NSW/ACT State Conference Program
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NSW/ACT State Conference Program Pre Conference - WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2016 6 - 8pm Conference Cocktail Party DAY 1 - THURSDAY 19 MAY 2016 8.30am Registration opens - Hunter Rothbury Room Trade exhibition opens - Hunter Rothbury Room 9.15am Welcome 9.30am Keynote: Poppy Starr Current reigning world bowl champion for women - 2nd youngest competitor to ever take out this event & 2015 World cup title for 15 and over amateur skate boarder 10.15am Morning Tea 10.45am Keynote: Kim Ellis Executive Director, Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands The Challenges of creating a sustainable future during a population boom - Centennial Parklands PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPORT YOUTH & INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE Valley View Room PLACES & SPACES Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 11.30am Incorporating Green Space A sustainable sports program in A community driven sanctuary - Sanc- within the Integrated Planning & the Parklands tuary Point Place Making Action Plan Reporting process Ed Sanderson - Director Sport & James Harris - Social & Infrastructure Peter McCue - Executive Recreation, Botanic Gardens & Planning Unit Manager & Susan Officer, Premiers Council for Centennial Parklands Edwards - Senior Strategic Planner (Social Active Living Infrastructure), Shoalhaven City Council 12pm Reforming Crown Lands Collaborate to Create Inclusion Providing space for our youth: show- Amy Cahill - Principal & Lachlan for All casing two recently completed Youth Sims - Principal, Public Place James Ellender - NSW State Precinct projects Land Management Manager, Belgravia Leisure Ian Bentley - Landscape Architect, Tweed Shire Council 12.30pm Lunch PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPORT YOUTH & INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE Valley View Room PLACES & SPACES Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 1.30pm Bungarribee at Western Sydney Planning for sport in Western Oran Park Youth Hub : Not Just Parklands – a 50 year vision Sydney’s growth areas Another Skate Park Anton James - Director, Brad Billett - Coordinator Joe O’Connor - Development JMDdesign & Joshua French - Recreation Planning and Design, Manager, Urban Growth NSW & Dana Principal Program Officer, Blacktown City Council Spence - Recreation Planner, Camden Western Sydney Parklands Trust Council 2pm Building a successful program Let’s Design for everyone - because through branding - Aqua Learn we can to Swim Fiona Robbe - Director, Fiona Robbe Ros Pullen - Marketing & Landscape Architects Communications Coordinator, Blacktown City Council 2.30pm Afternoon tea 2016 PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA NSW/ACT Region State Conference 1 DAY 1 - THURSDAY 19 MAY 2016 PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPORT YOUTH & INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE Valley View Room PLACES & SPACES Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 3pm Lifting the lid on Public Land Review and Implementation of Wyong Skate Strategy and BATO Management - Workshop Ground Closure Procedures Regional Skate Park Lachlan Sims - Principal & Amy Simon James - Senior Coordina- Boyd McMillan - Landscape and Cahill - Principal - Public Place tor Sport & Recreation & Daniel Recreation Planner, Wyong Shire Land Management Ristic - Senior Coordinator Sport Council & Recreation, City of Ryde 3.30pm Empowering Volunteers and Working together on skin cancer their Community Sport Clubs prevention - a case study approach Amanda VanderWal - NSW/QLD to shade development in NSW Community Partnerships Alecia Brooks - Portfolio Manager Skin Manager, Sports Community Cancer Prevention, Cancer Institute New South Wales 4pm Keynote: Matt Miller - Chief Executive, NSW Office of Sport The Office of Sport’s strategic direction and what it means for NSW sporting infrastructure. 4.45pm Day One Conference Close 7 - 11pm Awards of Excellence Dinner Twine Restaurant, Wynwood Estate Pokolbin DAY 2 - FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016 8.30am Trade Exhibition Open - Hunter Rothbury Room 9.15am Keynote: A/Professor Thomas Astell-Burt & Dr Xiaoqi Feng Urban greening for healthier ageing – gaps in knowledge and how we can plug them together. 10.00am Morning tea PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPACE PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPACE Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 10.30am Green Infrastructure - the Dubbo Experience Transforming Lake Macquarie’s Recreation Spaces Ian McAlister - Manager Horticultural Services, Susan Boyd - Strategic Recreation Planner, Lake Dubbo City Council Macquarie City Council 11am Green Screens - More than meets the eye Driftwells Park - Re-activation of an Industrial Vince Cusumano - Senior Coordinator Park Policy SiteIan McAlister - Manager Horticultural Services, Trees and Natural Areas & Joseph Buttita - Manager Dubbo City Council Civil and Park Maintenance Blacktown City Council 11.30am Understanding the safety of glyphosate Growing pains or gains? How rapid growth Tom Breen - Commercial Lead, Crop Protection Asia demands management efficiencies Pacific, Monsanto Australia Jacob Messer - Director, Operations & Visitor Services, Parramatta Park & Western Sydney Parklands Trusts 9.15am OFFICIAL CONFERENCE CLOSE 12.15pm Lunch Collection 12.30pm Bus Departure for Technical Tours 1.00 - TECHNICAL TOUR 1 TECHNICAL TOUR 2 3.30pm PCYC Cessnock Hunter Valley Gardens 2016 PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA NSW/ACT Region State Conference 2 ABSTRACTS THURSDAY 19TH Centennial Parklands is Australia’s With draft legislation set to be introduced 11.30AM largest community sports precinct, hear this year, there are some important steps HUNTER Rothbury ROOM from the Ed Sanderson, Director Sport that Reserve Trust Managers, community & Recreation on the innovative business groups, sporting groups and members of Presenter: solutions assisting the Parklands to the community can take now to ensure Peter McCue - Executive accommodate Sydney’s booming a beneficial outcome, and smooth Officer, Premiers Council for Active population and their need for Sport & transition for the management of public Living Recreation activities. land. As parks and leisure professionals, the paperwork side of crown land Incorporating Green Space within management is not where your efforts the Integrated Planning & Reporting THURSDAY 19TH and energies should lie, but there are process 11.30AM some relevant parts of the Crown Land JAMES BUSBY ROOM review which can be done in preparation The Integrated Planning and Reporting for the proposals which are anticipated (IP&R) framework provides local Presenters: as a result of the objectives and councils with their principal planning James Harris - Social & Infrastructure outcomes of the Crown Lands Review and reporting tool which includes an Planning Unit Manager & Susan and White Paper. This presentation will overarching Community Strategic Plan Edwards - Senior Strategic Planner (Social provide an overview of the proposed (CSP). CSPs are updated as part of Infrastructure), Shoalhaven City Council Crown Lands reforms in NSW, provide an update on their progress and inform local council elections and the period A community driven sanctuary - users and managers of Crown Land prior to elections provides a significant Sanctuary Point Place Making Action opportunity to enhance current green Plan on how to maximise the benefits of the space and active living provision. reform process. Premier’s Council for Active Living Sanctuary Point Place Making Action THURSDAY 19TH has developed a web based guide to Plan highlights the success of local 12.00 highlight opportunities to incorporate government working with the community VALLEY VIEW ROOM green space and active living matters to activate and improve both the within each stage of the IP&R process. liveability and community pride of a Presenter: The resource contains exemplar case previous undervalued and underutilised James Ellender - Belgravia Leisure studies, evidence based indicators village. The success of this work hinged of success and relevant funding on focusing community leaders to opportunities. The tool has been develop achieve both short and long term visions Collaborate to Create Inclusion for All to coincide with local council elections. for their community which involved Furthermore, many councils are currently utilising and improving existing public Social policy innovation related to responding to proposed amalgamations open space areas. In bringing the disability in Australia is driving new which will require the synthesis of several community together to achieve a number opportunities for innovative leisure existing CSPs. of common outcomes has resulted in the organisations. Increasingly, people with a The current paper will outline key community owning and driving a Place disability will be resourced to control and opportunities to influence green space Making Action Plan and the community choose the experiences that contribute and active living provision within the actively improving their own sanctuary. to their personal goals related to work, IP&R process, demonstrate how the family, home, community and leisure. PCAL IP&R resource can assist the Delivery of outcomes identified in Resourcing will go to people with a incorporation of these considerations the Action Plan relied on Council disability – not organisations – principally and highlight initial results of a PCAL collaborating with the community and through the National Disability Insurance evaluation of the inclusion of parks and other key interest groups to deliver a Scheme and linked government active living considerations within current number of successful intergenerational initiatives. Like many Australians, people local council CSPs. projects for the community. These with a disability embrace leisure,