Registrations open for Lennox Head Strategic Plan Community Reference Group

Registrations open for the Lennox Head Strategic Plan Community Reference Group

Are you passionate about your community’s future? Ballina Shire Council is calling on locals who live or work in Lennox Head or Skennars Head to register their interest to join a Community Reference Group.

Lennox Head has undergone significant change over the last decade. New subdivisions and housing we see today were planned for in the 2002 Lennox Head Community Aspirations Strategic Plan.

Council has resolved to make a new Lennox Head Strategic Plan 2023-2043 which will cover Lennox Head and Skennars Head from Fig Tree Hill in the North to the southern edge of the Aureus Estate in the south.

The Community Reference Group will play an important role in shaping this new strategic plan. The group will brainstorm the implications of key planning choices for the area and map these issues with Council staff. Members will also be in a prime position to offer and champion ideas to be developed into actions in the plan.

Planning choices are often tough because favouring one outcome can impact another due to the constrained nature of places. For example, a planning choice for more car parking could impact on available public land, or a planning choice for a new commercial area could have negative environmental impacts.

The Community Reference Group will help Council clarify the values and preferences of the Lennox Head community to inform the future planning choices that will make it into the new Lennox Head Strategic Plan.

It is important that a diversity of voices is represented on the Community Reference Group. Selection of members will be based on the following criteria:

  • Geographic location – Where members live or work
  • A balance of business and community representatives
  • Connections with local community groups
  • A diversity of ages and backgrounds
  • Purpose for participation

Spaces will be limited. Members will be required to attend at least three out of five sessions to be held between June and September 2022. Each session will run for 2-3 hours.

Register your interest by Friday 31 May 2022 at ballina.nsw.gov.au/LennoxHeadStrategicPlan

Further opportunities for community feedback, both online and face-to-face, will occur between June and September 2022.

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