Warrigah Council on Sydney’s northern beaches has just launched an online conversation about its Draft Community Management Plan. The Strategic Community Plan is the annual planning document for Warringah and contains a ten year strategic direction and financial forecast including: Proposed operational budget 2010-2011 Proposed budget and service delivery for 2010-2014 Proposed Fees and Charges … Continue reading →

Willoughby City Council in Sydney’s north has this afternoon launched an online discussion about its draft Smoke Free Environment Policy. This is the third such online consultation we have seen recently, with Bega Valley Shire having a similar conversation right now, and Greater Taree having hosted a similar discussion up until a couple of weeks … Continue reading →

Greater Taree City Council on the New South Wales mid north coast has this morning launched an online discussion and participatory budget. Council has asked the community to talk about upsides and downsides of a special rates levy increase to fund a long list of infrastructure projects. The message on the site from local Mayor, … Continue reading →

Willoughby City Council has just launched its latest online forum about its draft Local Environment Plan (LEP). For those not in the know, a local environment plan is the statutory plan that controls the kinds of developments that can take place in different parts of the city – think residential, commercial, light industrial, heavy industrial, … Continue reading →

Hornsby Shire Council on Sydney’s far north shore has launched round two of its online consultation about its draft housing strategy. Last year, round one of the consultation reaped well over 1000 comments making it one of the largest responses we have seen for a local issue. It’ll be interesting to see how the community … Continue reading →

Broken Hill City Council in the far west of New South Wales has launched a new online consultation about it waste management strategy, Let’s Talk Rubbish. “Do you aim to reduce, recycle, reuse and recover? Do you get rubbish rage because Broken Hill does not have a recycling service? Do you really know what you … Continue reading →

Bega Valley Shire Council launched its latest online consultation yesterday. They are asking their community to talk about introducing smoke free outdoor areas. Council have put two questions to community. First, “do you agree that Council should restrict smoking in outdoor areas” and second, “do you agree with all of areas included in the draft … Continue reading →

On a visit to South Australia last week I didn’t quite believe what I was hearing when told that the Government had moved to ban anonymous comments in online forums. This post is possibly old news to some of you (I know Craig Thomler blogged about it a while ago) but I wanted to write … Continue reading →

The City of Red Deer, in Alberta Canada, this weeks launched its online community engagement portal, Let’s Talk Red Deer, by asking the community to talk about parks, specifically the the parks that make up its Draft River Valley & Tributaries Park Concept Plan. The City of Red Deer is the second local government Bang … Continue reading →

Bankstown City Council (Sydney) yesterday launched its first online community forum as part of the community engagement strategy for its ten year community plan. The Plan will identify the social, environmental, economic and civic leadership issues that are important to the community. These issues will be reflected in Council’s future planning as well as in … Continue reading →

The NSW Government has launched a series of forums for the community to have direct input to important issues. First up are discussions related to the Metropolitan Transport Plan and the Health Reforms. The platform is called Shape Your State and it seems likely that all sorts of other key NSW issues will be added … Continue reading →