Local Area Planning - Community Plan
Latest news - Anglesea and Moriac priorities presented to Council
At recent Local Area Planning sessions in Anglesea and Moriac, more than 50 community participants from each town came together to discuss local issues and priorities. From these discussions, reports were compiled by community members and Council staff. These reports, one for both Moriac and Anglesea, were then presented by community members directly to Council at a Council Briefing (a forum usually reserved for Council staff and Councillors only) on 11 December.
For a copy of these reports, please go to the Surf Coast Shire eForum http://eforum.surfcoastdirectories.com/ and follow the Local Area Planning discussion tab. This eForum is designed to encourage community discussion about local issues, so please feel free to comment on the Local Area Planning process, the reports or share your ideas.
Alternatively, if you would like hard copy of the report, please contact Rochelle Harding on on +61 3 5261 0600 or localareaplans@surfcoast.vic.gov.au.
Local Area Planning is an ongoing process, and Council staff will be working with community members who registered their interest around various topics and issues. If you would like to be involved, contact Rochelle.
Local Area Planning activities will continue in other identified towns in 2008. To register your interest to be involved, please contact Rochelle Harding on on +61 3 5261 0600 or localareaplans@surfcoast.vic.gov.au. For information on what has happened so far, click on the below links.
Local Area Planning in Anglesea and Moriac - October 2007
Local Area Planning activities in Anglesea and Moriac will commence in October and November 2007. For further details on the Surf Coast Shire Local Area Plans contact Rochelle Harding, Community Engagement Facilitator at the Surf Coast Shire on +61 3 5261 0600 or localareaplans@surfcoast.vic.gov.au
Community Planning History and Past Events
Speak Out
The Surf Coast Shire held two ‘Speak Out’ sessions, one in Anglesea on 14th October 2006 and a second at the Aireys Inlet school fair 4th November 2006. To find out more, click on the link below.
Community Planning at Surf Coast Shire
The Surf Coast Shire is currently implementing the first year of its Community Engagement Framework across five identified rural and coastal towns. The Community Engagement Framework will culminate in a Local Area Plan for each town.
The Local Area Planning process has grown from the community engagement strategy 'Your Visions' . 'Your Visions' demonstrated the Shire's commitment to provide opportunities for the full diversity of Surf Coast communities to articulate their aspirations, needs and priorities.
Local Area Plans will be developed in Deans Marsh, Winchelsea, Moriac, Anglesea and Aireys Inlet / Fairhaven. Residents from these areas will be engaged in developing Local Area Plans so that they will have a more meaningful role in Council's planning and prioritisation process.
The Shire sees its role in community strengthening as that of facilitator and 'starter' of a process whereby local community members take greater responsibility and ownership of planning and prioritisation in their local areas. This 'catalytic role' is both philosophical and practical. Philosophically, the Shire wants to respond to the desire of citizens for greater involvement. It is predicted that the involvement of citizens will lead to communities that are more resilient, more connected, have a greater sense of well being, and where residents feel a greater sense of community. Practically, the Shire is limited both by budget and staffing in what it can achieve for communities and believes that by promoting the capacity of communities to self direct their development priorities, the end results will be far greater than anything Local Government could possibly achieve directly. Supporting communities 'to invest in themselves', is seen as sustainable and lasting.