Keeping the local in Local Government while improving efficiency

Now is the perfect time to propose new structures for Local Government in NSW. The State Government has established an Independent Local Government Review Panel to identify options for governance models and structural arrangements of local government. At the same time the Minister for Planning has released a Green Paper outlining new approaches to planning that have an impact on local government. The overall driver of both of these reviews is the State Government’s 10 year plan for New South Wales with its tag line “to make NSW number one”.

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