In 1960, architect Professor Denis Winston drew up a plan for the 'new' town of Jindabyne, to accommodate around 150 home sites.

After almost 50 years of growth, Snowy River Shire Council has commenced a planning process for the urban areas of Jindabyne, Kalkite, East Jindabyne and Tyrolean Village, their 3,500 residents and thousands of visitors.

The Jindabyne Action Plan process is identifying opportunities for people to work together to address a range of issues and access federal and state funding for infrastructure and improvements to the town. The Jindabyne Action Plan process has up until now involved technical studies (traffic and transport and urban design) and a review of previous consultation with the community.

Using this review of earlier consultations, Council developed a way forward towards the new Jindabyne Action Plan. Specifically, Council developed the Workbook and a series of key stakeholder surveys, as the basis of its Round Two consultation. The workbook is still a useful reference document and can be viewed on Council's website.

The findings of the Round Two Consultation are now available on Council's website or for viewing at both the Jindabyne and Berridale offices.

The extensive Round Two consultation findings are reported in six separate volumes:

Vol One:      Executive Summary and Action Plan Principles

Vol Two:      The People and Culture of Jindabyne

Vol Three:    Healthy and Sustainable Neighbourhoods

Vol Four:      Business, Enterprise and Learning

Vol Five:       Town Appearance and Revitalising the Jindabyne Town Centre

Vol Six:         Pedestrians, Traffic, Parking & PublicTransport

The Executive Summary (Volume 1) presents an overview of the 'mood' of the consultation, as well as an introduction to the 'overarching themes' and some of the 'major themes' that emerged from the consultation.

In all cases, for more detailed information, the Executive Summary points readers onwards to the relevant sections in each of Volumes Two to Six, from where they can follow the discussions in a more detailed way, if they choose.

In addition to the findings from the Workbook, the results of the surveys and youth consultation are available in separate reports:

A Survey of 33 Jindabyne Businesses

A Survey of 28 Community Groups

A Survey of 105 Winter Visitors

Youth Consultation

Comments about the Round Two consultation findings

The objective of Round Two consultation was to gain a clear understanding of current issues and see how many of these may have changed since earlier consultations. The consultation relied primarily upon the Workbook, which provided information about what was already known about Jindabyne, and to build on that, asked participants to complete a series of detailed questions about their experiences of Jindabyne today and aspirations for the future.

A high response rate

The first of the many positive observations of the consultation is that 14 percent of Jindabyne's regular population took part in some type of Round Two consultation activity. By any standard research measure this is a very inclusive response - one that reflects a high level of interest in the town by residents and others.

The very positive tone of the findings

A further very positive aspect to note is that throughout every volume of the findings, is that people who participated have been overwhelmingly positive about Jindabyne and its future in their feedback. The tone of people's responses is often uplifting and inspiring. Most people appear to be simply energised by their life experiences in Jindabyne, as a place to live, work and invest.

Most people welcome planned change to Jindabyne

There is a strong sense from the data that people welcome a planned process of change that will occur with the staged implementation of the final Jindabyne Action Plan. There is little indication that people who took part in the consultation are fearful of any of the proposed changes to the town area or other changes that have been proposed.

Realistic expectations

There is no sense in the data that people have unrealistic expectations about how quickly a comprehensive plan for change might be implemented, or that sources for funding for such change are all 'in place'.

Favourable levels of broad agreement

There has been generally favourable levels of agreement about many things that are important to the people of Jindabyne, in particular what makes Jindabyne cherished and special. Positive agreement has coalesced around many of the emerging options that were canvassed in particular those related to proposed changes to the town area and linking the two town centres, as well as with many of the traffic and accessibility issues.

Highly useful feedback for Council and the technical team

Council's staff and technical consultants have read all the views that have been put forward, which appear in Volumes Two to Six. They have been singularly impressed with the ideas and the thoughtfulness with which people have responded and the range of ideas and responses will assist them immeasurably in further defining and refining the emerging actions in the Jindabyne Plan that will be released later this year for a further round of comprehensive feedback.

If you have any questions regarding anything to do with the Jindabyne Action Plan please contact: strategicplanning@snowyriver.nsw.gov.au or

phone 6451 1550.