In April 2024, Armidale Regional Council adopted their Local Strategic Planning Statement with an ambition to increase the population of the area from 30,000 to 50,000 over the coming decades. After a series of presentations and conversations they included an action in their new housing strategy, adopted in August 2024, that reads as follows:

Explore opportunities for the development of new greenfield settlements—based on circular economy and regenerative principles with integrated infrastructure ecosystems—located near or adjoining existing towns and villages.