Balancing the environmental and the cultural

Summary of contracted works: 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.

Project description:

-       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.