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28 September 2016

Joint Meeting

Strategic Reference Groups

Vision Session Notes

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Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................... 3

I love the Northern Beaches because … ....................................................................... 6

What is your vision for the Northern Beaches? ............................................................. 8

I would like to change three things: ............................................................................. 12

Environment – are any issues missing? ...................................................................... 15

Environment – are there other opportunities ............................................................... 19

Social – are any issues missing? ................................................................................ 22

Social – are there other opportunities? ....................................................................... 26

Economic – Are any issues missing? .......................................................................... 29

Economic - Are there other opportunities? .................................................................. 32

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Introduction

The first meeting of the Strategic Reference Groups was held on 28 September 2016. The meeting was a joint meeting with members of the eleven Northern Beaches Council Strategic Reference Groups in attendance.

During the meeting members had the opportunity to contribute individually to the development of the Northern Beaches Community Strategic Plan providing ideas for the Vision and feedback on the Issues Paper.

Members were invited to respond to the following questions on the Vision:

• I love the northern beaches because ...

• What is your vision for the northern beaches?

• I would like to change three things

In relation to the Issues Paper feedback was sought on the individual chapters - environment, social and economy with the following questions

• Are any issues missing?

• Are there other opportunities?

The following pages contain the responses provided on the night.

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The following word cloud (Figure 1) shows the words used most frequently by participants when responding to the question “I love the northern beaches because …”

Figure 1: Word cloud - I love the northern beaches because ...

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The following word cloud (Figure 2) shows the words used most frequently by participants when responding to the question “What is your vision for the northern beaches?”

Figure 2: Word cloud - what is your vision for the northern beaches?

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I love the Northern Beaches because …

• Beaches • Community • Choice

• Good vibrations • Nature • Community

• Beaches • Community • Bush

• Community • clean oceans • Beaches

• Lifestyle • Peace • Spirit

• Active engaged

community

• Clean waterways • White

• Natural Environment • Bush • Lifestyle

• Natural Resources • Business • Harbour

• Ocean • Lakes • Bushland

• Cabbage Tree Bay

Marine Sanctuary

• Inclusive open access

to public space

• Cultural Diversity of

Dee Why

• Beaches • Nature • Nature

• Canopy • Safe • Biodiversity

• Coastal Lifestyle • Good amenities • Beach

• Bush • Parks • Peace and quiet

• Play • Beaches • Connected

• Beaches • Relaxed • Holiday

• Beaches • Bushland • Lifestyle

• Beaches • Open Space • Trees

• Parks • Beaches • Youth Opportunities

• Youth services/support • Lifestyle • Diversity

• Beaches • Nature • Space

• Nature • Family Friendly • Healthy

• Active lifestyle • Clean • Safe

• Beautiful • Natural Environment • Beaches

• Beaches • Bushland • Wild life

• Low population • Peaceful environment • Beaches

• Relaxed ambiance • Beauty • Trees

• Serenity in bushland • People • Beaches

• waterways • People • Community

• Wild life • Friendly • Community

• Bushland • National Parks • Community generosity

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• Beautiful • Green • Close to ocean

• Nature • Surf • Organic

• Natural Environment • Relaxed • Space

• Opportunities • Community • Lifestyle

• Natural beauty • Parks • Water

• Ocean • Beaches • Community

• Community • Natural Environment • Community minded

• Open Space • Bushland • Open Space

• Beach • Community • City meets beach

• Pittwater • Water • Sandstone

• Bush • Water • Clean

• Focus • Environment • Nature

• Pelicans • Natural Environment • Green

• Blue • Sun • Spectacular views

• Beaches • The people • Parks

• Family • Nature • Friendliness

• Space • Environment • People

• Atmosphere • Safe • Friendly

• Rewarding • Culture • Trees

• Waterways • Coast • Bushland

• Community • Water • Beach

• Bushwalks • Beach • Bush

• Environment • Beach • Green

• People • Community • Nature

• Natural Environment • Physical Beauty • Less development

• Water • Beach • Lake

• Harmonious

environment

• Diversity • Laid back Lifestyle

• Water • Trees • Lifestyle

• Family Friendly • Water • Bush

• Villages • Safe • Friendly

• Environment • Beaches • Open

• Bushland • Fresh air • Nature

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• Cabbage Tree Bay

Marine Sanctuary

• Opportunities to be

active

• Small enough to know

people yet big enough

to meet more people

• Clean beaches • Community spirit

What is your vision for the Northern Beaches?

• Environment that stimulates creativity. • A cohesive, connected, sustainable

community that plans for and takes

control of its future.

• Inclusive • No imposed population targets.

• Public transport for all • Faster access in and out!

• A leader in democracy (forms of

consultation and participation. An

example for NSW and Sydney.

• Connectivity between centres - cycle

routes, community buses, engage

local centres not just the big hubs.

• Clean • Cycleways off roads

• Affordable, accessible housing • A place where I can afford to own.

• A place where our children can afford

to live.

• Affordable inclusive housing for our

kids with disabilities

• Reintroducing Koalas • Safe, secure, educated and cultural.

• Tram from North to South east and

west and buses to hinterland.

• Fix infrastructure, especially public

transport

• Safe, happy, connected and unique

community

• A community that grows very slowly,

respectfully of its environment,

supported by a clean economy

without tourism where the youth can

enjoy a clean and rich ocean and a

healthy bushland without cars.

• Preserve volunteer ethos • Zero waste

• Eco-creative heart of Sydney • More cycling friendly

• Solar powered energy generation

resold in community hubs.

• More than beaches - hinterland and

harbour an escape from urban

bedlam.

• Carbon neutral • Free and abundant public transport.

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• Maintain/enhance our green spaces

for our health (physical/mental) and

our shared species

(biodiversity=health)

• Integrated planning of development

through the entire Northern Beaches,

not piecemeal. E.g. Brookvale, Dee

Why, Hospital Precinct, Mona Vale:-

Cannot plan any without attention to

the others

• People and open space before

developers

• Sydney's outdoor and active

community

• Community connectiveness. • Youth participation

• The world’s most innovative inclusive

play community

• A place where all ages and all abilities

can live together

• A co-ordinated and preplanned use of

limited resources as opposed to

previous fragmented approach

• Train line from Narrabeen South.

Separated cycle paths on Pittwater

Road

• World class sensory room for kids

and adults with disabilities

• Kid-preneur - support, promotion and

gatherings/comps

• Reinstallation of wildlife corridors • Preserve the environment

• Safe from alcohol violence • Multipurpose arts performance

venues X 3

• Improved connections between older

people and youth. Perhaps organised

activities that each could help the

others with

• Protect and celebrate the unique

characteristics of each area within the

northern beaches. Keep what makes

each area special.

• A single place of connected villages

complete.

• An even better place to live, work and

visit

• A lively yet spacious urban

environment, village feel.

• Sustainable, youth friendly,

creative/innovative

• Zero waste communities • Being connected more

• A reduction in reliance on cars.

Increase in cycleway connections and

encouragement of alternative

transport options.

• A leader in sustainable development -

adapting to climate change, not

fighting it but acknowledging reality

hit.

• Inclusive • Green, clean and innovative

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• Vibrant friendly modern community • More focus on waste avoidance

• Totem style development on main

roads

• Facilitate coffee mug libraries. No

more disposable cups

• Less traffic congestion. • The environment - always a priority

• Inclusion for all • Balanced approach to develop and

manage the area

• Ban all diesel buses, trucks and cars

on the northern beaches. Diesel has

proved to be the most toxic substance

to man and the environment.

• An inclusive community of

environmentally conscious people

who live with nature and nurture and

improve their surroundings

• A place where my children can one

day afford to live.

• A sustainable habitat to work, live,

play!

• No single use plastics • Welcoming

• Well-connected communities who can

move easily (ie. Get from one place to

the other easily).

• Revegetate useless roads around

hospital

• Remove shark nets - no kill zone for

our coast

• Inter-generational hubs (aged care

connected to childcare and schools).

• A thriving community where residents

and visitors enjoy a clean, safe and

unique natural environment enhanced

by heritage and lifestyle.

• Environmentally sustainable

environment where people live

amongst nature (flora, fauna etc.) in

connected villages with strong

community involvement.

• More personal responsibility for waste

reduction

• Connected communities with unique

local centres

• Sustainable waste processing

solutions

• We expect this to become policy, not

window dressing.

• Low cost housing at all the northern

beaches hubs. Poor people deserve

to live in beauty too.

• The floggings will continue until

morale improves

• Inclusive, healthy, vibrant • Creative hub of Sydney

• A connected, caring community living

and working in a beautiful, clean,

• Marine reserve for entire foreshore

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biodiverse environment

• Ban all plastic bags and straws • More youth involvement.

• Inclusive everything • Connected villages

• Plastic free • Broadband better, faster

• Affordable housing • Make more marine 'no take'

sanctuaries eg. Cabbage Tree Bay

• As like Pittwater as possible • Getting anywhere in less than an hour

• Make bushland paradise • Effective, efficient public transport

• A community that respects and

celebrates diversity

• Turn roads into cycleways and get

trams and buses

• Accepting • Rubbish free

• Connected community X 2 • Self-contained within the region. But

good connections to Sydney South

and West

• Welcoming. Connected communities

for all

• World leading creative and innovative

inclusion

• Child-friendly. Child safe. Inclusive,

diverse.

• Pittwater becomes centre for eco-

tourism within urban environment. It

can be done here.

• The people can confidently express

their reasons for loving northern

beaches

• Increased diversity. More community

inclusion opportunities

• Vibrant , inclusive, celebrates local

stories and people

• A place that looks to the future rather

than celebrating the glorious past.

• Achieve a culturally diverse

community that embraces one

another to create a vibrant and

interesting place to live. Avoid the

area turning into an Anglo-Saxon

enclave.

• A multicultural inclusive community

that is a leader and inspiration to the

rest of NSW on how to connect,

embrace new ideas and look to the

future.

• Huge eco-community • Connected

• More effective public transport • Keep all the remaining koalas

• Increase in environmental initiatives. • Better transport.

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• Affordable housing. • Safer community

• Limited foreign investors on property. • Expansion of existing recreation

spaces.

• Retain surf culture. • Greater environmental sustainability.

I would like to change three things:

• More culturally diverse • Better restaurants

• Provide unstructured recreation

facilities for the "big kids" between 14

and 30

• Improve public transport - provision

of a train line

• Make protection of the natural

environment - marine and terrestrial -

the number one priority

• Population targets to be designed to

enhance the natural environment

and therefore population must be

curtailed

• No highrise outside the Dee Why CBD

- elsewhere 2 and 3 storey max

• Resident parking permit not rate

payer parking permit

• Transport infrastructure • reduce traffic congestion

• limited transport options • Improved transport connections

• Improve infrastructure for cycling

(separated paths)

• Land rezoning in Freshwater -

greater ability to subdivide 600m2 +

blocks

• University campus at northern

beaches

• Reliable public transport

• Traffic • Affordable housing

• Traffic congestion • Congestion

• Better connection between WGDs and

residents (Typists note - WGD = what

goes down = events and activities)

• There's little awareness or

celebration of cultural diversity on

the northern beaches (children

experience bullying)

• Commercialism • Reduce pollution

• More focus on longer term - less short

termism

• Natural environment dominant

feature not tall buildings

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• Create a large marine sanctuary • Sustainable Buildings

• More respect for clean environment • Reduce tourism

• Pressure RMS to update traffic

management

• The car culture

• Centres with economic and housing

diversity

• More engagement in cultural

activities

• Separated cycle lanes on Pittwater

Road

• Pathetic public transport

• Piecemeal planning! - strategic plan

must be supported by targets

• Poor engagement of children with

natural environment

• Lack of higher education - university • Emergency services

• Better environmental sustainability • Increased public transport use

• Runoff control • Increase local industry

• Change attitude to car - alternative

transport

• Improve public transport

• Spend S94 monies on passive open

space so its growth matches growth in

population

• Abolish apathy of locals to a caring

and committed populace

• Change negative attitude to cyclists • Congestion

• Ban single use coffee cups in Council

"grab your mug and go to the coffee

van"

• Children including (birth - 8) more

visible and their ideas included

• Parking • Over development

• Increased transparency in Council

decisions

• Accessible public transport

• Aboriginal signage • More emphasis on cultural activities

• Public transport • Improve traffic congestion

• Technology to connect (online to

offline)

• Interactive spaces for youth

• Affordable housing • Transport

• Elimination of single use plastic • Housing stock targeted to stage of

life

• Transport • Engagement

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• Conflict (not all decisions are black /

white)

• Reliance on cars

• 24 hour bus lanes • Reliance on cars

• Commuting • Feral human neighbours

• Perceived need to drive own car • Verge gardens

• Lack of youth facilities • Fear of change

• Public transport - rail and better bus

services

• Get cars off the road

• Public transport • Better public transport

• Bike lanes • Affordable living for future

generations

• More emphasis on environment

(lagoons, bushland, etc)

• No parking in bus lanes ever! Keep

buses moving

• More cultural opportunities (like music

etc)

• Poor road quality

• High speed internet (work from home) • Traffic

• Transport • Internet

• Traffic congestion • Public transport

• Replacement of boarded up shops

with upmarket shopping areas

• Access to restricted areas of 1 or 2

beaches for dogs

• Public transport - reliability, frequency,

routes

• Bus to city - faster transport

• Nice shopping in main streets not just

malls

• Better infrastructure

• Transport in line with housing

development

• Better transport options

• Better planning - before development • mandate solar

• better public transport • Lack of night-time activities

• Poor public transport → the Spit

Bridge bottleneck

• More inclusion and acceptance of

religions / ethnicities

• Connectivity of bike paths • less cars

• Prioritise sustainability • more community infrastructure

• Siloed arts organisations • Social communal areas

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• More outdoor entertainment / living • Removal of redundant street signs

• More live music venues and longer

opening times

• Rubbish on our beaches and in the

ocean (from litter and stormwater

drain overflow)

• Food waste collection for reprocessing • Biodiversity loss

• More access to national parks • Change - bureaucracy

• Improved quality of built environment • No parking on main road in Dee Why

• Poor planning → crowding and loss of

amenity

• Making inclusion the start of all

social, economic and cultural

decisions

• Poor public transport options • Dull

• Competition for limited arts funding • No takeaway cups and plastic straws

• No night-time economy • reduce car ownership

• Embrace outside education

(unconventional)

• Minimal / no population growth

• More vibrant nightlife outside of Manly • More live music venues

• The vibe • Youth opportunities

• Access to innovative / creative

business and leaning ventures

• Linking learning to community

service and local business

• Public transport to within 500m of

residences - not just along main roads

• Public transport - capacity and speed

Environment – are any issues missing?

• lack of understanding of climate change • More street lighting

• Climate change - education regarding

consequences!! to affected areas /

residential

• Rising temperatures and sea

levels more violent storms - heavy

impacts on coastal living

• Beach defence plans under threat from

rising sea levels

• More trees in suburbs that have

had them removed

• Mandate solar in new builds • Better enforcement of 3T limit

zones

• Storm damage and impact • Coastal Management Plan

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• erosion of beaches during heavy storms

especially where there are beachfront

properties

• Northern beaches Council leases

should include environmental

guidelines and responsibilities

• Environmental profiles statistics (info

graphic) needs relevant data through

time - what have we achieved to help

form aspirations and goals

• Planning and buildings impact on

the environment and native

animals - how can we ensure

survival of natural environment we

love

• Natural topography limits bicycle use.

Local / primary schools should be built

where there is capacity to have good

local cycleway network eg Manly Vale

school is in the wrong spot

• Balance the commercial,

recreational and household

(offshore) needs of waterway

users (particularly in Pittwater)

• Boats, Trailers, campervan storage in

parks and naturestrips

• Reduce urban heat islands in built

up centres

• Tension between built and natural

environments

• Alignment with the UN Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs)

• Capacity to age in place • Reduce street signage

• Inclusion of community involvement in

natural environment

- pastime enjoyment - exercise access

- sport - awareness

- recreation - awareness and access

- social - access and amenity

• Clear felling for any development

needs to stop

- housing

- roads

- schools

- individual home improvements

• Built environment - inclusion - not just

access

• Business engagement and

commitment to environmental

standards

• Balance all users - water and land • Protection of Aboriginal Heritage

• State government stream rolling Council

/ locals wishes and decisions eg

biodiversity vs new development

• Reduce plastic usage across the

northern beaches following the

lead of plastic free Manly

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• Flooding roads during heavy storms

especially Wakehurst Parkway as this is

main access route to new northern

beaches hospital

• Businesses and corporates in the

area showing corporate social

responsibility and being visible /

active partners in environment and

social issues

• Corporate social responsibility • Aged care

• Corporate responsibility • Domestic cats

• All businesses with composting facilities

and hospitals to reduce waste

• Biodiversity under water and

protection of threatened species

• Recognition that birds and animals now

also inhabit parks and gardens as well

as bushland and to think how with

planting we can help some of

endangered species communities

• Education - facilitators be engaged

to visit local schools / group

housing / villages / retirement

villages to educate on what they

can do to enable vision and goals

• Loss of biodiversity - because of

destruction of wildlife corridors

• More focus on our marine reserves

and biodiversity

• Problem with ticks • Plastic free northern beaches

• Loss of fish species / population due to

pollution / plastics

• Real alternatives to diversify from

a (the) car focus

• No plastic bags, straws, soy sauce fish

and coffee cups

• What are we aiming for in clean

waste % - What's the target?

• Limited low impact travel options due to

lack of infrastructure and high traffic

making it unsafe eg children riding to

school

• Opportunities to use sustainable

features / sites as tools for learning

- shaping environmentally

responsible future citizens

• Get people out of their cars

- incentivise

- find alternatives that work

• Greater stewardship

responsibilities for business that

generate waste eg takeaway

coffee cups

• Elimination of single use plastics • More filtered water drinking

fountains

• Legislation to keep pace with

technology - waste → energy

• Managing impacts of tourists /

sports users on bins / waste

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• Improve public waste disposal

infrastructure

• Public services and business

required to recycle

• Opportunities for local waste

management - onsite composting

• Organic food waste - council

collecting for composting

• Lobbying for a ban on single use plastic • Ban takeaway coffee cups

• Remember we have working ports and

not just recreational waterways

• Legislation to ban single use

plastic bag

• Food waste diversion and re-purposing • Implement food waste recycling

• Waste not listed as a climate change

issue with HUGE carbon footprint

implications

• Complete (finish) Fisherman's

Walk @ South Curl Curl to

Freshwater Pool

• Waste avoidance • Inclusivity - not just "access"

• Waste not listed / qualified in

environmental profile in document in

terms of

- tonnes

- m2

- CO2

- litter

• Enforce smoke free environment

legislation ie fine smokers on

beaches, parks etc - fine those

who litter with cigarette butts

• Environmental education in primary

schools

- sustainability

- climate change

• Education for businesses

- waste management

- plastic bag reduction for local

precincts

• Litter education • Litter enforcement

• Integration of catchment to coast

management

• Regular cleaning of stormwater

traps

• Ongoing maintenance to improve the

quality of urban runoff

• Deep ocean outfall therefore

stormwater less issue

• Improved Stormwater drain filtration • Water clean focus

• renewable → sustainable energy

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Environment – are there other opportunities

• More community gardens • Green spaces

• Embrace sustainable recreation in

bushland

• Create a marine park from Palm

Beach to Manly

• Encourage/require PV panels on houses,

light industrial buildings, schools (eg

Pittwater High)

• Better management and

restoration of lagoons and

catchment areas

• •

• Regular attention to balance of

environment vs recreation places, ie

lagoons especially Narrabeen Lakes

• Align with the UN sustainable

development goals (SDGs) and

their sub-goals

• Develop flood management scheme to

protect infrastructure

• Enforcement and visible public

education re cigarette butts

• Access to Crown Land for recreation • Safer cycling

• Improving environmental performance

from industrial areas eg Brookvale

• Prepare best practice guides to

assist industry in environmental

performance

• Focus on compliance on construction

sites is lacking - dust and water pollution

and vegetation removal

• Engage NPWS to develop

sustainable use of resources, not

lock them up

• Intensifying development to pressure

public open space

• Monitoring Sydney Water

performance at North Head

• Tuckeroos are not local native trees.

Those planted by Councils and gardeners

are seeding, becoming weeds in bushland

and feeding and being spread by Indian

Mynas birds - a pest. Gradually replace

with other tree species.

• Look at mini buses to decrease

parking requirements at beaches

that can increase erosion at

beaches with car traffic

• Solar in all new development • Increase in uptake of solar power

• energy efficient, well located, affordable

housing - appropriate densities near

transport hubs

• Lobby State and federal

government for plastic bag ban

• solar use • use of tides

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• disability access to green areas • reduce car dependency

• ensure our national parks stay protected /

funded

• Deep ocean outfall for Warriewood

• catch litter before it reaches the beaches • Community gardens

• Lobby State and Federal government for

extended producer responsibility

• Pedal parks (similar to St Peters)

for toddlers and young children

• Promote the fact that lots of trees in our

council area improves Sydney's air quality

• Proactive street tree planting

program needed

• Community involvement in caring for

bushland, especially fire hazard reduction

and flighting groups

• Utilisation of existing school

facilities to accommodate sporting

groups

• Environmental education - schools and

aged towards involvement enviro.

• Better / safer cycling facilities =

less cars

• Endemic species plantings in landscaping • Zero waste policy

• Need to maintain local environment

centres for community engagement

• Lead by example - excellence in

environmental protection

• Get professional advice on how to get

more bushcare volunteers, target early

retirees??

• Local electricity grids which

capitalise on renewable energy

generation especially solar

• Need for environmental events to engage

the public and spread message

• Consistent northern beaches

coastal management plan

• Improved cycling infrastructure • Better coastline protection

• Love the boardwalks and bushwalks -

keep up the great work with maintenance

• Facilitate corporate social

responsibility

• Landscaping of public land and

streetscapes with local native plants, not

weeds listed in booklet. Stop the spread

as in Pittwater at present

• Take advantage of new

innovations in sustainable,

affordable housing design. Use

recycled materials

• Manage mountain biking in bushland (eg

Red Hill) to preserve bushland

• Underutilisation of bushland for all

users

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• Education opportunities for locals and

kids as "guardians" / custodians of areas /

the environment - linking our actions to

the impacts

• Increase low impact travel such as

cycling and walking - will also

increase community interest in

preserving natural environment

• More oversight of erosion / sediment

control on construction sites. More

education, and heavy penalties for

infringement

• Reintroducing crayweed habitat

along our coastline on rocky areas

to 3m depth - revitalise marine

ecosystem

• Development of waste technology • Repair and upgrade ocean pools

• Green corridors joining parks, reserves

via housing to other areas (also include

overpasses) or fauna will die in some

isolated spaces

• For business and residents -

rewards incentive program to

reduce waste - green money app

• Cross economic centre transport - rather

than linear travel

• Support community building

initiatives - boomerang bags

• Work with state government re protecting

/ managing marine areas - waste / micro

plastics issues - multiple use - protect

areas for biodiversity to replenish

• Introduce water sensitive urban

design to deal with climatic change

of greater rainfall and intensity to

avoid erosion

• Take out all shark nets - find a way that

does not impact all species

• Use of alternate energy such as

solar panels

• Lifecycle consideration of solutions • Renewable energy on roof tops

• Look after ridgetops = areas below ok •

• Environmental educational awareness

about our natural assets and resource

management

• Mandate rooftop solar and water

conservation infrastructure in new

builds / strata

• Filtered water taps • Links to transport

• Container deposit legislation - new jobs

and investment

• Be trail blazers - ban single use

plastic on the northern beaches

• Reduce plastic bags and disposable

plastic bottles and containers

• Electric car charging station(s) as

we move into the future

• NSW EPA to legislate to allow waste to

energy technology

• Create a 'green belt' to protect

bushland

• Link to transport • Renewable energy resources

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• Encourage integrated solar generation of

multi developments

• Opportunity to benefit economy /

business by reducing waste

Social – are any issues missing?

• Maintaining good access for elderly ie.

Drop off points at shops and services

so they can get to things even when

can't walk far.

• There needs to be an over-arching

housing strategy to inform the

Affordable Housing Strategy - so we

can have targets

• Bigger focus on indigenous culture and

learning from it

• Consider views of school children.

Get them involved.

• Limited night life outside Manly • Access to affordable childcare

• Homeless services • Affordable aged care

• Explore mutually beneficial exchanges

with rural communities to rebuild

city/country bond ie. We don't all have

country cousins anymore.

• Ensuring inclusion of all the

community is embedded throughout

all areas of planning, particularly

people with a disability and

marginalised groups

• Quick, accessible local transport • Volunteering programs for youth

• Increase resources and housing for

people with disabilities so they don't

have to leave the area

• Planned and emergency local

support in-home, before and after

school for children with special

needs.

• Never forget the importance of well

managed passive space

• Educating local creative

administrators and artistic directors

• Need to acknowledge, recognise and

build pride in local arts and culture

achievements

• Lack of flexible transport to enable

use of arts and community centres

by the entire population

• Lack of visibility of cultural and creative

events

• Need for bigger gallery near tourists

at Manly

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• Exploration on/emphasis of the lifelong

learning benefits - improving social

capital through learning. Linking

schools/libraries etc. to the community.

• Integrated community support, and

care for the emotional, physical,

psychological and social wellbeing

of parents with special needs

children

• Higher accessibility for outdoor

recreation places ie. lagoons and

lakes.

• Inclusive "hub" of leisure and multi-

sensory activities co-designed for

children and adults with disabilities

• A regional History and Heritage Centre • Local markets in Dee Why

• A storage facility for community groups

to safeguard their historical

memorabilia

• Culture evolves: Protect what our

generation creates

• Stop proliferation of liquor licences • Include multicultural in risk isolation

• Embracing and engaging our diverse

multiculturalism, not just in Manly but

across the northern beaches

• Get motorists to calm down and

enjoy the scenery or drive. Cyclists

are not the enemy.

• Encourage pop-up artist

spaces/studios

• Need to preserve areas built and

architectural heritage

• Social isolation of families who have

children with special needs

• Queer and gender diverse people

(LGBTQIA).

• Multi-cultural inclusion • Homeless and Manly care people

• Recognise ferries are central to work

and recreation to Manly and its visitors

• Prevalence and impact of sexual

assault

• Leverage city/state intellectual events

(Vivid/TED) in a local way for public

debate.

• Social isolation and hardship

amongst parents with special needs

children

• Special needs vacation care programs,

before and after school care

• Affordable, local housing for youth

(people) with disabilities

• Greater access to respite homes for

families who have child/children with

special needs to give them regular

breaks

• A central local environment centre

to celebrate the natural environment

on the northern beaches

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• Support of small businesses rather

than big mass productions to uphold a

unique cultural vibe

• Keep open space as open space -

not for sport or playgrounds. For

community play.

• Make northern beaches the creative

hub of Sydney

• More music venues needed

• Support (youth) emerging artists • Housing diversity/affordability

• The statistics in the report omit passive

open space. The general public cannot

use sports fields on an adhoc casual

basis

• The role of urban public open space

as a platform for manifold social,

artistic, commercial and cultural

activities

• Planning for aged social

isolation/improving design for

connectedness

• Get the statistics on the segmented

age group 26-64 into narrower age

bands

• Affordable housing • Housing affordable short term crisis

• Sustainable small scale transit options • Better nightlife north of Manly

• Making sure the natural environment

and cultural environment exist in a

mutually beneficial relationship

• Fragmented cycling infrastructure,

little for active community not just

recreation

• Lack of housing diversity • Child-friendly venues

• Lack of accommodation/conference

space

• Need for a museum accessed by

locals and tourists

• Developing sense of

belonging/inclusion by people with a

disability from childhood to old age

• Consider natural environment

possibilities in open recreational

space

• Support young musicians and artists

with continued opportunities to perform

and showcase and provide feedback

on Council youth committees

• Support community group to display

their history either on premises (surf

clubs, golf clubs) or at appropriate

display spaces

• Making arts, culture more accessible to

younger demographics eg. Glen Street

Theatre is in use half of the year.

During off season provide

entertainment for a different generation

• Open community development

opportunities for areas or interest

groups with no set agenda but with

facilitation and the ability to evolve

and contribute to the community

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• Improved playgrounds - consult with

new mums what is required

• Need to increase arts, music,

recreational festivals beyond Manly

• Prevalence of sexual assault • Seasonal residents ie. Backpackers

• Community gardens for high density

dwellers

• Capture literary excellence that

resides here

• Childrens' voices? We need to consult

with children

• Cultural opportunities for young and

old to be involved

• Linked accessibility to transport options

for all - negative impact on inclusion

• Ex Council buildings as cultural

centres eg. Manly Council

• Reference to key international

documents like the United Nations

Convention on the Rights of the Child

(UNCRC)

• Need for writers' festival

• Encourage volunteering • Recognising unstructured recreation

• Equity of access to outside school care

for children with disability

• More awareness for youth

homelessness

• Social isolation of our elderly • More crisis accommodation

• Ensuring diversity and accessing

resources

• Community gardens and shared

spaces

• Pedal park at North Curl Curl

Community Centre (was the bowling

centre)

• Use of sporting facilities as an

income stream for either council or

sports clubs

• Performance venues and practice

venues

• Equitable access to health services

for the aging population

• Domestic violence services • Housing diversity

• Bars with ping pong, board games etc.

so not just drinking

• Northern Beaches is the creative

hub of Sydney.

• We need a diversity of housing to

provide options for current and future

residents

• Support services across all northern

beaches not just Dee Why and

Manly

• Lack of performance venue for arts • Northern Beaches Queer Pride

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Social – are there other opportunities?

• High speed internet • Look into tiny houses; following an

initiative in Gosford

• Need for precinct system over

northern beaches to be resourced

• This area has lots of cultural artists

and heritage assets

• Opportunity to be a leader in child-

friendly inclusiveness

• Family respite - ready, regular breaks

and short stays In home-like

environments for children with

disabilities

• The needs of the youth • How do the various SRGs interact?

• Population/urban expansion needs to

match the character of the area

• Connection between leisure

services/providers and families who

have children with a disability

• Innovation awards for inclusive design • Open places for youth involvement

• International exchanges with arts,

music, performance organisations

• Do not accept high/medium growth

targets

• Developing a housing strategy so that

targets can be set for affordable

housing, key worker housing, social

and other housing (eg. Crises).

• Allowing in-fill development leads to

reduced sustainability of open space.

Open space should be quarantined

from any development.

• After school community programs for

young people and by young people

with common interest eg. music

community, volunteering,

environmental

• Conduct well-designed evaluations of

programs, interventions and new

infrastructure to build local evidence

of the impacts

• Safe environment to get together in • Multi-generational, multi-discipline

creative festival

• Cultural spaces in Dee Why Centre • Create, foster and grow a sense of

pride in northern beaches culture

• Support and education re. domestic

violence, sexual assault and mental

health

• Mobile' performance transport and

equipment - help us take our arts to

multiple locations and communities

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• Youth spaces incorporated into busy,

well patronised areas eg. don't tuck

skate park off in low people traffic, out

of way area - look at Bondi's great

skate facility at the beachfront

• Involving the community in

environmental aspects - passive

amenity, active sport, social

responsibilities etc.

• Integrated leisure/cultural services

and programs for families with

children who have a disability

• Inclusive, local multi-sensory and

creative play spaces; indoor and

outdoor for children

• Affordable housing as part of

development consents

• Share facilities - school grounds, IT,

library, classrooms for all community

• Increase diversity of exciting sporting

facilities

• Culturally and linguistically diverse

(CALD) events, educations

• Social isolation - include multicultural

communities

• Inclusive playgrounds

• Have we looked at the Australian

Early Development profile for the

community? It's mostly good, but

some problems

• Opportunities to allow community

groups to find new facilities for

recreation

• Innovative approaches to urban

development to foster social and

community development

• Convivial public 'bumping' spaces for

people to meet other around common

interests

• Cross-pollination opportunities for arts

groups/break down our 'silos'

• Open some section of beaches for

dog use outside of busy

hours/seasons

• Education of school age children

about body image, mental health and

sexual assault

• Lack of consistent signage and

infrastructure to promote safety and

wellbeing along coastlines

• Diverse and innovative inclusive play

spaces

• Where is the affordable housing

strategy? Low income, aged, key

worker

• Create more higher

education/employment centres

• Effective community-based suicide

prevention strategy

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• Retain current youth councils as sub-

committees or as they are

• How does the northern beaches

accommodate a 50% population

increase in 30 years?

• Alternative living arrangements ie. co-

housing

• Cyclist facilities (not mountain bikers)

• Night events • Local arts awards (multi-discipline)

• Risk of marginalism and isolation for

sections of the community

• Opportunity to hear childrens' ideas

• Look to flexibility in accommodation

options

• Social media presence of youth

centres

• More live music venues • Mentoring opportunities for young

people

• Council can facilitate social by

providing relevant infrastructure. Not

a Council role to provide social events

• Refurbished youth space at Manly

Youth Centre or new youth space

elsewhere in Manly

• Multi-generational meeting places in

town centres

• More accessible youth events

• Music festivals • Teenager hangouts

• Explore the idea of the competent

child and child-friendly places

• Mentorships to support growth of arts

as small businesses

• Youth mentorships - at risk youth,

entrepreneur youth, leadership

• Better communication strategy for

informing youth

• Local walking maps to shops, buses

and parks

• Limited public transport out of

commuter routes and out of peak

hour

• Push for greater physical activity in

young people, adults and the elderly

• Inclusive creative spaces for work and

play

• Foster a night time economy that is

not just drinking for backpackers

• Engage seniors to work with or for

seniors

• Inclusive youth events • Free public entertainment/festivals to

promote community/lifestyle

• Inclusive multi-sensory leisure spaces • More pedestrian-only centres

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• Not vibrant - allow relaxation • More filtered drinking fountains in

public places

• Limited opportunities for school to

actively engage with the natural

environment/bushland - leading to

loss of valuing bushland

• Engage the oldies in schools,

colleges, youth and social events.

Engage the youngsters in aged care

and visitation

• Innovative shared housing models -

where old and young, able and

disabled live together and support

each other eg. think Scandinavia

• Smarten up Dee Why Town Centre

and main bus stop near old run down

building

• Retain open spaces as no agenda

open space - a place to play

• Making town centres people-friendly

'people first'

• Housing stock targeted to

demographics eg. younger

• Multicultural community to be

included in all of the points

• More meeting places - welcoming

venues for connecting with others

• Partnerships - to get new facilities for

community

Economic – Are any issues missing?

• Young people leaving the area due to

difficulty in getting to work and uni

• Mix housing types with wider social

mix

• Affordable Housing as economic

infrastructure

• Need housing for young, old, key

workers

• Intergenerational developments and

mixed use e.g.

employment/childcare/aged care

same site

• Look to innovative, cost effective,

simple and immediate solutions to

make alternative transport safe and

reliable

• "Green" rooftops as social

spaces.e.g. City of London Initiative

• Resilience - how to survive economic

shocks

• Key sectors - where will the growth

occur?

• Need to maintain Manly Ferry service

with large ferries

• Provide efficient public transport to

C.B.D

• More local NB education facilities like

TAFE

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• Allow Manly fast ferries to be part of

Opal and allow other private

operators in - the demand is so high

• Promote the local community buses

to alleviate parking demand and

congestion

• Bold town planning • Diversified planning controls

• Super apartments next to lower height

buildings

• Map new Council policy to the SDGs

(Sustainable Development Goals)

• Tertiary education connections • Transport

• We have beautiful surrounds that are

pleasant to ride/walk in. Capitalise on

it and promote good health at the

same time.

• Low level of activity based work

environment e.g. possibility to work

from NB locations for organisations in

other Sydney locations

• Less traffic (travel) • More employment

• More local spills • Supporting safe active travel

• Bike Way on Wakehurst Parkway • Pedestrian friendly = business friendly

• More pedestrian-only shopping

precincts e.g. remove cars from

Lawrence Street, Freshwater

• Key worker housing - provide, retain,

be innovative

• Activate ground level/street front

development with commercial uses

(residential for upper storeys)

• Inefficient use of the road network

with low commuters/traffic ratio

despite congestion

• More transport options • Complete key connections

• Slow internet - NBN • Efficient public transport needed

• Privatised bus services • Attract business development

• Private operators are rarely

interested. Provide a good council run

building material recycling facility.

• Manly ferries: old, inefficient,

inexpensive compared to private

operators (Manly Fast Ferry)

• Transport improvements and less

reliance on cars

• Train connection to NB from

Chatswood

• Innovation from youth • Provide internet access

• Traffic congestion in Dee Why • TAFE training

• Accessible pedestrian friendly villages • Different housing types

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• Wakehurst Parkway - a 'no brainer'

for commutable bike path down the

spine of the council area

• Don't sacrifice locals for tourists as

the tourist come for what the locals

enjoy

• Productivity? Increasing high value

employment

• Appropriate public transport (diverse

options)

• Education • Affordable Housing

• Local economy to be fostered to

reduce carbon footprint e.g. made

and sold on the beaches

• I want my children to be able to afford

to live here - so we need affordable

sustainable housing

• Inconsistent Planning approvals of

residential and commercial

development resulting in inadequate

distribution of patronage against

existing transport infrastructure

• Having almost no tourist

accommodation especially along the

beaches but also in the bush -

opportunity for eco-tourism

• Small scale music festivals with well

planning transfers

• Engage local artists with public

spaces

• Critical Impact/ Road for congestion is

also Wakehurst Parkway from North

Seaforth to Warringah Road. Traffic

congestion will be further impacted

when new hospital is finished

• Ambulance lanes and access to new

hospital with traffic congestion ( plus

access from places such as Palm

Beach)

• Light industrial development from

Manly to Mona Vale unplanned and

uncoordinated. Almost a ribbon

development with industrial,

commercial and residential mixed

together. Need a central business

park/ zone for NB

• Recycling and re-use of building

materials - currently a Waste

Management Plan is required for

DA's. However, should an owner

actually wish to recycle their old

doors/windows there are few

alternatives to the tip. Kimbriki

charges to take items.

• High speed internet • Locating key workers next to transport

• Inadequate infrastructure to attract

new business

• Impact of hospital site development

on existing centres

• New centre for medicine • Light industry being squeezed out

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• Tertiary options needed locally so

students don't have to bleed out of

the area - that is why youth population

is low

• We are missing out on the creative

economy dollar. Inner city and east

seen as more attractive and viable

• Future planning and access to

vibrant, new homes and housing that

is affordable for families who have

children with special needs. Currently

zero options for these families when

they look at their future and where

their disabled child will live.

• Council leases of Assets - include

Environmental responsibilities and

guidelines into these leases to

sporting community groups and

commercial enterprises

• Develop infrastructure first and then

commercial/tourism/residential after. If

State Gov not on boards will be more

of the same

• Plan 5 star "resort" hotel at Mona

Vale Golf Course or Long Reef Golf

course. This leads to employment and

tourism.

• Maintain light industry and

employment in Brookvale

• Hop on Hop Off free buses in tourist

areas and late night café/restaurant

• New centres for medicine excellence -

branch of Sydney Uni; located

opposite new Frenchs Forest Hospital

• What is the comparison of these

statistics to the rest of the state local

areas i.e how do we compare

Economic - Are there other opportunities?

• Provide digital leadership to our

community

• Investigate "tiny houses" following an

initiative in Gosford/central coast

• Diversity in types of housing available • Commercial social areas

• Diversity in public transport • University in NB

• New TAFE college for apprentices

etc.

• Sustainable tourism

• Reduce transport issues by setting up

either technology or industrial hubs =

employment

• Work towards reducing traffic

congestion - have continual main road

clearways

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• Decline of corporate's from Frenchs

Forest Corporate Park due to

transport

• Lack of key workers for hotels e.g.

cleaners, kitchen staff, chefs, F & B

attendants

• Small scale cultural events in/near

town centres

• NBN is coming so need to ensure

access to underpin telecommuting

• Improved public transport routes -

reliability, timetabling and accessibility

• Be the inclusive, creative, innovative,

economic hub of Australia

• Re-zoning to plan for affordable

housing. Need for diverse housing as

part of integrated housing strategy

• Developing and supporting home

based businesses. Technology needs

NBN?

• Programs to involve youth in council

events

• Optimising use of public spaces for

people

• Nightlife diversity • Rail transport

• Mountain bike tourism • Fund: footpaths, cycleways (properly)

• Entrepreneurial hubs/incubators in

relation to secondary schools -

STEM/STEAM

• Pedestrianise shopping areas in

villages like the Corso/Sydney Rd.

Freshwater Village would be perfect

• Innovative and inclusive play spaces • Creative and leisure hubs

• Innovation 'hubs' • Rail line

• Set up creative labs to solve for our

most "unsolvable" economic issues

• Disrupting the tourism industry e.g.

AirBnB and other technologies

• Light rail all the way up the peninsula

please!

• Need to resource $ Economic

development

• Social infrastructure - health services,

social services, financial counselling,

NDIS

• Protecting key employment lands.

Proximate to north-west corridor and

CBD

• Public transport only tunnel to CBD • Mentoring opportunities

• Strategic initiatives • University in NB

• High concentration of visitors round

Manly. Not due to "lack of awareness

of other areas" but due to crap

transport to other areas

• How can we grow more

environmental in tune businesses.

E.g. solar panels on factories, electric

busses, environmental tourism

• Monitored public pick-up locations for • Refit not just redevelop housing

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internet exchanges ( a safe location

for people to meet up for purchases

or exchanges made on sites like

Gumtree where there is video

surveillance and good lighting)

estates for affordable housing. ATM

we sell of current good location, must

ensure we don't create ghettos. Get

developers that work for community

not private profit

• Support programs for youth/young

people to be more active and

engaged in business initiatives

• Mentoring/supporting entrepreneurs

and start ups - especially involving the

under 25's

• Access to housing and housing

diversity

• Increase density in low rise e.g. Rob

Stokes

• Clearly identify key sectors for

development, especially education

• Increasing productivity, high value

e.g. technology industry

• integrate public transport with high

density housing

• Encourage disability employment

opportunities

• Investigating old style 'business parks'

by changing them into vibrant centres

with business and housing

(apartments) with accessible cafes,

shops. Current business parks are

sterile under used and not the best

use of space.

• Public and private transport modes

both need improvement. Traffic on

Warringah and Pittwater Rd is

horrible. Peak hour lasts from 3pm -

7pm! Just as an example there is no

direct bus route from Frenchs Forest

to Manly, two of the busiest suburbs

on the NB.

• Workshops or training for youth • Mentoring programs

• Discourage car usage/ownership • Pedestrianise Freshwater Village

• Fix Wakehurst Parkway so road

doesn't close due to flooding

• Public transport for all, not just those

on main roads

• Science and technology • Is there a long term transport plan?

• Active transport to town centres • Increase dwell time in town centres

• Express buses to Chatswood • Doing density right

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• Parking - not only is traffic bad, but so

is parking availability and it becomes

worse with the development of

apartment blocks which increases

residential density. Road side parking

only further contributes to traffic so

more public car parks are necessary

• Efficient integration of the

management of infrastructure - prime

time to consider implementing

systems like AMS

• Separate cycleways (not pedestrian

or roads)

• Solar power generation - community

storage and networks

• Fund active transport • Council meeting for youth

• The 'Old' Pittwater area becomes a

centre of eco-tourism for Sydney

• Active travel as an alternative and

built into planning from the start

• Work on ways to improve attitude of

people to alternative transport e.g.

bicycles

• Is there an opportunity to leverage the

growth in popularity of Uber to reduce

congestion?

• Improve Manly it’s a gateway • More/better footpaths

• More places for tertiary studies • Support for start ups

• More small businesses or a few big

employers

• Celebrate and support local

innovation

• A place for the acting, film, television

and radio school to call their home

• Nightlife diversity - public transport

home

• Transport congestion = unique

opportunity for technology innovation

to reduce travel demand and increase

transport means efficiency

• Develop strong and sustainable

commercial centres which creates

environments which attract new

business

• Larger and privately operated car

parks on BRT route - to really

increase patronage

• Education of different types of home

ownership e.g. tenants in common

joint tenancy, testamentary trust etc.

• Stop rezoning commercial/industry to

residential

• More separated cycleways including

to new hospital

• Bike trail along the pipe line from St

Ives to Beacon Hill and continue

down to Brookvale

• Making sure people with disabilities

and their carers can utilise public

transport well and easily

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• Pavements that are easy to use for

people using wheelchairs and other

walking aids

• A coherent Strategic Plan to guide

economic development - not

perceived

• Rail - North/south and east/west • Affordable housing

• Transport in and through NBC • Environment sustainability

• Social gathering points/places • Trains

• Access to university • Rail/metro

• affordable housing to support lower

paid workers

• Innovation in cars/technology -

car/ride sharing, drive less, apps

• Public transport and roads • Rail

• With increasing tendencies for

universities to have multiple

campuses, northern beaches should

advocate for a campus locally

• Inclusive tourism - disability, tourism,

industry, accessible, affordable short

and long term, breaks/holidays and

leisure

• Planning for ageing isolation and

social (housing, connectedness)

• Encourage cycling - provide better

infrastructure and raise awareness

through educating car drivers

• Do not accept high/medium growth

targets

• Really support visitor economy - build

some motels

• Better transport corridors - reduce

travel time

• Support innovation particularly youth

led

• More nightlife • Light rail (no brainer)

• Dedicated Uber pick-up spots in busy

areas like shopping centres and

beaches

• Pathetic public transport to Auslink

Business Park - creates serious limit

on its viability/access to staff

• Provision of social housing for key

workers

• Promote web based businesses -

work without commuting

• Less cars more active transport • Connect NBN to NB

• Encourage provision of cheaper

shared office space for new business

• Micro Tourism (AirBnB)

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