Warringah's Housing Future - TOTT Results explained

Process for the Prioritisation of Housing Centres in

the Warringah Housing Strategy

The Talk of the Town Community Summit held on Sunday 23 May 2010 at Dee Why RSL was attended by 440 residents and ratepayers of Warringah, as well as local Councillors, local MPs, representatives of the Department of Planning and observers from other local authorities.

Participants were asked to provide their views on the issue of “Housing in Warringah”. This was done through a number of interactive sessions. In the TOTT 2010 Key Pad Session people were asked to express their attitudes about living in Warringah as well as population growth issues.

Specific questions included; “Where should dwellings go?”, “Which Housing Centres are suitable for Additional Dwellings?”, “Which Housing Centres are unsuitable for Additional Dwellings?” and “What will Warringah look like in the future?”.

The attendees were then asked to participate in a series of “Sticker Sessions” which were designed to allow them to nominate where they did and did not want additional dwellings in Warringah.

Sticker Session No. 1 – Where should additional dwellings go in Warringah?
In this early session, attendees were asked to place stickers on a map of Warringah to express where they thought additional dwellings should go. The results indicated that people distributed additional dwellings fairly evenly across Warringah.

Sticker Session No. 2 – Where should dwellings not go in Warringah?
This session focused on the identification of areas where participants did not support additional dwellings in Warringah. The results indicated that the coastal suburbs of Dee Why, Narrabeen, Collaroy and Freshwater were not seen as desirable locations for additional housing.

Sticker Session No. 3 – Participants Asked to reach a Consensus
The third sticker session was based on each table reaching consensus and it was these results which were used to determine the priority of the housing centres for the draft Warringah Housing Strategy.

Each table was given 10 stickers, each representing 1000 dwellings. Participants were asked, as a table, to reach consensus and to place the stickers on a map of the Warringah where they thought the additional 10,300 dwellings should be accommodated.

The following documents incorporate the analysis of Sticker Session 3:

• Warringah – Map of "Potential Centres with Grid"
• Results of Sticker Session 3 - Spreadsheet - Raw Data
• Warringah - Mapped Results of Sticker Session 3

The document titled "Warringah - Potential Centres with Grid" is a map of Warringah, including potential housing centres, non-urban land and grid lines. The grid lines were used to enable accurate analysis of the placement of stickers on each map. This is an exact copy of the map which participants at the Talk of the Town used to place their stickers. You will need to refer to this map in order to understand the numerical results contained within the results spreadsheet.

In order to determine how to prioritise the centres, Council Officers verified the placement of the stickers on each map and calculated the number of stickers within each grid cell. It should be noted that when a sticker was split over multiple cells, the dwellings numbers were split between the selected cells.

The raw data of the sticker session results have been included within the spreadsheet titled "Results of Sticker Session 3 - Spreadsheet - Raw Data". The rows identify the table number and the columns represent each grid cell on the map. For example “Table 8” allocated 1,000 dwellings to cell G14.

After the analysis was completed, the results were incorporated into the map "Warringah - Mapped Results of Sticker Session 3". This map provides a graphical representation of the results for the sticker session.

As can be seen, the Housing Centres (and non-urban land areas) were rated in order from most suitable to least suitable as follows:

1. Frenchs Forest – 53,100 (however, this area is subject to the State Significant Site announcement, hence is no longer the top centre for the housing strategy)
2. Narraweena – 43,800
3. Manly Vale – 39,700
4. Forestville – 32,900
5. Terrey Hills (Non Urban Area) – 32,250
6. Glenrose – 23,700
7. Collaroy Plateau – 15,500
8. Dee Why – 6,500
9. Collaroy – 5,400
10. Narrabeen – 5,200
11. Freshwater – 2,800

• TOTT 2010 Key Pad Session Results
• Warringah – Map of "Potential Centres with Grid"
• Results of Sticker Session 3 - Spreadsheet - Raw Data
• Warringah - Mapped Results of Sticker Session 3