Our Places & Infrastructure Community Outcome
Challenges
Our towns and villages are attractive and engaging places to live. We all have a safe place to call home, and we can grow without losing what we love about living here. We have clean, reliable water and can travel easily and safely around the MidCoast.
• Maintaining the identity of our communities as our population grows • Distance between settlements is a challenge to connecting communities • Limited public transport options • Balancing funding to maintain our existing infrastructure while delivering new infrastructure • Maintaining our growing number of open spaces • Ever-increasing price of housing and lack of affordable housing stock and housing options
Opportunities • Embrace innovative technologies for waste and resource management • Community education and action • Multi-purpose use of public facilities and spaces
Strategy PI-1 Provide safe, accessible and well-maintained community facilities, vibrant streetscapes and public open spaces.
CONTRIBUTORS include
Crown Lands, development community, MidCoast business community, MidCoast Council, NSW Department of Education, NSW Department of Communities and Justice, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, NSW State Forests, sporting and community groups, volunteer groups.
MEASURES MidCoast Baseline (year/period)
Comparative Measure (if available)
Desired Trend
Data Source (frequency of data collection)
Feeling safe using public facilities % of survey participants who agree or strongly agree that they feel safe using public facilities
60%
68% (Micromex Regional Benchmark)
Increase
MidCoast Community Satisfaction Survey9 (3-yearly)
Accessible parking Total number of accessible parking spaces
284
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Increase
MidCoast Council internal data (Ongoing updates)
Environment and surrounds Survey participants’ agreement with the statement “I like the environment and surroundings I live in” 1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree
6.6
6.0 (Regional NSW)
Maintain
University of Canberra Regional Wellbeing Survey12 (Annual)
Indicator
54
MIDCOAST 2035
MIDCOAST 2035
55