Glen Eira Council Plan 2025–2029

The Council Plan contains four strategic directions that will guide our efforts between 2025 and 2029, each with a long-term goal:

1. Community safety, cohesion, health and wellbeing
   We’ll help people feel safe, connected and healthy, no matter their age, background or ability.
2. Diverse, welcoming and accessible places
   We’ll invest in public spaces, housing and transport that are inclusive, sustainable and easy to use.
3. Environmental stewardship
   We’ll take strong action on climate change, protect our natural environment and support a circular economy.
4. Innovative and financially sustainable
   We’ll manage resources wisely, embrace new ideas and keep delivering services that meet community needs.

Each strategic direction identifies a number of major initiatives, which are the larger-scale projects that will contribute to the achievement of the outcomes over the next four years.

For the first time, our Council Plan fully integrates our Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan. That means health and wellbeing sits at the centre of everything we do. 

We’ve set five key health and wellbeing priorities for the next four years to help build a safe, welcoming and inclusive future:  

• Preventing all forms of violence — including family, gender-based, combatting antisemitism and all other forms of racism and community violence. 
• Increasing active living — by making it easier to walk, cycle and stay active every day. 
• Improving mental and social wellbeing — by reducing loneliness, supporting connection and promoting inclusion. 
• Reducing harm — from tobacco, vaping, alcohol, gambling and other risks to health. 
• Tackling climate change and its health impacts — by creating cooler, greener, more resilient neighbourhoods. 

These priorities are based on local needs, community insights and state-wide health plans. You’ll see them reflected throughout our Council Plan — showing how each action supports a healthier, more connected Glen Eira. 

The Council Plan 2025–2029 is shaped by your voices. Our promise is to keep the conversation going.  

We’ll continue to engage regularly and meaningfully — through surveys, pop-ups, panels and partnerships — to make sure your needs and aspirations are at the heart of every decision we make. 

Each year, we’ll publish an Annual Action Plan that outlines the specific tasks we’re working on to deliver our strategic goals. We’ll report back regularly, including through our Annual Report, which tracks progress, shares results and highlights the impact of our work. It’s how we stay accountable and show how your input is shaping Glen Eira’s future. 

At the end of the four years, we will evaluate the impact our activities have had on progressing the long-term community outcomes established in the Community Vision.

To see all of our commitments and measures for 2025–2026, download the Glen Eira Council Plan — Annual Action Plan 2025–2026.

To see our performance reports on the Action Plan see our Quarterly Service Performance Report.

We built this Plan with our community — for our community.

Over a 12-month period in 2024, we had our largest ever conversation with the Glen Eira community through a dedicated engagement program called Our Place, Our Plan (OPOP).

This integrated, multi-phased program invited residents, stakeholders and partners to help shape the future of our City. The engagement took a place-based lens to ensure local voices were heard in local contexts.

We connected with the community and our partners through a range of activities — both online and face-to-face — including pop-ups, drop-in sessions, focus groups, intercept surveys, interviews and stakeholder workshops. Throughout this process we heard from thousands of people.

The engagement was designed to reach people across all Glen Eira suburbs and demographic groups, with targeted efforts to involve children and young people, people with disability, multicultural communities and other underrepresented groups.

A key component of this process was the establishment of a representative Community Priorities Panel — a deliberative citizen panel of 39 residents who worked together to provide us with informed recommendations on the priorities that matter most.

Each phase of engagement gathered insights on community values, needs and aspirations — helping us understand what outcomes people want to see over the next four years.

These insights directly informed the development of this Plan and our strategic priorities. Reports from all engagement phases are available at www.haveyoursaygleneira.com.au/OPOP