Project Update - April 2021

The City of Hobart and the Tasmanian Government are working in partnership with the community to develop the Central Hobart Precinct Plan. This precinct plan will guide future development within central Hobart.

The project was launched in March 2020 and a baseline report and Economic, Demographic and Employment Study were completed. These reports detail the issues and opportunities in the Central Hobart Precinct. A survey was launched on City’s Your Say page for the community to provide feedback on the baseline report.

The project was put on hold due to impacts of COVID-19. This time has enabled us to better understand the short and long term social and economic impacts of the pandemic on our community.

We are now able to restart the project and we have engaged Hill PDA to provide a COVID-19 update to the Economic, Demographic and Employment Study. We are also preparing a discussion paper to explore the key strategic issues, options and ideas for the precinct plan. This will be the focus of the next phase of community engagement later in 2021.

The previous online survey and idea mapping tool have been closed and the feedback gained from this is being reviewed. We thank everyone who provided feedback and suggestions on this survey. An engagement report with outcomes will be provided in a future project update and the feedback will also inform the development of the discussion paper.

If you have any direct questions or comments about the project, you can get in touch by emailing coh@hobartcity.com.au