Our Hawkesbury 2045 – Draft Community Strategic Plan
Our Draft CSP is now on Public Exhibition, and we need your feedback! Submissions close 7 May 2025.
From March 2024 – March 2025, Council has been engaging with the community to review the Community Strategic Plan (CSP) for the Hawkesbury. This has led to the creation of our updated CSP – Our Hawkesbury 2045.
The CSP is the highest-level plan for the next twenty years, created on behalf of the community to reflect its key priorities and aspirations. It outlines strategies to achieve these goals and guides all other Council strategies and plans, including the Delivery Program and Operational Plan.
Council has updated the CSP to reflect the feedback received from our community, detailing the changing needs, challenges and opportunities we have heard about throughout the engagement process.
Many of the items of the previous CSP have been retained, with the major emphasis being an increased focus on the role played by our communities across the region, as well as a realignment of the Community Outcomes to become Strategic Objectives, supported by Strategies, Delivery Partners and Community Indicators.
Council is now seeking your feedback to ensure that the changes made to the plan capture the most important items for Our Hawkesbury by 2045. The plan will then continue to be developed before its final endorsement in June 2025.
Please use the submission button below or the instructions to lodge a formal submission on the draft plan.
The Draft CSP – Our Hawkesbury 2045 can be viewed during the exhibition period on this page or between 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday at Council’s Administration Building, 366 George Street, Windsor. All submissions must be made by 7 May 2025 via this page or via email addressed to the General Manager at council@hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au or mail addressed to the General Manager, PO Box 146, Windsor NSW 2756.
Should you lodge a submission, it will be considered, along with any other submissions received and may be included in Council’s meeting business paper. Your submission, including any personal information, is accessible by any person upon written application, subject to Council’s Privacy Management Plan and the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009. The inclusion of personal information in your submission is voluntary. The information will ultimately be stored in Council’s records system.
The inclusion of personal information with your submission is voluntary. However, if not provided Council will not be able to contact you about the proposal. The information will be stored in Council's electronic records system and paper files. For your protection, Council recommends that you do not include defamatory comments in your submission.
Under Section 10.4(5) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, any person who makes a submission to Council is required to disclose any political donation or gift. Where relevant a Political Donation and Gift Disclosure Statement is to accompany any submission lodged with Council. This statement can be obtained from Council’s Customer Experience Team or on Council’s website.
Any comments about this proposal may contain information that is personal information, such as information that identifies you, etc., for the purposes of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988.
Submissions are balanced with Council’s statutory obligations, the rights of the proponent and the public interest. Council must consider any submissions made before it decides whether to proceed with or abandon a proposal.
