Hornsby Shire Council's Biodiversity Conservation Plan

Prepared for Department of Shire of Hornsby, NSW, 2020

About

Rhizome was engaged to develop the Hornsby Shire Council's Biodiversity Conservation Plan. This endeavour was underpinned by an exploration of a new 'Green Infrastructure Framework' for the whole Shire and included both operational, as well as more than 40 specific future-thinking recommendations for location-specific biodiversity management. The process was driven by a series of unique interactive community and stakeholder design 'charrette' workshops where more than 80 stakeholders engaged with and shared ideas and knowledge through a variety of interactive mapping activities related to the Hornsby area and natural environment.

Key skills

- Creation of Report for public comment to incorporate background/context, outcomes from consultation, articulation of a collective vision, large scale (masterplan) and detailed (scenario) mapping, prioritisation and action plan

- Masterplanning and detailed design scenarios – illustrated and quantified

- Extensive community and stakeholder consultation, including Council and Councillors.

- Site visits and data collection

- Detailed GIS modelling of ecological character and connectivity, mapping and visualisation, culminating in a 75+ page set of scaled plans

- Illustrated report with recommendations to accompany Local Strategic Planning Statement review e all the difference.

Link to report