Date:
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 18:30 to 20:00
Presenter:
Catherine Keirnan and Guillaume Prudent-Richard
Venue:
Engineering House, Canberra
Event Details:
Currently, the ACT's Planning Strategy is a transitional arrangement comprising the Canberra Spatial Plan and the Sustainable Transport Plan.
The 2004 Spatial Plan calls for a review after 5 years (2009) and ACT legislation requires a review of the Strategy after 5 years (2012).
On 28 March 2011 the ACT Government agreed for ACTPLA to refresh the existing policy framework with an amended draft Planning Strategy.
Last year's community engagement Canberra 2030 Time to Talk, updated the understanding of the community's views about the direction for Canberra. The message is clearly for a more compact and sustainable city.
But how do you achieve this outcome while considering the combined pressures of housing affordability, population growth, demographic ageing and finite supply of land, with climate change, peak oil and a per capita ecological footprint of 14 times the size of the ACT.
To ensure evidence based planning, last year ACTPLA engaged the local office of the multi disciplinary engineering firm AECOM to investigate the likely risks and vulnerabilities of Canberra to climate change.
Catherine will outline this strategic urban planning project as an introduction to Guilliame from AECOM who will talk about the research work they have undertaken.
Bio - Catherine Keirnan
For the first 20 years, Catherine's career was in the private sector as a landscape architect and project manager.
Catherine has been a member of the ACT Heritage Council and a member and Chair of the ACT Minister's Urban Design Advisory Committee.
A role that ceased when she moved to work the public sector in 2001.
Since then Catherine has worked for the ACT Planning and Land Authority and the Commonwealth agency Defence Housing Australia.
And now as an urban planner with ACTPLA, Catherine's major project this year is refreshing the ACT's Planning Strategy.
Bio - Guillaume Prudent-Richard
Guillaume is a senior environmental scientist with over eight years experience in environmental management, climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategy. He has worked and managed projects for various organisations in Europe such as the French Ministry of Ecology and the Alpine Research Institute for Natural Hazards. He also worked on climate change project for multi-governmental and multi-lateral organisation such as the OECD, the IUCN and the World Bank in Europe and South-East Asia. In Australia, he has worked and managed projects for Commonwealth Departments such as Department of Climate Change, Attorney-General’s Department, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and AusAID. Additionally he has led a number of environmental monitoring and management work for the Australian Department of Defence.