Client: Landcom | Project timeframe: 2023-2025
The problem
As NSW’s state development agency, Landcom has a vision to create more affordable and sustainable communities.
In a policy environment increasingly focused on accountability, sustainability and measurable social impact, Landcom needed an evidence-based framework that could demonstrate progress against its commitments – not just internally, but to government and the broader public.
The solution
In 2023, Place Score first partnered with Landcom to design and implement a robust, community-centred performance tracking framework to deliver on its Healthy and Inclusive Places targets.
The project scope included:
- Benchmarking results against local government areas and the broader NSW context
- Designing a structured measurement framework aligned to Landcom’s Healthy and Inclusive Places targets
- Leveraging longitudinal data from the 2023 and 2025 Australian Liveability Census
- Identifying priority places and demographic groups for targeted analysis
- Producing place-based and group-based reporting to highlight performance gaps and strengths
By grounding performance measurement in what communities themselves value most, the framework moves beyond output metrics to track real-world outcomes.
The outcome
Landcom now has a repeatable, evidence-based model for tracking liveability outcomes over time.
This ongoing partnership ensures Landcom can confidently demonstrate progress toward its vision – embedding accountability, transparency and community voice into the way urban development success is defined and measured.
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