Smart Places Strategy 
What are smart places?
A Smart Place leverages data, innovation, and digital technology to enhance sustainability and mobility, promote vibrancy, and enable spaces to be used more effectively. We will be able to move around the city more easily, enhance our natural environment, and provide new opportunities for our community.
February 2024 update
The Smart Places Strategy and Action Plan has been adopted by Council.
July 2023 update:
Consultation on the Smart Places Strategy and Action Plan has closed. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback.
June 2023 consultation:
The Smart Places Strategy and Action Plan will build on Cumberland’s existing strengths, being our diverse community and infrastructure to explore smart place opportunities for our city. Cumberland’s objective of the strategy and action plan is to improve the lives of our residents, visitors, and others who experience our city. The strategy and action plan encourages collaboration with the community and aims to drive inclusion, innovation, and data exploration.
Cumberland as a Smart Place
In 2022, Cumberland worked with our local community to develop the vision, principals and pathways for our smart places journey. As a result of these workshops and discussions, we developed these key points:
Cumberland’s Smart Places Vision
- Cumberland is a leading smart place integrating innovation, technology, and data to enhance safety, connectivity, and accessibility.
- Smart Places activity in Cumberland will drive sustainability and enable the region to be vibrant, attractive, and efficient.
- Cumberland as a smart place will promote inclusion and celebrate the city's rich diversity and unique context.
Cumberland’s Smart Places Principals
- Inclusive and accessible
- Connected
- People focused and user friendly
- Sustainable
- Safe and secure
- Future proofed and innovative
Cumberland’s Smart Places Pathways
- Smart Communities
- Smart People
- Smart Services
- Smart Spaces
- Smart Movement
- Smart Economy
Community Feedback Sessions
During the consultation period, we ran a series of community feedback sessions around Cumberland to allow the community to find out more information and to chat to one of our team members about the Smart Places Strategy and Action Plan.
