Gold Coast Bold Futures Community Visioning

Gold Coast City Council's key goals for the Bold Futures community visioning project aims to set a policy framework (vision) that will integrate and inform the (1) review of the Planning Scheme; (2) review of the Corporate Plan; and (3) review and development of key corporate strategies; to deliver sustainable outcomes.

FutureSense assisted Council by providing the following consultancy services:

• Peer review of visioning methods;
• Visioning co-facilitation of 20 x 2 hour Bold Future City Forums;
• Visioning co-facilitation of 5 x 1hour Council staff Bold Future consultation sessions;
• Transcription of public stakeholder feedback from the City and Strategy Forums suitable for Council and its data analysis consultants.

After the visioning phase, FutureSense and Steve Gould Futures provided Gold Coast City Council with an Implementation Report on key lessons learned from other community visioning/action planning projects in Austrlalia.

The research outcomes of this report to the Bold Futures Project Team include:

• Benchmarking survey of other Local Governments implementing community visioning projects;
• Identification of barriers to implementation;
• Methods of how to increase the likelihood of success; and
• Identification of scenarios and possible course of action to ensure a successful implementation of the Bold Futures project.