Council endorses the Glen Eira City Council Annual Report 2024–2025

This year’s Annual Report gives a clear picture of how we performed over the financial year, including how we managed resources and delivered services to our community.

Key highlights from the year include:

• reopening the redeveloped Carnegie Memorial Swimming Pool
• investing over $7.5 million in safer, more accessible walking and cycling paths
• securing more than $27 million to create new public open spaces
• hearing from thousands of community members through engagement programs like Our Place, Our Plan, which helped us shape the next Council Plan and supporting strategies
• advancing our climate emergency response, including electrification projects and launching Glen Eira’s first Biodiversity Plan
• delivering over 12,000 maternal and child health visits and growing participation in health and wellbeing programs

We also faced some new challenges this year — like rising costs, changes to planning rules, and concerns about safety. In response, we changed how we deliver services, strengthened partnerships, and stayed focused on what matters most to our community.

This Annual Report shows our ongoing commitment to responsible leadership, continuous improvement, and sets the foundation for our next four-year Council Plan.

Council prepares a submission to the Victorian Government’s Activity Centre Program on the draft plans for Carnegie, Murrumbeena and Hughesdale

The Victorian Government is undertaking the Train and Tram Zone Activity Centre Program which is focused on planning for more homes in and around 60 identified activity centres. 

They are seeking comments on the draft plans for the activity centres in the Carnegie to Oakleigh Cluster — including Glen Eira activity centres: Carnegie, Murrumbeena and Hughesdale.

All plans are available on the Engage Victoria website: Carnegie to Oakleigh | Activity Centres Program – Phase 2: Sharing our draft maps | Engage Victoria. The State Government community consultation was closed on 19 October 2025.

We have been asked to provide a formal submission to the Victorian Government by 24 October 2025. Our submission will include our concerns with the draft plan including:

• Lack of detail about the planning rules, building heights, and how decisions were made.
• Technical reports are insufficient — we don’t know how development will affect streets, transport, parking or public spaces.
• Infrastructure funding hasn’t been explained.
• The Council and community haven’t had a fair chance to be involved — consultation was rushed and poorly timed.

The final submission will be made available on our website after it has been submitted.

Council approves the final phase of the community engagement — Our Place, Our Plan

In February 2025, we launched Our Place, Our Plan — our biggest community engagement program yet.

This four stage campaign was created to make sure our future plans for Glen Eira, including the Council Plan for 2025-2029 reflect what matters most to our community.

During the main engagement phase, more than 2,000 locals shared their thoughts through surveys, pop-up events, workshops and online forums. Their feedback helped guide a group of 42 randomly selected residents — the Community Priorities Panel — who looked at complex planning issues and made recommendations which helped shape our draft strategic plans:

• Council Plan 2025–2029
• Financial Plan 2025–2035
• Asset Plan 2025–2035
• Climate Emergency Response Strategy 2025–2029

The Council Plan and our other plans will guide our work over the next few years. They’ve been developed with a focus on sustainability, service delivery and long-term value — all within tight financial constraints.

We’re now using the final feedback to help refine the plans before Council considers them on 28 October 2025.

For more information and all the reports from the meeting, visit our Council meeting page.