We'll be holding pop-up stalls across the Local Government Area at these locations:
- 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
Hard copies of the draft Community Strategic Plan 2025-2050 can be found on display at Council libraries during public exhibition.
Also on public exhibition and available in libraries, are the draft Delivery Program 2025-2029, Operational Plan and Budget 2025/26, and other strategies as part of the Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework required of Councils.
To inform the development of this plan, Council has drawn on the views of more than 4,013 people across community engagement efforts undertaken in 2023–2024.
In 2024, Council ran a broad community campaign inviting feedback that would inform the development of this plan. The campaign had an audience of 138,773 and more than 1,600 community members participated in activities including the City of Parramatta’s first 100 Forum.
This feedback, along with an extensive body of community engagement results from 2023–2024 on a variety of strategic projects, forms the basis for the Community Strategic Plan 2025–2050.
Visit pages 24 and 25 in the draft Community Strategic Plan for more detail on the community's influence on this document.
Or download the Engagement Evaluation and Key Findings HERE.
Across our pop-ups in the Council wards, an all-day forum held at Parramatta Town Hall and a city-wide online survey, key themes emerged including:
- Macroeconomic conditions are impacting the community. The cost of living, housing costs and issues relating to affordability resonate with the City of Parramatta community.
- Traffic and transport planning needs attention. This includes issues relating to parking, public transport infrastructure, and accessible transport.
- Environmental sustainability and access to green space including parks, sports facilities, and play spaces is of high value to the community and considered important for its health and wellbeing.
Other insights can be found in the Engagement Evaluation and Key Findings HERE.
