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The next step up from Urban Renewal projects, Mixed Use incorporates efficiency and functionality into where we live, work and play. No longer will we set up our homes in one place, spend an hour in traffic to get to work, then drive to our playground of choice. This nodal structure not only uses up valuable time, but has a negative impact on the environment.
Mixed use projects are integrating of the multiple functions of our lives and are supported by planning regimes, urban design and titling legislation that offer the scope to create places that are more functional.
The challenge for Mixed Use developments is an economic one. Thorough economic needs analysis can determine how best to create a sustainable environment both from an economic and social perspective.
THG were commissioned to create a master planning concept for the Coomera CBD area incorporating New Urbanism design principles. Theories on pedestrian cities were put in to practice, augmenting a mix of uses including education, retail, health and residential accommodation. THG created a space that reduced reliance on cars, promoted healthier living by encouraging regular exercise and promoted cycling and walking as the primary mode of transport
Creating a high quality urban infill master planned community on a site located on the fringe of the Guragunba flood plain on Queensland’s Gold Coast was no mean feat for THG. After obtaining approval for the first stages of the 73ha site, THG’s next challenge was to negotiate with the Gold Coast City Council to allow a mixed use development comprising residential, tourist resort, small scale commercial and retail uses.
“We want to set the standard for the region” was the brief given to THG when creating the residential development to be known as ‘The Ridge Urban Village’.
Creating an urban community within unique environmental constraints was the challenge facing THG when we were approached to offer strategic planning advice to Intrapac on the New Beith project. Representing a major growth area that had been recently added to the Urban Footprint, this residential development was characterised by endangered vegetation, a future railway corridor and topographical feature ‘Round Mountain’ right in the middle of the development.
“We want to set the standard for the region” was the brief given to THG when creating the residential development to be known as ‘The Ridge Urban Village’.
With a vision to create a high quality residential development in an area characterised by buildings shorter than four stories, client John Cassidy realised that THG were the best equipped to argue his case for something a bit more majestic to the Gold Coast City Council.
Representing one of the Gold Coast largest single urban development projects to be completed in one stage, Harbour Quays is the latest development by Lewis Land Group of Companies. Harbour Quays is perhaps one of the last canal developments to be completed on the Gold Coast.
THG’s work on projects at Gorlicks Road, Eagleby and Bethania Relocatable Home Parks presented a unique challenge – how do you give a space a sense of permanency when the structures that line the streets are not?
