The Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct team has been working with planning consultants at ARUP to shape a Night Time Masterplan, considering the day-to-night experience of our 24-hour precinct.
Funded by Transport for NSW through the Safer Cities program, the Masterplan involved new modes of engagement and consultation with Health Workforce and approaches to incorporating gender-inclusive design into streets and public spaces. This opportunity will help build towards a more integrated and better night-time experience for workers, visitors and residents across the local area.
The Transport for NSW Safer Cities program is a statewide investment to deliver projects that help improve perceptions of safety in NSW cities and towns, particularly for women, girls, and gender diverse people as they walk or move through public spaces and transport hub precincts.
Women make up around 80 per cent of the hospitals’ frontline workforce, with many working night shifts and moving through the campus streets after dark.
The Safer Cities program has supported us in developing initiatives to hear directly from frontline workers and local community about their experiences and perceptions of our precinct streets.
Consultation and co-design sessions informed the process from the start, with a series of ‘walkshops’ with night shift workers from across the campus.
These targeted sessions were followed by wider community surveys with both health workforce and local residents, as well as studies to understand pedestrian movement across the precinct over a 24-hour period.
The resulting 80-page Night Time Masterplan forms the basis for the first interventions and projects in the precinct streets that have recently been delivered. It has supported recommendations for best-practice lighting standards for redevelopment, as well as shaped future opportunities for site improvements over the next decade.
Check out a video featuring the initial co-design ‘walkshop’. Published August 2024