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Our Town Our Future  “growing a town and strengthening a region”

A Revitalisation Strategy for Ingham, Queensland

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Landscape Architect: Vital Places

LOCATION Ingham is rural town located on the Bruce Highway, 110 kilometres north of Townsville, situated in the Herbert River Valley within Hinchinbrook Shire.  

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Introduction

Our Town Our Future is an integrated revitalisation strategy for the town of Ingham and the Shire of Hinchinbrook. The project aimed to look beyond the typical design response of streetscape beautification to develop a cluster of catalyst projects that would deliver the community’s vision through a sustainable triple bottom line action plan.

Whilst there are many high quality lifestyle and community attributes about living in Ingham and Hinchinbrook Shire, there has been a growing concern that there aren’t jobs for future generations.  Children leave town for education and employment, and local businesses rely heavily on the sugar industry. 

The focus on job prospects for young people has been singled out as one of the most important challenges (amongst the host of other challenges faced by rural communities) to be addressed.  Our Town Our future aims to dramatically improve this situation. The Strategy is a response to the challenge of protecting local lifestyle and growing employment.

As Mayor Pino says, “We now need to grow jobs as well as we grow sugar cane!”

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BUDGET      Planning Study Budget $ 170,000

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2008