Get involved in your Community Strategic Plan
Get involved in your Community Strategic Plan
Your Community Strategic Plan sets the course for our city’s growth, sustainability and resilience. With your help we set a roadmap to guide the Council’s decisions, projects, activities and priorities. We’re committed to a Lismore that reflects our shared values, across the five key pillars of Community Strategic Plan:
Complete the Community Scorecard
We need your voice! Your feedback will directly shape Lismore’s priorities and ensure our services reflect what truly matters to our community.
By completing the Community Scorecard Survey, you’ll help us identify the areas and projects where Council should focus, across infrastructure, environmental projects, community programs and economic growth.
Community members aged 14+ are invited to take part in this study. Please submit one response per person by 25 November 2024.
Scan to complete the scorecard: It takes 5-10 minutes. We value your time.
About the Scorecard – Your questions
Q. What is the Scorecard?
A. The scorecard provides the community with score Council on a range of areas that affect impacted by the floods.
Q. Why is a consultancy being used to run this
A. The study is being managed by CATALYSE® Responses will remain confidential in accordance Privacy Principles. This process is hosted external and confidentiality. It also allows Council to across the country.
Q. What further consultation is to be included?
A. In addition to the Community Scorecard, Council consultations with community over the past
In March, Council will be hosting a number and it's villages to engage with the community have told us is correct.
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with the opportunity to freely comment and affect overall quality of life, including areas this survey? CATALYSE® and is a fully independent process. accordance with the Privacy Act and Australian external to Council to ensure transparency to benchmark against over 70 other councils included? Council has also conducted numerous past 18 months. of community workshops across Lismore community again to check that what we think you
Integrated Planning and Reporting for Councils
The Integrated Planning & Reporting (IP&R) framework is how NSW councils plan services and projects within the community. Councils undertake long-term planning based on community-driven aspirations.
Council's role and responsibilities
Lismore City Council is committed to working with our community as well as strategic and industry partners to plan and deliver for a prosperous Lismore.
Service provider Collaborator /partner Advocate
Council is responsible for the direct delivery of:
• Urban and rural roads
• Public amenities
• Waste collection
• Leisure centres
• Parks and gardens
• Footpaths/cycleways
• Art gallery and libraries
• Traffic and city safety
• Sporting facilities
• Playgrounds
• Water and wastewater services
• Regulation and enforcement
• Stormwater management
• Kerbing and guttering
• Airport management
• Environmental planning and protection
• Town planning
• Crematorium and cemeteries
• Tourism services
• Quarry management
• Community and cultural events
Q. How will the Community Scorecard data be
A. Once complete the Community Scorecard feedback our community has shared with us information will form the basis for setting the Strategic Plan 2025-2035.
Q. Why is there only an option to choose three
A. The survey limits priorities to three to help limited resources. If respondents were permitted less differentiation in priorities and it would really matters for residents.
This is your opportunity and priorities to the future of Lismore. and every response
Find out more Or ask us at council@lismore.nsw.gov.au or 6625