Shaping our Future 2040

The Port Macquarie-Hastings’ draft Shaping Our Future 2040 (Shaping our Future) is Port Macquarie-Hastings Council’s Local Strategic Planning Statement (LSPS).

The draft Shaping Our Future has been developed to address a new requirement for local councils to prepare and make an LSPS for their areas. When endorsed, the Statement will provide the basis for strategic planning in the area to guide the local community towards a 20-year strategic planning vision.

Shaping Our Future :

• Highlights the values and characteristics of our Local Government Area (LGA);
• Identifies the opportunities and challenges facing our LGA;
• Outlines how growth and change will be managed to accommodate and reflect our community’s needs;
• Informs our local community about how Council and the community will work together to achieve the long term social, environmental and economic aspirations of the community; and
• Integrates land-use planning across the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act) and the Local Government Act.

The draft Shaping Our Future includes 19 Planning Priorities in five themes (Our environment, Our places, Our connections, Our economy and Enabled by infrastructure) to achieve our planning vision for the Port Macquarie-Hastings LGA to 2040. It sets out the actions and the means for monitoring and reporting on these actions.

Viewing Shaping Our Future

We have created a number of ways that you can view Shaping Our Future:

• To gain a comprehensive understanding of Shaping Our Future read the full document (approximately 180 pages). You can also view individual chapters of the document.
• For an overview of Shaping Our Future, you can read our summary document (approximately 20 pages) or view our video summary (11 minutes) available in the right hand column (or below if viewing this page on a mobile device).
• The proposed actions to achieve our vision can be seen in the draft implementation plan.

Have your say

You’re invited to review the draft Shaping our Future and provide your feedback. All comments will be considered before finalising the draft document for endorsement by the Councillors at a future Council meeting.

The draft Shaping Our Future will be available for comment until Tuesday 22 September 2020. During that time, the document can be downloaded from the Document Library (to the right or below if viewing this page on a mobile device).

Please share your thoughts with us on the draft Shaping Our Future :

• Provide us your feedback via the submission tab below; or
• Send an email to council@pmhc.nsw.gov.au; or
• Post your response to Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, PO Box 84, Port Macquarie NSW 2444.

Your feedback should be received no later than Tuesday 22 September 2020.