Evaluating Community Opinion about the proposed City of Boundary Change

May 2015

CATALYSE® empowering decision makers © 2015 Introduction and research method ......

• Under the proposed Act, the City of Perth Home ownership would be expanded to include parts of Crawley, Nedlands and Subiaco that are within the ’s existing Own/have mortgage 90% boundaries. Rent 8% • There are approximately 1,337 affected properties in the City of Subiaco. Other 1% • To evaluate local resident and ratepayer opinion about Refused 1% the proposed changes, the City commissioned CATALYSE Suburb Pty Ltd, an independent research company, to conduct a phone survey. Crawley 39% • Surveys were completed using Computer Assisted Nedlands 45% Telephone Interviewing (CATI) by the Edith Cowan University Survey Research Centre. Subiaco 16% • 124 surveys were completed between 22 and 31 May. Gender • There was a very high response rate with 87% of Male 40% contacted ratepayers agreeing to participate in the survey. Female 60% • There is an anticipated skew in age with high property ownership in the sample and property owners more likely Age to be older. Under 55 years 15% 55+ years 85%

2 City of Subiaco properties affected by proposed City of Perth Act ......

• Broadway (28 to 168, even numbers) • Caporn St (13 to 37) • Clark St (5) • Cook St (12 to 32) • Everett St (9 to 40) • Fairway (25 to 159) • Hackett Dr (1) • Hampden Rd (154 to 230, even numbers) • Hardy Rd (1 to 53) • Kanimbla Rd (2 to 50) • Megalong St (1 to 43) • Monash Av (2 to 54) • Myers St (6 to 37) • Park Rd (1 to 20) • Parkway (11 to 41, odd numbers) • Princess Rd (3 to 29) • Stirling Hwy (1 to 20) • Tareena St (3 to 54) • The Avenue (1 to 28) • Winthrop Av (81 to 111)

3 Most ratepayers prefer to stay in the City of Subiaco ...... • 65% of respondents would prefer to stay with the City of Subiaco (±8% at the 95% confidence interval) • Support for staying with the City of Subiaco is highest among ratepayers, females and those living in Nedlands. • Around 19% have no preference or are unsure. Renters are more likely to express this view. • Only 16% of respondents would prefer to join the City of Perth (±6% at the 95% confidence interval)

Prefer Prefer No 65.3% prefer to 16.1% prefer Sample City of City of Preference Size STAY with the to JOIN the Subiaco Perth / Unsure City of Subiaco City of Perth Own/have 112 68% 16% 16% mortgage Rent 10 40% 10% 50%

Crawley 48 52% 21% 27%

Nedlands 56 77% 13% 11%

Subiaco 20 65% 15% 20%

11.3% have no preference Male 49 55% 22% 22% and 7.3% are unsure Female 75 72% 12% 16%

Q. Under the proposed City of Perth Act, the City of Perth’s boundaries would be expanded to include parts of Crawley, Subiaco and Nedlands. This is likely to include the area where you live. Would you prefer to be part of the [insert council] or the [insert council]? 4 RANDOMISE ORDER: City of Subiaco / . Base: All respondents (n = 124) CATALYSE® Pty Ltd ABN 20 108 620 855

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