Welcome to Better Places

Hobsons Bay City Council has recently developed the Better Places program to provide a more holistic and integrated approach to thinking about and designing for change into the future. Better Places is a placed-based approach that focuses on overall ‘places’ rather than individual ‘pieces’ and provides a new model for how Council designs and delivers projects.

Better Places also aims to more actively involve the community in shaping the place they live in by helping to create a vision, set of principles and projects that reflects their values, ideas and priorities.

What is Placemaking?

Placemaking takes a multi-faceted approach to planning, designing and managing public spaces. Placemaking seeks to incorporate a local community's assets, inspiration, and vision for the future, to create public spaces that promote people's health, happiness, and well-being.

Great examples of this from around the globe include the High Line in New York City, Barangaroo - Sydney’s new 22-hectare waterfront precinct and the hugely successful Stalled Spaces in Glasgow and across Scotland.