Help to develop a strategy for rural villages

Council is engaging with the community to develop a Rural Villages Plan, which will:

• look at settlement patterns that have emerged in Tweed Shire's rural areas
• identify distinct characteristics of each village
• provide a framework to meet the future needs of the resident, business and tourist communities.

See the Key Dates section for information about a series of community conversations in villages throughout Tweed Shire, to explain the background of the plan and how it will be development. The workshops will also provide the community an opportunity to discuss their experiences of rural village life and how they view the long term future of the Shire’s rural villages.

The plan will aim to achieve planning controls that help balance urban growth, the protection of agriculture, village character, heritage sites and the environment.

As part of the project, Council will liaise with communities to investigate land suitable for development that would make a meaningful contribution towards achieving growth targets in the Far North Coast Regional Strategy.

For more information about the plan, visit the Planning Reforms page at or contact Council's Planning Reforms Unit on (02) 6670 2503.