Draft Options Paper, Growth Management and Housing Strategy

Project update November 2024

Thank you Tweed for having your say!

After extensive consultation with Tweed residents in March and April 2024, Council heard from more than 1,200 people.

Themes that dominated community response included flooding, preservation of amenity and character, exploring opportunities for rural village expansion and rural housing, as well as concern expressed about growth implications associated with traffic and parking.

Once adopted by Council, the final Options Paper will form the basis for the Draft Strategy which will be exhibited for community feedback in 2025.

Breakdown of engagement:

Project overview
The Tweed is growing and changing. To achieve greater housing choice and diversity, we need to identify where new housing and potential employment land might be located in the future.

This type of planning is critical to the way the Tweed region develops over the next 20 years, and how it will look, feel and function.

We are developing the Tweed’s plan to manage housing and employment growth: the draft Options Paper is the next step in the process.

During this stage we are asking for community input so that we can make sure the project is on the right track.

This project was open for feedback until 4pm, Friday 22 March 2024.

What we asked the community

We want you to have your say on a range of suggested options that might help accommodate our growing population and workforce until 2041. About the options:

• These options propose ways we can increase the supply of additional housing and employment land across the Tweed.
  
  
• Some options relate to specific locations while some relate to the whole of the Tweed.
  
  
• The proposed options, or changes, will be incremental and may (or may not) take place over time. It is important to note that not everybody will be impacted and not all changes will be taken up overnight or over the intended 20-year period.

Feedback is being sought on any likes, dislikes, or suggestions to how changes within the draft Options Paper might be improved - this includes changes that may not have been considered.

What is included in the Draft Options Paper?

The draft Options Paper sets out a range of changes that have the potential to support the Tweed in the future in how it can meet key growth challenges in a sustainable way through to 2041.

The draft Options paper includes:

• 10 key considerations for planned growth. These considerations, developed with community feedback, have directly informed the preparation of the changes detailed in the draft Options Paper.
  
  
• 83 proposed changes. While the main focus of these changes is increasing housing density in areas already populated, a range of growth opportunities have also been proposed in the rural areas and greenfield areas of the Tweed.
  
  
• Potential housing supply options - potential areas identified to accommodate future housing supply include: Tweed Heads, Tweed Heads South, Banora Point, Kingscliff, Pottsville, Murwillumbah, Burringbar and Uki.
  
  
• Future employment opportunities - areas identified to accommodate future employment growth include: Central Tweed, Cobaki - Terranora, Eastern Hinterland, Murwillumbah, Rural West, Tweed Mid Coast, Tweed South Coast.

The draft Options Paper is broken into two sections. The front section provides background to the project and the considerations that have informed the changes detailed. The back section includes each proposed change, the associated map and the rationale for the change.

Draft Options Paper

- Digital book format
- PDF format
or view a hardcopy at one of our administration offices.

Interactive map

View the proposed change maps in detail using the interactive mapping tool. For the best experience view the interactive map on a PC or laptop.