Glen Eira 2040 Community Vision

What is a Community Vision?

A Community Vision describes what our residents and ratepayers aspire for the future of Glen Eira. It captures what community members most value about our community and sets out the future vision and aspirations for the community for at least the next ten-years.  

The Glen Eira 2040 Community Vision guides strategic planning and decision-making for the future of Glen Eira. This includes shaping Council’s priorities through our Council Plan 2025–2029, which for the first time, fully integrates our Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan.    

Glen Eira’s vision statement

‘Our Glen Eira: A thriving and empowered community working together for an inclusive and sustainable future.’ 

How the Glen Eira 2040 Community Vision was made 

This is our first Community Vision. It was developed following extensive community engagement that involved feedback from more than 3,000 people from all stages of life, including children right through to older adults, across all Glen Eira suburbs.   

The Community Vision was written by the Deliberative Citizens’ Panel that was made up of a committed group of thirty-two local people who were representative of Glen Eira’s community. They reviewed the data from community engagement and worked together to create our Glen Eira 2040 Community Vision.  

The process for developing the Community Vision was vigorous. The vision statement and principles had to be accepted by a ‘super majority’ of panel members (80 per cent or more) to be included in the report.  

The Vision includes two minority reports that relate to elements that did not receive majority support but were still regarded as important to consider by some panel members.  

Community Vision check in 

We checked in with our community on the Vision in August 2024, to ensure it still reflected the needs and aspirations of resident. This was the first phase of the Our Place, Our Plan community engagement program, which sought community feedback to help develop our Council Plan 2025–2029 and other strategic plans.  

This check-in clarified that the Community Vision developed in 2020 still holds high levels of significance in Glen Eira, and the engagement also provided us with valuable information to help shape new priorities together.