Community Needs Assessment - Hawkesbury City Council

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• Grose River Golf Club • Windsor Polo Club • Kurrajong Hills Golf Club • Hawkesbury City Soccer Club • Hawkesbury City Cricket Club • Hawkesbury Baseball Club • Hawkesbury Softball Club • Richmond Club. The majority of these clubs make use of areas of open space in the area, and encompass sporting, social and recreational uses. 6.2.3 YOUTH CENTRES In addition to the youth service at the North Richmond Neighbourhood Centre, there is one youth facility, YMCA Yarramundi Youth Camp, within the 5km radius. The youth facility offers outdoor education and activities, camping, youth leadership programs and holiday programs, and is available to hire for group functions. 6.3 HEALTH SERVICES 6.3.1 COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES There are a number of community health services and medical centres in North Richmond and the Richmond area, including podiatry and physiotherapy services, which are available in the North Richmond Shopping Village Centre. There are also two GP medical clinics, Better Health Medical Centre and North Richmond Family Practice, as well as the Hawkesbury Community Health Centre in Richmond which provides a range of services including nursing, occupational therapy, women‟s services, counselling, palliative care and aged care. There is also a community health centre next to the Hawkesbury District Health Service which is known as the Hawkesbury Community Health Centre – Windsor. This service consists of a Children‟s and Family nursing team and a Primary Health Care nursing team. The latter deals with older people and has a primarily aged clientele. 6.3.2 OTHER HEALTH SERVICES There is one hospital located within 2km of the site, St John of God Hospital Richmond, which is a private psychiatric hospital providing comprehensive and holistic mental health care services. It does not provide outpatient services. Hawkesbury District Health Service located approximately 8km east of the site, offers public and private hospital facilities as well as community health services. The service comprises approximately 127 beds, four operating theatres, 24-hour Emergency Department, after hours GP clinic, day surgery unit, maternity unit among other services. There is also an ambulance service located within 5km of the site. 6.4 AGED CARE There are four dedicated full time aged care centres within 5km of the site, as well as one respite care day facility. 26 SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT URBIS APPENDIX_O_COMMUNITY_NEEDS_ASSESSMENT
Hawkesbury Village aged care, located on Kurrajong Road, to the south of the site, provides high and low level care and includes a hostel and nursing home facility as well as self-care units. Anglicare Chesalon Richmond Nursing Home, located 5km south of the site, provides high level residential aged care, as well as Complex Care Support which helps to assist people with dementia in the home, including personal care, housework, meal preparation and shopping. Kurrajong and District Nursing Home is a high care facility, and Richmond Community & RSL Nursing Home, merged with the RSL club, provides a high care residential nursing home as well as managing retirement units. Anglicare Richmond Day Centre offers respite services for elderly people with dementia, operating three days a week. A new aged care facility is currently being developed on a 27.5ha sized portion of the site as part of the overall development of the site at North Richmond. It will include an 80 bed nursing home as well as 197 independent living units. Hawkesbury Council has a strong emphasis on ageing in place – services are provided through a recently purpose-built Home and Community Care (HACC) Centre known as „Peppercorn Place‟. This is described as a „one-stop-shop‟ and is home to 10 local community organisations that support elderly and disabled residents in the Hawkesbury LGA. 6.4.1 SENIOR CITIZENS‟ CENTRES There is one senior citizens‟ club, Hawkesbury District Senior Citizens Centre, within 5km of the site. The Centre is run by the Richmond Club and offers activities and services for citizens 55 years and over, or 45 years and over for disabled and Indigenous persons. 6.5 EDUCATION The Hawkesbury Residential Land Strategy indicates that Hawkesbury LGA contains 35 public primary schools, nine other primary schools, six public high schools and five other secondary schools. The LGA also has a range of tertiary education opportunities including the University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury Campus, Richmond College of TAFE and a regional community college. 6.5.1 PRIMARY SCHOOLS There are approximately 7 primary schools within 5km of the development site, three of which are located within 2km of the site. These primary schools currently support approximately 1,185 students between four and six years of age. The majority of the primary schools in the area also provide kindergarten places. The nearest primary school to the development site is the Kuyper Christian primary school, located off Redbank Road to the north of the site. The school currently provides primary education to approximately 180 students. The North Richmond Primary School with a current enrolment of 160 students is located adjacent to the site and has sufficient capacity to accommodate growth associated with the proposed development. The other largest primary schools within 5km of the development site are the Hobart Public School, accommodating 460 students, and Grose View Public school, accommodating 330 students. 6.5.2 SECONDARY SCHOOLS There are only two secondary schools within 5km of the site. Colo High School is the nearest high school located to the north east of the site, while Richmond High is located in Richmond town. Annual reports from the school suggest that combined, they support 1,931 students between the ages of five/six to 15/17 years of age. URBIS APPENDIX_O_COMMUNITY_NEEDS_ASSESSMENT SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT 27
Page 1 and 2: Community Needs Assessment North Ri
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary
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Page 13 and 14: 2 Review of Policy Context and Back
Page 15 and 16: • Safer roads. • More housing.
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