Environmental strategies & reports
Gold Coast City Council’s Corporate Plan establishes the environment as a key aspect of achieving its commitment to ecologically sustainable development and its vision for the city as 'naturally the world’s best place to be'.Council has developed a range of strategies to conserve and protect our environment, manage our resources responsibly, plan sustainable growth and development and ensure residents and visitors are able to enjoy our beautiful natural environment now and in the future.
In this section find out about the following strategies:
- Beaches to Bushland Program
- Corporate Plan (2009-14)
- Gold Coast Planning Scheme
- Gold Coast Water Futures Strategy
- Land for Wildlife Program
- Natural Area Management Plans
- Nature Conservation Strategy
- Open Space Preservation Program
- Our Living City Report (2005-2006)
- Our Natural Playground Parks Strategy
- Solid Waste Management Strategy - 2020 Vision on Waste
- Tipplers Passage Precinct Master Plan
- Total Management Plan for Integrated Catchments & Waterways
- Voluntary Conservation Agreement (VCA) Scheme
- What can you do to help koalas
- East Coomera Koala Conservation Project
Local Agenda 21
Local Agenda 21 is a local action plan developed in consultation with the community that strives toward sustainability in the 21st century.
Agenda 21 specifically cites ecological sustainability as its long term goal and highlights the role of local government stating that councils should prepare with their communities a Local Agenda 21 for their area.
Most importantly, the 13 external strategic priorities of the Council's Corporate Plan seek to articulate, for the life of the plan, the Council’s stated commitment to promoting a more sustainable city and thus represent the refocusing of Council’s Local Agenda 21 (an action plan for sustainability) over the next four years.
Of particular importance therefore, is the required attention to identifying, establishing and monitoring measures of sustainability.
Related links
- South East Queensland Regional Plan:
www.oum.qld.gov.au/?id=29
