Three Council staff members take part in a panel discussion on 2030 inside the Sydney Town Hall

Updated documents and report cards

Sustainable Sydney 2030 guides the development of the City of Sydney for the next 20 years and beyond. The City has now incorporated the original vision into new strategic and resourcing plans, as required by NSW legislation.

The 2030 Vision Document was updated to ensure its objectives and actions are contemporary and complied with local government legislation. The revised document (the Community Strategic Plan) was adopted in 2011 and contains the most current objectives and actions, but much less background detail.

The long term Community Strategic Plan is supported by the 4-year Corporate Plan and a detailed Operational Plan (including Budget) that sets out Council’s projects and activities for each year. These documents are all underpinned by a Resourcing Strategy, including an asset management plan, workforce plan and a long term financial plan.

Download the plans below.

Sustainable Sydney 2030 Community Strategic Plan (2011)

City of Sydney Resourcing Strategy (2011)

City of Sydney Corporate Plan (2012–2015)

City of Sydney Operational Plan (2011/12)

Celebrating Sydney as a great place to live, work and visit

In May 2011, the Lord Mayor represented Sydney at the C40 Major Cities Climate Summit in Sao Paulo, where she presented the short film, “Celebrating Sydney as a great place to live, work and visit”, which you can watch below.


Sydney 2030 progress reports
The City of Sydney is keen to report back to the community about our progress towards Sydney 2030. Since the plan was adopted by Council, we’ve produced an annual report card to show how far we’ve come.

As well as producing a report card in 2011, we organised a special State of the City event on 31 August in the Sydney Town Hall to brief the community in person. If you missed the event, you can download 2011 State of the City report.

The 2010 report card Up and running (PDF, 936Kb) is also available.

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