This phase of Our Place, Our Plan is now finished. For a six-week period in February and March 2025 we asked the broad community, stakeholders and targeted cohorts to help inform the writing of Council's future plans.

Thank you to everyone who contributed! We really appreciate the time and valuable insights you have given to help us plan for the future of our diverse community.

The next opportunity for feedback into Our Place, Our Plan will be during phase four, when we ask for feedback on our draft plans. You can find the latest information and opportunities for feedback on the Our Place, Our Plan project page.

You can learn more about the phase two engagement findings below or read the detailed Engagement Report.

What we heard

We received 1,578 contributions across our engagement activities including:

  • 832 survey submissions
  • 371 social map comments
  • 226 ideas postcards
  • 30 children's drawings
  • 119 expressions of interest to our Community Priorities Panel

Below you can see some of the key findings that came from the community's survey submissions.

To learn more about the findings of this engagement, please view the Engagement Report. The report has detailed charts and analysis for each survey question, demographics, targeted engagements, and more.

  • What should Council focus on for the future?

    1. Create healthy and urban green spaces (71 per cent)
    2. Maintain and upgrade roads, buildings, and other community spaces and assets (64 per cent)
    3. Help the community to feel safe, healthy and well (61 per cent)
    4. Improve our local economy, our shopping strips and neighbourhoods (56 per cent)
    5. Provide services that support our most vulnerable community members (41 per cent)

  • What are the health and wellbeing priorities?

    1. Increase active living (82 per cent)
    2. Prevent all forms of violence (including family violence) (81 per cent)
    3. Improve wellbeing (including mental health) (81 per cent)
    4. Increase healthy eating (51 per cent)
    5. Tackle climate change and its impacts on health (50 per cent)

  • Which assets should Council prioritise improving?

    1. Parks and gardens (72 per cent)
    2. Park and street trees (50 per cent)
    3. Footpaths (47 per cent)
    4. Local roads (43 per cent)
    5. Libraries (41 per cent)

  • What action should we take on climate change?

    1. Improve our green spaces and tree canopy (77 per cent)
    2. Promote more clean energy options, like solar or wind (46 per cent)
    3. Recycle more and provide more education about waste and the circular economy (45 per cent)
    4. Encourage more urban agriculture like community gardens (40 per cent)
    5. Reduce use of plastics (39 per cent)

  • How can Council help you use online services?

    1. Provide the ability to talk to a real person if needed (55 per cent)
    2. Have easy to find information on the website (45 per cent)
    3. I feel confident using Council’s services (32 per cent)
    4. Have easy to use services and transactions (26 per cent)

How we engaged the community

During a six-week period from 5 February to 16 March 2025, Council held community pop-ups, targeted engagement activities and promotions across Glen Eira. You can see some of our key engagement and communications activities below.

  • 24 pop-up engagements

  • 28 targeted engagements

  • 64,500 households received Glen Eira News

  • 1,556 in-person conversations

  • 44,387 people reached on Spotify

  • 13 e-newsletters to over 78,000 emails

  • 68,293 people reached on socials

  • 2,940 postcards handed out

  • Trackable QR codes on all advertising

  • 75+ outdoor advertisements

  • 10,000 bookmarks placed in library books

  • 4,885 visits to Have Your Say