November Meeting Notes

Thanks so much to everyone for turning out very early in the morning for such an interesting conversation about mainstreet improvements, and a quite delightful walk.

We took notes in a number of forms across the day and have tried to represent what was written on butchers paper, what you said on those Ready Reckoner forms and what you chatted about in the workshop and on the walk.

As a starting point we agreed township folks had a range of resources that might kick off a pool of interesting things for adaptive reuse including:

Resources

Concrete Roller

Cast Iron Roller

Hardwood Bearer and Boards

2 Bathtubs

Burnt out Harvester

People also pointed out the many talents in town including:

Talents

Plasterer

Welder

Artist

Builders

Gallery Owner

Music Festivals, with 20,000 people

When we set about speed dating [you can see what this looked like in the video uplinks on this site] you wanted to be involved in the following exciting projects;

Name	Action
Jo and John	Moving Loungeroom, suit, coffee table etc
	Planter boxes and poles
Jo and John	Bathtub seating spot
	Bollards Painted
	Steel screens and laser cut images
	Rubbish bin enclosures with historic images
Group	Town Square at Kevins Corner [and some economic use]

You also agreed these were priorities for funds, time and energy…

Priorities

Corner of Midlands Highway and up Staughton Street

Drains 0% other things 100% on Midlands Highway

Drains of Staughton Street – need to deal with swamping effect, bridges, or WSUD

Lighting

Slow Down

Corner flowers for show and even sculptural elements, linger nodes

Happy attractive place to live in

While we were all busy laughing and chatting about township priorities, Perry Mills our trust Landscape Architect was taking lots of notes. Here is what they say.

We think we possibly confused you or muddied the waters with the Ready Reckoner, as one of you pointed out at the time. But on this form different people had a range of different things to say including:

Priority 1	Priority 2	Priority 3	Priority 4	Priority 5	Priority 6	Priority 7	Priority 8
Drainage Bluestone not to be removed 25 Staughton Street	Rubbish coming down Staughton Street after rain	Deposits in our open drain
Plant crab apples in open space near hub	the plant gardens at hub – Low ? trees	Redo interior of rec reserve toilets	Get levels straight in drainage at various parts of township except highway	Entrance old service station Corner [hub]	Get levels right on highway south drains only if funds left over	Walkways over where necessary	Do nor replace pitch drains
Drainage car parking Staughton Street	Upgrade Toilets	Improve existing sites of activities	Remove some tress and plant some more	Upgrade bluestone gutter
Upgrade Parkinsons Corner	Clean Up Vacant Block[where there should be IGA / Foodworks} and remove fence	Cover open drains near Coco Monkey with timber deck	Plant grass, ground cover on all four corners of intersection	Place more town type seats, benches, along Wallace Street and Staughton Street	Street light upgrade in Staughton Street
Large Playground	Makes ?	Concrete Paths	Seats around town
Street corner upgrade – remove wire fence, create inviting area	Reconstruct bluestone gutters	Toilet Block renewal / upgrade	New Lighting	Seats	2D Steel cutouts depicting historical themes	Upgrade road surface on Staughton Street
Improvement Midland Highway – Staughton Street intersection, then proceed with drainage, street lighting, parking and improvement to road surface in Staughton Street, Highway to Railway Line
Toilet Block	Street Lights	Bus Stop Shelter	Bench Seats	Storm Water Drainage
Toilet block upgrade at the reserve	Bluestone kerbing	Assist with making corner extension attractive	Street lighting
Creating a community spirit – shop owners	Reveg swales around footpaths and corners to control water and create space that encourages people to slow down	Work with Kev’s corner to beautify and create a feeling of community cohesion
Staughton Street lighting	Drainage on left side of Staughton Street from corner

and then some of you circled things on the back of the sheet:

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Toilet Block Renewal / Upgrade
Stormwater drainage	Catch stormwater for reuse	Build new car park	Roadwords and intersection upgrades	Toilet block renewal upgrade
Stormwater drainage	Rain Gardens	New Street Lights
Toilet Block Renewal / Upgrade
Stormwater drainage	Roadwords and intersection upgrades	Toilet Block Renewal / Upgrade	Reconstruct Bluestone Kerb	Street Trees	Park Benches and bench seats	Picnic Tables
Large Playground
Reconstruct Bluestone Kerb
Catch stormwater for reuse
Stormwater drainage	Car Park Spaces	Reconstruct Bluestone Kerb	New Street Lights	Picnic Tables	Entry Signage	Timber bollards to control parking

We have to apologise, one of you had fantastically spidery writing and we are still trying to work out what was said.

As this was our first workshop of four across the weekend we were a little flustered so we should especially thank the delightful community centre staff for their patience and assistance with our IT. We’ve now added the powerpoint presentation we had so much trouble with.

Cheers!