Council has developed a Community Participation Plan to make community participation in local and regional planning matters easier and clearer for the community.

It is more important than ever to make sure we have the right balance of housing, infrastructure and services, while facilitating employment opportunities and looking after our beautiful environment.

This is a big task – made even bigger by the large geographic area we are responsible for. Community participation is essential to inform how we make planning decisions within the legislative framework in which we operate.

The Community Participation Plan was developed based on your feedback during community consultation on the Community Engagement Strategy (which previously included the Community Participation Plan).

We then exhibited the Community Participation Plan separately to make sure we got it right.

We invited the community to have their say on the Community Participation Plan (Draft) by:

• Completing the submission form (below)
• email: engageme@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au or
• Write to Council: PO Box 20, Wyong NSW 2259.

Submissions closed Monday 2 June 2025.

Your attention is drawn to the provisions of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 which allows for possible access to certain public and personal documentation. View our privacy statement.

Thank you to those who made a submission. We received 5 submissions in total.

To learn more about the feedback received and Council's response, view the 26 August Council meeting report (page 35-41).

Following the exhibition period, the final Community Participation Plan was progressed as follows:

If you have any further questions about this project, please contact madeleine.evans@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au