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.
- Digital book format
- PDF format
or view a hardcopy at one of our administration offices.
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.
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The Tweed is growing. Where we live, the ways we work and the types of houses we live in are changing. Over the next 20 years our population is expected to grow by 30,000 people and some 11, 000 jobs will potentially be created. To plan for these changes, Council is developing a Growth Management and Housing Strategy (GMHS), a plan to guide growth across the Tweed in a way that maintains our connected communities, unique character and natural environment.
Supporting documents
Related project
Tweed Affordable Housing Strategy
We are seeking community feedback on the following:
- How do you feel about new social and affordable housing development potentially being integrated within your neighbourhood?
- Would you accept higher density forms of housing, which is essential for financial feasibility?
- Can you think of potential solutions or options to improve the supply and choice of social and affordable housing?
- Have you considered what other ways may exist to support very low to low-income earners in terms of accessing housing and essential support services?
