We actively encourage sustainable development within the city that will establish or expand business, employment opportunities, or local services, through:
- Marketing and promotion of the city’s location, identity and strengths
- Identification of development opportunities
- Planning the required support infrastructure and services
- Provision of information and advice to potential developers
- Liaison with business, tourism and development organisations
Economic development plan
Our economic development plan provides a framework for economic development in Clarence and a plan to guide management and activities for the period to 2021. It focuses on how we can apply the resources we have to facilitate improved economic performance and productivity within the key sectors of Clarence to achieve our strategic objectives of ‘prosperity, vibrancy and sustainability’. This ensures that while the plan’s primary focus is economic; it also focuses on how economic development flows on to achieve the social benefits of an attractive, liveable and sustainable community.
The plan is action and future oriented; it defines a range of key activities identified as important for the development of the sectors of the Clarence economy.
Hobart City Deal
The Hobart City Deal shared vision is to guide and encourage investment to leverage Hobart’s natural amenity and build on its position as a vibrant, liveable and connected global city. This City Deal will improve accessibility in Greater Hobart, embracing the idea of a 30-minute city.
30-Year Greater Hobart Plan
Our city is growing and changing, and the 30-Year Greater Hobart Plan has been developed to help us retain the Greater Hobart we know and love.
The Greater Hobart Plan is a whole-of-city guide to assist the development of transport, housing and employment centres and how they relate to each other in the long term. The plan is aligned with, and is designed to deliver, the 2050 Vision for Greater Hobart being:
We will live in the world’s best small capital city, a city built for people that is connected, friendly and safe.
Greater Hobart is a thriving and inspiring place to live, where we all work together to make a positive contribution to our extraordinary environment.
Through this framework, the Greater Hobart Councils – Clarence, Glenorchy, Hobart and Kingborough – and the Tasmanian Government will work collaboratively to identify principles, priority areas and implement actions that will deliver strategic, efficient and integrated land use planning, and infrastructure outcomes.