DESTINATION MANAGEMENT PLAN - PHASE 2 ENGAGEMENT · Report

SPECIAL MEETING                                                                         4 AUGUST 2025


Phase 2 Community Engagement timeframe and next steps

Proposed Information Sessions




A series of stakeholder meetings are also planned to be undertaken throughout the engagement
period, with key stakeholder groups including but not limited to: Tourism Noosa, Chambers and
Business Groups, Environment and Community Groups, Schools, Business Round table.

Community Panel and Survey

To facilitate greater insight into how the broader community feels (i.e. beyond people who may be
already engaged, have an existing position or who are in the most highly sampled age groups in the
Shire), Council will pilot a representative Community Panel to test the efficacy of more
demographically and statistically significant engagement methods. This will enable Council to
compare and contrast participatory feedback (collected through quantitative methods such as the
Your Say survey, which is open to anyone to participate) with Community Panel feedback (collected
through demographically and statistically representative methods). This will assist in determining
how the broader community feels about a draft DMP and provide Council with greater confidence to
make decisions on evidence-based community engagement data.

The Community Panel Pilot will use two methods to gather representative data. First, Council will
invite a randomly selected group of up to 400 people (which is a statistically significant sample,
based on the population of the community) to complete the Your Say DMP survey on a private Your
Say Project Page. This will assist in comparing and contrasting quantitative engagement feedback
from a statistically significant, demographically representative group with a quantitative data from an
open, self-selected group of community members to gather benchmark feedback on the DMP.

It is anticipated that this first method will be followed by a Deliberative Poll process, of potentially up
to 100 people, to explore more complex issues, such as tackling traffic congestion, in greater depth.
A Deliberative Poll method consists of a half day workshop with randomly selected, demographically
representative members of the community. Participants are initially “polled” to seek their feedback
and perspectives on aspects of the issue. Participants are then presented with a range of contextual
and background information that seeks to inform and advise on the challenges and opportunities
associated with the issue and some proposed solutions. As this information will include Council's