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.

Communities, places and cities all over the world are reclaiming their streets for people. Now that things are starting to get back to normal, let’s keep the momentum going and create a “new normal”!

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.

This week saw the announcement of the successful tenderers for the Ivanhoe Estate, which will be developed into an integrated community with new social and private housing. That's great news in terms of increased social housing supply. But as a new mixed tenure community, what needs to happen to ensure its long term socially sustainability, and to create a place where neighbours of all backgrounds live together cohesively?

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

We're excited to share that Cool Streets won the Climate Action Award at the 2016 Local Government NSW Excellence in the Environment Awards. Cool Streets Pilot Project is a community – led implementation project supported by Blacktown Council and developed by Gallagher Studio in collaboration with Cred Consulting. See more about the project here.

Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate, here's one of our favourite city endeavours - gender mainstreaming in Vienna.

Affordable housing and boarding houses need new branding - perhaps a new name - and community education to stop communities protesting and blocking their approval based on prejudice and misinformation.

“Housing is a product that has such inherent value and significance…[but] has been made an instrument of increasing inequality and waste”.

Meg attended the Myth: Not-for-profits (NFPs) aren't real property developers session of the Festival of Urbanism this week. Read her reflections here.

Cred and Micromex Research are excited to announce our partnership to deliver evidence based and rigorous infrastructure and service reviews and community strategic planning services for local government.

Read more about our new partnership, and a great evidence-based tip from Micromex Research about the benefits of recruited and active opt-out engagement over opt-in methods.

We're working on a youth recreation study for Marrickville Council, and thought we'd share some great projects that we've found in the process. Here are five amazing spaces designing young people in, and not out.