This report provides governments and stakeholders involved in local and place-focused renewal with conceptual framing and case study examples that can help inform and shape new community collaboration initiatives for their own contexts.

This research project asks what mini-publics contribute to democracy from a systemic perspective, and how that contribution might be strengthened. For evidence, we draw on three mini-publics: the Penrith Community Panel; the Noosa Community Jury (on management of the Noosa River); and Infrastructure Victoria’s citizen juries.

This draft District Plan sets out aspirations and proposals for Greater Sydney’s West District, which includes the Blue Mountains, Penrith and Hawkesbury local government areas. It has been developed by the Greater Sydney Commission.

This paper explores the recent attempts by Penrith City Council to develop a framework to redress neighbourhood disadvantage, firstly by developing an integrative governance framework for the program and secondly by transforming the Council’s operational structure.

This paper provides insight into these emerging planning processes through an investigation of the development of action planning processes within the City of Sydney and Penrith City which enable a broader range of players to participate in determining how objectives within the Council’s strategic plans are realised ‘on the ground’.