The Design of Wyndham's Community Buildings

Engagement closed on Sunday 17 September.

Thanks to everyone who participated. An engagement report will be available soon.

We're reviewing our important community spaces

As Wyndham continues to grow, we will need more and more facilities to meet the needs of our community. We always aim to create spaces and offer services that help everyone in the community to be healthy and happy. Building design plays a big role in making sure you have a great experience and get the services you need.

We need to deliver 18 new community buildings between now and 2035 to meet the needs of our growing community so we want to make sure we get things right!

You can see where new buildings are planned for between now and 2035 here.

We're running our first community infrastructure design to make sure we keep providing great places and spaces for the community. This review will help us to create new design principles that will help us create future community infrastructure like community centres, youth services, kindergartens, family centres, arts and libraries.

What community facilities are being reviewed?

Phase 1 of this project will include the evaluation of nine facilities. These centres have been selected as recent builds with a diversity of levels in the building hierarchy. This is so we have a good combination of data to help with the review.

Bembit Bag-rook Community Centre - Tarneit

Koomail Tardy Community Centre - Truganina

Mainview Boulevard Family Learning Centre - Truganina

Dianella Community Centre - Tarneit West

Point Cook Community Learning Centre - Point Cook

Tarneit Community Learning Centre - Tarneit

Williams Landing Library Lounge - Williams Landing

Wunggurrwil Dhurrung Centre - Wyndham Vale

The Grange Community Centre - Hoppers Crossing

How to get involved

We want you to share feedback and ideas on our current facilities and what we can do better. Your feedback will help us create important guidelines for future projects (design principles) to make sure we meet your needs.

Provide your feedback via the survey at the top of this page before 11:59PM Sunday 17 September

Want to share your feedback in person?

Members of the project team will be at the following locations throughout August.

Tarneit Community Learning Centre - Tuesday 8 August - 9AM - 4PM
Point Cook Community Learning Centre - Wednesday 9 August - 9AM - 4PM
The Grange Community Centre - Monday 14 August - 9AM - 4PM
Dianella Community Centre - Tuesday 15 August - 9AM - 4PM
Williams Landing Library Lounge - Wednesday 16 August - 10AM - 2PM
Bembit Bag-rook Community Centre - Tuesday 22 August - 9AM - 4PM
Wunggurrwil Dhurrung Centre - Wednesday 23 August - 9AM - 4PM
Mainview Boulevard Community Centre - Tuesday 29 August - 9AM - 4PM
Koomail Tardy Community Centre - Wednesday 30 August - 9AM - 4PM

No registration required, just come and meet the team and share your feedback in person or ask any questions you might have about the project.

Document Library

Design Review of Wyndham's Community Buildings - Competition FAQs
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Timeline

Timeline item 1 - complete

Design review - engagement opens

Friday 28 July 2023
Timeline item 2 - complete

Pop up engagement sessions
Come along and share your feedback in person.
- Tarneit Community Learning Centre - Tuesday 8 August - 9AM - 4PM
- Point Cook Community Learning Centre - Wednesday 9 August - 9AM - 4PM
- The Grange Community Centre - Monday 14 August - 9AM - 4PM
- Dianella Community Centre - Tuesday 15 August - 9AM - 4PM
- Williams Landing Library Lounge - Wednesday 16 August - 10AM - 2PM
- Bembit Bag-rook Community Centre - Tuesday 22 August - 9AM - 4PM
- Wunggurrwil Dhurrung Centre - Wednesday 23 August - 9AM - 4PM
- Mainview Boulevard Community Centre - Tuesday 29 August - 9AM - 4PM
- Koomail Tardy Community Centre - Wednesday 30 August - 9AM - 4PM
Timeline item 3 - complete

Design review - engagement closes

11:59PM Sunday 17 September 2023
Timeline item 4 - active

Community engagement findings and report finalised

Late 2023

FAQs

What will we do with your feedback?

We are collecting feedback from people who use services at community buildings, staff and volunteers. Feedback gathered from the survey and in person will be reviewed and used to improve design of future buildings. We will also be developing a series of design principles.

These principles will be used to design future community buildings in Wyndham, like community centres, libraries, kindergartens, family centres, arts and youth spaces.

Once we have developed the design principles, we will share them with the community and seek feedback to ensure they reflect your views.

People in Wyndham use community centres and buildings for many different reasons. So it's important that we hear from everyone! Please share your thoughts so we can keep improving our infrastructure.

What are design principles?

Design principles are important guidelines that inform the process of creating and evaluating designs. These principles are a framework or set of considerations that guide designers to make informed decisions when designing products, systems or experiences.

In the context of building community infrastructure at Wyndham City Council, these principles will help inform architects about what is important to the people of Wyndham when designing community buildings. The principles will help Wyndham make improvements to the design guide and create design briefs that reflect community values.

The design principles are intended to provide the overarching direction of community infrastructure design and will inform our conversations with you during community engagement for new projects.

Will this project affect the locations of new buildings, or what type of services will be available to the community?

No. The focus of this project is building design. This means we want to hear your feedback on things like lighting, signage and how easy it is to move around in the building.

We will not ask you to tell us what services should be inside buildings or where they should be located in Wyndham. But we do care about your thoughts on those areas too!

Wyndham City's plans to grow our services to meet community needs are outlined in our 10-year Asset Management Plan and Annual Plans and Budgets. When we develop those plans, we always ask you what you think. Make sure you sign up to The Loop so you are notified when we are seeking feedback on those plans.

Right now, we are interested in your thoughts on how it feels to be inside a community building. Does it feel safe? Welcoming? Easy to navigate? You tell us!

How many buildings does Council already own?

Type	Number
Community, sport and recreation (including club rooms, pavillions and sporting infrastructure)	85
Public amenities and structures (including community centres and libraries)	53
Kindergartens, maternal and child health	26
Indoor and outdoor leisure facilities (including AquaPulse and Eagle Stadium)	3
Cultural Facilities (including Encore Events Centre and the Wyndham Cultural Centre)	2
Government Administration (including the Civic Centre)	20

What different types of community centres does Council own and manage?

All community centres across Wyndham are different. There are four different 'levels' of community centres which are determined based on the services required to support a certain size population.

These include:

Level 1 (generally up to 10,000 people): Kindergarten and maternal and child health services
Level 2 (generally between 10,000 and 30,000 people): Kindergarten, maternal and child health, consult and community spaces and services
Level 3 (generally between 30,000 and 60,000 people): Kindergarten, maternal and child health, consult, community space, library, arts & culture services
Level 4 (total municipality): Kindergarten, maternal and child health, consult, community space, unique service functions (e.g. health hub)

How did you select which community buildings to review?

This review will help us develop design principles that will guide the design of future community buildings in Wyndham, like community centres, libraries, kindergartens, family centres, arts and youth spaces.

For this review, we selected a mix of community buildings based on age, location and capacity which represent the range of community buildings in Wyndham.

The nine community buildings selected include buildings that were built recently as well as one that are well established.

The selection also includes buildings that are located across different suburbs and neighborhoods as well as buildings that have smaller spaces as well as larger spaces with more capacity.

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