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Planning for our community’s future

Blue Mountains Community Strategic Plan 2035 is our highest level long-term plan for our City.

It reflects our vision, aspirations and priorities for the future and outlines how we will work together to achieve these goals. It maps our journey of:

• Where are we now?
• Where do we want to be in 10 years’ time?
• How will we get there?
• How will we know we’ve arrived?

Every 4 years, following an ordinary election of Councillors, the Council must review the Community Strategic Plan (CSP). In preparation for the 2024 Council elections, we've started the process of reviewing and updating our CSP. Any changes to the CSP must be endorsed by the Council by 30 June 2025.

In 2024-25 We are celebrating 25 years of Sustainable Blue Mountains and planning for the next 25 years to 2050.

You can see what has been achieved in the last quarter of a century - download the '25 Years of Sustainable Blue Mountains' timeline here

Community engagement

Council’s role is to guide the community and other key stakeholders through important conversations about what kind of City we want the Blue Mountains to be by 2050 and what the priorities and aspirations of our community are for the future.

We are committed to informed and transparent consultation and decision-making, and Council will use a range of engagement techniques to ensure the community and other stakeholders have an opportunity to have their say and provide meaningful input. The Community Engagement Strategy outlines how we will be consulting and engaging with our community and stakeholders.

• Download our Community Engagement Strategy

Your input will help shape the future of the Blue Mountains to 2050.

Where is this project up to?

We've finalised the engagement reports from:

• Phase 1 engagement - the online survey and input from pop-up markets - regarding what you believe are the greatest achievements in the Blue Mountains, what you value most about our city, and what you believe is most important now for securing a successful tomorrow for everyone.
• Phase 2 engagement - included Community Area Workshops with a demographically representative cross-section of Blue Mountains residents, and engagement with stakeholders who will work with Council to deliver our next Blue Mountains Community Strategic Plan.

These reports are available to review in the "Documents" section of this page.

We're in the process of analysing the results of the community engagement and 25+ years of trend data tracking social, environmental, economic and governance progress measures. This analysis will inform the update the Blue Mountains Community Strategic Plan: Sustainable Blue Mountains 2050.

Blue Mountains City Council's Integrated Planning documents will go on public exhibition in May 2025. Subscribe to this page for further updates.