Council is excited to present a completely refreshed, up-to-date and fit-for-purpose draft Community Strategic Plan (CSP) - setting the course for our City and community over the next 25 years!
The CSP is the City's highest level planning document, setting the vision and direction for all other plans at Council.
Developed with community input, the plan identifies key topics that our community is passionate about, our aspirations for the future, and how we can achieve our long-term goals.
This is the last opportunity to have your say before the draft CSP is finalised and endorsed by Council!
How to have your say!
Submissions are welcome until 9am on Wednesday 11 June 2025. You can have your say via:
Or in person on the following dates:
- Saturday 17 May (9am - 2pm) - Newington Marketplace
- Sunday 18 May (10am - 12pm) - Ermington Shopping Town
- Thursday 22 May (11am - 1pm) - Parramatta Square
- Saturday 24 May (10am - 12pm) - North Rocks Shopping Centre
- Saturday 31 May (9am - 11am) - Binalong Park, Toongabbie
- Sunday 1 June (10am - 12pm) - Rawson Street Carpark, Epping
Scroll down to learn more and have your say!
Council is also currently exhibiting the
Draft Delivery Program, Operational Plan and Budget (DPOP), and Draft Resourcing Strategy including Asset Management Strategy, Long-Term Financial Plan and Workforce Management Strategy. These plans outline Council's response to the new draft CSP over the next 10 years. You can view these documents and have your say
here.
A new vision!
The draft community vision statement for the Community Strategic Plan 2025-2050 is:
"AT Parramatta: Local Heart, Global Outlook"
This community vision for 2050 captures what we have always celebrated about Parramatta: it stands as the cultural and geographic heart of our local region, a role it will proudly uphold for generations to come.
The vision highlights the remarkable progress our City and community have achieved, and the ambition and innovate outlook driving us toward an even brighter future as a true global city – incorporating our Parramatta 2050 global vision.
The proposed pillars
Our draft CSP is organised under five new pillars – representing the high-level directions we want to see for our City over the next 25 years.
Draft outcomes, strategic actions and indicators
Each pillar outlines long-term objectives and actions to achieve the vision, including:
- Outcomes – the aspirations we would like to realise for our City by the year 2050 (“Where do we want to be?”);
- Strategic Actions – the steps we need to take as a City to achieve the desired outcomes (“How will we get there?”).
- Indicators – high level measures of success for each outcome, to be reported on, among other data as available, through the life of the CSP (“How will we know we’ve arrived?”).
With the CSP being a vision for the whole City and community, Council's role in any of these actions may be a combination of Delivery (D), Partnership (P) or Advocacy (A).
We will rely on many partners including other levels of government, businesses, non-government organisations, community groups and individuals to achieve the vision.
Explore a draft pillar!
Below is a page from the draft CSP for the pillar 'We put people first', detailing how we will become "an equitable and socially connected city".
To explore the content for each pillar, download the full document HERE.
Next steps
All submissions will be reviewed and will inform a final draft version of the Community Strategic Plan 2025-2050 to be presented to a Council meeting in late June. Please follow this page to receive updates.
