Resource
by Cred Consulting
October, 2025
Inclusive planning benefits everyone. When barriers are removed and inclusion is enabled for one group – whether that’s safer transport for women and girls or universally designed facilities for people with disability – the benefits are felt across the whole community.
As population growth reshapes our cities, we need to ensure equitable access for everyone to the public spaces and places that support health, wellbeing and community connection.
CRED’s Planning for diverse communities publication brings together lessons from hundreds of projects where we’ve partnered with local and state governments, community organisations, peak bodies, developers and the private sector. Drawing on lived experience, cases studies and years of community research, it offers practical recommendations for planners, policymakers and designers to embed diversity and equity at the heart decision making.