City Futures Research Centre Arts, Design and Architecture

Stockland

Organisation name Stockland
Organisation type Private organisation
Organisation fields
  • Urban / town planning
  • Architecture
  • Landscape architecture
  • Transport
  • Environment
  • Geography
  • Interagency organisation
Description Stockland is a property development company. Stockland develops, owns and operates shopping centres and retirement villages and develops residential communities.
Commenced Work Five to ten years ago
Type(s) of HBE Activity
  • Information resource
  • Guidelines for practitioners
  • Tools for practitioners
  • Provision of physical infrastructure
  • Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
Key objectives of HBE activities
  • To improve people's physical health
  • To increase people's physical activity level
  • To strengthen social capital
  • To reduce pollution from traffic
  • To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
  • To improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
  • To reduce crime through more people on the streets / passive surveillance
  • To sell real estate
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to getting people active
  • Promoting walking for daily travel / recreation
  • Promoting cycling for daily travel / recreation
  • Promoting use of public transportation for daily travel
  • Providing public open space
  • Providing recreational facilities / playgrounds
  • Providing facilities such as toilets, drinking fountains, shelter etc.
  • Improving connectivity
  • Improving accessibility
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to strengthening and connecting communities
  • Advocating for places where people can meet and connect
  • Input into planning processes that advocate for and strengthen social connectivity
  • Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
  • Promoting equitable access to community facilities
  • Promoting interaction in public spaces including gardens, town squares, parks and lively streetscapes
  • Encouraging supportive social networks within neighbourhoods and participation in decision-making
  • Influencing proximity to places of employment
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to providing access to healthy food
  • Advocating/supporting facilities (e.g. water fountains, community gardens, fresh food markets and allotments, breastfeeding locations etc.)
  • Advocating for public transport measures that support access to healthy food (e.g. schedules and timetables and routes, space to store parcels en route, shopping shuttles, home delivery services and/or support for local corner shops and convenience stores)
The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities Application of Healthy by Design and Child Friendly Places.
Target Population
  • General population
  • Children
  • Adolescents
  • Older people
  • Women
  • People with disabilities
Geographic Focus of HBE activities
  • Urban areas
  • Other - Suburban areas and regional centres.
Website http://www.stockland.com.au/