Take a joined up approach to working with the community to help it balance and cope with the competing demands of living and working in our green wedge.

Support community strengthening through sharing its knowledge and capabilities.

Clearly articulate and support the future of our green wedge townships.

Work with the Victorian Government to ensure that the Nillumbik planning scheme supports the principles, goals and objectives of this plan.

Enhance and update Council’s knowledge base to support informed management of critical issues in our green wedge.

Keep the community appraised of and represent its interests in government policy reforms affecting our green wedge.

Attract external funding for green wedge management.

Create a comprehensive landowners' information and support service for land use and management, including annual reporting on trends and outcomes. Seek on-going government funding to support the service.

Implement a whole of organisation approach to community resilience addressing climate change, emergency management and a range of matters in an integrated manner. This will include difficult conversations on the natural environment and biodiversity values, bushfire risk reduction, economic development, agriculture, economic and community rebuilding post events, human health, well-being and safety and water catchment planning.

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.

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.

Undertake stocktakes of environmental assets and agricultural activity and practices, including hobby farming, that need to be protected for the future and the pests that need to be managed by sourcing information from formal research bodies and landowners. Seek government funding assistance to establish and maintain this data base into the future for landowner information, program prioritisation and policy development.

Consider reviewing the current application of zoning controls in the green wedge to better reflect the actual use of land.

Advocate Council’s position on all government policy reform affecting the Shire, including reform of green wedge policy and planning provisions.

Identify and pursue all funding opportunities from government, philanthropy and corporations to support implementation of this plan.