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Sulochi Walisinghe moves to Knox City Council Sulochi has a new position as a Landscape Architect looking after play spaces in Knox, amongst other projects. Sulochi came to us as a new graduate and though we will miss her, congratulate her on her new role.

This newly opened precinct called Growing Wild invites young children, their families and carers into Melbourne Zoo to literally enter the world of the animals – to eyeball meerkats and giant tortoises, climb and explore, dig in sand, look for worms and beetles and play ‘lookout’ like the meerkats on guard. They can try on a tortoise shell for

The UK Health and Safety Executive together with the Play Safety Forum recently published a joint high level statement on risk and children’s play.   It advocates that play is great for children’s well-being and development and acknowledges that accidents and mistakes happen during play. ‘No child will learn about risk if they are wrapped in cotton wool’. In

Zoë Metherell, an associate at Jeavons Landscape Architects, has received the National Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Research & Communications award for her work titled  “A comparative study of freeway planting designs – implications for biodiversity conservation”. This work was a collaboration between Zoë and the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology and the jury noted that “this research project is an interdisciplinary

We are proud to announce that we have been awarded an Australian Institute of Landscape Architects National Landscape Design Award for the Clifton Hill Project! The judges citation recognised how we “skilfully reclaimed a much loved but badly degraded portion of the public realm along the Merri Creek and have given it a new life as a

An interesting article by Ken Finch, Green Hearts “Risk averse” barely seems to do justice to the expansive fears of our modern American society. “Risk paranoid” might be more accurate. So it’s not surprising that when considering nature play, risk is an often- passionate topic and a frequent roadblock. Naturally, all parents want their children to

Glenallen school have just celebrated the opening of their very special new playground. The school caters to students with a physical disability or health impairment and many of the students are in wheelchairs. The new playground has been custom designed by Jeavons to be accessible to all.  It is a place for learning and play with

Mary was pleased to be invited by Dr Julie Rudner to speak with students of La Trobe University’s, Community Planning and Development Program in Bendigo . This program looks at towns and rural areas in terms of their social, economic and physical environments, with the aim of improving them as places to live. Julie particularly advocates for children’s rights.

Jeavons have designed another new playground for the City of Kingston , with the residents reaping the rewards of the hardworking and dedicated council staff. The playground is located at Roy Dore Reserve, Carrum and further information can be found on City of Kingston’s website. The playground has a pirate boat under shade sails with plenty of looting

The Bloom Exhibition is on at the Gallery of Australian Design in Canberra. The exhibition showcases landscape projects from around Australia that demonstrate how the built environment can affect our well being. Jeavons have two projects in the exhibition – Clifton Hill Railway Project and the Isabel Henderson Kindergarten . If you are in Canberra or visiting before the