It’s time to rate your neighbourhood and provide thoughts on what’s needed to make Noosa’s suburbs and villages even better places to live.
Noosa 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,” Cr Stewart 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.“
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 Cr Clare Stewart said.
Simply complete the survey and you 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,” Ms Tucker said.
“Anecdotal evidence suggests more people are selecting nature, the outdoors as well accessibility of local amenity, as being important in their ideal neighbourhood.
“We really want to be able to delve down into good quality information and we really want to work with the community to provide us with that information.“
Ms Tucker said the survey would provide diverse information broken down into specific suburbs and aged groups.
“This really enables us to tailor our services and facilities to particular communities.“
Cr Stewart said, “Please take the time to share what really matters to you and how your local neighbourhood is performing.”
Take the survey at placescore.org/noosa
