Goal 1: Engaged connected communities
A place where communities and ideas thrive, underpinned by trust, confidence and continuous learning.
Objectives (Draft)
| O1.1 | Enable our people to take greater shared responsibility for the future of our green wedge. |
| O1.2 | Encourage, support, promote and celebrate the roles that landowners and volunteers play in the management of the green wedge. |
| O1.3 | Support community facilities in the green wedge. |
| O1.4 | Work with local communities to articulate a vision and develop plans appropriate to their scale and capacity for Hurstbridge, St Andrews, Panton Hill and Yarrambat as green wedge service centres and visitor gateways. Where possible, encourage housing diversity to enable ageing in place. Align future development with environmentally sensitive design principles and ensure that future development emphasises each town’s unique characteristics. |
| O1.5 | Recognise the limits on housing development in the rural areas. |
| O1.6 | Better support the ageing population of the green wedge to age in place with its benefits to retaining local knowledge, community cohesiveness, engagement and involvement in local groups. |
| O1.7 | Facilitate linked public, community and shared transport options connected to the existing railway network and destinations within the green wedge. |
Key actions (Draft)
| A1.1 | Create a Green Wedge Conversations program to provide local communities with a forum to discuss resilience, leadership, knowledge-transfer and cooperation between people involved with land management, agriculture, nature conservation, public land management and bushfire mitigation and management. Seek on-going government funding assistance to support the program. |
| A1.2 | Implement
Council’s Nillumbik Volunteer Development
Strategy 2015-2020. |
| A1.3 | Develop and
manage community infrastructure for the green wedge as part of the Shire’s
overall approach to service and asset management
planning. |
| A1.4 | Better utilise multi-use community spaces to create community hubs in
the townships. |
| A1.5 | Create a comprehensive planning and place management service for the
townships to strengthen their identities
and attractiveness as service, population, tourism, community and cultural centres. |
| A1.6 | Investigate
options for consolidation and amalgamation of small rural lots that are not
capable of supporting a dwelling in their current configuration. Where
appropriate and with owner consent, consider government purchase of such lots
where they are adjacent to public land. |
| A1.7 | Review the
impacts of proximity to urban communities on rural land adjoining the urban
area and investigate options to maintain the
amenity and productivity of those areas. |
| A1.8 | Encourage the location of aged care services within the townships and programs to facilitate people ageing in the community where they have lived for many years. Encourage volunteer and community groups to support ageing landowners with land management, where needed. Implement Council’s Positive Ageing Strategy. |
| A1.9 | Advocate for improved public transport, traffic management and reduced road congestion. |
| A1.10 | Advocate for improved internet access and mobile phone coverage to
support the ability to create application based services such as ride sharing
and on-call transport. |
| A1.11 | Undertake seasonal review of road conditions to improve management and review the road sealing program to ensure high use roads are prioritised. |
