International Conference on Peri-Urban Landscapes: Water, Food and Environmental Security, Sydney, Australia, July 8-10, 2014. Ally Dench Presentation

1. “Can you have your chook
and eat it too?”
Rural Lands Protection
Alongside Growth

4. Peri Urban
• Balanced approach to
development
• Risks – the Peri Urban
predicament
• Solution searching
• Community partnership
approach

5. 4 “C” Approach
• Controls
• Community education
• Compliance
• Community engagement

6. Specific Activities
• Community partnership approach to define
"rural living"
• Growth Management Strategy
• Solution-focused Community Forums
• Refinement of Development Control Plans,
Compliance Policy, Conditions of Consent

7. Specific Activities (con’t)
• Council resolutions reflecting initiatives to
protect the good things related to rural
living and growth
• Rural Living Handbook
• Facilitation of the Sydney Peri Urban Local
Government Network (SPUN)

8. Way Forward
Innovative, well planned and coordinated
development and infrastructure that
considers the uniqueness of our towns and
villages and Wollondilly’s rural setting

9. Way Forward (con’t)
Authentic community partners in planning for
our future, sharing both risk and reward,
ultimately “having our chook and eating it
too”.