Your Voice Camden
We are asking you to share your feedback on the Camden LGA's future through the Camden Youth Design Competition.
This page will host the design competition, including all resources needed to prepare and submit your design.
A Community Strategic Plan is like a big plan for how a town or city, wants to grow and improve. Imagine your community is working together to decide on fun places to play, safe paths to walk or bike, and clean parks. This plan includes ideas from everyone who lives there, including kids, parents, teachers, and local leaders.
This plan is around for 10 years, meaning you will grow a lot older while the plan is around. When Council designs this plan, they’re thinking about what kids need now and also what the community should look like when they grow up, so it’s a place they’ll enjoy, feel safe and supported, and be proud of.
The Camden Youth Design Competition is a Council-run competition inviting all school-aged children to imagine the future of the Camden LGA! Through your chosen design medium, showcase how you see the Camden LGA today and how you envision it in 2040.
Step ONE: Choose a Strategic Direction to focus your design on:
1. Our community is welcoming and inclusive, everyone feels included and involved
2. Our community is healthy and active with access to open space, facilities and services that support wellbeing
3. Our community has opportunities to design and build safe and inviting places for all to enjoy
1. Our community harnesses local creativity, and supports new technologies and innovations
2. Our public spaces and places are vibrant and accessible
3. Our transport network is efficient, safe and integrated – locally and regionally
1. Our business community is strong, thriving and connected at local, regional, national and international levels
2. Our LGA provides diverse local job opportunities, supported by skills and training pathways to employment
3. Our LGA is a desirable location for new and emerging industries, businesses and entrepreneurs
1. Our natural environment and waterways are protected, well maintained and enhanced for community enjoyment
2. Our environment is integrated into the design of our towns, villages, suburbs and places
3. Climate impacts and risks in Camden are well managed
4. Our community is resourced, efficient and able to meet our vision and objectives
1. Our Council is a leading council in the Western Parkland City, influencing metropolitan planning and decision-making
2. Our Council is forward thinking and building value for our community
3. Our Council decisions are informed, accountable and transparent
STEP TWO: Choose your medium
Your medium is the way you decide to create your design.
Hardcopy medium ideas: drawing (pencil or markers), paint, watercolour, crayon, 3D modelling.
Digital medium ideas: Minecraft Creative Mode or digital illustration software (Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop).
Step THREE: Prepare your design
Get creating!
If you would like to make a digital version, choose your software and start away.
If you would like to make a hardcopy design, you can download and print out the Competition Worksheet via our Competition Resources section of this page. You can also collect this sheet at Camden Library, Oran Park Library or Narellan Library.
Step FOUR: Submit your design
Scroll up to use the 'Submit your design' tab to show us your amazing work online, or hand it in to Camden Library, Oran Park Library or Narellan Library. Digital entries should be in PDF, JPEG, PNG, or HEIC format. Check out the Terms and Conditions.
