We're reviewing our Community Walkability Checklist and invite industry practitioners and local councils across the country to complete our short survey.
Your feedback will help us to support the important work you do. We want to ensure that the Checklist is optimised for local council and practitioner use, and to ensure that the future version is as helpful, meaningful and action oriented as possible for the work you do.
Take our survey
Click here to complete the survey.
Depending how much information you wish to provide, it may take between 5-15 minutes.
Every person who completes the industry survey by Wednesday 24 April 2024 and provides an email contact address will be in the draw to receive one of three $50 Prezzee GO Visa eGift vouchers.
The Community Walkability Checklist
The Heart Foundation’s ‘What Australia Wants: Living Locally in Walkable Neighbourhoods’ survey (2020/21) identified the importance to Australians of walkability and living locally in their communities.
The Community Walkability Checklist empowers and enables local community members to advocate for improved built environments that support walking and physical activity as part of everyday life. Their support can help ensure the success of your projects for healthier places.
It helps communities across Australia to review and rate the walkability of their local neighbourhood and to communicate with their local council for improvements.
You may like to download or print the Checklist to use on one of your next projects. This will help you to gain experience of the current Checklist (if you haven’t previously used it) to provide more detailed feedback which will help us improve the Checklist in the future.
In addition to seeking feedback on the Checklist from local councils and industry practitioners, the Heart Foundation is also seeking feedback directly from the walking community.
We'll use the results and analysis from all completed surveys to help inform us about updates and enhancements that we should make. We're also working with researchers at Swinburne University of Technology - Centre for Urban Transitions to help us with this work.
We look forward to sharing insights as they become available.