Community Needs Assessment - Hawkesbury City Council
Community Needs Assessment - Hawkesbury City Council
Community Needs Assessment - Hawkesbury City Council
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1.4 METHODOLOGY<br />
The purpose of the community needs assessment is to identify the needs of the existing and proposed<br />
population in the area for community services and facilities, identify the existing service provision in the<br />
area, and provide recommendations on the provision of services associated with the planning proposal to<br />
provide an evidence base for the development of a Voluntary Planning Agreement (VPA).<br />
Urbis multi-disciplinary team previously provided a range of services in relation to planning for the future<br />
of the North Richmond development, including a Social Infrastructure <strong>Assessment</strong> 2 for senior‟s housing<br />
development on adjacent land.<br />
Our methodology aims to build on this existing understanding, and utilise contemporary data sources, to<br />
assess the existing and potential future needs of the community in North Richmond.<br />
The following tasks have been complete as part of this project:<br />
• Review of policy context and background documents - Review of State and local government policies<br />
relevant to the proposed development, and relevant background documents including previous<br />
studies and planning proposals<br />
• Demographic analysis – Analysis of the characteristics of the population of North Richmond and the<br />
wider <strong>Hawkesbury</strong> LGA, utilising Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Census data, Socio-Economic<br />
Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2006 data, information available from the Department of Planning and<br />
Infrastructure and <strong>Hawkesbury</strong> <strong>Council</strong> and analysis of crime data from NSW Bureau of Crime<br />
Statistics and Research (BOCSAR)<br />
• Population forecasting – Forecasting of the size and demographic characteristics of the new<br />
population at the site, and new release projections from the Department of Planning and<br />
Infrastructure<br />
• Social infrastructure audit – Audit of existing services and facilities in the surrounding area, including<br />
a review of previous social infrastructure audit studies and the identification of additional services and<br />
facilities, capacity and opportunities within a specified catchment of the site<br />
• Consultation - Telephone consultation with up to five service providers and <strong>Council</strong> officers in order to<br />
identify the existing levels of service provision, capacity and funding issues, and the potential impact<br />
of the proposed development<br />
• Benchmarking – Comparison of the existing and proposed level of provision of services and facilities,<br />
against best practice benchmarks<br />
• Recommendations – Recommendations for the size, type and location of social infrastructure needed<br />
to support the growing population in the area.<br />
2 Social Infrastructure <strong>Assessment</strong> – North Richmond (2007) Urbis on behalf of NRJV.<br />
6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<br />
URBIS<br />
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