Council wins awards

The NSW division of the Australia Institute of Landscape Architects presented council with the 2007 Minister for Planning's Greenspace Award and the 2007 Special Jury Citiation for Local Government Design, at its annual awards night, held at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in the Rocks, to recognise excellence in the field of landscape architecture. Also, council received two finalists awards presented byEconomic Development Australia, at its national conference in Darling Harbour. One award was in the Strategy category for the consultation, design and production of the Parramatta Economic Development Partnership Plan, and the second was in the Promotion category for the production of the 12-page Special Report on Parramatta, which was published in "The Sydney Morning Herald, in October 2006.