Plans & strategies

The Biodiversity Strategy describes Council’s vision, objectives, biodiversity priorities and actions for managing biodiversity across the local government area.

Council has developed a Cemetery Strategy and Master Plan 2022 to guide our approach to improving and maintaining these cemeteries over the short, medium and long-term.

Kempsey Shire Council has adopted our next generation Community Engagement Strategy based on feedback from all our stakeholders.

This strategy outlines our commitment to effective and inclusive decision making. It respects the role of community to have a say.

For more information on Community Engagement please visit the following link:

Community Engagement

The Macleay Valley Community Infrastructure Strategy is a 20-year plan that seeks to respond to our community's needs, demographic profile, local values and aspirations as well as the role and characteristics of our diverse townships.

Council has also adopted our first Community Participation Plan which outlines the specific ways that community members can learn about and participate in Council decision making, including specifically participating in Strategic Planning and Development Assessment. 

For more information on Community Engagement, please visit the following page on the Kempsey Shire Council website:

Community Engagement

The Community Strategic Plan 2042: Your Future is a document that outlines a 20-year plan for the Kempsey Shire community.

The plan captures:

• our community’s vision for the future and long-term goals
• strategies to reach these goals
• how we can measure our progress.

See the summaries version of the plan here.

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The Crescent Head Master Plan serves as a framework supporting the community in identifying and developing programs that:

• invigorate the local economy
• provide improved village public spaces
• protect and conserve public lands for future generations
• guard against inappropriate development practices
• safeguard the character and quality of life inherent in living in Crescent Head.

The Crescent Head Public Domain Plan document and the analysis, strategies and proposals that it outlines follow on from previous high-level masterplan outputs produced by Kempsey Shire Council.

The Crescent Head Master Plan was produced in 2017 and outlined a framework for future planning works and an indicative staging approach to a number of related and discrete challenges in the Crescent Head area.

The annual Operational Plan and Budget outlines the detailed annual actions and planned expenditure that Council will undertake to work towards the community vision in the Community Strategic Plan.

It spells out the yearly projects and activities that will be undertaken to achieve the commitments made in the four-year Delivery Program.

This strategy informs our delivery program and operational plans in setting the direction and establishing priorities for our investment in technology. It also underpins the development and monitoring of standards used in our day-to-day delivery of information services.