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Be part of our biggest engagement yet! Follow this page to be updated on the project.

Thank you to all community members who have so far shared your thoughts about living, working or being involved in the Yarra Ranges now and into the future.

Your participation and feedback is helping to inform the development of the 2025-2029 Council Plan and the longer-term Asset and Finance Plans. These plans that outline high-level priorities for Council, including how we manage our finances and assets. The goal of these key plans is to advance Yarra Ranges towards the future outlined in the Community Vision.

As we enter the third phase of the project, we will be collating all the information we have received from community members of all backgrounds, beliefs, abilities and ages.

As the development of the Plans progresses there will be other ways you can get involved, so make sure you click the "Follow" button at the top of the page to stay informed.

How have people been getting involved?

  • Survey

    Between 27 March and 8 May, we received over 700 surveys from community members across Yarra Ranges, in hard copy and online. We are working to pull together the information from these now.

  • Pop up activities

    During our nine pop up events across Yarra Ranges we connected with over 800 community members. We are currently collating the feedback and data from the activities.

    Find out where we went in April - May 

  • Visitors to the Shaping page

    Over 9400 views of this project page by over 5000 visitors. Sharing feedback, completing surveys and finding out how to get involved.

  • Community summits

    Between the 15 May and 27 May we held 3 community and stakeholder summits with over 100 attendees.
    Members of our community came along and discussed one of the following topics: council service delivery, health and wellbeing, governance, tourism and emergency management and the natural environment.

  • Community panel

    From over 400 expressions of interest, 35 panel members were selected by an independent consultant to join a series of deliberative panel sessions. Between 17 July and 17 August, the panel met on 3 days where they discussed and debated Council's priorities and tricky challenges.

    Read about the deliberative panel selection proces 

What we've heard so far

The insights gathered already are priceless and will form the basis for the next step in the process of creating our council plan to make sure it meets the needs of our community.

Below are some graphic recordings from one of the Community Summits. More collated feedback will be shared soon.