Kylie takes a fledgling professional service category and cuts through the 'ephemera'. Her approach is both practical and visionary.

Marcus Baumgart

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Place Partners is a specialist place making consultancy with an interdisciplinary approach to the creation and revitalisation of great people places. Read More >>

New places have their own inherent challenges, whether brown or greenfield. For place makers, getting involved with the process as early as possible allows for a number of key project efficiencies including team alignment, holistic briefing directions and stakeholder engagement.

Landcom has commissioned Place Partners to prepare a Place Framework for Edmondson Park South and build on the key findings outlined in the Background Report and Preliminary Place Plan as delivered under Stage 1. The place making process for Edmondson Park is responsive to both planning and development processes while responding to local and regional needs, values, and aspirations. The Place...
Place Partners has been engaged by JBA Planning to undertake place making services for Edmondson Park, one of the first release areas identified within the South West Growth Centre of Sydney. The Stage 1 place making services will explore the key themes influencing place character, evaluate the challenges and opportunities for the site and identify the next steps leading to a place making...
With the next stage of development at Landcom's The Ponds project getting ready for release, Place Partners has been engaged to consider how the existing landscape can help shape the future character of the new release. An extension of our earlier Place Making Open Space Masterplan, the Stage 4 place making services will consider parks, natural landscapes, existing vegetation and future...
Place Partners is in the process of providing place making services for Yarra's Edge at Docklands, Melbourne. Place Partners will provide a high level framework for place planning and activation at Yarra's edge and will also identify key local and global influences on the evolution of place. 
Place Partners has been working with Stockland to support the development of their national place making guidelines. It has been a mulit-faceted process that has included testing through workshops and a pilot project at the proposed Banjup residential development outside of Perth. Place Partners was then engaged to work on the significant new town centre at Kawana on the Sunshine Coast....
Place Partners was recently engaged by VicUrban to produce a Place Making Strategy for the Riverwalk Village Centre development project. The strategy aims to provide a clear framework for guiding the refinement of the Riverwalk Village Centre Development Plan across all disciplines; Design Land use Marketing Sociability Programming Culture As part of this work, Place...
For the Cottage Creek Precinct Community Engagement Project Place Partners actively engaged and consulted the local with the Newcastle community to inform the vision and planning principles that were being delivered in the Cottage Creek Precinct. The key objective for this engagement process was to establish a clear vision and planning principles that informed the release of the subject land...
Place Partners were engaged by Planning Western Australia and LandCorp to deliver a place making strategy and a vision for the public realm for the Perth Waterfront development. By re-establishing the historic connection the city once had with the Swan River, The Waterfront is an important step in progressing Perth as an internationally competitive city. It also aims to create a centre for...
For The Ponds, a new residential master planned community in Sydney’s north-west, Place Partners was engaging with a very new community to uncover their needs and aspirations for their green open spaces. Place Partners researched the neighbouring communities using independent research, online tools and Census data. The local residents and community of open space users was accessed using a...