Users of the Framework
The Green Star - Communities framework will be used by the GBCA to inform the development of Green Star - Communities rating tool and has been developed by industry and government through a collaborative process facilitated by the GBCA. The intended audience includes industry, government, developers, builders, planning and design professionals.
Context |
User |
Potential Application |
Anticipated Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy Making | State government department of planning | Principles are used to inform the development of strategic directions and policies within a regional plan. | Regional policies promote best practice sustainable community development |
| Regional and town planning | A consultant planner | Principles are used in the drafting of a new planning scheme, informing the scheme's desired planning outcomes for the region/town. | Planning scheme contains localised best practice strategies for a sustainable city. |
| Local government planner | Framework used to assess a community development plan at the statutory planning stage to promote adoption of sustainable communities approach. | Future community development applications assessed against best practice standards. | |
| Community planning | Local government planner | Principles are used to identify the potential components of a new neighbourhood plan, or to review an existing one. | Existing neighbourhood plan updated to include a full spectrum of sustainability initiatives. |
| Community members and organisations, NGOs and activists | Principles could assist in community capacity building and community engagement to ensure that local values are reflected in the planning of a community and local people understand the process. | An informed community that builds ownership in the local constraints, opportunities and solutions for its area. | |
| Design | Government or private developer | Principles are used to brief the design team and their scope, ensuring that detailed assessment methodologies and tools align with the principles contained in the framework. | Design options that address best practice elements of a sustainable community. |
| Finance | Commonwealth government | Principles are used as part of funding criteria to ensure that projects optimise sustainability outcomes. | Funding is directed to investments that provide an optimal sustainable community legacy. |
| Tendering | Owner, developer, government | Principles are used in Request for Tenders or Expressions of Interest for specific community developments. | Contractors are engaged and have embedded sustainability as a core outcome of the community development. |
| Deliver | Construction contractor | Principles are used to inform the company's research program around community infrastructure delivery. | Continual improvement of delivery practices for sustainable community developments. |
| Evolve and Maintain | Neighbourhood community group, chamber of commerce and other member groups | Principles are used to prioritise funding applications for community infrastructure improvements and maintaining dialogue with community members, local agencies and local political representatives. | Ongoing community investment is sustained and focussed on the sustainability issues local to the area. |
| Revitalise and retrofit | Alliance partnership including local government, design consultants and contractors | Principles are used to structure design workshops for the renewal of buildings, open space, playground and/or community hall facilities. | Scoping of an urban retrofit project that ensures holistic sustainable outcomes. |
| Marketing | Consumers, the public | Principles are used to assist the public understand what broadly constitutes a sustainable community and the standard applied. | An informed consumer who makes the decision to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle . |
Contact:
Adam Beck
Manager Sustainable Communities
Green Building Council of Australia
Phone: 07 3229 3299
Mobile: 0410 506 043
Email: adam.beck@gbca.org.au
