Community Engagement & Public Consultation Policy

The City of Unley's Community Engagement and Public Consultation Policy

All councils in South Australia are required to have a community consultation policy in accordance with the Local Government Act 1999.  The City of Unley's current Consultation Policy centres on the following principles:

• The community has a right to contribute to and be informed about key decisions affecting the local area.
• The community is to be provided with adequate information in order to make informed opinions.
• Appropriate and timely opportunities are to be provided for people to gain access to information and to be involved.
• The Council has a responsibility to consider all submissions in a balanced way, and recognises that community opinion is one aspect of the decision-making process.
• Consultation processes will be open, accountable and within resource constraints.
• The community will be advised of significant decisions which have involved a community consultation process, and there will be readily available public access to the outcomes of all consultation programs.

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