Community Engagement Strategy 2025

Council has developed a draft Community Engagement Strategy and Community Participation Plan, and is pleased to present it for the community’s review and feedback.

This strategy informs Council's engagement approach across the organisation and is accompanied by a Community Participation Plan which details how Council informs and notifies the community around planning functions.

These documents are requirements for Council under both the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 and Local Government Act 1993.

In addition to meeting these legislative requirements, the purpose of the draft Community Engagement Strategy is to:

• Provide staff and Councillors with a strategy to guide Lismore City Council’s approach to informing and engaging with our community.
• Use the strategy within Lismore City Council’s governance framework to promote best-practice community engagement within the whole organisation.
• Provide a commitment to our community about how, what and when we inform and/or engage with them about Council business.

Council resolved at its ordinary meeting on 13 May 2025 to place the draft Community Engagement Strategy on public exhibition from 14 May until 12 June 2025.

The draft Community Engagement Strategy and Community Participation Plan can be viewed online or in hardcopy at our Corporate Centre, 43 Oliver Avenue, Goonellabah.

We value your feedback and appreciate any input you may have.

You can provide your feedback via a submission in the following ways:

• Online - see the submission form below
• In writing to the General Manager, Lismore City Council, PO Box 23A, Lismore, NSW 2480
• Via email to council@lismore.nsw.gov.au

The Community Engagement Strategy and Community Participation Plan is on public exhibition and open for submissions until 4.30pm, Thursday 12 June 2025.