Round one draft plans endorsed by Council

Our Budget 2025–2026, Revenue and Rating Plan 2025–2029, Strategic Property Plan 2025–2030 and Biodiversity Plan 2025–2029 were endorsed at the Council meeting on 30 June.

In May, we shared these draft plans with you. We received 75 submissions in total — including 62 survey and 13 email submissions. Community members could provide feedback on one or more of the draft plans — to help us understand if we got them right.

Thank you to the community members who helped inform these documents over the past few months by providing feedback through the Our Place, Our Plan community engagement program.

Scroll down for more information on the feedback received and to find out more on how the feedback influenced the final plans.

Round one — What we heard

  • Budget 2025–2026

    The draft Budget received a total of 24 submissions.

    The top insights on the draft Budget 2025–2026 focused on the need for increased investment in safety, infrastructure, and amenity upgrades in activity centres and in open space projects for new and existing parks and gardens.


  • Revenue and Rating Plan 2025-2029

    The draft Revenue and Rating Plan received a total of eight submissions.

    A request for the rating system to be reformed was the most consistent feedback identified.


  • Strategic Property Plan 2025-2030

    The draft Strategic Property Plan 2025–2030 received a total of 19 submissions.
    The feedback highlighted objections to selling off Council land, and a preference for our buildings to be multipurpose and provide greater shared community spaces.


  • Biodiversity Plan 2025-2029

    The draft Biodiversity Plan 2025–2029 received 45 submissions — the most submissions overall.

    We heard positive feedback about the plan and its focus on education and greening initiatives. There was strong support for increased planting of indigenous trees and plants, inclusion of stronger measures and targets in the plan and calls for greater protection and expansion of our waterways.




Our Place, Our Plan engagement phases

These draft plans are the result of community engagement starting in late 2024. Visit the pages below to learn more about each of the main phases of our Our Place, Our Plan community engagement process.

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