North Perth took time on Monday to look at North Perth’s Municipal Strategic Plan update.
The municipality has been looking to the future and looking at feedback and the vision of the future.
The public was encouraged to provide their thoughts on the what they vision the future of the community to be but as Catherine Oosterbaan of Oosterbaan Strategy says, the responses were lower than they had hoped.
“We did receive 57 responses from the community survey, we had 5 people show up for community consultations, not a huge amount of engagement.”
From the responses, a breakdown was taken of positives in the community, negatives, opportunities for growth to improve as well as threats which could cause issue in the municipality.
Positives in the community included regular public engagement and connection, recreation programs, parks, plenty of community assets such as schools, churches and sports as well as the growth of new businesses.
As far as some negatives seen, many pointed towards traffic and speeding, affordable housing, a lack of things to do at night in downtown as well as increasing crime and access to healthcare.
Some opportunities for growth were listed as improving childcare options, infrastructure planning, commercial building diversification and the coming Huron Perth AG Science Centre.
For threats to the growth of the community, some listed were the cost of living, staff attraction and retention, generational dynamics, increasing divisiveness and space constraints.
