BNE Local and Liveable - Nundah Village Project
Consultation has concluded
Community consultation for the BNE Local and Liveable - Nundah Village Project closed on 30 August 2021. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Your feedback will help to inform the next steps for the project. For the latest updates on this project, visit Nundah Village Project on Council's website.
About BNE Local and Liveable
Brisbane City Council is testing creative ideas with the community that make neighbourhood centres great places to visit, with more for you to do and see. BNE Local and Liveable projects enhance local identity and improve neighbourhoods using short-term, low cost and scalable actions.
Nundah Village project
To kick-start BNE Local and Liveable projects in mid-2021, we tested activation ideas in Nundah Village.
To identify potential activation ideas and help shape the development of an initial site plan, Council undertook a site assessment to understand opportunities and constraints, and consulted with local residents, community groups and businesses. Council also considered previous local planning outcomes including the reviewed Nundah Destination Plan, and the Toombul Nundah Neighbourhood Plan.
In this first season of BNE Local and Liveable, Council is testing a variety of pre-designed or customised streetscape elements. For the Nundah Village project, an additional dimension was added with digital and interactive experiences.
After an initial 8-week installation period, Council invited community feedback on the temporary activation ideas in Nundah Village through an online survey during June-August 2021.
Next steps
Your feedback and further site evaluation will help to determine what happens to the projects' activation elements.
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Council is excited to launch the first BNE Local and Liveable project in Nundah. Nundah Village is a great location for testing activation ideas because it has many positives already: low business vacancy rates, a strong main street character, a high-quality streetscape, good transport connections, and an active community network.
The BNE Local and Liveable project gives Council an opportunity to test out ideas quickly through a light-touch and inexpensive approach (called Tactical Urbanism). The approach allows the city to test out ideas in the real world, get feedback on people's actual experiences (rather than commenting on a plan), and because all project elements are temporary and/or reversible to have a bit of fun and try things that might be outside the scope of business-as-usual projects.
Tactical urbanism in South Bank, BrisbaneIn many places around the world this type of experimental approach has helped communities test out ideas that eventually became permanent and develop a culture of making great places. Some of the most famous places where this approach has been used are Times Square in NYC, the riverbanks of the Seine in Paris, Thames in London, and in Brisbane - Southbank and Roma St Parklands (see image). But the approach doesn't have to be limited to high-profile locations - many neighbourhoods have benefitted over the last decade from experimenting with ways to make day-to-day life a little bit more social and fun.
