2021-07-06 Services & Organisation Committee Meeting Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     6 JULY 2021


Consultation
External Consultation - Community & Stakeholder
Council undertook considerable community engagement on bike riding and walking through the
Noosa Transport Strategy in 2016 and the Noosa Sport and Active Recreation Plan in 2018. Key
stakeholders were also involved in Tourism Noosa’s development of the Noosa Trail Masterplan.
The community feedback received through the development process of those strategies along with
the existing Walking and Cycling Strategy 2004 formed the starting point for the NCWSIP in late
2019 which continued on to June 2021.

Additional engagement with the community was important in establishing this strategy with
representatives from sporting and bicycle groups, local businesses and the broader community
invited to form a Project Reference Group (PRG). This group guided the direction of the NCWSIP at
key stages of the strategy development.

The broader community were invited to provide feedback on the draft NCWSIP between 19 March
and 16 April 2021, spanning a total of 28 days. Residents were given four options on how to submit
feedback including an online survey or community feedback form through the Your Say Noosa
website, email and post.

Overall, 260 people participated in the engagement via the following channels:
    245 Your Say submissions
    13 Email submissions
    2 post submissions

The information gathered from this process provided valuable local insights and helped to identify
additional missing links and route refinements, which have been adopted in the Implementation Plan.

Respondents supported the direction of the NCWSIP. The top three actions identified by the
community to encourage more bike riding and walking across the Shire were:
   more off-road paths and bike ways
   more separated bike riding paths
   better connections between paths and shops.

A summary of the 260 responses is provided at attachment 1 to the report.

Internal Consultation
Internal consultation was undertaken in accordance with the project management plan and
stakeholder engagement plan. Internal stakeholder groups included a project working group and a
Project Control Group consisting of Council officers and Councillors.




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