Planning for Inclusion: Including People with Intellectual Disability in the Redevelopment of Peat Island

Project Member(s): Steele, L., Carnemolla, P.

Funding or Partner Organisation: THE NEW SOUTH WALES COUNCIL FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (Council for Intellectual Disability)
THE NEW SOUTH WALES COUNCIL FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (Council for Intellectual Disability)

Start year: 2021

Summary: Drawing on the emerging findings of the empirical research and insights from the desk-based literature survey conducted as part of the UTS Disability Innovation and Collaboration Seed Funded project ‘Listening to People with Intellectual Disability About Disability Institutions’, the project investigators will draft a submission to Central Coast Council on the Peat Island Planning Proposal. The specific objectives of the project are: • To raise the awareness of NSW State Government, Central Coast Council and other stakeholders in the Peat Island planning and redevelopment process of the necessity and importance of including people with intellectual disability and their representative organisations throughout the Peat Island planning and redevelopment process. • To provide NSW State Government, Central Coast Council and other stakeholders in the Peat Island planning and redevelopment process with a set of suggestions for how to include people with intellectual disability and their representative organisations throughout the Peat Island planning and redevelopment process. • To raise awareness of the significance of Peat Island to people with intellectual disability, and the opportunities for bringing together disability accessibility and inclusion, and heritage aspects of planning.

Publications:

Carnemolla, P & Steele, L 2024, 'Disability activism and institutional heritage', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 1336-1349.
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Steele, L & Carnemolla, P 2024, 'Reparative Urban Planning Law and Disability Institutional Heritage, Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, University of Portsmouth (online)'.

Andrews-Zucker, G, Carnemolla, P, Creighton, L, Kelly, J, Steele, L & Richter, R 1970, 'Saying Sorry for Disability Instititions', Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID) Conference, Melbourne.

Andrews-Zucker, G, Carnemolla, P, Creighton, L, Kelly, J, Richter, R & Steele, L 2023, 'Saying Sorry for Disability Institutions, Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID) Conference Melbourne.'.

Kelly, J, Steele, L & Carnemolla, P 2023, 'The disability royal commission heard horrific stories of harm – now we must move towards repair', The Conversation.

Steele, L, Carnemolla, P & Kelly, J 2023, 'Institutions, Trauma and Remembering, Inclusive Disability Rights Monitoring: Building on Strengths of the Self-Advocacy Movement, Dalhousie University, Canada (online).'.

Steele, L & Carnemolla, P University of Technology Sydney 2021, Submission to Central Coast Council on Mooney Mooney and Peat Island Planning Proposal on behalf of Council for Intellectual Disability, University of Technology Sydney.

Steele, L & Carnemolla, P 2021, 'Disability Inclusion and Reckoning with the Past of Disability Institutionalisation: The Case Study of the Redevelopment of Peat Island, Submission to Royal Commission on Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.'.

FOR Codes: Ability and Disability, Strategic, metropolitan and regional planning, Critical heritage, museum and archive studies, Law and society and socio-legal research, Urban Planning

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.