Community engagements
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e are committed to building open, transparent and active relationships with you – through meaningful Community Engagement.
For example, extensive Community Engagement informed our Hornsby Park and Westleigh Park draft master plans, perhaps the two most ambitious projects ever undertaken by Hornsby Shire Council.
The seven core principles underpinning Council’s Community Engagement Policy are that Community Engagement is:
The draft master plans for Hornsby Park and Westleigh Park were unveiled for community feedback in April 2021.
Strategy-led Proactive Open and inclusive Easy Relevant Timely Meaningful.
We engage with the community by: Building open, transparent and active relationships
with you Continuously exploring better, smarter ways that
we engage with you.
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Hornsby Shire Council
Hornsby Park will be an exciting destination parkland that includes the rehabilitated Hornsby Quarry, while Westleigh Park will be a sports and recreation complex with multiple facilities. The estimated total cost for Hornsby Park is $130 million, and for Westleigh Park some $80 million. A core component of any Council project of such magnitude is the extensive public consultation that was undertaken to make sure that the community has a sense of ownership by making you an active part of the project planning process. Similarly, Hornsby Shire Council has prepared a Play Plan to guide the planning, design, management and maintenance of playgrounds and other play opportunities across the Hornsby Shire over the next 10 years.
