We review our plan every four years to ensure when our new Councillors come on board after a Local Government election, there is a clear direction from the community on what is important to them.

The next review will begin before the 2028 Council elections.

Your input helps shape the future of the MidCoast and sets our path for 2025-2035. We include priorities from the Community Strategic Plan when we develop actions in annual plans. Some actions are Council’s responsibility to deliver. For other actions, we work with community, State and Federal Government stakeholders to support their delivery of outcomes.

VIEW THE COMMUNITY STRATEGIC PLAN 2025-2035

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More than 870 visits were made to the Have Your Say page during the draft document public exhibition period. We received 38 submissions from the community. Not all submissions requested changes to the Draft Plan.

The plan was adopted by the elected Council at the 26 March 2025 Ordinary Meeting.

We received 38 submissions during the public exhibition.

• 16 submissions related to paper subdivisions, specifically at North Arm Cove. This issue has been considered as part of Council’s Draft Local Environmental Plan which is currently awaiting final approval from the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure.
• 13 submissions related to single or multiple service or facility requests, which would be requests or actions arising from the outcomes of the draft document.
• Five submissions requested more action on the issue of domestic violence. Council continues to work with the responsible agencies to support their efforts to reduce domestic violence in our region.
• Three submissions either commented on, asked for clarification, or recommended changes to the structure or contents of the draft document.

Based on community feedback, the following actions have been updated and can be viewed in the change register document:

• amend strategy NE-3 to identify the need to manage as well as reduce waste going to landfill and to remove the actions to be consistent with other strategies (pages 7, 48)
• amend strategy PI-2 to include the need to meet housing supply and demand, not just improving housing options (pages 7, 56)
• amend strategy EP-1 to recognise the need to attract new businesses to the MidCoast, as well as grow existing businesses (pages 7, 64-5)
• amend strategy L-2 to include the need to advocate for services as well as funding and infrastructure for the MidCoast (pages 7, 77)
• include a statement to clarify that the focus areas do not stand alone but support each other to achieve the vision for the MidCoast (page 33)
• a footnote be added to explain that there is currently a lack of data available to establish a measure for some outcomes in the draft plan. New measures will be developed during the first year of the draft plan’s implementation (page 35)
• removal of several measures from the draft plan, because those measures are appropriately located in Council’s operational documents and reporting (pages 50, 55, 59-60)
• edit / correction: to strategy L-3 to algin with information on the ‘plan on a page’ (page 77).