Insights

As part of a public realm revitalisation strategy for the Gosford Waterfront our client required baseline pedestrian, active travel, vehicular and parking usage data to inform optimum infrastructure investment decisions.

Central Highlands Regional Council delivered on a longstanding commitment to review the governance structure of the Emerald Airport. The Urban Intelligence team worked closely with Delos Delta through Purdon to develop an appropriate evaluation framework and deliver the review.

The ACT Planning Authority required a comprehensive assessment of the planning and economic feasibility of increasing the supply of ‘missing middle’ style housing typologies in low density residential zones in the ACT.

The Urban Intelligence team working with Purdon was engaged by the ACT Property Council to research policy options that could be proposed to increase dwelling supply in the ACT to meet population demand forecast for 2060. This was done in the context of National Cabinet announcements and the October 2024 ACT election. The work was commissioned to assess the ability of current land settings to meet population demand, with a view to answering questions around the impact on industry, returns to government and the impact on the community.

The lease variation charge acts as an infill tax. It will discourage the thousands of decisions that will be required to achieve missing middle development. The intent of LVC is to capture theoretical windfall gains. We believe it should focus on development profit. I won't try and explain everything in the graph below which deconstructs the logic of LVC for a development. But we believe the bit that should be charged is the yellow bit (if it exists for a development), but the green gap is what the government is attempting to charge. (from the ACT Government's 'Planning and Economic Feasibility: Integrating the Missing Middle in RZ1 and RZ2' which can be found at http://bit.ly/47Bcxlq)

The Corporate Operations Group had developed a one year strategy, and were seeking assistance with implementation, as well as the design of a more comprehensive five-years operations strategy.

The ACT Government was testing location concepts for a revitalised tertiary education facility to replace an asset that had reached the end of its economic life. This included assessing alternative uses for the different sites and matching the proposal to early design concepts.

In the lead up to the 2024 ACT election, the ACT Greens commissioned a rigorously and defensibly costed election policy through Purdon to address a long-term persistent decline in the absolute and relative volume of public housing. The client required an independent expert costing of an increase of 10,000 dwellings over 10 years.

In terms of missing middle housing...out of the 137,543 blocks of land in the ACT, 95% of the RZ1 and 85% of the RZ2 blocks are single-dwelling sites. That is approximately 8952 hectares of blocks with one dwelling. (ACT Government, Integrating the Missing Middle in RZ1 and RZ2) I

f you could change one thing to make an impact what would it be? LVC reform, lowering the block size for additional dwellings or easing block consolidation rules?

The Health Economics and Research Division sought to extend a Divisional data and analytics strategy upwards to become a Departmental data and analytics strategy to optimise data and analytics across the agency. The COVID pandemic caused a project pivot towards monitoring the usage of Health data assets.

The ACT recently updated its Development Application statistics for September. 71 DAs were lodged. This is down by 5 compared with the monthly long run average, but up by 11 from August. Year to data ...

The Urban Intelligence team worked through Purdon with the Ginninderry development team to progressively develop insights into the rating revenue required to deliver local-like services in the NSW ‘Pa...