NGAA Symposium
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Virtual event 1.30 – 4.30pm AEST, Wednesday 21 and 28 July, and 4 August
Outer metropolitan growth area councils are innovators by necessity, developing and promptly applying new knowledge and approaches that build suburbs and communities out of paddocks into thriving, liveable and resilient places. This work deserves to be celebrated and shared.
The 2021 Symposium, a virtual event on Wednesday 21 and 28 of July and 4 August, will bring together in one place the latest growth area council initiatives, knowledge and experience. It’s an opportunity for growth area practitioners to share projects, findings and achievements with peers and the wider community on a national scale.
Thanks to Liverpool City Council for supporting growth area innovation as the Major Partner of the 2021 Symposium. One of the fastest growing regions in Sydney, the City of Liverpool’s population is expected to almost double to more than 320,000 over the next 20 years.
Symposium Highlights
- Virtual event with sessions run over three afternoons
- Latest growth area research from around Australia
- Innovation from local governments in Australia’s outer metropolitan growth areas
- Successful collaborations between NGAA members, academics, government and industry partners
- Share current best practice with an audience of growth area peers
Who should attend
- Local, State and Federal government specialists in planning, infrastructure, urban design, sustainability and community building
- Researchers and academics from urban policy, planning and development, disciplines
- Professionals in urban and regional planning, land development, urban design, transport planning, economic development, environmental sustainability and social planning.
In 2020 the NGAA Research Symposium took the form of seven issues-based webinars. This format was due to COVID-19 restrictions. See the webinars here.
The inaugural Symposium in 2019 was held at Wyndham City Council in Victoria. Read the full report from the 2019 Symposium: Research and Practice from Australia’s Fast Growing Outer Suburbs
NGAA will offer the opportunity for members to “opt in” to research programs if possible, as projects progress.
- Western Sydney Planning Partnership
- Building the case for active playing space and Community Infrastructure
- Place Planning - Lessons from Selandra Rise Estate
- Citylens - A new way to visualise the impact of strategic planning
- Value Australia - a toolkit for analysing and visualising land valuation in different development scenarios
- Creativity and youth services
- Street Tree and Public Open Space Data Capture
- Auditing the Built Environment for Determinants of Health
- Where we build, what we build
- Turn down the heat video and presentation slides
