Inner Metro Rim Structure Plan

Inner Metro Rim Structure Plan

SA Planner Commemorative Edition Celebrating the contribution of the Planning Education Foundation

Inner Metro Rim Structure Plan of South

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16 2 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Contents

An Introduction to the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc...... 3

Introduction from the PEF Chair...... 7

Introduction from the PIA President...... 9

Memories of the PEF: Building the profile of planning in South Australia...... 11

Some reflections on the Planning Education Foundation...... 13

Oral History of planning contributing to state planning from 1970...... 15

Planning Education Oral History Project...... 17

Competition captures Community’s ideas for promoting planning...... 23

Promotion of Award Winning Planning...... 27

South Australian planning papers research collaboration...... 31

The Planning Education Foundation would like to thank Ross Bateup for the use of various illustrations in this document.

THE PLANNING EDUCATION FOUNDATION O F S O U T H A U S T R A L I A I N C

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 1 “The PEF did great work at a time when there was very little by way of formal training or continuing education for the planning profession. Many of the now senior (& some retired) members of the profession devoted considerable time towards the work of the Foundation including the development & presentation of its seminars & training.”

Gavin Leydon

2 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Stephen Haines LFPIA: Inaugural Chair Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc. Darren Starr MPIA CPP: Immediate Past President Planning Institute of Australia (SA), PEF Board Member An introduction to the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc.

The Planning Education Foundation of South Australia While much of the profit from the EAROPH World Congress Inc. was established following the very successful Eastern was provided to the RAPI national body, the South Regional Organisation for Planning Human Settlements Australian share was still a substantial sum. The South (EAROPH) World Planning & Housing Congress held in Australian Division of RAPI decided at that time to use the Adelaide in 1986. balance of the funds to create a Foundation as a means of promoting planning education, developing courses and The EAROPH World Congress 1986 was organised at a time fostering outstanding educational events for planners when, for various reasons, the Royal Australian Planning and the community within South Australia, the Planning Institute (RAPI), which was the precursor to the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc (PEF). Institute of Australia (PIA), at a national level was in difficult financial circumstances and it was essential that the EAROPH Formally established in December 1988 and incorporated in World Congress made a substantial profit to contribute to 1989, the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia the sustainability of the Institute. Significant sponsorship Inc has no members and is an independent non-profit funds were raised for the EAROPH World Congress and an entity managed separate to Royal Australian Planning attendance of over a thousand delegates ensured a very Institute (RAPI)/Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) by an strong financial outcome for RAPI both in South Australia independent Board. and Nationally.

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 3 The objectives of the PEF were to:

»» Promote or undertake urban, regional and rural planning research which in the opinion of the Foundation may be of value to the practice of planning; »» Promote and provide planning education, including the education of planners and persons employed by planners; »» Convene public forums and seminars to promote community education in planning and planning systems; »» Publish or subsidise the publication of materials relating to, resulting from or connected with carrying out the objectives of the Foundation; »» Providing planning information to the community.

The Board membership was initially made up of the Research was also a focus of The Planning Education and the community in South Australia is a challenging task President of the RAPI SA Division, a representative of RAPI Foundation of South Australia Inc and the ‘Planning Papers that can be made more difficult by the small volume of SA Division, staff member of a tertiary institution, appointee Series’ represented research jointly funded by the PEF and people interested in attending planning based events and of the Minister responsible for planning and an appointee the University of South Australia. Research was conducted at times competition between professional development of the RAPI federal Council. by planning and geography luminaries including Raymond providers. Under new rules adopted in 2007, the Planning Bunker, Alan Hutchings, Stephen Hamnett, Michael Lennon Education Foundation of South Australia Inc was more In its early years the Planning Education Foundation and Hugh Stretton on topics as broad as the role of State closely integrated with the SA Division of PIA which saw of South Australia Inc (PEF) funded educational and Governments in the provision of urban infrastructure, South all education and training that was previously undertaken research activities. The seminars and courses it ran offered Australian planning in the 1990’s and the contribution of by the PEF residing with the SA Division of PIA. professional development opportunities for planners women to planning. and also allowed the community at large to gain an Since this time the PEF has consequently been reasonably understanding of planning issues and the planning system Up until 2005 the Planning Education Foundation of inactive in providing educational events, although it in South Australia. Over its history, the Planning Education South Australia Inc was a key organisation in providing has continued to provide funds for university awards Foundation of South Australia Inc ran successful seminars ongoing education and training to planners in South in planning and related disciplines and has been a long at modest prices to support a broad attendance. Australia and the PEF Board operated quite separately term sponsor of events such as the Annual Tom McKenna to the South Australian PIA Division Committee. It was Lecture, which is a free public lecture celebrating World recognised at various times by the PEF that the provision Town Planning Day undertaken during Planning Week of professional development opportunities for planners each year.

4 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 The relative inactivity of the PEF in recent years, its role as an event and education provider in South Australia now being filled by PIA, the lack of new revenue coming into the Boards accounts and the ongoing insurance, financial and administrative costs as well as the impact of the GFC on its investment base has forced successive Boards to consider the role of the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc in South Australia. Given that it no longer had a clear ongoing function in 2013 the Board made a decision to wind up the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc while there were still sufficient funds for the PEF to fund a number of planning projects that have the potential to have long term benefits into the future.

2015 marks the final year of the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc. The PEF has been a major contributor to the education of planning professionals and the community about urban and regional planning in South Australia. In recognition of this important role it was determined to publish a commemorative edition of “2015 marks the final year of the Planning Education SA Planner to capture the significant contribution that it, and its many volunteers, has made to planning in and for Foundation of South Australia Inc. The PEF has been a major South Australia. contributor to the education of planning professionals and the community about urban and regional planning in South Australia.”

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 5 6 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Kym Pryde, MPIA Chair, Planning Education Foundation SA Introduction from the PEF chair

As my eldest son started school this year and as we started Its objectives are to (amongst other things) were severely impacts by the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). the year it caused me to reflect on education what it means »» Promote or undertake planning research As we continued to pay insurance, financial and and how we learn. As humans we automatically learn – »» Promote and provide planning education, administrative costs it caused the Board to considered the probably cause once upon a time survival depended on including planners associated professions role and relevance of the PEF in South Australia. Given we it - perhaps it still does. »» Convene public forums and seminars to can no longer articulate a clear role distinct from PIA the promote community education in planning Board made the brave but necessary decision to wind up We explore, we read, we listen, we research and we watch and planning systems; the PEF. The PEF’s history is explained in more detail later. (there are probably more I could add but yet get the »» Providing planning information to the picture) and by doing this we be learn and grow. To add community. And this is where I stepped in! Traditionally and to this, there are always new discoveries, new evolutions, Not only did the PEF provide ‘education’ activities it was constitutionally the PIA President has also been the PEF new trends that mean we are always learning or needing structured in a way it provided a position to a Young Chair. However Darren, upon taking on his role as president to learn in order to stay relevant. Planner. And as a SA Young Planner I sat on the Board. recognised in amongst his busy life being President, Dad, The opportunity to working with eminent planners and Planning Consultant and PhD Student, offered me the This innate desire and need to continue to learn, I think, was experience Board operations was invaluable experience. opportunity to Chair the PEF to wind-up. A task I took with part of the PEF’s vision in creating the PEF and its objectives. pleasure and sadness. Since this time there have been a numerous reasons the PEF has had to review its relevance. Particularly given the So our task? education provider is now being filled by PIA. It is no longer To implement a number of projects and ‘wind-up the PEF’. undertaking events so there is a limited revenue coming in - with revenue only coming from investments which

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 7 Snapshots from the PEF celebration farewell event

The PEF has continued to meet. It’s been an interesting time and through SAYP we ended up with the talented Fiona and regional planning in South Australia. To finish I wish as we’ve had things to do and projects to run. We provided Callaghan. Fiona has competently run the project from to quote Nelson Mandella ‘Education is the most powerful sponsorship to allow PIA to run a national Planning start to finish - with minimal guidance from the PEF. Fiona weapon we can use to change the world’. Thanks to the competition with the aim to promote planning. That was managed the consultant engagement process – Kylie PEF for helping us change the planning world for the past run and won last year. We also provided monies for the Fergusen and Iris Iwanicki and between the three of them 28 years. winning entry and three small amounts for runner up prizes we have successfully captured 20 South Australian oral which the judging panel (of which I was a member) thought histories who are central to the history of planning in South were great ideas to pursue but weren’t winners. Australia.

We provided sponsorship for Greg Vann and Lucinda Hartley 2015 marks the final year of the Planning Education to join Jennifer Keesmaat at a successful PIA seminar Foundation of South Australia Inc. A final celebration last year. Jennifer is an inspiring promoter of planning, and farewell event was held at the Gallery on Waymouth community engagement and quality urban renewal. The in February. The event were PEF members across the past opportunity to sit down and debate planning and life with 28 years came together to reminisce and farewell the PEF. this amazing planner and working mum was enlightening. You’ll see many photos from the night scattered through this publication. When I took over the PEF Chair role the Oral History Project was already in train but without a project manager. The PEF has been a major contributor to the education of The Board sought expression of interest from PIA members planning professionals and the community about urban

8 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Darren Starr President PIA SA November 2015 Introduction from the PIA President

As a student and then graduate planner, attending and a number of major projects including the ‘Oral History information in the commemorative publication will bring graduating University in the mid to late 1990’s, I remember of planning contribution to state planning from 1970’, back some fond memories. To those younger planners who (just) the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia funded the national Planning Ideas Competition which are new to the impact of the PEF on the history of planning Inc. (PEF) as an organisation that ran events and information was a centrepiece in PIA’s Planning Matters strategy and in SA hopefully it will give you an appreciation of the role sessions that were informative and social. this commemorative edition of SA Planner. of the PEF over its long history.

With its key objectives to promote and provide planning The PEF has been a major contributor to the education education, urban and regional research and community of planning professionals and the community in South education in planning, the PEF held special significance Australia over many years and will leave a fantastic legacy. for many planners who believed in the value of promoting So much so that in its final year and in recognition of its planning, ongoing professional development and having important role I awarded the 2015 Planning Institute of some fun along the way. Australia (SA) Award for Planning Excellence Presidents Award to The Planning Education Foundation of South While the activities of the PEF have been less visible in Australia Inc. recent years, the PEF has continued to promote the development of planners and planning in South Australia The PEF has had a significant role in planning in South through funding of events and student prizes. In the last Australia and this publication has sought to capture some two years since the PEF Board made the decision to wind of its achievements and influence. For those planners who up its operations the PEF has funded and/or undertaken remember the PEF in its heyday hopefully some of the

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 9 10 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Donna Ferretti: PhD, FPIA, CPP Memories of the PEF: Building the Profile of Planning in South Australia

The PEF has undoubtedly played a significant role in the I was fortunate to be afforded an opportunity to write one of these papers. The year was 1994 which marked the Centenary ongoing professional development of planners across of Women’s Suffrage in South Australia. Fittingly, the PEF sponsored a seminar to celebrate the special contribution of South Australia. While my memories of the PEF tend to women in planning on World Town Planning Day to mark this occasion and the paper I prepared was an edited transcript be focussed on numerous Board meetings conducted in of the seminar’s proceedings. the 1990s and 2000s, I also remember fondly the various research and seminar activities sponsored by the PEF in The seminar attracted a star-studded cast of women from across Australia to discuss their various experiences of the planning that period that, on reflection, tells us much about the profession. As it would be completely remiss of me to single out individual presenters, a complete list of contributors and changing trajectory of planning education and professional the positions they then held follows: development since the PEF’s inception. Joan Hall MP (representing the SA Minister for Housing and Urban Development) During the 1990s, the PEF published a series of research Sophie Watson Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of papers under the banner of South Australian Research Wendy Morris Urban Design Unit, Department of Planning and Urban Development, Victoria Papers. These papers were formal pieces and subject to Wendy Bell Principal, Bell Planning Associates editorial scrutiny from a board comprising prominent Jan McCredie Manager of Planning and Urban Design, City West Development Corporation planning professionals and academics. They examined a Christine Charles Director, Strategic Policy, Department of Premier and Cabinet, SA range of issues that were ‘in vogue’ at the time and which Kate Costello Director, Costello Consulting had emerged in the aftermath of the wholesale review of Margo Huxley Assoc Professor of Urban Policy, RMIT SA’s planning system - the 2020 Planning Review – in the Wendy Sarkissian PhD Candidate, Murdoch University early 1990s. Angela Munro Principal, Local Planning Pty Ltd

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 11 Unsurprisingly, the seminar was well supported, attracting of the National Planning Awards were to be announced. It urban and regional development were becoming seventy women and twelve men. Angela Hazebroek later felt as if the results had been scripted. The winner of the increasingly prominent as were the gendered effects joked that this marked the first time that she had ever had Social Planning award was none other than the Human of planning decisions and the gendered nature of the to queue to go to the toilet at a planning conference! The Services Planning Kit, produced by primarily female staff planning profession. Looking back, we have not made sheer diversity of the experiences shared by the presenters of the South Australian Urban Lands Trust. The award much progress in debating and resolving these socio- encouraged much discussion of the difficulties women effectively capped off what was a remarkable day of environmental issues. At a time when planners are being encounter in negotiating their way forward in a male- celebrating the contribution of women in planning the heavily criticised for being “...uncharasmatic, pedantic, dominated planning profession. But more positively, development of well serviced communities in areas where disconnected from the public and increasingly beholden participants spoke of the many benefits that different convenient access to facilities is of paramount importance. to the developer rather than the people they are meant approaches to planning and urban design might bring, to serve”1 greater attention to these issues would surely particularly in relation to properly involving communities In hindsight, it would be fair to say that not much has help to re-focus the planning profession on a range of in decisions that affect them and in ensuring that new changed since the heady days of the 1990s. While mechanisms – and not just economic ones - to improve communities (especially those on the urban fringe) were some commentators labelled that decade as a time of the livelihoods of the people we plan for. well serviced by an appropriate array of social infrastructure consolidation as planners were getting their heads around and services. new planning systems centred on strategic planning, it was effectively a time of change and transition. Planners On completion of the seminar, participants were invited to in the 1990s were confronted with a new set of planning attend a function at Adelaide Town Hall where the winners issues. The environmental problems associated with

1 http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/10/-sp-cities-town-planning-cool-architects?CMP=share_btn_tw; accessed 17 November 2014.

12 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Inner Metro Rim Structure Plan Emeritus Professor Stephen Hamnett LFPIA Some Reflections on the Planning Education Foundation

It is sobering to think that the World Planning and Housing growth and the need for a “new growth centre beyond the Congress, which created the funds to establish the Planning Plains”. 1986 also saw the release of a review of the City of Education Foundation, took place nearly 30 years ago. Bob Adelaide Plan (the Plan Bechervaise) which noted a trend Hawke was Prime Minister at the time, Paul Keating warned in the city towards 2-bedroom townhouses and proposed of the risk of Australia becoming a ‘banana republic’ that a fairly radical set of urban design guidelines, causing great year, Hawthorn won the VFL Grand Final, Nigel Mansell concern amongst local architects. narrowly missed out on winning the Adelaide Grand Prix when his tyre burst on the final lap and Crocodile Dundee The World Planning and Housing Congress was a huge broke cinema box office records. and memorable event. Jointly organised by RAPI, the Local Government Planners Association, the Eastern Regional Coming closer to planning, 1986 was also the year in Organisation for Planning and Housing (EAROPH) and which the Royal Australian Planning Institute, as part of the International Federation for Housing and Planning, it its contribution to South Australia’s 150th anniversary, attracted over 900 delegates from more than 30 countries. published “With Conscious Purpose: A History of Town The venue was the Hilton Hotel in Victoria Square and Planning in South Australia”, edited by Alan Hutchings delegates also enjoyed an extensive program of technical and Ray Bunker and launched by .. The final tours, as well as a Congress dinner in the Mitsubishi canteen chapter in that book was contributed by Dr Don Hopgood at Tonsley – the only place in the city able to cope with the – certainly the best planning minister that I can recall in my numbers attending. (For anyone interested in more details time in South Australia – who wrote about Adelaide’s future of the Congress, you can still find key papers and other details in the December 1986 issue of Australian Planner).

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16 Stephen Hains and Darren Starr have explained elsewhere University of South Australia and we published a number how the profits from the Congress were used in South of the South Australian Planning Papers at that time. I think Australia to set up the PEF. It took a little while to decide the links between the planning school and the professional on what to do with the proceeds of the Congress and then to body in the delivery of continuing professional education establish the PEF as a non-profit body formally independent were as strong then as they have ever been and, while of RAPI. We were assisted in drawing up the objectives by the PEF is no more, I hope that my former colleagues at Brian Hayes QC and, even though our intent was always, I UniSA and also at the can take their think, to use the Foundation primarily as a vehicle for the level of collaboration with PIA on seminars, public events professional development of planners, the objectives were and research projects to an even higher level in the future drawn sufficiently widely to allow the funds to be used for – in a small city like Adelaide, everyone in the planning a range of purposes which were generally likely to further community benefits from that sort of collaboration. the pursuit of good planning. I should also say finally that one of the strengths of the PEF I had the honour and the good fortune to be the President was the support it received from a succession of outstanding of the South Australian Division of RAPI at the time of the executive officers. They were all good, but I worked most 1986 Congress and to serve subsequently as Chair of the closely with Angela Hazebroek, Sue Giles and Shelagh Noble Planning Education Foundation. For a number of years and it is hard to overstate the contribution that they made while I was Chair the PEF was based in an office at the to the undoubted success of the Foundation.

14 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Oral History of planning contributing to state planning from 1970

In 2013-2014 the Board of the Planning Education The interviews covered a range of planning subjects Foundation (“PEF”) resolved to undertake an oral history including working in state and local planning and project to interview and record for posterity the professional private consultancy, major changes in planning, career experiences of 20 notable planners from South Australia development, major projects, urban development trends, who contributed to the history of planning in this SA spatial planning, theory and practice of planning, heritage projects and policies, governance structures and changes, The “Oral History of planning contributing to state rural planning, new towns, water management and natural planning from 1970 involved 10 interviews of female resource planning. planning professionals and 10 interviews of male planning professionals that were undertaken in accordance with the Oral History Association of Australia’s (“OHAA”) Oral History Handbook.

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 15 16 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Kylie Fergusen Interviewer, GRUP, MSc (Planning), FPIA Planning Education Oral History Project

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

And so began my adventure with 20 highly respected of a gap in our gathering and documentation of planning Views were expressed that were often consistent in their planning colleagues as told through their own experiences of the previous three decades. This gap has message and in their conviction. Given the diversity of narratives of planning in South Australia and beyond been filled now by the hour long narratives which have interviewees, this consistency surprised me. Certainly, over the last 30 years. Their recounts meandered been recorded, transcribed, and are available for full public they should provide us with plenty of material for self and through adventures of planning ideology, politics, access through the State Library archives. professional reflection. community sentiment, visionary movers and shakers, ACC Red Books and Blue Books, MFP, State Bank The interviews emerged less as a chronologically Collapse, Planning Reviews, regional growth areas, ordered series of events and explanations, and more and bold legislation of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, to today, as a retrospective of the cultures, ideals, visions and in the year 2015. relationships between political leaders, economic climates, communities and levels of government. If there were ever These “adventures” were the stories of careers, as told by any doubts that planning has emerged as an art, not a planners chosen by the Planning Education Foundation science; that in planning there is for their involvement and knowledge of diverse planning events and functions relating to South Australia’s planning “no single truth but there is a variety of perspectives… and that the complexity of planning is really a history over the last 30 years. Our profession is privileged to capacity to draw together observations and insights about a variety of perspectives and try to reconcile have the works of scholarship of With Conscious Purpose them in a coherent way forward…” (Michael Lenon, 2015), (1986, edited by Alan Hutchings and Ray Bunker) and more recently the wonderful retrospective of RAPI’s first then read on! 50 years in 2001 in South Australia. But there has been a bit

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The Planning Role

Stephen Hains pondered on whether the role of planners Simone Fogarty believes that we need to rethink the Terry Quinn also reflected on the history of Port Adelaide has diminished over time. planning role to reflect changing urban form. and its need to reinvent itself as a response to changing societal and structural change.

“Well I came through university in a time when universities “I think the planning system has been very effectively used to “…A million dollars, well less than a million dollars in point were in a great time of turbulence, the late 60s anti-Vietnam help deliver a particular urban form and I mean suburbia .But of fact over three years to redevelop the port… throughout you know. I was wrapped up in all of that student politics now we’ve got a whole system that makes a lot of assumptions Australia were restructuring and Port Adelaide was caught and so on. I developed a strong sort of ethos of wanting to about what the purpose of that system is and who’s it working in the middle of that. So you had a massive movement away build a better society and I… I very much got into planning for...And the model of a planning system that delivers just from old ways of doing things, where it was incredible union because I think in those days, we sort of saw planning as a suburbia is inadequate and also the notion that the way you domination… everything suddenly became containerised force for change, as an opportunity to do to do something deliver better outcomes is through land use separation is rather than bails of wool…a complete change in the way significant for the community. And we actually took the view almost redundant now. And our profession needs to go back customs managed its services, you know most of the goods that somehow planning was going to be able to build a better to questioning the fundamental assumptions behind what that were coming into Adelaide were being flown in. So the world. we do and why we do...start looking at what are the tools we approach was if you were a modern operation you didn’t stay need, whether that happens to be rural or urban or suburban. in a heritage building, you got out of that and you and built a I think as times gone by I wonder how many planners today Different models of assessment. I see a profession at some modern building, the seven storey concrete marina harbours actually have that driving force? Many planners now have levels trying to hold on to the old” (Simone Fogarty, 2015)” building for example was built in about 1975 and it brought been really got to the point where they’ve been caught by their together all of the Marina harbours operations. So you had lots tools of trade, and they’re really not much more than clerks….I of buildings suddenly becoming vacant. Buildings that had do wonder about this…” ( Stephen Hains, 2014). been public buildings forever suddenly becoming vacant. So we had to plan with a space that was built in the 19th century largely or the early 20th century. (Port Adelaide) had to find another reason to exist” (Terry Quinn, 2015).

18 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Don Dunstan at the launch of “With Conscious Purpose” in 1986 Planning Education Oral History Project

Great planning needs visionaries and leaders where it was implemented by leaders such as the Minister of Planning Don Hopgood who was described as “among the Brian Hayes noted that best”, someone with a “particularly good grasp of planning Red Book and the Blue Book for the City of Adelaide. A lot of issues, articulate and visionary” (Stephen Hamnett, 2015). people came over to SA then, Michael Llewelyn – Smith came “when you have leadership in the planning area, and by over with George Clark and John Mant. Others? Ray Bunker I that I mean not only political leadership, but also executive Other key reformist figures who played major parts in South think” (Brian Hayes, 2014). leadership in the departments, it makes a big difference” Australia’s planning including Don Dunstan, John Mant, (2014). Similarly, Stephen Hains comments that “In the end Hugh Stretton, George Clark, Ray Banker, Hugh Hudson and “I remember you know on a Sunday morning sitting in the you know, you it depends on really strong leaders…somebody Michael Llewelyn Smith, featured heavily in conversation. Glover playground off Le Fevre Terrace in North Adelaide with who is actually just going to take a position and drive it and Don Dunstan, Hugh Stretton, and the Lord Mayor sitting on convince the community of the merits of that position. Because “It was a very interesting period during that time. Don Dunstan the playground swings while as a 23 years old I was telling that’s what leadership is about” (2014). was trying to really get around the state planning authority in them what we were doing and giving them a briefing… They those days, which was headed up by Stewart Hart. didn’t want to be briefed in the office, they wanted to keep it all So who were the visionaries and leaders over the preceding Don Dunstan was trying to do something quite radical, George surreptitious. AAh… interesting times” (Stephen Hains, 2014) three decade’s? Clark was also very radical. We were also backed up by Hugh Stretton. There was a real taste for change in those days and Terry Quinn reflects on planning over the last decade. Interviewees described what was happening in the 80’s at so it was a very interesting time” (Stephen Hains, 2014). a Federal level and intersection with planning in our state “The system isn’t enough. As it said earlier that you can have and in local areas. Geoff Whitlam, a universally accepted “I noticed a change in the 70’s with Dunstan and Hugh Hudson the best system in the world and we have purported over great leader, with his urban reform agenda recognised the who was the Planning Minister. He was a very strong Planning a long time to have the best system in Australia, at least increasingly urban nature of nation and Minister. I mean the biggest change was the 1975 City of structurally. But if you haven’t got people to drive it and good developed a national program to address the issues that Adelaide Development Control Act which came in. That was people to drive it, it doesn’t matter a dot. And in that in that flowed from rapid and concentrated population growth, Hugh Hudson who brought that in with John Roach, the then sense planning just hasn’t stepped up… It promises so much, especially the increasing demand to supply services of all kinds, Lord Mayor of Adelaide and I think John Mant as the Head but at the end of the day, we haven’t had the gravitas in the housing, roads, sewerage, schools and social services. This of the Department...that Act came in subsequently with the individuals involved in the system to make it happen in a in a Building Better Cities Programme flowed to South Australia, Planning Act...also at the time of the George Clarke Study, the good positive vibrant way” (Terry Quinn, 2015).

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... “decisions in relation to growing Adelaide around places like Buckland Park are a travesty”...

Being Bold Growth Areas

I asked interviewees to reflect on vision and leadership in It is natural of course for planners to talk about politics, In addition to Buckland Park, other residential growth areas our current planning climate. Are we a bold profession now? particularly when we are reflecting on the ability of the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s were discussed. for planning to be courageous. I frequently noticed “I don’t think we are. I think that a lot of the stuffing has been interviewees becoming slightly more animated, sitting Just after Dunstan, Adelaide was doing great things; knocked out of a lot of planners. I think that the leadership forward in their chair, wanting to impress the point that they had the city plan, various versions of the city plan. sometimes comes from outside the planning profession…I planning is political. The growth, Salisbury was growing and it was planning think we have to be courageous. I think planners have its new areas, the Urban Land Trust was playing this waxed and waned in their courage over my 30 years in the How much a part of politics to planning now? amazing role in the new growth areas…the State was game…I think that the public scrutiny (these days) means progressive, it recognised social impact assessment and planners really have to be on their game or you’re very quickly “It’s a big part and I think this is disappointing…Im particularly social infrastructure planning, probably primarily because exposed…Its much more shrouded in bureaucracy within concerned by decisions made because a developer has the of the legacy of Dunstan and the work of the Urban Land state, and even within the bigger councils, its removed from opportunity to influence the government…decisions in Trust….I can remember as a sort of an afterthought, Mike that place where you stood forward and spoke boldly” (Angela relation to growing Adelaide around places like Buckland Kerry who was Head of Planning then said Hazebroek, 2015). Park are a travesty. And that decision should have never been made and yet it was allowed because the developer, I believe, “look we really should do a social impact assessment of the 5 influenced the government and it became a political decision, growth options (Virginia, Mt Barker, Sandy Creek and McLaren it wasn’t a land use decision, it wasn’t a social decision, it wasn’t Vale)…Even though environmentally Mount Barker wasn’t a community decision and it’s certainly not an environmental considered as suitable option, it was from a social point of decision. It was purely around the politics of the development view because it was an established community and by then the sector” (Cate Atkinson, 2014) new towns in the UK in growth areas recognised the need to attach the growth to existing established communities rather than greenfield sites. So Mt barker was good, Virginia wasn’t because there wasn’t a strong exiting community (Wendy Bell, 2014)

20 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Sue Giles and Shelagh Noble, subsequent PEF executive officers Planning Education Oral History Project at a PEF function at d’Arenberg winery in 2005.

Growth Areas Gender

With ten of the interviewees being women, the And of those historical humorous anecdotes? Let it be Cate Atkinson told stories about the early thinking around conversations consistently explored gender and planning. known that my colleague’s reflections of their careers over Playford. the last 30 years highlighted that SA planners are full of “So I had all of this experience in terms of planning assessment, fierce spirits and passion for their industry, camaraderie “I said “this place is never going to change its developments planning policy, planning strategy through to consultancy, and great humour. Roger Freeman made my belly ache structure if the State continues to release 30 hectares of land senior consultant, associate and then I went back to square one with laughter as he told his story about his experience with at a time which was the land portfolio with the Urban Land and became a project officer again all in one foul swoop…it nudity in caravan parks… Trust...just to keep the development industry ticking along. was really about managing family pressures and maintaining We have to take a stand and say no, we don’t want that land a professional position when Id have to suggest there wasn’t “It was a caravan park near Lake Bonnie which got converted, released and from a council perspective we will not re zone lot of support for working mum others….the firm struggled well changed, to a nudist caravan park. The neighbour was that land, we don’t want it released until you start investing in with shorter working days, demands with childcare, sick concerned that you’d see nude people in there. ...so we decided the poorer suburbs...We started lobbying government, and the children and having to manage as a nursing mother, so that we need to go and inspect... The gentleman came out to meet LMC saw the opportunity, they saw the uplift that would be was pretty tough” (Cate Atkinson, 2014) us. He was on his verandah, we were on the ground, about a possible from government owned land. It was between them metre or so below. He came out to talk to us. He had no clothes recognising that and council saying no we don’t want gated “So I think it’s changed. I think there’s probably an old guard on. And, of course our eyeline was .. well you can imagine communities we want an integrated growth and return of that thinks that the hardnosed end of planning is DA and where it was… anyway we said “look we need to have a chat investment to Davoren Park and Smithfield Plains…between the ERD court. But I don’t experience it here as being a sort of about this” and he said “yeah yeah ok look I’ll just go and put those two strategies the government signed off on Playford mainstream view, and I don’t think it’s gendered either because something on” and I said “oh that’ll be nice”…so he came North” (Cate Atkinson, 2014) I think there are young men who are equally interested in the back out with a T-shirt on, but the T shirt didn’t actually go all social planning aspects. That’s very different because that was the way down to cover… to cover umm the nether regions.. so gendered in the 80s, it was women did social planning and And then we all went and sat down to have a chat about his men did real planning, and it’s not like that now”. caravan park.” (Roger Freeman, 2014).

“As the third Executive Officer of the PEF, following in the steps of Angela Hazebroek and Sue Giles I had the privilege of being hosted by the University of South Australia. The 1995 Annual Report explains that the PEF Board wanted to remain independent. .so did not accept the University of South Australia offer of the time to incorporate under its umbrella.” PEF Executive Officer Shelagh Noble

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Future Aspirations for Planning in South Australia?

Each interviewee ended their interview with a reflection “Id like it to become more global...Id like us to learn If the challenge of history is to about the future. I asked “What would you like for the and contribute to what is going on in the Asia region. “recover the past and introduce it to the present” planning profession to acheive in South Australia into To become much more open in our mind to seeing (David Thelen, 2013), the future? For it to continue to grow into?”. Responses what the opportunities are and much more innovative then this Planning Education Foundation initiative focused around desires for bold leadership, for planners and adventurous…its very parochial here, very has successfully recovered many parts of the to be regarded in the same vein as those earlier visionary, parochial…if you’ve an open mind and an enquiring state planning history, and introduced them as highly thoughtful, passionate movers and shakers of the mind and be as adventurous you can be, it can be so compelling narratives for planners of the current late 70’s and early 80’s, for increased adventurous spirit for much more fulfilling to go out there ” and future generations. further nurturing of enquiring minds. (Brian Hayes, 2014). With this recovery has come reflections and I think to know and internally accept that we go into meaning making of past planning decisions, something knowing almost nothing. If we go in with policies and events. that attitude with a willingness to learn and listen, then we can be productive…, then we can be useful” I encourage all planners to read the full (Angela Hazebroek, 2014). transcripts of these wonderfully insightful interviews, and to open our contemplative minds to consider the ideals we bring to planning, and how we practice these ideals in our careers and day to day planning functions. www.planning.org.au/sacontent/history

Angela Hazebroek, first executive officer of the PEF at a PEF function at d’Arenberg winery in 2005, talking with Alan Hutchings.

22 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 Competition captures community’s ideas for promoting planning

Throughout its existence the Planning Education »» helps identify hazards and reduce risks, and Foundation has shared the Planning Institute of Australia’s protects our environmental, social, cultural core belief that planning matters. That’s why in 2014 the PEF and heritage values. supported PIA’s Planning Ideas Competition, a centerpiece »» The Competition sought ideas of any and in PIA’s Planning Matters strategy. all types; the idea could be technological PIA’s Planning Matters strategy seeks to engage planners (an app, a web-based solution, a computer and non-planners alike in sharing the relates to outlining game), artistic (an artwork, an installation, the importance of planning and the role of planners in written word, a flashmob), audio visual Australia’s urban and regional development. (a movie, cartoon, recorded voice), or The Planning Ideas Competition was a nation-wide something completely out of the box. campaign to capture imaginative and innovative ideas for »» The terms of reference said the winning idea promoting planning to the world. The competition called would be something that was: PIA President Dyan Currie presents the winners cheque to Chris Isles and for ideas that showed planning fun, accessible, engaging, »» Practical: it could be replicated or recreated Beth Toon from Place Design Group. exciting, intriguing and understandable. Specifically, it at a reasonable cost that would promote sought to demonstrate that planning; planning to as broad an audience as possible; »» makes communities stronger and gets »» Demonstrable: the idea needed to economies going; demonstrate that it could actually be put »» - helps make decisions that balance private, into action; government and community interests; and »» Legal: the idea wouldn’t break laws, breach copyright, cause offence, hurt people or

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otherwise cause legal difficulties for PEF or PIA; $10,000 prize went to an idea that harnesses emerging The judges identified three other entries as deserving »» Fun and engaging: it would grab people’s ‘geosocial networking’ technology to give people a better of honorable mentions. The PEF generously topped up attention and get them thinking about understanding of their favorite urban spaces. the prize pool to enable PIA to award -based planning; company Planisphere, Larissa Miller and David Corkill $500 »» Innovative: the idea is a clever way of Brisbane planning and urban design firm Place Design each for their ideas. transmitting ideas about planning that’s Group proposed the idea of installing web-enabled links been rarely – if ever – seen before; at award-winning locations so people with smart phones Planisphere detailed an exciting concept of a ’People »» Durable: it would remain useful and/or or tablets could immediately engage with the planning Planning Places Festival’. The imagined Festival would bring adaptable for the foreseeable future. concepts and processes that led to the celebrated space. the community together to participate in a wide range of »» To attract national interest in the Competition, While the winning idea is grounded in existing Quick activities based around cities, urbanism and planning. It is the PEF provided a significant prize pool of Response (QR) Code technology, the Judges saw the idea’s envisaged as a celebration of planning and the important $10,000. The PEF also provided funds to strength in its capacity to evolve as geosocial networking role it plays in shaping our cities and regions. The Festival ensure that a professional, high-impact web and other social media technology progressed. would offer a wide range of visceral and interactive activities presence and marketing program promoted aimed at promoting the importance of planning. From the competition. In their winning submission the entrants said that planning tactical urban walking tours, interactive art installations Over a six-month call, the competition attracted more is a journey of navigating policies and development and inspiring talks to the high street food stalls, flash mobs than 70 ideas from a broad and diverse range of sources - requirements – and understanding where a community and roving planners, it would cover all aspects of planning students, planning professionals and non-planners. is now and where it needs to go: and the built environment. “People enjoying great new urban spaces don’t normally The entries themselves were even more diverse. Videos start thinking about how or why that place came about, Larissa Miller proposed an outdoor advertising campaign featured heavily, but there were also proposals for board but with a mobile device and the popularity of locational reminding Australians that the best parts of their cities games and computer games, new uses of existing planning technology, people can immediately engage better with were planned. Under this proposal any outdoor format software, posters, comic strips and even an etching of the the space they’re in. They can use the idea to find out about could be used to promote the message that good places benefits of planning scratched into a scorched plastic plate. the planning journey that led to the place, and join in virtual don’t happen by accident: from large scale iconic billboards After an exhaustive and close-fought judging process, the conversations about what works about it.” through to bill posters, Adshel street furniture or train station advertising.

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Wherever possible, Larissa said in her entry, the headline The winning and commended ideas were representative message of the poster should relate to the locality that it is of a treasure trove of great ideas that will continue to situated in. For example, a successful car-free environment emerge over coming years as PIA continues to promote could see a message can be placed on Adshel bus stops in the message that planning matters. The next step from the area. The judges recognised great potential for this idea the Competition is to develop the winning geolocation to interlink seamlessly with the winning idea. proposal into a PIA project that ties together great places into a cohesive and comprehensive web presence that David Corkill from Buckley Vann Planning Consultants captures information about the planning that goes into our proposed using ‘story maps’ as a way of sharing the favourite places. The geolocation concept will be central Planning Matters message. Story maps are GIS products to the web presence, providing an online anchor for the designed for non-technical audiences. They include all the physical places that grow from award-winning projects. elements required to tell a story: web-enabled maps, text, multimedia content, and functionalities that enable users The PEF was proud to be a part of this ground-breaking to interact with them. David said ‘the concept is to develop Competition. The Competition and the ideas that emerged a ‘Planning Matters’ Story Map to allow a wide body of from it will continue to yield benefits for the planning Australian and potentially international, good planning profession for years to come. Most importantly, the process experiences and stories to be compiled and shared. This of seeking these ideas engaged a whole generation of non- source could be promoted, shared and leveraged by other planners and prospective planners in the message that communication campaigns through a variety of social and Planning Matters. In introducing hundreds if not thousands traditional media.’ of people to the benefits of planning, the Planning Ideas Competition ably met the PEF’s charter, and did so in a fun, Again, the judges noted that this idea was closely related to future-focused and truly engaging way. the winning idea, and that the ideas could be used together to enable the community to create their own story maps George Inglis ‘on the move’.

PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 25 Many members of the team who contributed to the PEF over the years were on hand to celebrate the 2015 Planning Institute of Australia Awards for Planning Excellence.

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The final project of the Planning Education Foundation of »» A case study on each winning project including South Australia Inc will be the funding of a website that will state finalists for consideration ahead of National showcase, celebrate and promote award-winning planning Awards; projects and positive examples of good planning in action. »» Images of the project and/or relevant project Initially the website will showcase winners of the Planning documentation; Institute of Australia Awards for Planning Excellence. In »» Links to project websites and copies of nomination the longer term the website will potentially be open to documents; other organisations that wish to participate and promote »» Case study materials, including short form examples of planning excellence. summary text, plus longer articles which can be used as a basis for publications; The website content will promote positive planning »» A geolocation component (QR code or similar) to examples through linkages with real planning projects. enable winners to promote their project via their These could include both built projects and planning own websites and networks.; documents and programs. Each case study on the website »» Search engine optimisation and searchable by is intended to contain: keyword, topic or geography; »» Profiles of the people behind the awards and detailed interviews/backgrounders on individual award winners; »» Links to relevant events and webinars; »» Ability to include videos of award winning projects

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The broader webpage environment will: members to appreciate the benefits of As the final project of the PEF, the Planning Institute of »» Provide media resources for journalists to planning from best practice examples in Australia Awards for Planning Excellence website will produce articles on winning projects (media their own jurisdictions and to promote promote the value of planning to communities and urban releases, contacts, photo galleries etc.); local excellence. Encouraging the exchange development stakeholders and will share knowledge about »» Be used to generate interest in the Planning of good planning ideas among local planning excellence. Institute of Australia Awards for Planning government planners; A fitting legacy for the Planning Education Foundation of Excellence; »» • Planning and affiliated consultants as an South Australia Inc. »» Potentially include a chat section to facilitate opportunity to promoting their successful conversation and debate about the featured projects; projects. »» • Developers promoting their progressive »» practices across borders to boost confidence The website will target and engage; in the built environment; »» Urban and regional planning professionals »» • General public through engaging people as a professional development tool that in the discussion of what makes a great place enables planners to readily access detailed while building awareness of good planning; best practice case studies in realms of and professional practice and knowledge share »» • Students (tertiary and secondary) by across the profession; providing the next generation of planners »» Affiliated built environment professionals by or users of the planning system with useful, building an awareness of the contribution up-to-date and tangible case studies for their of planning to the success of best practice student projects and building connections projects and strategy in planning, while with the wider profession. similarly building linkages between planners and affiliated professions; »» Local Government encouraging elected

28 PEF - Commemorative Issue 2015-16 “You would think that having spent more than 10 years chairing the Planning Education Foundation I would have a million stories, but no. There was one moment... We heard that Ray Bunker was doing some important planning work for the Federal Government so we asked him to tell us all about it at a lunch time seminar. When he got up to talk, however, he reminded us that the work he had been doing was to compile a huge planning bibliography. He decided that reading out every planning reference he had compiled one at a time might not be interesting, so he told us a story about what he had thought as he was doing it. In the 1800’s there were not many writers and the most famous of them lived in the United Kingdom. Many of Charles Dickens books, for example, were written as serials. There were thousands of people who would be eager to read the latest installments. In New York the docks were crowded with people waiting to get their hands on and read the latest works from a handful of authors. There were lots of readers and very few writers. Later on, and especially since computers, the roles reversed. Everyone now writes but relative to the enormous production of books, reports, papers or even emails fewer people read. Oh dear, I am writing this on a smart phone. I wonder if anyone will read it. If anyone does, I hope it may remind themof the PEF and the contribution made to it by wonderful people like Ray.” David Ellis

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South Australian Planning Papers: Research Collaboration

In the early 1990’s the Planning Education Foundation of A Blinkered Vision? South Australia Inc in conjunction with the University of The Emerging National Agenda for South Australia supported planning research through the Australian Cities and Housing (1992) development of the ‘Planning Papers Series’. Lionel Orchard

This series of topical research papers were developed A comprehensive review of Federal urban and and released for the benefit of planners, community, housing policy initiatives in the context of wider academics and the urban development professions. The debate about character and direction of Australian final publications were subject to editorial review by both politics and public policy. planning professionals and academics (via an Editorial Board) to ensure they were relevant to the profession while contributing to the academic body of knowledge on the relevant topic. The Role of State Government in the Provision of Urban Infrastructure (1992) It is telling that many of the issues that were investigated Richard Kirwan, Max Neutze, in the 1990’s are still topical for practitioners today. Hugh Stretton, Cliff Walsh

Review of issues in urban infrastructure financing in Australia and the role that State Governments should play in providing infrastructure for urban development.

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Strategic Planning and Major Projects: A review Making a Difference: Celebrating the Diversity of Hard copies of the ‘Planning Papers Series’ can still be found of recent experience in Adelaide and Barcellona Women’s Contribution to Planning (1995) on the desks of long term planners in South Australia. (1993) Raymond Bunker, Alan Hutchings Edited Donna Ferretti The documents are also available at the This paper describes the changing nature of strategic This paper is a report of the ideas expressed at National Library of Australia planning for the development of large cities and Women and Planning Conference held in Adelaide (http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1056053). Adelaide in particular and the relationship of major in November 1994 Conference in the year of the projects with strategic planning processes. Centenary of Women’s Suffrage in South Australia.

Environmental Impact Assessment in Issues of Planning Law (1998) South Australia: Towards 2000 (1994) Mark Parnell and John Hodgson Nick Harvey, Karen Ferguson Planning can be seen as a process whereby urban This paper discusses the implications of eleven years and regional issues are investigated and the results of Environmental Impact Statement practice in drawn together into officially adopted policies South Australia under the Planning Act 1982 and the which, in turn, are implemented. The papers revised provisions under the Development Act 1993. published by the Planning Education Foundation of South Australia Inc have dealt with issues across the spectrum of this process. The process is there to serve the public interest and in a parliamentary democracy this means the process is usually underwritten by the law. This paper addresses such questions of law.

Design and Layout: Integrated Planning and Technical Services - March 2016

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