Reimagine Lismore Community Strategic Plan 2025 - 2035
Welcome to Reimagine Lismore — shaping our city’s future, together through Lismore’s Community Strategic Plan
Lismore has faced extraordinary challenges in recent years, and now it’s time to come together and create a vibrant, resilient future. Reimagine Lismore is a community-driven initiative, led by the Lismore City Council, to build a long-term vision for our city. This is your chance to help shape the next decade for Lismore, ensuring it’s a place where we can all thrive, feel connected, and be proud to call home.
The MARKYT Community Scorecard Survey is now closed. Thank you to those who provided a response, your feedback is being collated to inform plan development.
Further consultation and engagement activities are being planned for early 2025. Details will be shared shortly across Lismore City Council platforms.
What’s Reimagine Lismore about?
Through Reimagine Lismore, we’re setting a course for the city’s growth, sustainability, and resilience. This project is part of our Community Strategic Plan—a roadmap developed with your input that will guide the Council’s decisions and priorities. We’re committed to a Lismore that reflects our shared values, across the four key pillars of Social | Environmental | Economic | Civic Leadership.
How can you help?
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.
This is your opportunity to share your ideas and priorities to make a lasting impact on the future of Lismore. We’re listening — and every response counts.
What is a Community Strategic Plan?
The Community Strategic Plan (CSP) is a long-term vision and roadmap created to address the priorities, aspirations, and needs of our community. Covering a 10-year period, it outlines what residents want Lismore to look like in the future and sets measurable goals to achieve this vision. The CSP is updated every four years to ensure it remains relevant to the changing needs of the community and is a statutory requirement of the Office of Local Government.
Why is a consultancy being used to run this survey?
The scorecard provides community with the opportunity to freely comment and score Council on a range of areas that impact overall quality of life, including areas impacted by the floods. This process is hosted external to Council to ensure transparency and confidentiality. It also allows Council to benchmark against over 70 other councils across the country.
What further consultation is to be included?
This survey will be open for community feedback from 04 November to 25 November, 2024 and marks the first phase of consultation to gather community feedback to ensure the voice of our residents is included in how we shape the future of Lismore and villages. Council has also conducted numerous consultations via their Your Say website and through direct liaison with various interest groups since the 2022 event. Once complete the Community Scorecard data will be added to all the valuable feedback our community have already shared and this combined information will form the basis for setting the draft areas of focus for the Community Strategic Plan 2025-2035.
In March we will then go back to our community to check that what we think they have told us is correct. This second phase engagement will involve a number of community workshops in Lismore and villages. It is important to Council that we listen to hear from our community, so that our new CSP provides a clear snapshot of their priorities, expectations, and aspirations.
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