Are you passionate about people, places and public spaces? We are looking for two passionate professionals to join our dynamic team at Cred: a Public Spaces Planner and a Communications and Visual Marketing Officer.

Our Associate Director Jen Guice shares insights about the Cred community’s experience of Covid-19, what they value, what they miss and what they want to see change in the future.

Physical distancing and home confinement has given us a re-found appreciation of the intrinsic value of quality public spaces, and now is a really good time to keep talking and planning for these spaces - How could we design and manage our public spaces better for a post-Covid-19 world?

With another 1.74million of us by 2036, Sydney’s identity as a city is at a crossroad between its past and its future. Who exactly are we and who do we want to be? Can we slow down and have some time to think about this?

We are very proud of Estelle who won the Outstanding Student Project at the PIA NSW Awards for her thesis entitled Take a Walk in her Shoes which looks at the experience of culturally diverse migrant women in the public spaces of Western Sydney.

Are you a planning student passionate about achieving community focused and purpose driven outcomes through planning? Cred Consulting is looking for a self-motivated Student Planner to join our team.

Cred Consulting Urban Strategist Estelle Grech has been appointed Chair of the Greater Sydney Commission Youth Panel, representing the Eastern City District.

We’re looking for an Engagement & Comms Coordinator and an Administration & Project Support Officer to join the Cred team

Pause Pods will be hitting the streets of Bankstown from the end of this year as part of a 6 to 12 month temporary seating and community art installation.

It’s been an exciting time here at Cred. We are incredibly excited to welcome superstar April McCabe as our new Associate Director.

We are honoured to have received the Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award 2018 at last night’s Planning Institute of Australia NSW Awards for our study Greater Sydney’s Social Capital: Its nature and its value, which was a reference document for the Greater Sydney Commission's new district plans.

Congratulations to Newcastle on winning the Smart Cities Strategy Award 2018. We enjoyed leading the project team that delivered stakeholder engagement to inform the Strategy.

This month, New Planner features an article by our director Sarah Reilly. “As city shapers, it’s time we started acting on all this talk about engaging communities, rather than seeing communities as an obstacle to faster approvals.” Read the article here.

Cred and City of Parramatta have won the PIA National Award for Planning Excellence in the category Public Engagement and Community Planning for our project “Embedding young people in Council’s Planning and Engagement Processes".

Great community facilities are more than just a space to get together and deliver services – they can be catalysts for change, for new connections, and for collaboration to create many levels of community benefit. We visited three new facilities achieving this in high growth areas in Melbourne - here’s just some of what we learned.

Our study Greater Sydney's Social Capital: Its Nature and Value was a reference document for the Greater Sydney Commission's new district plans, which were released today. Read the study here.

A recent trip to Copenhagen (and other Scandy places) made me realise that there is a lot we can learn from a city where quality and innovative urban design and architecture and social and environmental planning collaborate for great outcomes for people. Here are some of my lessons on sharing from Copenhagen, a densely populated city - that I'd like to share with you.

A quick blog post from Sam, our resident numbers nerd, on the 2016 census data out today!