Help shape our community services and spaces

Community services and spaces play an important role in everyday life. They help us learn, connect, stay active, access support and improve our wellbeing across all stages of life.

To help meet the needs of current and future generations, we've developed our first ever draft Community Infrastructure Plan 2026-2030. The Plan will guide how we improve and invest in these facilities and spaces as our community grows and changes. The Plan is supported by two Network Plans that look more closely at different community facilities and services, and how they may change to meet future needs.

We'd like to know if the draft Plan is clear, whether it is heading in the right direction, and what you think about the proposed principles and priorities.

About the Draft Community Infrastructure Plan

  • What is community infrastructure?

    Community infrastructure is the places, services and spaces that help people connect, learn and access support. It includes:

    • libraries, community centres and cultural spaces
    • kindergartens and Maternal and Child Health services (MCH)
    • neighbourhood houses and community hubs
    • spaces for older adults and young people
    • shared facilities, outreach and online services.

  • The Plan at a glance

    The Plan's focus is to:

    • make better use of the facilities we already have
    • make spaces easier to access and suitable for different uses
    • strengthen community hubs and work with local partners
    • focus investment where it will provide the greatest community benefit
    • respond to growing demand for early years services
    • improve libraries and community spaces as needs change.

  • Why we need a Plan?

    Glen Eira is growing and changing. We need to plan for:

    • growing demand for services and shared spaces
    • increasing kindergarten and MCH needs
    • a growing and changing older population
    • more people living in apartments and smaller homes
    • changing community needs and expectations
    • ageing Council buildings
    • accessible and flexible spaces
    • the cost of maintaining and renewing facilities.

Six principles in the Draft Plan to guide future decisions

About the Network Plans

The Draft Early Years Network Plan looks at the facilities that support kindergarten, Maternal and Child Health, playgroups, toy libraries and occasional care. It identifies how these facilities can respond to changing demand and support children and families into the future. It gives evidence for the following directions:

  • Kindergarten: increase places at existing facilities where practical, plan for future needs and continue working with the Victorian Government and other providers to support access to kindergarten.
  • Maternal and Child Health: improve existing facilities, increase capacity where needed and move towards a more connected network of contemporary MCH facilities.
  • Playgroups, toy libraries and occasional care: make better use of shared and multi-use facilities and explore opportunities to co-locate complementary services.

The Draft Libraries and Cultural Spaces Network Plan looks at facilities that support learning and connection such as libraries, arts and cultural spaces, older adults, young people, community program spaces, neighbourhood houses and community hubs. It considers how these facilities and services can work together as a connected network and respond to changing community needs. It gives evidence for the following directions:

  • Libraries: improve and adapt existing libraries to support learning, study, programs and community use.
  • Arts and culture: strengthen the Town Hall civic and cultural precinct and improve cultural spaces and the visitor experience.
  • Older adults: plan for changing needs, with a focus on well-located, fit-for-purpose spaces that support participation, wellbeing and social connection.
  • Young people: improve access to suitable youth spaces and consider the future mix of dedicated, shared and outreach-based services.
  • Neighbourhood houses and community spaces: make better use of existing spaces and improve their accessibility, flexibility and suitability for community programs.
  • Moorleigh Community Village: clarify Moorleigh's future role and undertake a staged review of services, uses and the site so it can best support community services, programs and activities over the longer term.
  • Community hubs: strengthen Caulfield's civic role and progress planning for future integrated community hubs in Carnegie and Elsternwick.

What your feedback can and can't influence


  • test and refine the proposed six principles shaping the Plan
  • identify missing needs, gaps or impacts
  • test any directions identified across different types of community infrastructure such as early years, libraries, community spaces etc.
  • clarify information that may be unclear
  • strengthen the final Plan


Feedback outside the scope of this engagement:

  • Council's budget limits and rate capping
  • the amount of land available
  • Victorian Government planning policies and regulations
  • the Plan being a strategic planning framework, and not a construction or delivery program
  • decisions about individual buildings, facilities, sites or service changes
  • funding or approval of individual capital projects

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