THE Planning Institute of Australia ACT has awarded the consortium behind Haig Park Experiments and a collaboration on Campbell Section 5 with two of its four annual awards, it was announced virtually today, Thursday, November 5.

Haig Park in Braddon has long been underutilised, perceived as unsafe and primarily used as a thoroughfare. The Haig Park Experiments adopted a community-led, place-planning approach by the consortium of City Renewal Authority, University of Canberra, Tait Network, Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres, Dionysus. This consortium won PIA’s Public Engagement and Community Engagement award.

With a major frontage to Constitution Avenue, Campbell Section 5, an urban renewal project, provides a cohesive relationship with the well planned and designed public open spaces and streets. Campbell Section 5 reinforces the base of the National Triangle.

Winning PIA’s From Plan To Place category, Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Suburban Land Agency impressed the judges with their master planning process and delivering a high-quality urban environment for Campbell Section 5.

Judges also commended seven other projects. In the category of Improving Planning Processes and Practices, judges awarded “Inhabit Place” for its data and analytical tool, and town planner Skylar Sin Chan as Young Planner of the Year.

More information on 2020 PIA ACT Awards for Planning Excellence at planning.org.au/act