New Ipswich Planning Scheme (Ipswich Plan 2024)
Ipswich City Council and Articulous
Land of the Traditional Owners: The Traditional Owners of the Ipswich region, known traditionally in the Yagara language as Tulmur, are the Clans that identify as being a part of the Yagara/Yugara Language Group (the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul People)
Engaging the community in planning at the plan making stage is notoriously difficult. It is reported that the community often does not connect the strategic nature and loftiness of new planning schemes with what can happen in their backyards.
The number of community submissions to planning schemes are often less than those from just one controversial development application. In times of such rapid change it is critical that the value of planning is understood and that the planning profession, as an agent of change, helps communities move to ‘yes’ in regard to new ways to imagine the future of our towns, cities and regions.
It is within this larger context, Ipswich City Council’s decision to undertake an extensive, non-mandatory community education campaign prior to the legally required public notification period of its new planning scheme is an exemplar of innovation in stakeholder engagement.
Ipswich City Council’s decision to implement a pre-formal notification tool for its new planning scheme shows an authentic approach to core planning engagement to empower communities to comment about the future that can be replicated across local governments state-wide and nationally.
Congratulations, Ipswich City Council and Articulous!
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