Global Research was contracted by the City of Melbourne (CoM) to undertake analysis and reporting on ten neighbourhood community engagement projects.
Shaping the future of South Melbourne Market ~ City of Port Phillip
South Melbourne Market was established in 1867 and is the oldest continuing market in Melbourne. Over time, the Market has undergone regular improvement and expansion to accommodate the growing needs of its traders and local community and ensure its compliance with changing regulations.
The City of Port Phillip conducted community engagement between 3 November and 3 December 2023 to gather feedback from the community and traders regarding proposed amendments to the South Melbourne Market, enabling the Market to further improve user experience and adapt to the changing needs of its stakeholders.
Future Melbourne 2026 consultation ~ City of Melbourne
Future Melbourne 2026 is a community collaboration project led by The City of Melbourne to develop a long-term strategic plan to ensure Melbourne’s legacy as a liveable and competitive city over the coming decade. The project refreshes the Future Melbourne 2008 plan, which has guided all aspects of the city’s development, prosperity and liveability. The community was invited to share their ideas and vision for the future.
Late Night Opening Hours ~ City of Sydney
Open and Creative City consultation ~ City of Sydney
The City of Sydney, as it grows, aims to support an active and diverse evening culture and economy. To support this aspiration, The City of Sydney produced a discussion paper outlining plans for the future of Sydney’s nighttime economy. They proposed three actions: to allow businesses to trade later without obtaining an approval, to simplify the process for artists to open creative spaces, and to balance the impacts of live music and performance venues.
Queen Victoria Market: Charter Consultation ~ City of Melbourne
The City of Melbourne (CoM) launched a community consultation process around the redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Market Precinct, engaging Global Research to provide a report with the findings of this consultation. Melburnians were asked to provide their views on how they think a new 1.5-hectare public space, Market Square, should be used.
Haig Park Master Plan ~ coding and analysis peer review ~ Australian Capital Territory Government
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government sought the services of Global Research to review the already-completed analysis of comments received during a public engagement consultation. We were asked to review and assess the suitability of both the method and the coding process so that the client could be sure that they had received robust and trustworthy work.
Imagine the Yarra ~ Melbourne Water
Geelong Waterfront Masterplan ~ City of Greater Geelong
From April to June 2023, MosaicLab, a Melbourne based community engagement consultancy, conducted a community consultation process to update the City of Greater Geelong’s Waterfront Masterplan.
The resulting document will guide development and public realm upgrades along the Corio Bay foreshore throughout the next 10 to 20 years. The City of Geelong’s aim was to engage with people who live, work and visit the area to understand what they value and the future changes they wish to see. Feedback from this engagement will be used to prepare a draft Masterplan for the waterfront.
Victoria’s 30-year infrastructure strategy ~ MosaicLab | Infrastructure Victoria
Every 3 to 5 years, Infrastructure Victoria updates their 30-year strategy and makes recommendations to the Victorian Government on how to address infrastructure challenges. Major challenges facing the region that present infrastructure opportunities are climate change, fair access, future shocks and disruption, and the economy. In the beginning of 2023, it was time to engage with the public to give them the opportunity to influence and shape the direction of the updated strategy to be published in 2025.
Global Research’s role was to design a survey that could adequately assess the infrastructure priorities of respondents, while taking into consideration constraints to funding and options, and to present the survey results in an easily digestible and informative way. The aim of this survey was for respondents to make trade-offs between future options and, through this, communicate priorities.
Imagine Peninsula 2040 ~ Cochrane Research Solutions and Mornington Peninsula
Global Research was contracted to work in partnership with Melbourne-based research company, Cochrane Research Solutions to code and analyse a large amount of data for Mornington Peninsula Shire in the Australian state of Victoria. The project was a visioning exercise to ascertain people’s values and hopes for their communities to the year 2040. It elicited over 2,500 responses.
Public Space Strategy ~ City of Port Phillip
The City of Port Phillip (CoPP), Victoria, Australia is developing a Public Space Strategy to create a vision and blueprint for the future of public space. A draft Strategy document was prepared, outlining the challenges, outcomes and actions required to realise the full potential of the network of parks, gardens, streets, foreshore, and urban plazas. The Port Phillip community was asked to rank outcomes and projects outlined in the draft Strategy, justify their choices, and offer further suggestions for the improvement of the Strategy.
Shaping Sydney to 2050 ~ City of Sydney
In June 2019, the City of Sydney ran the ‘Shaping Sydney 2050’ workshop, to solicit ideas from stakeholders about what they wanted the future of Sydney to look like. This event drew 283 stakeholders from a variety of community sectors including: cultural; economic; environmental; governance; planning; public domain; social; and, transport.
Melbourne: A Great Place to Age ~ City of Melbourne
The City of Melbourne (CoM) undertook a public engagement to better understand what matters to Melburnians when it comes to ageing. This research was created to inform the development of CoM’s, Melbourne: A Great Place to Age strategic plan, which aims to create “a more connected community that brings people together in their local neighbourhoods, and ensures older people are supported to fully participate and feel valued and respected for their unique life experience.”
Moonee Ponds Creek ~ City of Melbourne
The Victorian Planning Authority (VPA) and City of Melbourne’s (CoM) vision for Moonee Ponds Creek is for it to become “a thriving corridor that supports the liveability and resilience of the city”. To achieve this aim, CoM sought community feedback on the draft Moonee Ponds Creek Strategic Opportunities Plan, which highlights strategic opportunities and management issues along the creek. The creek is envisaged as an exemplar corridor for water management, public space and community activity, active transport, biodiversity, heritage and culture.
Working in Partnership ~ Cochrane Research Solutions
Councils and government organisations are often under intense time pressure to complete community engagement projects, present the findings, and make decisions that can have a huge impact on their communities.
Earlier this year, an Australian local council ran into this problem, and Global Research teamed up with Melbourne-based research company, Cochrane Research, to help get things done.
Nature Strip Guidelines (Stages I & II) ~ City of Port Phillip
The City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, engaged the public from December 2021 to February 2022 to gather information about opinions on the Draft Nature Strip Guidelines - a plan that outlines the ways in which nature strips may be planted and used in the area. Information from the public engagement was intended to inform the guidelines for providing clear direction on how the community can garden on nature strips within the municipality, while ensuring nature strips remain safe and functional and that street trees are protected.
Seafarers Rest ~ City of Melbourne
Seafarers Rest is a public park in the Docklands area of Melbourne that is earmarked for renewal. The City of Melbourne (CoM) worked in partnership with the Victorian Government, developer Riverlee, and landscape architects Oculus to create a park that meets a myriad of purposes – increase pedestrian and cycle access and improve public amenity, while protecting neighbouring heritage sites, preserving trees where possible, and responding to the site’s contexts and constraints.