Hornsby Shire Council's Biodiversity Conservation Plan

Prepared for Department of Shire of Hornsby, NSW, 2020

About

Rhizome was engaged to develop the Hornsby Shire Council's Biodiversity Conservation Plan. This was underpinned by an exploration of a new 'Green Infrastructure Framework' for the whole Shire and included both operational, as well as more than 40 specific future-thinking recommendations for location-specific biodiversity management.

The process was driven by a series of unique interactive community and stakeholder design 'charrette' workshops where more than 80 stakeholders engaged with and shared ideas and knowledge through a variety of interactive mapping activities related to the Hornsby area and natural environment.

This project was awarded an AILA NSW Award of Excellence in ‘Landscape Planning’ in 2021.

Key skills

- Extensive community and stakeholder consultation, including Council and Councillors.

- Masterplanning and detailed design scenarios – illustrated and quantified

- Biodiversity planning within a cultural and legislative planning context with specific recommendations to accompany Local Strategic Planning Statement review

- Creation of Report for public comment incorporating background/context, outcomes from consultation, articulation of a collective vision, large scale (masterplan) and detailed (scenario) mapping, prioritisation and action plan

- Detailed GIS modelling of ecological character and connectivity as 75 page set of scaled plans

Link to report