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COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN / Community Infrastructure Hierarchy and Provision Standards ACCESSIBILITY, DESIGN AND FUNCTION TABLE
Within Ac vity Centres
Within Ac vity Centres
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Within Ac vity Centres
Within Ac vity Centres
Within Ac vity Centres OR Area / Loca on to support Such a facility
Community Infrastructure Type
Accessibility, Design And Func on Standard
Local Level
District Level
Community centres and halls
Facili es for young people and for older people
Youth Centres*
Within 4km of the proposed catchment
Co-locate / inves gate partnerships approach where possible
Within or within close proximity to Ac vity Centres and walking distance (400m) to public Transport
Co-locate / inves gate partnerships approach where possible
Seniors Centres*
Council Health and recrea on facili es
Co-locate / inves gate partnerships approach where possible / Consider alterna ve access (shu le bus op ons etc.)
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Libraries
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Entertainment and cultural facili es
Other Community Facili es for public use
As needs - considered on case by case basis
Generally, youth ac vi es occur out of business hours while senior’s ac ves generally occur within business hours. This is evident by the u lisa on of Councils’ exis ng facili es. A shared use provision and opera on model provides an opportunity for the di erent groups to u lise the same space at di erent mes of the day to ensure resul ng ac vi es do not impact on one another. While shared use and co-loca on are desirable, certain infrastructure may suit a certain environment or varied access arrangements. This is par cularly applicable to seniors’ centres whereby a screened environment may be desirable or where access may be delivered through alterna ve methods (private shu le bus services etc). Public Private Partnerships (PPP's) are partnerships between the public sector8 and the private sector for the purposes of designing, planning, nancing, construc ng and/or opera ng facili es which would be tradi onally regarded as the responsibility of the public sector , and can successfully be implemented for the provision community infrastructure. The opportunity for PPP's to deliver community infrastructure in Palmerston over the next 10 years should be considered and explored whenever possible, this includes opportuni es for Council to assist exis ng privately owned and managed assets to improve the facility in exchange for public access and patronage. Assistance from Council to improve and enhance privately owned infrastructure in exchange of “public use” represents a frac on of the establishment costs of a new facility and also improves both the exis ng organisa ons infrastructure and the infrastructure available to the public. Opportuni es may also exist for Council to partner with Government, philanthropic organisa ons, community organisa ons, not-for- pro t organisa ons and social enterprises in the planning, delivery of both new and exis ng community infrastructure in Palmerston.
Opportunity also exists in partnering with developers as they construct commercial and retail centres. Community infrastructure can be cost e ec ve for developers as building a shared facility can poten ally add value to the development by providing a ‘point of di erence’ and making the residen al component of the development more a rac ve to buyers9.
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