Director Infrastructure Services

The City of Joondalup’s Landscape Master Planning Project involved the conceptualisation and development of a Strategic Framework to enable the City to effectively adapt to climate change and manage public open spaces in accordance with community expectations. The project involved research on community perceptions, an assessment of existing practices for dealing with public open spaces within the City, an evaluation of approaches from around Australia, plus the initiation of pilot projects to test the concepts. The highlights of the project have been the introduction of two new concepts for landscaping namely ecozoning and hydrozoning. These concepts are being implemented through the Landscape Master Plan that outlines the aim, vision, principles, key strategies and actions that will be implemented over a 10 year timeframe. The Landscape Master Plan contains guidelines and criteria for developing individual public open space management plans which will reflect the ecozoning and hydrozoning concepts. The project has also included the development of a classification hierarchy that has enabled the City to determine a priority listing of works. A master species list and database have also been developed. The City has developed a unique concep