Ballina Shire Housing Strategy

Housing is our foundation.

Housing is a fundamental human need and contributes to individuals' sense of place and belonging, which is the foundation stone of community wellbeing and cohesion.

Ballina Shire Council has prepared the draft Ballina Shire Housing Strategy to outline Council's role in addressing local housing challenges over the next 20 years. This includes working in partnership with key stakeholders, taking a lead role in advocacy initiatives and ensuring planning controls contribute to appropriate housing outcomes reflective of the community's needs.

A series of face-to-face workshops were held in 2022 involving a total of 54 participants across the Shire. A survey regarding housing issues was live for three months during 2022 and attracted 75 respondents. All this information plus technical research and demographic analysis, contained in the Background Paper, informed the Draft Ballina Shire Housing Strategy.

The vision of the Draft Ballina Shire Housing Strategy is the timely delivery of housing in the Ballina Shire that meets the needs of the local community in terms of locations, infrastructure and housing types that are resilient to change in environmental conditions and changes in household life stages.

This strategy outlines four principles to guide housing development in the Ballina Shire over the next 20 years. To encourage more available housing, ensuring that a diverse range of resilient housing types are delivered in walkable neighbourhoods.

Submissions closed Friday 15 March 2024.