Does your council have a consistent view of the future? Are the engineers using the biggest forecast numbers as they want to build big pipes, whilst the community services department is using smaller forecasts as they’re terrified that they won’t be able to stretch the funding to meet the demand?

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Councils make their population forecasts available to the public in the demographic resource centre, so community groups, investors, business people, students and the general public can access detailed population forecasts for local area.

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