The ROCKS Redevelopment Project

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The ROCKS Redevelopment Project
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• Gabrielle Breen
• Project Coordinator

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Residents of Childers and Kingsley Streets

• Social, cultural and environmental interests
• On site for 25 years
• More than 25,000 users of facilities and services
  annually
• Accessible and human scale

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Why redevelopment?

• Current facilities inadequate
• Increased need in Civic
• Security of tenure
• Opportunity for sustainable development

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The Redevelopment Proposal

• Mixed use
• Partnership based
• Possible land grant or other partnership
  arrangement with government
• Commercial development subsidises community
  facilities

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Partnerships

• Government support
• Potential tenants and partners
• ROCKS as an integral partner

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Government processes

• Civic West Masterplan
• Community Facility Needs Assessment Study
• Office of Sustainability
• Affordable Housing Taskforce
• Roundtable

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Participation

• Redevelopment Committee
• Working Groups
• Complicated structures
• Sustaining volunteers
• Adapting processes

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Attempt at sustainable development

• Planning and design checklist
• Sustainability principles
• Future showcase

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Future stages

• Securing the redevelopment
• Participatory planning and design
• Construction and landscaping
• Documenting the process

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Contact details

• Gabrielle Breen
• Project Coordinator
• rocks_at_ecoaction.net.au
• 0421 822 2 17
• Website www.rocks.org.au