Sir Albert Jennings Playground
Consultation has concluded
Sir Albert Jennings Playground is having a makeover!
Vote for your favourite playground concept!
After months of hard work from our project team, guidance from Chad and amazing input from our community, we are excited to present three playground concepts for you to vote on. To view and vote for your favourite concept click here. Voting closes Friday 1 March 2019. Have your say today!
Project Update: 20 December 2018
Thanks to everyone who attended the Sir Albert Jennings Playground workshop on Sunday 16 December. The workshop provided a unique opportunity for local residents and children to have input in designing a new playground, soon to be installed at Sir Albert Jennings Park. The workshop saw over 40 people (including many children) work collaboratively together to come up with designs that they thought would make great new playgrounds. The five designs will be narrowed down to three and will be posted on this Your Say page for the community to vote on. The design with the most votes will go out to supply and construct in 2019.
Thanks again to everyone who came along and participated.
Project Background
The Sir Albert Jennings Park project was initiated by Chad Cameron, a 9 year old Willetton resident who wrote to Councillor Patrick Hall and Councillor Ben Kunze to see if they could improve the Sir Albert Jennings Park playground. Chad was featured on Today Tonight and an article was printed in the Canning Times featuring Chad and his work surveying his school friends and local community to understand what equipment would be preferred at the Park.
Although instigated by Chad, the City also wanted to engage the community to find out what type of play equipment you would like to see. The placemaking workshop was practical and allowed the attendees to design their ideal playground. Three designs will be shortlisted with the assistance of Chad and will go up on this website so that the community can vote for their favourite design. In the case of a draw, Chad will have the final decision.
This project will use an innovative approach to community engagement with Chad acting as a project Board member where he can influence the decisions as far as practical.
The design of the playground will be based on Chad’s submission and subsequent community engagement workshop with further input by Chad and the reference group.
The workshop was held on:
Sunday 16 December 2018
8am - 10am
Sir Albert Jennings Park, Sandown Road, Willetton
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The Playground is oficially open!
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Thank you to everyone who turned out on Saturday 3rd August to show their support for the official opening of the new Sir Albert Jennings Playground. We had fantastic weather and around 50 local resident and children came down to celebrate the new playground.
From everyone at the City of Canning and the Sir Albert Jennings Playground Project team thank you to the local community for your support and enthusiasm. Together we have been able to deliver the City's very first Community Empowered Engagement project, where you, the community determine the outcome of the project.
We look forward to working with the community on future projects and hope to have as much fun and deliver as great an out come as we did with this project.
Thank you
Sir Albert Jennings Parject Team
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The Grand Opening is Coming!
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Please come and celebrate the grand opening of the new community inspired playground at Sir Albert Jennings Park on 3rd August 2019 at 10am.
Download a printable copy of the invite here
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Oooh looky here............. whats happening at Sir Albert Jennings Park?
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What's this sectioned off area at Sir Albert Jennings Park? - Could it be the commencement of the construction of a new super cool nature playground?
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New Playground on its way!
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The Sir Albert Jennings Park Playground team have been hard at work getting quotes to construct the new playground and we're proud to announce the playground supplier has been chosen and will commence construction in the coming weeks!
The new playground design can be seen here
Sir Albert Jennings New Playground
The successful design includes a universally accessible basket swing, accessible spinner and paths to link the equipment to the existing path. The Project Board decided to upgrade the flying fox to a double which will now include an accessible seat for additional inclusivity ramp and paths which will enable all abilities access to the flying fox. Two other timber and rope climbing structures will be located under the trees to provide added challenge to the playground.
Existing play equipment will be removed shortly, so keep an eye out, as construction is set to commence!
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And the winner is............................
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Option B
Click here for a full size plan of Option B
Huge thanks to everyone who attended the Sir Albert Jennings Community Workshop, provided ideas, gave feedback, and importantly voted for their favourite design concept. The project team received 133 votes and you overwhelmingly voted for Option B. The breakdown of votes is shown below.
Click here for the Engagement Survey Report
The Project Team now has the task of seeking suitably qualified suppliers to construct this fantastic playground. Keep watching this Newsfeed for updates as to when construction will begin.
Regards, the Project Team
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Voting Has Closed!
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Voting has now closed on the Sir Albert Jennings Playground Concept Designs. A huge thank you to everyone who has been involved in the project and for making it such a success.
Results of the survey and the winning design will be announced in a few days.
Kind regards, the Sir Albert Jennings Project Team.
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Three Creative Designs
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Chad and the project team met this week to review the playground concepts which were submitted from the community engagement process. We used the creative designs supplied by the community as well as all the comments and suggestions collected from the placemaking workshop and have come up with 3 different playground concepts.
The designs will shortly be posted on this web site for you to vote on. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to making this a truly collaborative process.
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The Data is in and here's what you've told us
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Sir Albert Jennings Park playground design workshop and who submitted their playground designs. The community developed 5 designs form the placemaking workshop and the City received 3 designs via email from design pack requests. The 6 designs received are shown below. Raw data extracted from the designs and community feedback is also included at the end of this news feed.
The project team is now working to assess the designs to narrow them down to just 3 which will be posted on this web site for you to vote on.
Design 1
Design 2
Design 3
Design 4
Design 5
The City received 3 designs from community members who requested a design pack and weren't able attend the workshop are shown below.
Design 6
Design 7
Design 8
Each design was carefully read and the comments and suggestions from each design were placed into a word cloud generator which shows the frequency of words and phrases. This helps the project team understand the common themes which were suggested by the community. The word cloud is shown here.
The raw data retrieved from the designs and community feedback is shown here.
Community workshop data
Design Pack data
Consolidated design data
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Post engagement update
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Thanks to everyone who attended the Sir Albert Jennings Playground workshop on Sunday 16 December. The workshop provided a unique opportunity for local residents and children to have input in designing a new playground, soon to be installed at Sir Albert Jennings Park. The workshop saw over 40 people (including many children) work collaboratively together to come up with designs that they thought would make great new playgrounds. The five designs will be narrowed down to three and posted on the up on this Your Say page for the community to vote on. The design with the most votes will go out to supply and construct in 2019.
Thanks again to everyone who came along and participated.
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