Rapid changes in our towns....Changing environmental impacts...Contested space physically and socially...New demands on our communities...Increasing pressure on infrastructure...Different landscapes and urban pressure...

Constant need to deliver best practice approaches and outcomes

Understand issues and opportunitiesUnderstand capacity to accommodate future needsDevelop an understanding of the landscape character and capacity of the townIdentify specific projects that respond to community needsDeliver an agreed masterplan that guides future actions over the next 10+ years

Immerse ourselves for 2 days in the town:Gather information about the Pinnaroo Green Provided the opportunity for people to tell us what they think and know Undertook our own analysis of the town Review feedback and develop ideas Present findings back to the community

community members over 2 days School kids from Pinnaroo Primary School

ESCAPING THE HEAT (SHADE AND COOLER SPACES)

SITTING ON THE LAWN NEAR THE ROTUNDA

WALKING THE DOG

CROSSING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH

NOTHING.......

INCREASED SEATING AND PLACES TO STOP

IMPROVED AMENITY AND FACILITIES FOR CARAVANS / RV’SNATURE PLAY AND LEARNING LANDSCAPES

IMPROVED LIGHTING

FITNESS, BIKE AND LOOP PATHSINCREASED OUTDOOR EVENTS (MARKETS, CINEMA, MUSIC)

HERITAGE TRAILS CELEBRATING PINNAROO (ART, CULTURE,

HISTORY, ARTIFACTS)

200+ ‘POST IT’ NOTES WITH OVER 300+ BIG IDEAS

• Outdoor cinema (night time activation) • Increased community events (support

local business and draw crowds into town)

• Amphitheatre (provide a place to congregate)

• Markets (celebrate local produce, arts and crafts)

• Nature based play • Incorporate railway to play (weaving

history and context)• Climbing trees • Bush kindy and learning spaces

• Bike tracks / Bmx / mountain bike track / pump track

• Exercise equipment (formal / informal) • Dog park • Skatepark (skateable environments)

• Improved RV / large vehicle facilities (stay and play)

• Increase presence of the museum (opportunity for expansion)

• Improved areas for travellers (value capture)

• Improve shade and suitable tree planting • Removal and clearing of redundant

garden beds • Extend lawn to edge of bitumen • Plant more trees • Opportunity to plant deciduous trees • Review trees and scrub planting to

improve sightlines

• Bush tucker and native fruit orchard • Community garden• Edible plantings

• Walking tracks (connections, links and legibility)

• Connect to wetlands • Upgrade paths (ease of access) • Improved lighting (safety and night

activation) • Increase footpaths

• Highlight key features, history and context of the town

• Increase signage and interpretation• Wayfinding opportunities• Increase presence from highway

• Incorporate the railways heritage • Opportunity to re-purpose old railway

station

• Viewing platform • Mallee Stonehenge • Giant pyramid • Giant wheat / barley with spiral staircase • Town icon (potato, onion, kangaroo, emu)• Wave park

• Mini working farm (culture, context and history)

• Street art • Shop window history

• Increased seating / picnic tables to the street

• BBQ facilities • Improved lighting • Camp kitchen to support RV’s

• Water park • Splash park • Extend the wetlands• Opportunity to link spaces with water

• Significant landscape screens

• Numerous barriers that limit access across the site

• Arrangement of buildings create visual and physical barriers

• Single viewpoint and invitation into the ‘site from the south’

• Framed view along rail corridor (sunset and sunrise)

• Belts of shade trees to north and south

• Large areas of screening trees (limited shade value)

• Small area of lawn • Areas of dryland grass with

drainage and stormwater detention

• Single formal pedestrian access (issue with surface access around cenotaph lack of lighting)

• Multiple desire lines indicating poor connectivity through the green

• Several informal vehicular turn arounds and parks

• Increase the connectivity of the green

• Create permeability and accessibility

• Formalise desire lines • Create vistas & views that

visually connect the green

• Create accessible landscapes that link activities & open spaces.

• Landscapes that provide opportunities for recreation and exercise

• Landscape corridors that build on the railway heritage of the green

• Create unique destinations and activities for people to visit

• Programme places and open space to create different events and experiences

• Explore opportunities for co-located activities and shared spaces

• Create edges that are inviting and welcoming

• Create edges that support commercial, community, tourism and residential use

• Create edges that create shade and shelter

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1. Detention basin to improve drainage and create habitat value (wetland maze)

2. Large vehicle pull-in (90 m of parking and up to 6 vehicles) with shelter and barbecues

3. Lookout mound with views to open air museum, railway and wetlands

4. Open air museum with covered area and rolling stock to railway (expansion)

5. Museum with laser cut screens over viewing windows to outside (back lit at night)

6. Pull-in bay for short term parking and drop off7. Museum entrance with upgraded signage (Pinnaroo style

guide), lawn and landscape to increase sense of arrival8. Toilet upgrade with changing room to support playspace and

water play9. Playspace, pump track and water play with nature play, flying

fox and skate-wagon to platform

10. Civic square building on war memorial, fountain and rotunda with gardens, wide footpath, seating shelters, barbecue and upgrade of clock

11. Event space with irrigated lawns and amphitheatre, including temporary stage-wagon with outdoor cinema and lighting at night

12. Shade trees (old and new) to support activities on the lawn13. Upgrade of the green’s edge with additional tree planting,

irrigated lawns and garden beds14. Lookout mound to screen SA Water compound15. Large vehicle parking with orchard (bush tucker) to allow

informal parking and provide parking for stalls and food truck during events

16. Mural to ambulance station wall 17. Landscape edge to the green (commemoration of Doctor

Murray)

18. Town signage and senses of arrival – part of entrance signage strategy and style guide for Pinnaroo (push notice)

19. Detention basin with boardwalk over drainage ditch and links to wetland

20. The big ? possible animated sculpture and lookout with lighting (moves along the track perhaps human or wind powered)

21. Bike, cyclo-cross track with jumps, rock obstacles and log balance

22. Recreation path suitable for jogging, bikes and scooters with fitness equipment and learn to ride signage

23. Central access path (3m) with lighting and signage about the history of Pinnaroo

24. Station building and youth-hangout with seating and shelter area connected to the playspace and water play

25. Refurbished weighbridge with interpretation and light at night26. New access paths to connect the green27. Outdoor learning space to support the kindy

• Draft sketch masterplan Pinnaroo green• Material & style guide• Community public exhibition• Masterplan summary report and final masterplan