Although our face-to-face engagement activities were a little restricted this year, Have Your Say Bayside remained an important method for staying connected with you all. We published fewer projects than in 2019, but we had more visitors than ever! However, we are looking forward to resuming our face-to-face engagement activities once it is safe to do so.
Engaging during COVID-19
Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, Council had to continue planning for the future. We made some changes to our normal engagement processes to ensure that all our residents still had the opportunity to inform Council decision making. To keep the conversation going we maximised our digital platforms, offered phone and e-meetings, increased our advertising and completed letter box drops.
This year on Have Your Say...
...we published 39 projects and had over 32,000 site visitors!
1,200 of our visitors contributed their thoughts and ideas by completing surveys, dropping pins on a map, or submitting questions and comments. Other visitors read about our projects, viewed important documents, checked key dates and visited our Advocacy Hub.
Our most popular projects this year were our new Local Environmental Plan, #SaveOurBay (the campaign against cruise ships in Botany Bay), upgrades to Barton Park, and Greening Bayside.
Our information pages 'Connecting Communities during COVID-19' were also popular.
Have Your Say projects summary:
These are all the projects that we published on Have Your Say between 1 December 2019 - 1 December 2020.
| Project | Date | Visitors |
|---|---|---|
| Flack Avenue Reserve Playground Upgrade | 20-Nov-20 | 15 |
| Upgrading Barton Park, Banksia | 19-Nov-20 | 4,200 |
| Planning Our Green Spaces | 2-Nov-20 | 1,200 |
| Updates to Development Control Plans | 28-Oct-20 | 201 |
| Changes to Contributions for Local Infrastructure in Arncliffe & Banksia | 15-Oct-20 | 160 |
| Upgrades for Bexley Town Centre | 6-Oct-20 | 443 |
| Managing Flooding in Botany, Pagewood and Banksmeadow | 1-Oct-20 | 182 |
| Draft Housing Strategy | 15-Sep-20 | 1,100 |
| Amendments to 2020-21 Fees & Charges | 3-Sep-20 | 46 |
| 146-154 O'Riordan Street, Mascot - Planning Proposal | 21-Jul-20 | 492 |
| Sandringham Baths - Proposed Changes to Carpark | 10-Jul-20 | 1,500 |
| Tonbridge Reserve Playground Upgrade | 25-Jun-20 | 280 |
| Bona Park Playground Upgrade | 25-Jun-20 | 163 |
| Muller Park Playground Upgrade | 25-Jun-20 | 120 |
| Gilchrist Reserve Playground Upgrade | 14-May-20 | 168 |
| Whitbread Park Playground Upgrade | 14-May-20 | 162 |
| Colson Crescent Reserve Playground Upgrade | 14-May-20 | 147 |
| Marinea Reserve Playground Upgrade | 14-May-20 | 134 |
| Changes to Planning Agreement - Chapel Street Precinct, Rockdale | 8-May-20 | 85 |
| #BackTheBay Business Directory | 5-May-20 | 122 |
| Connecting Communities during COVID-19 (One project with 14 sub-pages) | 9-Apr-20 | 4,342 |
| New Local Environmental Plan for Bayside | 7-Apr-20 | 7,400 |
| New Delivery Program, Operational Plan and Fees & Charges for 2020/2021 | 3-Apr-20 | 527 |
| COVID-19 Business Survey | 3-Apr-20 | 63 |
| 119 Barton Street, Monterey - Planning Proposal & Voluntary Planning Agreement | 24-Mar-20 | 264 |
| New Community Garden for Rockdale | 4-Mar-20 | 148 |
| Greening Bayside | 25-Feb-20 | 1,700 |
| Garrigarrang Early Education and Care Centre | 25-Feb-20 | 1,600 |
| Make a splash in your community join the Botany Aquatic Centre Community Reference Group | 6-Feb-20 | 162 |
| Draft Water Management Strategy | 3-Feb-20 | 355 |
| Improving Parking in Rockdale | 3-Feb-20 | 68 |
| Bonar Street Park and Playground Upgrade | 20-Jan-20 | 177 |
| 1-3 Lord Street, Botany - Planning Proposal & Development Control Plan | 15-Jan-20 | 108 |
| Footway Trading | 13-Jan-20 | 94 |
| Upgrades for Arncliffe Town Centre | 6-Jan-20 | 323 |
| Improving Traffic and Safety in Wolli Creek | 23-Dec-19 | 7 |
| No Cruise Ships in Botany Bay #saveourbay | 6-Dec-19 | 4,300 |
| Community Engagement snapshot for 2019 | 6-Dec-19 | 176 |
| Arncliffe Youth Centre - What You Told Us | 6-Dec-19 | 151 |
| Total: | 32,885 |
Thank you to everyone who engaged with us in 2020 - we look forward to hearing from you in 2021
