Our Council Plan 2025–2029 is our shared vision and roadmap for the next four years. It’ll keep us on track to deliver our long-term Community Vision — that Glen Eira is a thriving and empowered community working together for an inclusive and sustainable future.

The Plan will guide our decisions about projects and services and sets out what we’ll focus on and how we’ll allocate our resources each year over the four-year period.

This Plan is special because, for the first time, it fully includes our health, wellbeing and inclusion priorities. By putting these priorities into our Council Plan, we’re making them part of everything that we do for the next four years.

We've divided our priorities into four main areas. These themes have been developed and refined using community feedback.

• Community safety, cohesion, health and wellbeing — what we’ll do to keep our community safe, healthy and connected.
• Diverse, welcoming and accessible places — what we’ll do to make sure our public spaces and places are open to everyone, friendly and easy to get around.
• Environmental stewardship — what we’ll do to care for and protect the environment.
• Innovation and financial sustainability — what we’ll do to try new and smart ideas, and to use money and resources responsibly.

The Financial Plan 2025–2035 is our roadmap for making responsible and smart decisions about money and resources. It plans our future spending, saving and investment so we can continue delivering and maintaining our services and infrastructure.

Through Our Place, Our Plan we heard that the most important services to you are

• Parks, gardens, playgrounds and open space
• Roads, footpaths and cycling
• Rubbish collection and waste management
• Sporting grounds, swimming pools, gyms and recreation centre
• Libraries.

This matches what we’ve heard from our community a lot over the last few years. So, we’ll keep focusing our time and money on getting these basic services right for everyone. We also know that transparency and fairness is important to you when it comes to how we make decisions and spend money.

With your feedback in mind, through our Financial Plan we will:

• Review how we deliver services to identify smarter, more cost-effective models — making sure every dollar is spent where it's needed most.

• Better manage our community assets by repurposing or consolidating underused facilities and reinvesting in open space, parks and essential infrastructure.

• Advocate for fairer funding and explore more equitable user-pays models so we can sustainably maintain the services and facilities you rely on.

Our Asset Plan 2025–2035 is our 10-year approach to managing community assets like buildings, roads and parks. Keeping these valued assets in good shape supports our community’s quality of life, now and in the future.

Through Our Place, Our Plan we heard that you want us to maintain assets and facilities at their current standards, rather than investing in new or expanding current assets. Your most-used and most-valued assets include things like parks and gardens, footpaths and roads.

With your feedback in mind, through our Asset Plan we will:

• Look after what we have. We’re focusing on maintaining and renewing existing assets like parks, roads, footpaths and community buildings, rather than building new ones.

• Spend wisely. We’ll use data and community input to make smart, timely decisions that keep assets safe, accessible and cost-effective.

• Plan for the future. By taking a long-term view, we’ll manage costs, respond to climate and population changes, and make sure our assets meet community needs now and in the years to come.

The Climate Emergency Response Strategy 2025–2029 is our plan to tackle climate change and protect our community, environment, and future. It outlines how we’ll work with our community and others to respond to climate impacts and safeguard our health, homes and natural spaces.

The Strategy outlines ways to reduce pollution, switch to clean energy, protect nature, and prepare for extreme weather. Together, we’ll take practical steps to protect our environment and prepare for the future.

Through Our Place, Our Plan we heard that your top environmental priority is improving our green spaces and tree canopy. We also heard that you want our support to take local, personal action on climate change and want to know more about switching to clean energy, recycling more and using less plastic.

We’ve used this feedback to shape our drafts and now we want to know we’re on the right track.

With your feedback in mind, through our Climate Emergency Response Strategy we will:

• Act faster on climate change. We’re cutting emissions, powering Council with 100 per cent renewable energy, and helping the wider community move toward net zero.

• Protect green space and tree cover. We’re increasing planting, preserving existing trees and green areas, and making our neighbourhoods cooler and more climate-resilient.

• Embed climate action in everything we do. From planning and procurement to local services and infrastructure, we’re making sure climate thinking is part of every decision.