A PANEL of expert guest speakers will help residents shape the future of the city’s civic and cultural heart of city at tomorrow’s Logan Central Summit.
They are:
- Lucinda Hartley: The co-founder of CoDesign Studio and Neighbourlytics is a leading urban designer and entrepreneur who has pioneered disruptive approaches to revitalising cities
- Cathryn Chatburn: The director Urban Enquiry delivers large-scale master planning frameworks to guide sustainable urban change.
- Steven Burgess: The MRCagney engineer and urban strategist has extensive experience on movement and transport, place and parking and its influence on city prosperity.
- Jim Gleeson: The community planning practice Plan C founder and director is a leading community development and planning practitioner with 20 years’ experience.
- Roland Dillon: The McKinsey and Co associate partner is a leader in the public sector practices, working nationally and in the US in public and private sector transformations.
- Bronwyn Buksh: An urbanist and entrepreneur who has worked across a wide practice area - from planning and design to sustainable transport models
City centres special committee chair Cr Jon Raven said a few seats were left for those who wanted to attend the day session at summit. Residents could have their say at drop-in community feedback sessions available Friday evening and Saturday morning.
“This is an opportunity for residents, business owners and anyone with an interest in Logan Central to have their say as we plan the future of the area,” Cr Raven said.
“We’re keen to develop Logan Central as the civic and cultural heart of the city, and to do that we need to maximise the opportunities available to us.
“With input from the community and the experts speaking on the day, we’ll identify those opportunities.”
Planning and economic development chair Cr Russell Lutton said the council had already started collecting information from residents through an online survey and focus group meetings.
“We’ve received strong feedback already about what people like about Logan Central and their ideas for the future,” Cr Lutton said.
“Once the summit is complete, we’ll collate all the feedback and ideas that come from the summit it and use it to start planning for the future.”
The Logan Central Summit at Logan Entertainment Centre on Friday from 8.30am to 5pm.
A follow-up community feedback session will be held at Logan Central Plaza on Saturday from 9am to 12.30pm.
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