Port Stephens Council is close to finalizing a Planning Strategy which replaces the existing Community Settlement and Infrastructure Strategy, and will be the foundation for the revised  Local Environment Plan (LEP), Development Control Plans and future re-zoning applications, as well as for infrastructure programmes.  The draft Plan is HERE (Large File, 2.37MB)

TRRA believes this important Strategy needs more work, as it uses inconsistent and confusing statistics, and does not reflect some key community expectations.  Our submission on the latest draft is HERE