FAQs
How do I get involved?
Stay tuned on Engage Perth for more opportunities to contribute, contact your local neighbourhood group, or contact the Customer Experience Team to discuss your ideas with a City officer.
Is there a particular model or template neighbourhood approach that the City wishes to apply?
The City’s approach is to collaborate with the community to develop a bespoke framework for neighbourhood place planning and engagement that learns from the successes and failures of other models, but is specifically designed for and by the Perth community for our city.
What happens until June 2021?
The City has lots of fantastic neighbourhood services, programs and engagement strategies that will continue to be delivered and developed over next financial year while the formal framework is being set up. These includes grants and sponsorships as part of our COVID-19 Economic Rebound Strategy. Neighbourhood place planning and engagement is a continuous journey that we take with our community and does not have a defined start and end point.
Will neighbourhood groups or Town Teams be the formal mechanism for engagement between the City and the Community?
Neighbourhood groups and/or Town Teams that operate in various neighbourhoods are just one part of a larger, complex social ecology that make up a neighbourhood. The City’s relationships must be diverse, inclusive and representative of the entire neighbourhood and community.
Will the City use Place Management Officers as part of implementation?
The details of implementation will largely be driven by the Neighbourhood Policy, Charters and Plans, guided by input from community engagement, but at this stage the City is not entertaining assigning a dedicated Place Management Officer to each neighbourhood and/or precinct. There will be an integrated, cross-organisational approach to implementation.