members who gave up their time and participated in the project!

From online surveys and focus groups to the community panel – we appreciate your thoughts, ideas and expectations on how Council should respond to the challenges and opportunities of new development within the City. Your contributions were vital in developing the Building Bayswater recommendations report, which is now available in the document library

The report translates the outcomes of Building Bayswater to recommendations for the City’s Local Planning Strategy regarding residential built form elements; your recommendations directly inform the City’s inaugural Local Planning Strategy

The Building Bayswater conversation with the community on expectations, thoughts and ideas on how new development might occur across the City of Bayswater has now concluded.

The community engagement program included surveys, pop up events and focus groups, culminating with the City’s first ever Community Panel.

Over two days, the Community Panel heard the thoughts, ideas and feedback that arose during the broader engagement, and from a series of industry professionals on relevant topics.

The discussion was designed to allow the Community Panel to make recommendations to Council that can be used in developing residential built form elements of the City’s Local Planning Strategy.

You can read a summary of the engagement process, what people had to say and the outcomes in the document library.

A report is being prepared for Council on the recommendations from this process to inform the preparation of the Local Planning Srategy.

Thanks to everyone who has been involved in Building Bayswater. We’ve collected interesting thoughts, ideas and feedback throughout the process, which included online mapping, focus groups, an online forum and a Community Panel.

On Saturday 24 February, the Community Panel heard from a diverse range of presenters covering a variety of topics including heritage, green space, design, built form and other industry trends.

The presentations from Day 1 are now available in the document library.

The second and final Community Panel day on 10 March, provides an opportunity for community members, to weigh up the variety of evidence presented, to think it through, to deliberate, and to make recommendations to Council on the built form component of the Local Planning Strategy.

The final stage of the Building Bayswater engagement process starts this weekend with the first day of the Community Panel.

The Community Panel will take place across two days (24 February and 10 March) and is comprised of randomly selected members of the community.

Over the two days, the Panel will hear from a series of industry professionals on relevant topics; and the thoughts, ideas and feedback that arose during the broader engagement. This has been collected and compiled into an Engagement Report which is now available in the Document Library.

This report summarises the Building Bayswater events, engagement activities and outcomes.

The discussion is designed to bring the Community Panel to make a series of recommendations to be used in the City’s Local Planning Strategy with regard to the residential built form elements.

On Saturday 10 February we hosted a Building Bayswater online forum.

We had 72 participants from across the City discussing a range of topics, themes and ideas that arose in the broader engagement.

Some of the comments and advice that were put forward for the panel to consider include (verbatim):

• The Council needs to encourage quality design, as this can have a massive impact on how a community interacts and feels.
• Developments need to have appropriate parking and green spaces for the amount of occupants.
• Good Design Guidelines Including multi-storey being set back in upper storeys, underground parking that enables gardens over the top, balconies, sound proofing, double glazing.
• Plan for population growth by looking into focused development. Develop rules that manages this development in an environmentally and socially sensitive manner and keep consulting the residents for future developments.
• Plan and design for future generations not just the current residents. Also for those who want to 'age in place' i.e. stay in the suburb that is their home but move to smaller, manageable places that are convenient to shops and transport rather than having to move out of the suburb they've lived in for years. Also plan for the environment and community.
• My advice would be to not let the Developers have a free hand and change this area to back to back buildings with no open space left. City of Bayswater's appeal is the many Parks, rivers and playing areas and hopefully retain its character.

A full report of the outcomes of the online discussion will be available on the Building Bayswater page next week.

Thanks to everyone who participated! If you want to know more about the Building Bayswater process then please check out the Building Bayswater video.

Thanks to everyone who got involved in the broad community engagement phase of Building Bayswater including the focus groups, quick polls and online mapping. The next stage of the Building Bayswater engagement process is the Community Panel. There has been a lot of interest in the panel, with 314 expressions of interest (EOI) received from the 10,000 randomly selected community members invited to participate. Our Community Panel is limited to 40 members, so to involve as many of those 314 community members as possible, we have added on more engagement activity to our process. Everyone who expressed an interest in the panel has been invited to participate in an online discussion forum about the themes and ideas that arouse from the broader community engagement. The online forum allows for a complex discussion in which participants can express ideas and values and respond by commenting or rating the ideas and values expressed by others in the online forum. The information gathered in the forum will be presented as part of the Community Panel on 24 February and 10 March 2018. The final 40 panel members were chosen by an independent selector as a stratified random sample representing the City’s demographics.

Thanks to everyone that has been involved in Building Bayswater Focus Groups.

Our last few focus groups were held last week:

• Monday 4 December at the City’s Administration Centre
• Wednesday 6 December at Morley Galleria
• Thursday 7 December at Maylands Autumn Centre

There was some great discussion and comments provided from the community - check out the photo gallery to see what was said.

Don't forget that you still have an opportunity to get involved! You can answer the quick polls about the emerging themes from our Building Bayswater discussions.