We received close to 1500 contributions across our engagement activities including 831 survey submissions, 371 social map comments, 211 ideas postcards along with about 80 children's drawings. 👏

We thank you for your valued contributions and feedback to help guide Council's future planning for Glen Eira.🧡

We are now busily analysing the engagement data and writing our Community Engagement Summary Report which we will share with you shortly.✍

Our next phase of engagement is due to kick off Wednesday 16 March with our Community Priorities Panel. 42 local residents will work together over five sessions during the next four weeks to review research and data and make recommendations to Council. 👩‍🦰👩‍🦱👳‍♀️🧔👴👩👧👩‍🦽👩‍🔧👨‍💼

This will be followed by our final phases of engagement where we will share with you our draft plans in April/May and August.2025 📚

Stay tuned as we continue our regular updates on Our Place, Our Plan.👍

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.

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

To get involved and have your say, you can:

1. Complete the survey by clicking the green Start the survey button below. 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.

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.