Simone Cuers
Strategic housing programme lead at Western Bay of Plenty District Council- Claim this Profile
Click to upgrade to our gold package
for the full feature experience.
-
Danish Professional working proficiency
-
German Elementary proficiency
Topline Score
Bio
Emma Greenhalgh
Simone Cuers is a passionate and committed social planner with a genuine commitment to embedding community policy and social infrastructure into land use planning documents, and community engagement. As a private social panning consultant Simone has undertaken work for me, particularly the assessment of Overarching Site Strategies (OSS) for Community Development for major Greenfield developments in South East Queensland. This strategy was a condition of development approval, and had to demonstrate the provision and sequencing of community facilities, community development programs, resourcing, and implementation. The communities they relate to are major masterplanned communities of up to and over 100,000 people. Simone’s assessment of these strategies was critical to ensuring that these large, growing communities would contain the required levels of community infrastructure and accompanying community development program, including a community development officer, and the sequencing of this infrastructure would occur at appropriate times. I enjoyed working with Simone immensely. Simone is genuinely committed to sustainable community outcomes. She has an eye for detail, a key contributor to planning processes, and operates within a framework of best practice outcomes for the community and stakeholders.
Emma Greenhalgh
Simone Cuers is a passionate and committed social planner with a genuine commitment to embedding community policy and social infrastructure into land use planning documents, and community engagement. As a private social panning consultant Simone has undertaken work for me, particularly the assessment of Overarching Site Strategies (OSS) for Community Development for major Greenfield developments in South East Queensland. This strategy was a condition of development approval, and had to demonstrate the provision and sequencing of community facilities, community development programs, resourcing, and implementation. The communities they relate to are major masterplanned communities of up to and over 100,000 people. Simone’s assessment of these strategies was critical to ensuring that these large, growing communities would contain the required levels of community infrastructure and accompanying community development program, including a community development officer, and the sequencing of this infrastructure would occur at appropriate times. I enjoyed working with Simone immensely. Simone is genuinely committed to sustainable community outcomes. She has an eye for detail, a key contributor to planning processes, and operates within a framework of best practice outcomes for the community and stakeholders.
Emma Greenhalgh
Simone Cuers is a passionate and committed social planner with a genuine commitment to embedding community policy and social infrastructure into land use planning documents, and community engagement. As a private social panning consultant Simone has undertaken work for me, particularly the assessment of Overarching Site Strategies (OSS) for Community Development for major Greenfield developments in South East Queensland. This strategy was a condition of development approval, and had to demonstrate the provision and sequencing of community facilities, community development programs, resourcing, and implementation. The communities they relate to are major masterplanned communities of up to and over 100,000 people. Simone’s assessment of these strategies was critical to ensuring that these large, growing communities would contain the required levels of community infrastructure and accompanying community development program, including a community development officer, and the sequencing of this infrastructure would occur at appropriate times. I enjoyed working with Simone immensely. Simone is genuinely committed to sustainable community outcomes. She has an eye for detail, a key contributor to planning processes, and operates within a framework of best practice outcomes for the community and stakeholders.
Emma Greenhalgh
Simone Cuers is a passionate and committed social planner with a genuine commitment to embedding community policy and social infrastructure into land use planning documents, and community engagement. As a private social panning consultant Simone has undertaken work for me, particularly the assessment of Overarching Site Strategies (OSS) for Community Development for major Greenfield developments in South East Queensland. This strategy was a condition of development approval, and had to demonstrate the provision and sequencing of community facilities, community development programs, resourcing, and implementation. The communities they relate to are major masterplanned communities of up to and over 100,000 people. Simone’s assessment of these strategies was critical to ensuring that these large, growing communities would contain the required levels of community infrastructure and accompanying community development program, including a community development officer, and the sequencing of this infrastructure would occur at appropriate times. I enjoyed working with Simone immensely. Simone is genuinely committed to sustainable community outcomes. She has an eye for detail, a key contributor to planning processes, and operates within a framework of best practice outcomes for the community and stakeholders.
Experience
-
Western Bay of Plenty District Council
-
New Zealand
-
Government Administration
-
100 - 200 Employee
-
Strategic housing programme lead
-
Nov 2022 - Present
-
-
-
Wise Group, The Peoples Project
-
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
-
Manager
-
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
I established The People’s Project, (TPP), in Tauranga and led the growth of the service. TPP has housed many long term rough sleepers, a group with high and complex needs. TPP is based on the fundamental belief everyone has the right to a home to live in and to live their best life. Using the internationally-proven Housing First approach we helped chronically homeless people get services they needed, with housing being the first priority. Ongoing wrap around support is key to get income, health, wellbeing, employment and other services they need to maintain their tenancy and live independently in their community.
-
-
-
Tauranga City Council
-
New Zealand
-
Government Administration
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Community Development Advisor
-
2016 - Mar 2018
Coordinated local collaboration to successfully establish evidence based services to homelessness. Assessed and reported on social infrastructure requirements in greenfield development areas. Developed proposal for determining strategic social infrastructure planning and delivery framework. Coordinated collaborative community development project in high deprivation area. Led cross agency project team coordinating housing needs analysis for sub region. Report now on Smart Growth website. Developed suite of projects to address housing gaps in council LTP budget processes.
-
-
-
-
Horsemanship instructor and horse trainer
-
2013 - 2015
-
-
Social planning consultancy
-
2012 - 2013
Development assessment advice on social and community policy, community development and community facility delivery. Professional supervision to community development and social planning practitioners
-
-
-
The University of Queensland
-
Higher Education
-
700 & Above Employee
-
University Lecturer
-
2005 - 2014
Part time lecturer in under graduate and post graduate town planning University of Queensland, 2008 – 2014 and Queensland University of Technology, 2005 – 2014. Part time lecturer in under graduate and post graduate town planning University of Queensland, 2008 – 2014 and Queensland University of Technology, 2005 – 2014.
-
-
-
Urban Land Development Authority
-
Role covered Queensland state
-
Principal Planner
-
2008 - 2012
Developed and incorporated social infrastructure and community planning policy into statutory land use planning, infrastructure and development documents. Presented a paper on ULDA's community building program at PIA National Congress in 2009. Progressed social infrastructure planning in greenfield and brownfield developments and co-drafted community development strategy for ULDA. Extensive stakeholder engagement with State, Federal and local government, NGOs, developers on social and community planning strategies and community development programs. Invited speaker to PIA National Congress, 2012, in Social Planning Masterclass on “Social Infrastructure Planning in Urban Renewal context”
-
-
-
Queensland Government
-
Australia
-
Government Administration
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Social Planner
-
2006 - 2008
Coordinated collaborative implementation of Strong Communities policy, social infrastructure planning and provision in the SEQ Regional Plan 2005-2026 (SEQRP). Coordinated development of regional social infrastructure planning guideline. 'Implementation Guideline No 5. Social Infrastructure Planning' improved the planning and provision of social infrastructure in SEQ. Guideline won both State and National Planning Institute of Australia Award for Planning Excellence. Coordinated collaborative implementation of Strong Communities policy, social infrastructure planning and provision in the SEQ Regional Plan 2005-2026 (SEQRP). Coordinated development of regional social infrastructure planning guideline. 'Implementation Guideline No 5. Social Infrastructure Planning' improved the planning and provision of social infrastructure in SEQ. Guideline won both State and National Planning Institute of Australia Award for Planning Excellence.
-
-
-
Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
-
Australia
-
Individual and Family Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Social planner
-
1999 - 2006
Social policy input into statutory urban and regional land use planning documents, provided best practice Social Impact Assessment advice on major development projects, strategic community services planning and stakeholder engagement in SEQ regional planning. Social policy input into statutory urban and regional land use planning documents, provided best practice Social Impact Assessment advice on major development projects, strategic community services planning and stakeholder engagement in SEQ regional planning.
-
-
-
Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
-
Australia
-
Individual and Family Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Psychologist (Member of Australian Psychological Society, and Registered Psychologist Queensland)
-
1990 - 1998
-
-
-
Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
-
Australia
-
Individual and Family Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Case manager for youth offenders
-
1987 - Jan 1989
-
-
-
UQ - School of Psychology
-
Australia
-
Higher Education
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, awarded with Distinction
-
1989 - 1989
Post Grad Diploma Awarded with Distinction Post Grad Diploma Awarded with Distinction
-
-
Education
-
1989 - 1989
The University of Queensland
Post Graduate Diploma of Psychology, awarded with Distinction, Awarded with Distinction -
2003 - 2005
Queensland University of Technology
Post Graduate Diploma of Urban and Regional Planning. Awarded with Distinction, Awarded with Distinction -
1984 - 1986
University of Southern Queensland
Bachelor of Arts Major in Behavioural Science -
2017 - 2017
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Tauranga
New Zealand Certificate in Te Reo Level 1 & Level 2, Te Reo - maori language
Community
