The Western Sydney Planning Partnership (WSPP) is an initiative is council led initiative for delivering outcomes through a collaborative planning approach. The aim of the Planning Partnership is to facilitate the transformation of Western Sydney, as well as delivering more efficient and higher quality outcomes for local communities.
We worked with the WSPP to create tools for a developer contributions toolkit to help Councils gain better understanding across the system and how to best position them to meet the anticipated growth in development activity with key activity such as the Western Sydney International Airport in 2026.
Astrolabe Group developed a decision framework and business process maps to support the developer contributions toolkit, and provide WSPP Councils with a defined and consistent approach to infrastructure funding provided through the developer contributions system.
We led two phases of engagement with three WSPP-nominated Councils to help ensure that development of the framework and process maps reflected their user experience and user requirements.
The first phase involved individual workshops with each case study Council to understand how they navigate s7.11 and s7.12 Development Contributions and planning agreements. These provided an opportunity for Councils to raise issues around implementation and highlight any pain points with current processes.
The second phase brought the three Councils together and involved mapping how Councils calculate, collect and report on payable contributions.
Bringing the Councils together allowed for knowledge sharing and helped identify different players and functions involved in the process.
Astrolabe developed a suite of business process maps in a digital and static format to support the toolkit relating to the development of contribution plans, calculation, collection and reporting on payable contributions.
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