• Acknowledge the local Widjabul people of the Bundjalung nation as the custodians of the land.
• Consult the custodial Elders in the approval process for significant developments.
• Respect sacred sites and those of significance to the local peoples of the Bundjalung nation.
• Promote local Aboriginal sites as tourism plans after consultation with the local Elders.
• Develop and maintain the Elders Park in Goonellabah.

• Ensure full and open consultation on future land-use planning, rezonings and other major developments throughout our LGA.
• Commit to economic, environmental and social sustainability principles.
• Support CCP initiatives.

• Support tree preservation programs to protect habitat in urban and rural areas.
• Ensure council’s tree protection orders and policy and procedures enhance the environment while protecting people and property.
• Work with Friends of the Koala to develop a new Plan of Management for Koalas and their habitat
• Protect and enhance remaining remnants of the Big Scrub.
• Provide additional plantings to link where feasible.
• Maintain Rotary Park in conjunction with committee and volunteers.

• Develop practices to ensure a healthy river and riverbank.
• Enhance riverbank facilities and complete Wilson River Redevelopment project.
• Encourage outdoor dining and other appropriate businesses on the riverbank.
• Encourage use of amphitheatre performance space.
• Increase tree planting for shade and visual amenity.
• Develop a tourist brochure and signage markers along river linking historical and interest points.
• Monitor adverse effects of the levee on North and South Lismore in flood situations.
• Restore blue 1974 flood markers.
• Support the SES and emergency services that assist Lismore in times of flood and other natural and man-made disasters.

• Monitor water levels at Lismore Lake and supplement when needed
• Promote Lismore Lake for passive recreation only.
• Promote Lismore Lake to bird watching in and outside Lismore.
• Monitor bird populations.
• Enhance bird watching by provision of hides and pathways
• Develop facilities including bbqs, pathways, cycleways that do not endanger bird habitat.
• Maintain free swimming pool.

• Work with the Friends of the Lismore RBG to develop the gardens.
• Support community initiatives for the gardens.
• Support submissions for Federal and State and National Heritage Trust funding for the gardens.

• Enhance Lismore Council’s innovative approaches to future needs
• Develop a new Community Consultation Policy that reflects Council’s genuine commitment to two-way dialogue on the issues that affect our people
• Commit to improved customer service and reduced response times
• Keep abreast of new technology
• Consider resource sharing opportunities with other Councils

• Ensure that financial accountability is a priority.
• Support rate-pegging limits
• Provide ratepayers with clear explanation of rates breakdown
• Be consultative and open with the community when determining spending priorities.
• Examine sources of alternative revenue to ease the burden on ratepayers

• Promote an integrated transport plan for Lismore and our villages.
• Support after-hours public transport
• Maintain support for air services in Lismore.
• Promote cycling as a transport alternative and a healthy activity
• Maintain the call to re-instate rail services within the region and connecting to the Gold Coast.

• Adequate funding for roads based on objective and agreed criteria
• Maintain up-to-date roads data.
• Progress proposals for third and fourth river crossings
• Lobby state and federal governments for adequate funding
• Maintain table drains and regularly mow grass verges.
• Provide curb and guttering in urban areas.

• Footpaths where pedestrians want and need them.
• Pathways included in new developments.
• Support priority plans for footpaths in established areas.
• Ensure footpaths are wheelchair and pram friendly.
• Adequately maintain all pathways

• Develop bike paths linking Goonellabah, CBD and key infrastructure.
• Include cycleways in new developments where terrain allows.
• Engage with cycling groups and adjoining councils to develop further routes to villages and beyond.
• Promote cycling.

Economic Development

• Work with other organisations to promote Lismore as the regional business centre.
• Support local employment initiatives.
• Support an Indigenous employment program within the council.
• Encourage a mix of business, retail, and residential facilities.
• Lobby state and federal governments to relocate public service offices to Lismore.
• Work with businesses to encourage regular dining experiences using sidewalk facilities.
• Encourage healthy competition between CBD and Lismore Square.
• Encourage joint initiatives between Lismore Square and the CBD.
• Promote and support events throughout the city.
• Consider the impact of outlying bulky goods retail outlets on Lismore’s main shopping precincts.
• Encourage weekend events and healthy activity in the CBD.
• Develop laneways project for pedestrians, dining, outdoor visual and performing arts.
• Work with the Lismore Farmers Market and the Lismore Organic Market to move into town occasionally.
• Continue CBD beautification program.
• Upgrade Woodlark St with increased tree planting and seating and in consultation with the community and businesses.
• Encourage restoration of paintwork on buildings and shopfronts.
• Encourage empty commercial premises to maintain their premises and utilise window spaces with displays.
• Commit to improving personal safety in Lismore.

• Encourage tourists to spend time in Lismore.
• Examine and enhance the sister city relationships to encourage economic and social benefit.

• Ensure safe traffic flow around the CBD.
• Maintain short term parking only in main city block.
• Encourage shoppers to utilise fringe parking areas.
• Restrict through traffic through promoting alternative routes.
• Seek funding for a third bridge crossing as a matter of priority

• Investigate provision of covered sections of our large parking areas.
• Support multi level carpark in the Cultural precinct from Dawson St.
• Promote connections between CBD and Lismore Square.
• Promote shared parking facilities.
• Establish shade trees in all current and future parking areas
• Monitor parking in vicinity of Lismore Base Hospital to ensure adequate short term spaces.

• Improve pedestrian access within the CBD.
• Improve pedestrian links between CBD and Lismore Square.
• Extend footpaths and access facilities throughout Lismore and the villages.

• Promote partnerships between LCC and SCU
• Continue to engage SCU personal for surveys and other community consultations.

• Promote Lismore as regional sports centre.

• Support sustainable land release for housing considering the protection of valuable rural land and habitat.
• Promote initiatives that improve our residents’ access to affordable and appropriate housing close to facilities and employment
• Support development of North Lismore plateau.
• Protect habitat and reduce tree clearing in new residential areas.
• Encourage residential development in CBD.
• Ensure that plans and Development Applications once approved are activated within reasonable timeframes to ensure land is readily available to meet expected demand.
• Ensure developers pay their fair share of infrastructure costs through section 94 contributions.

• Support zoning for light industrial land in appropriate areas.
• Ensure residential amenity is not negatively affected by industrial development.
• Restrict roadside signage to protect the environment and limit visual pollution.

• Recognise and support our farming community.
• Support initiatives to maintain the viability of local farms.
• Support initiatives to protect fertile prime farm lands from development.
• Encourage farmers to reforest land to provide wildlife corridors and habitat.

• Continue to lobby State Government for 24 hr fire station in CBD to protect our most vulnerable wooden houses.

Our People

• Respect and acknowledge the Widjabul people of the Bundjalung Nation and their Elders both past and present.

• Value and celebrate our diverse community and its heritage including people from CALD backgrounds, refugees and GBLTI communities
• Support and extend Lismore’s Safe Place program
• Support Lismore as a Refugee Welcome zone
• Celebrate the national days of peoples in our community
• Support Lismore’s Living Library
• Support the work of Lismore Neighbourhood Centre, the Soup Kitchen, churches and other groups that assist those in need
• Assist community groups to find appropriate and affordable facilities from which to deliver their services

• Enhance Lismore as a child-friendly city.
• Strive to make Lismore a safe and secure community for all its citizens
• Continue to provide and enhance early childhood and occasional child care provisions particularly for low income families.
• Maintain and develop playgrounds.

• Develop youth drop-in centres in Lismore CBD and Goonellabah
• Complete and maintain Kadina Park and Goonellabah Sports and Aquatic Centre.
• Support community programs that assist young people in Lismore, Nimbin and other villages
• Develop a Youth Council.

• Enhance council’s planning for our growing ageing population.
• Support the establishment of an aged care coordinator.
• Facilitate coordination of aged care services and support systems.
• Work with local providers to develop transport options for older residents

• Work with community groups to address problems of access.
• Develop footpaths to improve safety.
• Ensure adequate accessible parking in the retail and business areas.

• Work with government, community and other agencies to build a homeless shelter as an access point for other services.
• Support the identification of local needs for emergency and low cost housing and lobby state and federal governments for their provision.

• Work with schools, residents groups and youth centre coordinators to address issues relating to personal safety and crime.
• In conjunction with the community, develop initiatives to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in identified precincts.
• Carefully consider requests by residents and retailers for security cameras in shopping centres, recreation centres or residential areas.

Arts and Culture

• Develop the Margaret Olley Arts Centre.
• Support community festivals and events and their cultural, community and economic benefit.
• Establish an open air performing arts space in the Cultural Precinct.
• Utilise the Riverside precinct for performing and visual arts events.
• Support the Richmond River Historical Society
• Support extended hours and weekend opening of Lismore library.

Sporting and Recreation

• Enhance maintenance programs for sports and recreational facilities.
• Protect Lismore Park for sport and recreation
• Develop, maintain and promote Council’s recreation and sporting facilities
• Optimise the use of our sporting and recreation facilities through sustainable management and marketing plans.
• Develop a plan to provide shade at Council recreation facilities

• Maintain and develop KP
• Utilise KP for council organised community functions.
• Encourage its use by families, clubs and schools.

• Complete the GSAC.
• Complete the Youth Plaza in conjunction with the GSAC.
• Encourage young people and organisations that work for youth to use the GSAC.
• Rehabilitate the Tucki Tucki Creek and improve the community access to its environs.
• Provide adequate support for Upper Tucki Landcare Group to protect the Upper Tucki Creek.
• Maximise use of facilities in the centre in conjunction with existing service providers.
• Form a Youth Consultative group for Goonellabah from schools and YWCA as a forum to inform council of youth needs.
• Work with local bus companies and community groups to provide transport options to assist residents to utilise recreational facilities.

Villages and Rural Communities

• Recognise, celebrate and protect the unique qualities of our urban and rural villages and settlements including Sth Lismore, Nth Lismore, Nimbin, Clunes, Dunoon and The Channon.
• Ensure that proposals for major developments are considered, and rejected or progressed in conjunction with the communities on which they will impact
• Protect the villages’ heritage architecture and social fabric when considering roads and other development.
• Support local initiatives and community programs in our villages and communities.
• Initiate local consultation forums to address community concerns.
• Support community initiatives and festivals in Nimbin and other villages.
• Assist in the development to tourist facilities, youth programs, events and neighbourhood and health centres in Nimbin and other villages.
• Establish specific Nimbin-based Lismore City Council staff.
• Maintain an annual Rural Contact Forum in Nimbin.
• Hold three rural Contact Forums in other villages or rural settlements.
• Enhance transport to and from Lismore.
• Support youth and community transport options.
• Support improved waste collection services.