SOCIAL
IMPACT SCOPING AND ASSESSMENT

Brief

1      Objectives

 

• a) To provide a scoping and assessment of key
  social impacts to professional standards[1]
• b) Produce a document which provides clarity to the
  public about the key social impacts associated with the proposal, possible ways
  they may be addressed, and the scope of future assessment.
• c) To ensure the creation of a cohesive, connected,
  caring, safe and equitable community in the development of the Redfern and
  Waterloo and South Eveleigh public housing areas.
• d) To ensure the social impacts associated with
  future social housing tenants and private housing occupation in Draft BEP 2 is
  assessed.
• e) To make recommendations to achieve the above
  which are: i) tangible and deliverable, ii) effective, iii) within the ability
  of the proponent to deliver, iv) timely and durable, v) assessed for their own
  impacts.

2      Purpose

The purpose of this Request for Quotation (RFQ) is to
seek proposals from suitably qualified organisations to prepare a report which
provides a Social Impact Assessment and Social Impact Statement for the
development of BEP 2. The report is to be undertaken in three stages:

 

• Stage
  1: Provide a Social Impact Assessment and Statement of the BEP 2 based on
  preliminary dwelling forecasts as anticipated by Draft BEP 2 ; and
• Stage
  2: Refine the Social Impact Assessment and Statement based on any revision to
  dwelling forecasts based on any revision to built form, and/or release of 2011
  census information;
• Stage
  3: To set out the scope for undertaking a Social Impact Assessment for the
  wider Redfern Waterloo precinct renewal.

3      Study
Area

The
Study Area is generally the Housing NSW Redfern and Waterloo concentrated sites
and South Eveleigh, as shown in Attachment A and marked Draft BEP 2 sites and Housing NSW’s Preliminary Master Plan.
However the consultant will also be required to consider and provide advice on
the Redfern-Waterloo potential precinct based on broad dwelling and job
forecasts.

4      Key
Study Tasks/Methodology

The key study tasks include:

Step 1: SCOPING

Potential
social impacts should be identified, discussed and a process commenced to
address them. There are a number of different social impacts that may occur as
a result of a development and these should be considered in your SIA.  This should include consideration of the
policy documents identified in Part 7 of this Brief (where relevant).   It is anticipated that this section will
include an analysis and key implications for the SIA of the social issues raised
in the consultation already undertaken for the project by HNSW and the
RWA/SMDA.

These include:

• Access and
  mobility
• Accommodation,
  housing and affordability
• Community
  services and facilities
• Community
  structure (severance, cohesion, and identity)
• Crime, public
  safety and anti-social behaviour
• Cultural and
  community values
• Employment
• Health,
  including dementia
• Interaction
  between new development and the existing community
• Local economic
  effects
• Needs of target
  social groups (children and families, older people, young people, Aboriginal
  and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse, people with
  a disability, women)
• Population
  change (size and characteristics)
• Recreation
  facilities
• Residential
  amenity and quality of life
• Safety and risk
  perception in the community
• Social mix and
  its rationale
• Social equity
  (displacement, needs of disadvantaged groups).

Many
social impacts will be not be able to be meaningfully assessed at the BEP2
phase and will be required to be assessed at the masterplan or at an individual
development application stage. As such the consultant should identify:

• impacts to be
  assessed at the Preliminary SIA stage
• impacts to be
  assessed at later stages, and
• scope of the
  assessment to occur at the later stages, e.g. CPTED requirements for individual
  development assessments.

Community involvement at the
scoping phase

Affected communities
must be consulted early in the project.

Affected
communities include:

• Social housing
  residents who live in, or near, the development sites;
• Private
  residents who live nearby;
• Those who work
  nearby;
• Community
  groups who work in the area, or work with existing social housing residents;
• The affordable
  housing sector which operates in the area;
• Those who have
  an interest in the proposal but may not live in close proximity, for example,
  precinct committee, neighbourhood centres, Chamber of Commerce.

Additionally
Housing NSW and the City of Sydney Council must be consulted.

Feedback
provided through the exhibition of draft BEP 2 and through Housing NSW’s capacity
building activities must also be reviewed.

It may be
necessary to translate information into community languages or include
translators in any information gathering process.

Step 2: COMMUNITY PROFILING

The SIA
must provide a detailed community social profile of the affected area covering
both the current and forecast community profile.

The size
of the local community, particularly those living within the sites, and details
of that community are essential. The social profile should include:

• Demographic
  data which should correspond as closely as possible to the defined community
  including current and projected population data and target group data (number
  of young people, older people, children, people with a disability,
  socio-economic profile, CALD community, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  community). This may require a description at Census Collector District level. This
  should consider the population in 2012 and be undertaken for both:

• the affected
  public housing community; and
• the broader
  Redfern Waterloo potential precinct (operational) area.

• Analysis of the
  demographic profile of the affected area and how they will be affected by the
  proposal. An analysis of social trends and forecast of the future populations,
  demographic profile and needs of different groups, particularly considering
  different needs and impacts of the future social, affordable and private
  housing residents. This should also be undertaken for both the affected public
  housing community and the broader Redfern Waterloo potential precinct
  (operational) area.
• Analysis of
  affordable housing needs for the Redfern Waterloo area.
• Summary of
  neighbouring community services and facilities and any major institutions
  located in the area.
• Summary of open
  space in the area.
• Significant
  social or cultural issues relevant to the affected area.

This must
include consultation with the City of Sydney Social Planning Coordinator.

Step 3: PREPARE a Preliminary Social Impact Statement

The Preliminary
SIS must provide an assessment and scoping of the social impacts associated
with the proposal based on the research, consultation, and analysis undertaken and
should cover:

• All social
  impacts, both positive and negative, direct and indirect, long term and short
  term, passing and accumulating impacts. This should include proposed open space
  and community facilities, including on-going
  maintenance strategies and
  other public benefits from renewal.
• How the key
  matters identified in consultation with the community, City of Sydney, SMDA and
  Housing NSW staff have been addressed.
• Strategies and
  measures to mitigate, manage and monitor positive and negative impacts to
  achieve improved social outcomes for the renewal.
• Mitigation
  measures to reduce negative impacts and enhance positive impacts.

Step 4: PREPARE a brief for a
Comprehensive Social Impact Statement

The brief
should be accompanied by a process for staging the provision of any future SIS.

Outputs:

Social Impact
Assessment /Social Impact Study

Key outputs required in your Report are:

1. DESCRIPTION (including maps and drawings where relevant) of the proposal
   including the proposed social, affordable and private resident and/or
   worker profile.

1. The likely PROFILE of residents and workers affected by the
   proposal.
2. Identification of the types of SOCIAL CHANGES that may occur as a
   result of the proposal, especially noting social mix and the relocation of
   some social housing to other locations within the City of Sydney LGA,
   including positive and negative, long term and short term, passing, and
   accumulating changes.
3. The PROBABLE IMPACT of the change, including impacts likely to
   affect minority groups, marginalised groups, different age, income and cultural
   groups and future generations.
4. Identification of the RELATIVE EQUITY of the impacts, and how
   benefits and losses will be distributed to different community sectors,
   particularly considering the social, affordable and private housing
   residents.
5. Feedback from stakeholders and residents gathered through CONSULTATION.
6. Assess potential demand for COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES from the
   expected new community and how this will impact on access by the existing
   community, and demand for OPEN SPACE.
7. A Preliminary ANALYSIS of negative and positive impacts, direct and
   indirect impacts likely to affect minority groups, marginalised groups,
   different age, income and cultural groups, and future generations.
8. A Preliminary SOCIAL IMPACT STATEMENT summarising the research and
   consultation outcomes, including ways to maximise positive and minimise negative
   impacts. This should identify the scope of assessment for all impacts not
   assessed as part of the preliminary social impact assessment including:

–      identification of impacts
to be assessed,

–      the stage in the
development process when they would be best assessed

–      possible assessment
methodologies,

–      key stakeholders who may be
involved at these later stages of assessment.

9. Preliminary PLANS and strategies for MONITORING AND MITIGATING the
   impacts of the proposed development if it proceeds, recognising that the
   development is to be staged over a 25 year period.
10. DEFINE how the recommendations from the SIS should integrate with
    other aspects of the planning and development process.
11. A BRIEF for a Comprehensive Social Impact Statement

 

Source: Brief supplied by SMDA 21 Feb 2012