Housing Strategy Submissions - analysis

The following post is a precis and discussion on a post copied from another blog:

Council's findings on the submissions are in
https://businesspapers.hornsby.councilsonline.com.au/Open/2010/PL_07072010_AGN.PDF

It includes: "Submissions raised objections to the Strategy (or aspects of the Strategy), provided constructive feedback on how it could be improved, indicated support for the Strategy, and suggested other precincts for inclusion." This statement might seem to imply that there was a fairly even distribution between these four categories of respondents. However another council document says only 2% of submissions were in favour of the proposal.

Individual precinct analyses are at:
http://www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/uploads/documents/Housing_Strategy_Attachment_2.2.pdf
This reports 443 form letters and 168 individual letters were received regarding Beecroft. Of the 168 individual letters relating to Beecroft, 13% (ie 20 letters) were in favour, 4% suggested alterations (the report doesn't say whether they were for or against) and 83% (140 letters) were against. Of the 443 form letters received only 3 (less than 1%) supported the proposal and 440 were against. So of the 611 submissions, at least 580 (95%) were against the proposal.

So the statement in the main report should really read:
"The overwhelming majority of submissions opposed the Strategy. A small number provided feedback on how it could be improved, and a trivial number supported the Strategy."

This puts a slightly different slant on Beecroft resident's views on the council's proposals. Despite that, Beecroft is still to be rezoned for 5 storey mixed development.