Willoughby City Strategy

What is the Willoughby City Strategy?

Download:  Willoughby City Strategy 2010 - 3,644 KB

The Willoughby City Strategy is a longterm vision and plan for the future of the City to help guide decision making and planning for the next 15 years. It has been specifically developed for the Willoughby local government area.

The Willoughby City Strategy aims to:

  • Identify what the community values about our area;
  • Identify important issues and challenges for our future;
  • Agree on our future directions and long-term goals; and
  • Set strategies to achieve these goals.

It is a plan based on community visions, values and aspirations. People from across the community have been asked to talk about their preferred vision for the future, what they would like this area to look and feel like in 15 years. Willoughby City Council has worked closely with its communities and stakeholders to ensure that the Willoughby City Strategy responds to local community needs and aspirations.

The Strategy is the basis for what we in Willoughby will do in the future.

Willoughby City Strategy 2006

To develop the exisiting Willoughby City Strategy, many different people were asked what they would like Willoughby to look and feel like in fifteen years.

Using these responses, the Strategy identifies:

  • What the community values about the area
  • Important issues, trends and challenges
  • Goals for the future
  • Ways to reach these goals

The top six things that people like about Willoughby now are:

  • Convenient access to the CBD, bushland, transport, services, and central Sydney
  • Variety of shopping available in a handy location which saves time
  • Bushland which allows better quality of life and the chance to protect the environment
  • Access to services and facilities such as medical, transport, educational, which is linked to convenience
  • Open space and public space which is family orientated and provides a balance to high density housing and a better lifestyle
  • Safety of pedestrians and from crime.

The top six things that people want Willoughby to be in the future are:

  • Well serviced by public transport
  • A family friendly place
  • An environmentally friendly, ecologically minded place
  • An area with a range of services and facilities
  • A well planned and pleasant urban area
  • An area with entertainment, restaurants and cafes.

There are complex issues which will require residents, businesses, Council, government and other agencies to co-operate to solve them.

The development of the Willoughby City Strategy involved the consultation of a broad range of community, Council and institutional stakeholders. This included surveys, outreach activities, engagement at local events and markets, on-line opportunities for comments and feedback, workshops with Council staff and Councillors, and a series of linked forums engaging community members and other key stakeholders over several months. Download the  Report of Outcomes from Community Consultation - 504 KB

Discussion papers

You may like to download some of the discussion papers written to address local issues and provide guidance in deciding Willoughby's future.

Fact sheets

These fact sheets were produced to examine the main issues affecting the City of Willoughby now and into the future, and to provide background information to the Strategy (the fact sheets are a shorter version of the above discussion papers):