Current & Past Projects

The Lake Tyrrell Tourism Infrastructure Design project started well before the project brief was released by the Buloke Shire in 2017.

Following on from our Monash Drive streetscape project with Swan Hill Rural City Council, we were engaged once again to further develop the proposed viewing platform.

The Wimmera Mallee region is becoming a travel destination, with visitors looking to enjoy the Silo Art Trail, wide open spaces, deserts, lakes and waterways, big skies and everchanging colours of the region.

The Blowhole Gold Diversion Tunnel is a creek diversion which was probably built in the early 1860’s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by European and Chinese miners.

Thomson Hay Landscape Architects were engaged by Northern Grampians Shire Council to create an urban renewal project within the main street of Stawell. The project was strategically sited at the end of the main street and directly adjoins the town's war memorial.

Thomson Hay Landscape Architects were engaged by Parks Victoria to prepare detailed site plans for the redevelopment of the day visitor area / boat ramp and campground at the Barmah Lakes camping and day visitor areas within the Barmah National Park.

The Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail is a 1.2km walk in the Woowookarung Regional Park in Ballarat. The Trail is a world-first, developed by Parks Victoria in partnership with the Bigger Hearts Dementia Alliance.

Lions Park hugs the banks of Gunbower Creek near the centre of town. The Park has established trees, irrigated lawns and ageing infrastructure. It is a meeting and recreation space for visitors and locals and a gateway to the significant wetlands of Gunbower Island.

St Arnaud, a former gold mining town, features many historic buildings and landscapes. Established in the late nineteenth century, the Queen Mary Gardens have been well preserved and enjoyed by the local community and visitors alike.

Thomson Hay worked with Corangamite Shire Council, Terang Lake Precinct Committee and Terang Park Trustees to develop a master plan for a small part of the Terang Dry Lake Bed. A priority of the Terang community was to re-establish some water back into the Terang Lake.

As a result of the visionary initiative by the late Matt Jamieson, the Lake Foundation was formed to raise funds and lobby Council and the State Government to undertake some seriously needed foreshore improvements for Lake Wendouree, Ballarat.

Central Park, Yorkdale Estate

THLA undertook concept development and detailed design for the new adventure playground in Riverside park in Swan Hill.

This project develops concept plans for five reserves across the Buloke Shire to provide the Council with a structured plan for the staged upgrade and renewal of the play areas in the parks.

The Moama Soundshell precinct is a well used community facility with an aging playground. MRC approached THLA to design a new play area incorporated with the popular skate park in adjacent bushland with a nature play theme.

This project builds on the Tooleybuc Open Space Strategy and Mensforth Park upgrade (stage 1) completed in 2018. The proposal for an area for teens was an outcome of these projects.

This project developed concept designs for a natural play yard at the primary school. We developed the playspace design in collaboration with the students and School staff.

Tooleybuc is a convenient rest stop for travellers on the Sydney to Adelaide route however, the town is dated in presentation and facing significant economic change. A new bridge is planned with improved freight capacity and Tooleybuc’s iconic heritage bridge is likely to be removed.

The Magellan play space was developed in association with the City of Greater Bendigo and was based on their policy of including both natural and constructed play elements to promote active and imaginative play. Structured play elements include a multi-age play unit and gyro swing. Unstructured play elements include stepping stones and logs, a dry creek bed and scramble rocks.

The Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail is a 1.2km walk in the Woowookarung Regional Park in Ballarat. The Trail is a world-first, developed by Parks Victoria in partnership with the Bigger Hearts Dementia Alliance.

The CAFS care farm is a therapeutic environment that provides health, social and educational care services for at-risk and vulnerable people through supervised, structured programs.

This project developed concept designs for a natural play yard at the primary school. We developed the playspace design in collaboration with the students and School staff.

Thomson Hay Landscape Architects were engaged by Equisent Residential Aged Care, Ballarat, to design landscape areas around the existing and new aged care accommodation facility.

Thomson Hay Landscape Architects were engaged by Australian Catholic University (ACU) to design landscape areas that surround existing and new buildings on their Ballarat campus.

Ballarat Grammar engaged Thomson Hay Landscape Architects to prepare landscape master plans for both the farm and the classroom surrounds for the new agricultural and environmental learning venture at their Mt Rowan Farm Campus on the northern fringe of Ballarat.

The sensory garden is a space that will be used by all students, and is designed to promote health and wellbeing and to provide a safe, secure and private space for student use.

The CAFS care farm is a therapeutic environment that provides health, social and educational care services for at-risk and vulnerable people through supervised, structured programs.

Ballarat Grammar engaged Thomson Hay Landscape Architects to prepare landscape master plans for both the farm and the classroom surrounds for the new agricultural and environmental learning venture at their Mt Rowan Farm Campus on the northern fringe of Ballarat.