Future City

While the formal period of community consultation about the big-picture Future City plans has now ended, a range of detailed consultation is continuing about individual projects. The information on this site is being left in place to provide general information to the Orange community.

Begun in a bold attempt to re-vitalise Orange’s central Business district, the Future City project has evolved to take up a broader opportunity to encourage more people to come to Orange CBD and spend more time there, to build a CBD the people of Orange can be proud of.

The Future City project is also about supporting current businesses and creating a CBD which will attract new investment.

In this YourSay Orange site you can find out more about this project, and have your say.

After months of work by urban designers SJB, in consultation with members of the Orange community, Orange City Council has put their collection of plans up for community comment.

It’s a huge plan, full of many bright and bold ideas.

At this stage, nothing is being ruled-in or ruled-out. Some suggestions could happen quickly. Others would need government funding and might take many years.

Now is the time for the Orange community to have a say.

This YourSay Orange community engagement site offers a number of ways for you to find out more, and have your say.

To make sure this conversation is as accurate as possible, residents must register with the YourSay Orange site.

Registering with YourSay Orange is quick and easy. Simply follow the prompts to add a screen name and an email address.

Here you can find out and have your say about:

Big-picture ideas and themes

There are three key themes that underpin much of the suggested proposals. You can complete a survey and leave a comment on these themes.

Ten 'Special Project' zones

Some of these 106 projects have been grouped together in ten different ‘Special Project’ zones.

You can find out more about these zones here.

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You can also download the entire design documents and make a submission about any aspect of these plans.

You can also download a list of the 106 individual project-ideas.

You can download the section of the report dealing with transport proposals here.