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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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I love the Northern Beaches because …
• 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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I love the Northern Beaches because …
• 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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What is your vision for the Northern Beaches?
• 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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What is your vision for the Northern Beaches?
• 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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What is your vision for the Northern Beaches?
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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What is your vision for the Northern Beaches?
• 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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I would like to change three things:
• 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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I would like to change three things:
• 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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I would like to change three things:
• 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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Environment – are any issues missing?
• 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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Environment – are any issues missing?
• 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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Environment – are any issues missing?
• 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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Environment – are there other opportunities
• 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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Environment – are there other opportunities
• 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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Environment – are there other opportunities
• 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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Social – are any issues missing?
• 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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Social – are any issues missing?
• 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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Social – are any issues missing?
• 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
2016/334838 Page 26 of 36
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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Social – are there other opportunities?
• 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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Social – are there other opportunities?
• 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
2016/334838 Page 29 of 36
Social – are there other opportunities?
• 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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Economic – Are any issues missing?
• 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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Economic – Are any issues missing?
• 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
2016/334838 Page 32 of 36
Economic – Are any issues missing?
• 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
2016/334838 Page 33 of 36
Economic - Are there other opportunities?
• 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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Economic - Are there other opportunities?
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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Economic - Are there other opportunities?
• 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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Economic - Are there other opportunities?
• 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)