Newcastle 2040

Newcastle 2040 - it's our future

Newcastle 2040 is City of Newcastle's (CN) Community Strategic Plan (CSP). It is the highest level of strategic planning undertaken by CN and sets out a 10-year roadmap identifying our community's vision and aspirations for Newcastle.

Newcastle 2040 is a shared community vision, developed as a guide to inform policies, strategies, plans and actions throughout the city for the next 10+ years. With direct input from a wide cross-section of the community, it represents what we value in our city and what we want to prioritise. We will be a better city in 2040 thanks to the input and insight of the community members who contributed their time to this planning process.

During 2024 and 2025, we've been reviewing our current CSP - Newcastle 2040.  We listened to your aspirations for the future of Newcastle, and we have updated our CSP to ensure we're heading in the right direction towards a city that we can all be proud of. 

Newcastle 2040 was endorsed by Council on 25 March 2025.

To see more of the review journey, visit our Have Your Say page.

Documents

View Revised 2024/25 Newcastle 2040 (PDF)

View Revised 2024/25 Newcastle 2040 plain text version (Word) 

View Revised 2024/25 Newcastle 2040 Plan on a Page (PDF)

Previous Versions of our Community Strategic Plan

View the original Newcastle 2040 (PDF)

View original plain text version - Newcastle 2040 plain text version (Word)

View original Newcastle 2040 Plan on a Page - Newcastle 2040 Plan on a Page (PDF)

To view previous Community Strategic Plan Newcastle 2030 - Newcastle 2030 (PDF)

Integrated Planning and Reporting

Newcastle 2040 is part of our Integrated Planning and Reporting (IP&R) documentation. IP&R legislation was introduced by the NSW State Government in 2013 and sets requirements for all councils to lead the development of long term plans for their city, detailing community aspirations and strategic directions. To find out more see our IP&R page.