Penrith City Council is developing a 10 year Biodiversity Strategy to protect, enhance and extend biodiversity values, as well as support our community to connect to and care for nature. To deliver better natural outcomes in Penrith LGA, we need our community, environmental organisations and institutions to work together to progress priority initiatives in key sites, and for critical species and plant communities. Your local input into priorities and actions can help make this plan more meaningful.

Scope of the strategy

• Covers the whole Local Government Area and considers corridors for species into and out of the LGA.

• Addresses biodiversity protection and restoration on public and private land.

• Considers the status of specific sites, corridors, species and plant community types to create a baseline and develop actions for these components of biodiversity.

• Documents enabling actions to be undertaken over the next 10 years, including community education and engagement.

An independent Landscape, Planning and Urban Design consultancy has been engaged to support the development of the strategy and will build of the ecological knowledge in a LGA wide Biodiversity Study that was undertaken in 2023.

We invite you to share your local knowledge and experience by completing the 10 minute survey.

Submissions and the survey close at 5pm, Sunday 11 May 2025.