Awards and Accolades Aplenty
12 Dec 11
It has been one well-deserved victory after another for Murray Bridge recently. Burke Urban, the Murray Bridge Racing Club and the Rural City of Murray Bridge continue to set benchmarks for a number of exciting projects underway across the region.
A lot of hard work and effort recently delivered an outstanding result for the Murray Bridge Racing Club when it won the Department of Trade and Economic Development, Innovation Award in the 2011 Advantage SA Regional Awards. In August this year the Murray Bridge Racing Club were also honoured to win the Sky Racing 2011 most Outstanding Achievement Award by a Club at the TRSA 2010/11 Annual Industry Awards and Hall of Fame Induction at Allan Scott Park Morphetville. The Club has achieved great things since it began way back in 1899 and it is now one of the largest employers within the region and contributes significantly to the local economy.
If that isn't enough of an accolade, Burke Urban and the Rural City of Murray Bridge walked away with two prizes at the prestigious 2011 Planning Institue of Australia Planning Excellence Awards held on the weekend.
The Imagine Your Rural City 2020 program impressed the judging panel in the Public Engagement and Community Planning Award category, who saw the Imagine initiative as setting the standard when it comes to best practice public engagement. In fact, later in the evening those efforts earned an award-first commendation in the esteemed Minister's Award category.
'Imagine' is a Rural City of Murray Bridge project, encompassing its namesake town as well as several other rural communities and is being supported by Burke Urban and Regional Development Australia.
With more than 700 people now actively engaged and participating in the Imagine program and a number of small wins already achieved and more soon to become reality, the judges considered this as an outstanding example of community engagement as part of an integrated approach to urban growth in a regional context.
Congratulations to everyone involved for achieving these amazing results!