Hills Shire Council looks ahead to listening to any neighborhood suggestions on the Smart Places Strategic Framework, a plan to smoothen the implementation of ‘smart’ applied sciences in The Hills.
The draft offers a long-term strategy to encourage innovation, deal with urban challenges, entice funding and enhance the general liveability of the area.
The Council says Smart Places provides an observable impression to residents because it eases day-to-day capabilities with using various technologies and data.
The draft Smart Places Strategic Framework presents six Smart Place themes to information The Hills’ transformation right into a “Smart Place.” These embrace Movement, Placemaking and Liveability, Economy, Sustainability and Resilience, Digital Inclusion, and Governance.
A significant chunk of the stakeholder funding might be directed on “high growth areas and locations” with the highest density of residents, staff, and guests and large-scale redevelopment and transformation such as Strategic Centres: Norwest, Rouse Hill, and Castle Hill.
The draft framework also aligns with the Council’s Precinct Plans for the three Strategic Centres and the Council’s Economic Growth Plan.
Council defines “Smart Places” as areas the place know-how, information, and innovation are used to increase the efficiency of on an everyday basis processes and solve varied challenges, thereby promoting a better way of life for its residents.
Existing applied sciences and methods are at present in place, which the draft Smart Place Strategic framework intends to construct on for the continuous and future implementation of those applied sciences. These current technologies embrace:
Flood warning methods on some bridges
Remote access to Council sporting amenities
Solar panels at the Council’s Administration Building
Electric car charging stations at the Waves Fitness and Aquatic Centre
Water degree sensors in some dams
Free public Wi-Fi in major retail centres
Facilitating the submission of varieties, payments and applications on-line
Increased utilisation of QR Codes
The public exhibition of the Framework opened for the general public on 13 November 2023 and can remain as such till Monday, 11 December 2023, at 5:00 PM. Feedback could be despatched to the Council’s Have Your Say on-line section here.
To see a summary and a downloadable copy of the Draft Smart Places Strategic Framework , visit here.
After the exhibition, the Council could have its Post-Exhibition in its timeline in early 2024, and might be finalised between early to mid-2024.
Mayor of The Hills Shire, Dr Peter Gangemi, mentioned the draft proves the Council’s assist for selling innovation and stimulating economic benefits.
“Becoming a Smart Place is the best way of the future,” Mayor Gangemi said.
“This Framework supplies a foundation for considering how applied sciences could be responsibly included into our public areas to reinforce them and make these areas even higher.
“We are encouraging innovation through know-how that can be utilized to increase resilience and safety throughout pure disasters whereas encouraging the uptake of energy-efficient applied sciences to help our local setting thrive.
“The draft Framework additionally explores how applied sciences can better support the native financial system, making commercial areas more attractive for companies to arrange shop here.