Whakatāne District Council’s Annual Residents Survey will be held between 30 May and 10 June 2014. The results of the Survey, in combination with existing technical data, allows the Council to assess what is being done well and what areas need to be focussed on for improvements.

The Survey is also an opportunity to gain the community’s views on specific projects and proposals, often at the initial investigation stage, and helps determine preferred approaches while not removing or replacing any requirements for direct community consultation.

The Survey follows a telephone interview format with 300 respondents randomly selected from across the District’s five community board areas on a population pro-rata basis. Each interview should take no more than 25 minutes to complete.

Council is also undertaking a postal survey on its development and compliance services. This targets specific users of development and compliance services from the past year, and results of this survey are expected to be available in August this year.