Place Management Roundtable - REDWatch Monthly Meeting - 6 Sep 2012

The round table discussion will be assisted with some input about Place Management in different places and forms from:

• Lesley Unsworth, the Fairfield Council’s Place Manager for Bonnyrigg
• John Maynard from Sydney Council
• Dom Grenot will talk about his experience at Northcott in Surry Hills and
• Glen Atkins will talk about The Mercy Arms experience co-ordinating services in a place.

There has been a lot of interest in this session as it would appear that there are discussions going on within council and government bodies. There is strong interest in a follow up session from some who are unable to attend this discussion so REDWatch is treating this discussion as a preliminary discussion.

There have already been place based initiatives in Redfern and Waterloo which have not met expectations and thought is going into new initiatives. What is Place Management? Has it worked elsewhere? Do Place managers get real power to fix problems? Can it help deal with the complex issues of Redfern and Waterloo? Can it help address antisocial behaviour? These are some of the questions we hope to discuss.

You can download an introductory sheet, recommended by David Lilley from HNSW/DFS on Place Management from The Smith Family for some pre-discussion reading.