The C Change Way

C Change embodies our positioning and leads by example. We do this by putting into practice next generation thinking and empowering our clients...

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C Change Services

Our unique blend of experience and skills in economics and social planning allows us to offer a range of services all designed to...

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The C Change Team

C Change is led by Vanessa Bennett, one of Australia's leading urban economists and planners. Vanessa's depth of experience in both content and location adds value...

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C Change’s Purpose - Providing insightful economic and social advice to make our communities more sustainable, equitable and liveable.

C Change’s Values - Insightful... Socially responsible... Evidence based... Independent... Excellence... Collaborative

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We analyse, we assess, we deliver. We plan, we create and we manage. We empower sustainable change, enable our clients to improve their bottom line and benefit communities by improving economic and social outcomes.

C Change Sustainable Solutions blends economic and social planning with sustainable environmental practices. We offer a range of professional services that deliver independent insight and next generation thinking supported by decades of experience in global, national and community projects, both in the public and private realms.

C Change offers a complete solution – a ‘one-stop-shop’ of sustainable practices. We guarantee that you will work with the Principal and ensure that our output is of the highest quality.

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We believe in the power of change…and in our collective ability to create and sustain it.

We also believe that it can be profitable to leave the world a better place than you found it – for business and community, for the environment and the planet.

C Change believes in ‘win/win’ solutions, it permeates everything we do.

‘It takes only one person in the village to make a change, but it takes the whole village to sustain it.’

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CChange helps lead WA into more rigorous and comprehensive social / community infrastructure planning

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Together with Thao Ashford Planning, CChange helps lead WA into more rigorous and comprehensive social / community infrastructure planning.

CChange Sustainable Solutions has recently been involved in major social /community infrastructure planning exercises for the City of Perth, Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority and Belmont City Council. These projects have arguably raised the bar on the way social infrastructure is assessed, planned and costed in Western Australia. The methods used in these projects included comprehensive auditing of existing social infrastructure, rigorous benchmarking systems tied to detailed understanding of the demographic and economic environment, together with inclusive and detailed consultation with key stakeholders to ensure land use opportunities and delivery of social infrastructure are maximised. Ensuring the delivery is achievable and affordable were key outcomes for the studies. The methods and benchmarking bases were devised when Vanessa was one of the key authors to the Implementation Note No. 5: Social Infrastructure Guidelines, for the (then Office of Urban Management for SEQ). This guideline provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to better planning for social infrastructure. Winning State and National awards, the Guidelines have been used as a basis for many social infrastructure plans across Australia.