6 What you told us

This section discusses the views on the Masterplan and key themes and topics that submitters raised in submissions received during the Masterplan public exhibition period.

6.1 General views on the Masterplan

The views on the Masterplan represented in the submissions include those in support of the Masterplan, those against, those neutral and those with undecided views on the Masterplan and its recommendations. Submissions categorised as ‘support’ express general support for the Masterplan in a letter or email or have selected ‘Support’ or ‘Somewhat Support’ in an Online Feedback Form. Submissions categorised as ‘Against’ express clear objections to the Masterplan in a letter or email or have selected ‘Against’ or ‘Somewhat Against’ in an Online Feedback Form. Submissions categorised as ‘neutral’ do not support or object to the Masterplan in a letter or email or have selected ‘Neutral’ in an Online Feedback Form. Submissions categorised as ‘undecided’ stated indecision for the Masterplan or have selected ‘Undecided’ in an Online Feedback Form.

The Online Feedback Form submissions that have been categorised into ‘support, ‘against’, ‘neutral’ and ‘undecided’ in Figure 12 and 13 have been further broken down and discussed under Section 6.2 ‘Views based on Submission Type’.

Figure 12 shows the general views expressed based on total submissions. The general views based on total authors and households are presented in Figure 13.

Figures 12 and 13 illustrate that approximately half (50 per cent) of submissions indicated general objection to the Masterplan. However, the remaining half of submissions (50 per cent) either indicated support, neutrality or indecision for the Masterplan.

6.2 Views based on Submission Type

As detailed in Section 5.1 ‘Submission Types’, the majority of all submissions received were Online Feedback Forms (64 per cent) that include a sliding scale level of support. A breakdown of the Masterplan views based on type of submission is shown below in Figure 14.