Ryde to 2035: Council’s Strategic Plans

Defines our City’s vision, seven strategic outcomes and priorities aligned with each outcome. These guide Council’s strategic planning documents.  While Council has a custodial role in initiating, preparing and maintaining the Community Strategic Plan, it is not wholly responsible for its implementation. Other partners, such as State agencies and community groups will be engaged in delivering its long-term outcomes.

The CSP has been refreshed following seven months of engagement activities, using a range of methods to seek feedback and input from our diverse communities. We received over 1,688 direct responses between August 2024 and February 2025. A summary of what we heard is included in the Draft CSP.

Through the extensive research and community engagement, both strategic planning and decision-making is informed and guided by evidence base approach, and the representative views of the community are captured holistically.

Our Community Engagement Strategy is designed to help our community understand our approach to community engagement and ensure that our communities have the chance to contribute to the City of Ryde vision.

Council’s Four-Year Delivery Program details the principal activities that will be undertaken by Council to perform its functions (including legislative responsibilities and regulatory functions) and deliver on the priorities of the CSP. It outlines the activities, strategies, projects and services that Council plans to deliver over the four-year Council term and includes Council’s four-year budget forecast.

This is further broken down in the One-Year Operational Plan, which identifies the activities, actions and projects Council plans to deliver over each financial year, as well as the funding allocated to their delivery (budget). 

These three documents combined form the Council’s Resourcing Strategy, outlining how the work that is identified in the Delivery Program and Operational Plan will be resourced and delivered.

Council reviews and updates all Fees and Charges on an annual basis in line with the corresponding Operating Budget (found within the One-Year Operational Plan).