The Southend Caravan Park was located on the edge of the coastal village of Southend in the Wattle Range Council area. The site of the caravan park was being severely impacted by coastal erosion, and the current leaseholder of the caravan park was completing the term of their lease. Council required strategic options for the […]

Commissioned by the Office for Recreation and Sport, the objective was to prepare a Recreation Trails Strategic Plan, including a management structure; ongoing future community engagement and interaction; and how to achieve inter government collaboration, the ongoing effective exchange of information between stakeholders, and realistic objectives and strategies. This project was conducted over a six-month […]

SGL led a future strategic review of the Auckland Lantern Festival, a 4-day event then attracting about 200,000 visitors and involving over 1,000 performers, 800 lanterns and about a $1.3M budget. The purpose of the review was to consider how to increase the cultural, community, and economic benefit from the event on a sustainable basis. […]

Prepared by SGL for Devonport City Council, this Strategy was intended to guide future development and management of tourism in Devonport. It was a market driven, destination development initiative to increase community and economic outcomes by effectively harnessing industry effort, and by identifying and leveraging Devonport’s unique selling points and greatest competitive advantages. It recommended […]

Commissioned by Wyndham City Council, this project required SGL to review the Wyndham Leisure and Events Centre, which included a 1000-seat auditorium. The Study reviewed existing management arrangements and identified potential business opportunities, with one of the recommendations being the separate management of the events and leisure components. The recommendations were subsequently adopted and the […]

Hamilton City Council’s required outcome was to achieve a greenfield town centre in Rototuna (Hamilton) to achieve a vibrant community hub with integrated civic and commercial development.  A complete project review was required and to achieve success, is an example of a concurrent investment, place making, planning and community engagement approach. SGL co-led a project […]

The City of Casey’s Cranbourne Community Hospital and Revitalisation Project aims to optimise the opportunity and community outcomes presented by the development of a Community Hospital on Council-owned land in and around Cranbourne town centre and the nearby 21.4 ha Casey Complex. In addition to this it would result in the divestment of Council assets […]

CRLL is the $4.5 bn metro rail project for central Auckland in partnership between the Government and Auckland council. The Development Opportunities Program was charged with the planning for the urban redevelopment and place making of precincts surrounding the new station precincts and c. 200,000 m2 of mixed use redevelopment on land held by CRLL […]

Tickera is a town on the upper Yorke Peninsular in South Australia, on the southern boundary of the Barunga West Council. Council required strategic options for the economic activation within the town of Tickera. This included development of a staged workplan for economic infrastructure over a ten year period to develop investment in the town […]

The Unitec Property Strategy was developed to support and deliver new teaching and learning models and release commercial returns from surplus land to support wider institutional transformation agenda. The strategy involved the rezoning and master planning of a 75 ha precinct, 53 ha owned by Unitec, to provide for a mix of uses including education […]