Draft Percent for Art Policy
Consultation has concluded
Art plays a vital role in creating a vibrant and thriving city. Art helps to create a sense of belonging and it contributes to identity through insight, reflection, and allowing a space for the expression of ideas. Public Art can encourage social, cultural and economic activity and be positive for existing or future residents, employers and investors.
Developers are responsible for contributing to the key strengths and characteristics of the areas in which they develop. The City of Vincent encourages and supports innovative and high-quality Public Art that improves the public amenity and the City’s built environment.
The purpose of the Percent for Art Policy is to:
- Establish a framework to require commissioned Public Art as part of public and private development projects within the City of Vincent
- Provide guidance around the collection and expenditure of cash-in-lieu of Public Art
Proposition
The City's Percent for Art Local Planning Policy 7.5.13 has recently been reviewed and the Draft Percent for Art Policy is now open for advertising.
The main changes made to the Policy through the review are as follows:
- The inclusion of a framework for expenditure of cash-in-lieu contributions
- Changes to the definition of Public Art
- Changes to the definition of Professional Artist
Objectives
The Percent for Art Policy's objectives are as follows:
- Develop and promote community identity within the City
- Increase the social, heritage, cultural and economic value of the City
- Improve public amenity for existing or future users of developments
- Enhance the built environment and align with the City’s Local Planning Strategy objectives
- Ensure developers consider how public art integrates with the development and the public realm to produce high quality Public Art
Timeline
- Internal review of function and processes of Percent for Art Policy
- Targeted stakeholder engagement with artists experienced in percent for art projects, developers, architects, planners, art consultants and the City's Arts Advisory Group and Design Review Panel. Legal advice was also sought and some feedback collected in the Arts Plan consultation was also used for this project
- Draft Percent for Art Policy developed incorporating the consultation feedback
- Draft Percent for Art Policy open for advertising until Sunday 18 December 2022. Please provide your feedback by filling out the survey at the bottom of this page
- Feedback will be analysed and collated, and any necessary changes made to the Draft Percent for Art Policy
- Draft Percent for Art Policy to go to Ordinary Council Meeting for final endorsement from Council in early 2023
Get Involved
To provide feedback:
- This consultation has now closed.
- Contact Lauren Formentin, Place Planner - Pickle District (Arts) at Lauren.Formentin@vincent.wa.gov.au or 9273 6553.