RELATING SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES TO PLANNING PROCESS
In order to identify the key strategies associated to the development of Northey Street City Farm, this section relates the main sustainable outcomes of the project with the planning processes used for its implementation, recognizing which elements of the planning process have affected the levels of implementation of the actions and design techniques associated to each one of the planning domains described in Table 16 to Table 26.
Food & Farming
Medicine & Health
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In relation to Food and Farming (Table 16), the strategy of working on previously developed land next to Enoggera Creek allowed locating the farm close to where people live. The study of the community-based planning process showed that the availability of this property was directly related with the partnership established with BCC from the beginning. With time, this support generated the recognition of urban farms as an alternative land use within the urban area, formalising the lease over the property and facilitating the celebration of weekly organic Urban Markets (see Figure 18) within the farm. Medicine and Health (Table 17) presents good sustainable outcomes by offering food activities, such as organic markets and daily lunches, and additional recreational, artistic and cultural events. These can be developed through a good organisational structure base on planning teams, and the usual sponsorship of governmental institutions.
