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Central Queensland - A New Millennium is a joint initiative bringing together governments at all levels and the community to create a framework to guide future growth and development of the Central Queensland region.
The project area comprises 141,963 square kilometres or 8.2% of the state's total area. Its estimated resident population at 30 June 2001 was 184,411 persons, representing a total increase of 3,596 or 0.4% each year since 1996.
Areas covered by this plan
The project covers a diverse area based on the local government areas of:
- Banana
- Bauhinia
- Calliope
- Duaringa
- Emerald
- Fitzroy
- Gladstone
- Jericho
- Livingstone
- Mount Morgan
- Peak Downs
- Rockhampton
- Taroom
- Woorabinda Deed of Grant in Trust Community.
Project aims
Central Queensland - A New Millennium aims to create a plan for the region that is essentially focused on the following outcomes:
- Providing strategies designed to improve the quality of life for communities, particularly regarding access to facilities and services, infrastructure provision and sustainable environmental practices.
- Providing governments with a regional focus on fundamental strategic-planning issues.
- Providing a decision-making framework that ensures complementary actions by the Australian, state and local governments and the private and community sectors to create desirable long-term growth and development objectives and avoid duplication and inefficient use of resources.
- Forming the basis of a comprehensive regional framework to be implemented through local government strategic plans and providing guidance for state and local government planning and development decisions.
- Positioning the region to maximise competitive advantage and future sustainability.
- The Central Queensland Regional Growth Management Framework signals a journey of planned growth for the Central Queensland region.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 December 2008 )
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