Consultation continues for Wardell Village centre upgrade

Earlier this month 20 community members took part in a Community Design Charette for the Wardell village centre revitalisation.

A design charette is an intensive facilitated workshop that brings community members from a variety of backgrounds together to capture the vision, values and ideas of the community and articulate these through a community-led design process.

They discussed issues and opportunities and shared and mapped their ideas, big and small. Some of the common threads of the conversation included: cultural heritage, storytelling, connections to history a desire to keep it local, connect to the river and be sustainable where possible car-free spaces for humans to get together street improvements flexible spaces, shelter, comfortable seating natural, organic, resilient, local, recycled community assets and activation local native vegetation solar lighting public art.

Feedback from the charette, along with engagement stalls and surveys held in 2022, will inform preparation of a Draft Master Plan for the Wardell village centre upgrade.

For more information visit yoursayballina.com.au/Wardell-Village-Centre