The benefits of public open space for our individual and collective health and well-being are well established, and they’re becoming more critical every day. Yet, planning for and delivering high-quality, accessible, and sizeable open spaces in urban renewal areas remains a significant challenge, especially as density increases in constrained sites, places, and cities.

As an industry, we all want to ensure that the people we plan and design for benefit from growth and change. So how might we collaborate, innovate, and advocate for better open space outcomes amid so many competing interests?

At this webinar, Sarah Reilly (She/her) (PIAFellow) and Abinaya Rajavelu from Cred Consulting, Greg New from GLN Planning and Esther Cheong from Atlas Economics spoke about innovative solutions from around the world and discussed practical pathways to make them feasible — and how to unlock funding to bring these ideas to life in Australia.