Yearly planning and reporting

The Community Strategic Plan is the highest-level plan that a council will prepare and covers a 10-year period. The purpose of the plan is to identify the community’s main priorities and aspirations for the future and to identify strategies for achieving these goals.

Last updated in 2021/22, the CSP must be reviewed after every ordinary council election. With elections held in September 2024, we have worked with our newly elected council to refresh the CSP, ready for implementation in the 2025/2026 year. You can follow the updates to this process via our Your Say platform here. 

The Delivery Program is a statement of how Council aims to achieve the outcomes developed by the community in the Community Strategic Plan. It is adopted for a four-year period to coincide with the local government elections.

At the end of the Council term, which is 4 years, progress is reviewed and reported to the community in the End-of-Term Report.

Last updated in 2021/22, the Delivery Program (DP) must be reviewed after every ordinary council election. With elections held in September 2024, we have worked with our newly elected council to refresh the DP, ready for implementation in the 2025/2026 year. You can view the updates here.

The Long-Term Financial Plan (LTFP) outlines how Council will fund its Community Strategic Plan objectives and informs the community of Council’s overall projected financial sustainability over the next ten (10) years.

The Operational Plan is a one-year plan developed to implement the operational activities that will achieve the strategic directions set out in the four-year Delivery Program and longer term vision of the Community Strategic Plan.

It spells out the individual projects and activities that will be undertaken each year.