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Planning public toilets: An inconvenient necessity for local governments

Insights Community Infrastructure Health

We can't have housing without thinking about sustainable cities

Insights Housing

Australia’s rental crisis reaches new heights: 2024 Rental Affordability Index

Insights For Purpose Housing

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Reflecting on a decade of change at SGS

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As we prepare to celebrate 30 years in business, SGS Economics and Planning Principal and Partner Andrew McDougall reflects on the exhilarating and somewhat challenging process of shaping and governing a purpose-driven, public policy consulting business.

SGS Economics and Planning PIA Award

City of Ballarat Creative City Strategy and Master Plan wins prestigious Planning Institute of Australia award

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Arts and Culture

City of Ballarat Creative City Strategy and Master Plan project team received another prestigious award on Friday: the Planning Insititute of Australia Victoria 2019 Best Planning Ideas – Large Project Victoria.

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Local councils need to retain their inner city maintenance depots

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Rather than leave maintenance depot facilities to the vagaries of the private market, we recommend local councils retain depots - even if they are in the middle of an urban renewal precinct. Here's why...

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Team conference: Learning about our past, thinking about our future

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In October, SGS team members from across Australia gathered in Sydney for our annual company conference where we spent the day reflecting on Sydney's history and being inspired to shape a better future.

The value of planning: How to rebuild trust in the democratic process and show that good planning has value and is valuable

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Despite 25 years of economic growth, Australians have become more distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned with democratic processes. So what tools can we use to get things done and how can we rebuild trust in Australian democratic institutions? To answer these questions, I suggest...

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Living on Australian coastline will get too risky and houses will be impossible to insure

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Ellen Witte, economist and partner at SGS Economics and Planning, says that the new research by Perth’s Edith Cowan University into using the coastal vegetation in Australia to combat climate change, is worthwhile but doesn't take coastal residential developments into account and that the sea levels will keep rising. According to Ellen living along the Australian coastlines will become too expensive to insure and too risky. Listen to the interview.

SGS Economics and Planning acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of Australia and on whose Country we live and work. We acknowledge that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia never ceded their sovereignty, and are one of the oldest continuing living cultures on Earth, have one of the oldest continuing land tenure systems in the world, and have one of the oldest continuing land use planning and management systems in the world.

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