From the start, our emphasis was to engage with all members and groups within the parish. Taking a collaborative consultation process allowed everyone in this community to contribute and be recognised in the plan. The outcome is a robust plan adaptable to changes within and outside the church.

HAA worked with the community in the process of identifying the management and delivery of their mission. Having established a clear understanding of their purpose allowed the church community to then reflect on the ways in which their buildings and church site support or hinder that mission.

Drawing from this consultation process, HAA developed a masterplan identifying strategies for a range of achievable outcomes. The plan offered a range of projects from small undertakings able to be implemented immediately with large effect, to bigger projects with significant impact that require a longer timeframe. The masterplan includes maintenance strategies for the management of the buildings on the church site, including the heritage listed church.

The consultation process and the resulting masterplan have given the All Saints Petersham community the confidence and vision to tackle what had previously seemed unresolvable problems.

Collaborative Master Planning, Maintenance Planning.

Unusual for a suburban church: All Saints can be approached from every side of its site as it sits on its own block; a ministry to support the many local boarding house residents is run by the church on site; and the main church building was architecturally progressive for its time.