Closing the loop

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.

Engagement background

This phase of the Our Place, Our Plan engagement is closed. Please visit the main project page for the latest information.

You can read below to see what was involved in this phase, or click the "Closing the loop" tab to learn about the community's feedback.

Right now, we are having our biggest ever conversation with our community and we want you to get involved.

We’re calling it Our Place, Our Plan. It is about listening and hearing your views so we can shape Glen Eira together.

What you tell us will help shape our plans for the next four years to continue to support a safe community, build thriving places and businesses and protect and enhance our open space and natural environment.

It will also help us stay on the right track to progress the Community Vision that you developed for what Glen Eira could look like by 2040.

What we are asking about

We're asking for the community's ideas about what's important to them when it comes to things like:

People, safety and connections

How can we improve the community's wellbeing, sense of safety and quality of life?

Supported communities

How can our services best support everyone to reach their full potential and live healthy lives?

Connected and thriving places

How can we best invest in our activity centres, open spaces, neighbourhoods and facilities?

Climate and sustainability

How can we take action on climate change and protect and enhance our natural environment?

How to have your say

To get involved and have your say, you can:

  1. Complete the survey by clicking the green Start the survey button above. The survey will close on 16 March 2025.
  2. Share your local neighbourhood ideas on our social map.
  3. Join the Community Priorities Panel. Click here to find out more and apply.
  4. Attend one of our community pop-ups, check out the "Visit us in person" section on this page.
  5. Complete one of our activity sheets for young people (ages 10-25) and children (ages 3-9).
  6. Find an ideas box in a Council facility near you.

If you have any questions or want to provide feedback another way, you can contact the Community Engagement team:

  • by email at engagement@gleneira.vic.gov.au
  • by phone on 9524 3333
  • by post or in person at Glen Eira Town Hall, corner Glen Eira and Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield.

We also want to hear more about how Council can support our local neighbourhoods. Pin your ideas to the map below to tell us what your local area needs most.

For example, street beautification, road or footpath repairs, signage, lighting, access to programs or services, events, or more trees and plants.

Keep an eye out for one of more than 20 ideas boxes stationed at different locations around Glen Eira, in Council facilities and other community spaces. We invite you to write on a postcard to share your feedback on ways to improve your neighbourhood.

You can find an ideas box at our:

  • Town Hall Service Centre and Art Gallery
  • Libraries in Bentleigh, Carnegie, Caulfield and Elsternwick
  • Maternal and Child Health Centres in Bentleigh, Carnegie, Caulfield, Elsternwick, Glen Huntly, McKinnon and Murrumbeena
  • Senior Citizen Centres in Bentleigh, Bentleigh East, Caulfield, Moorleigh Community Village and Ormond
  • Carnegie Memorial Swimming Pool, Caulfield Recreation Centre and GESAC
  • Other community spaces.

The Community Priorities Panel

We're reactivating the Community Priorities Panel, recruiting 40 new members who reflect Glen Eira's rich diversity.

Members of the Panel will have the opportunity to represent their family, neighbours, and community and think big about how we can shape Glen Eira together.

Through a series of five meetings, members will hear from Councillors and senior Council officers, learn more about our organisation, consider our challenges and opportunities, take in research and data, and provide informed recommendations to Council.

Members of the panel will receive a reimbursement for their participation in all five meetings (terms and conditions apply).

Applications closed on Tuesday 25 February.