Noosa Council is urging residents to rate their neighbourhoods and provide thoughts on what’s needed to make suburbs and villages even better places to live.
Council has teamed up with independent research agency PlaceScore to conduct a Liveability Survey for Noosa.
Mayor Clare Stewart said the results would help create an even better Noosa for tomorrow.
“We want to understand what the community considers to be an ideal neighbourhood, it could be parks, public spaces, buzzing shopping precincts or community safety,” Mayor Stewart (pictured below) said.
“Accurate, rich data is vital as council determines how to allocate resources in this post COVID world.
“A strong response rate will give us solid evidence based data to help make good decisions for the future, particularly with our budget planning about to start,” she said.
In a recent Australian Liveability Census conducted by Place Score, over 70 per cent of respondents valued spending time in nature when incorporated into their neighbourhood.
Since COVID, the survey recorded a nine per cent increase in how much people value walking/jogging and bike paths.
“I really hope every Noosa residents from teenagers to the elderly take the time to provide their thoughts in this 15-minute survey,” Mayor Stewart said.
Residents can simply complete the survey to have the chance to win one of five $100 vouchers to be used at a number of Noosa businesses.
The survey is open until midnight December 5.
Council’s Principal Strategic Planner, Michelle Tucker, said the survey was a vital tool in helping to plan and develop suburbs.
“We see this as a way of better understanding what the community values and cares about,” she said.
“Anecdotal evidence suggests more people are selecting nature, the outdoors as well accessibility of local amenity as being important in their ideal neighbourhood.”
Residents can take the survey here: http://placescore.org/noosa
