[LINK] Designing a Park for the Sydney Baby Boom

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from the Annandale Neighbourhood Park Consultation. This is 
being held in a disused carpet warehouse in the suburb of Annadale, in 
the inner west of Sydney: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/06/designing-park-for-sydney-baby-boom.html

The consultation process itself was interesting, being held in the old 
carpet warehouse. Leichhardt Council seems to be able to choose 
interesting locations for their community meetings, the last I attended 
was in a meeting hall of a former mental asylum. Proposed plans were 
displayed on and a video projected on the wall. One improvement would 
have been to record a video presentation and make it available on the 
council web site, for those who could not attend in person (along with a 
document).

Such face-to-face consultations are a very expensive process and only a 
very small fraction of residents can and do attend. It may be much 
cheaper and more equitable to conduct the consultation purely on-line.

Currently a Park Survey Form is provided, but this is a PDF form which 
is not very user-friendly and the on-line experience misses out on much 
of the face-to-face involvement.


Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
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