Council endorses Resilience Hazard Assessment

Campbelltown is among the first councils in Sydney to develop a resilience hazard assessment in order to better measure the resilience of the city and respond to continued growth.

Councillors endorsed the Toward A Thriving City: Our Resilience Hazard Assessment at the last Council meeting.

The assessment identifies the shocks and stresses the city is most vulnerable to and the actions that Council can take to place the community in a better position to plan for and manage these disruptions.

“Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and in the face of fire and floods, our community has demonstrated its robust resilience, but there is always more that can be done to help us all prepare for difficult times,” Mayor George Greiss said.

“The resilience hazard assessment identifies the need to strengthen and build on the many partnerships formed during that period to address future shocks as well as deal with those chronic stresses that affect our community,” Cr Greiss said.

“Many of the findings in the assessment were used to inform Council’s COVID-19 response and we have since taken many of the learnings from that situation and applied them in our practices going forward,” he said.

The assessment document features a range of portraits painted by artist Emmanuel Asante, of 10 residents, each with their own story of resilience and bouncing back from adversity.

The portraits were displayed at Campbelltown Arts Centre and later gifted to the portrait sitters.