Policies & strategies

View or download Council's policies, strategies, action plans, frameworks and local laws.

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Recreation and open space strategy

The Recreation and Open Space Strategy summarises the research and consultation findings and consists of a number of action sheets. The action sheets outline what is happening in your community.

A photo of Lillydale Lake.

Issues

Themes

Precincts

 

Paths and Trails Plan

Paths and trails are essential components of the municipality’s open spaces, streetscapes, and road network. These linear movement corridors connect places and people, and they benefit the community by encouraging active lifestyles and outdoor exercise, promoting sustainable modes of transport, providing tourism outcomes and stimulating local businesses.

The Path and Trails Plan will enable Yarra Ranges Council to establish and maintain a high-quality network of paths and trails that are used by residents and visitors to the municipality.

 

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Housing Strategy

After extensive community consultation, the Yarra Ranges Housing Strategy, and Neighbourhood Character Study, were Adopted by Council at the Council Meeting of 11 June 2024. The Agenda and Minutes from the Meeting are linked below.

The Housing Strategy is Council’s long-term plan to manage future housing growth and change so that it best meets the ongoing needs of the community.  The Housing Strategy identifies the location for new residential development at varying scales. The Housing Strategy underpins Council’s housing policy in the Planning Scheme and provides for the next fifteen years of population growth.

The Neighbourhood Character Study (NCS) was developed and publicly exhibited concurrently with the Housing Strategy. The NCS expresses how new development can be managed across suburban areas of Yarra Ranges to protect valued neighbourhood assets and character.

The development of the Housing Strategy included two stages of community consultation:

  • Stage 1: The Housing Strategy Discussion Paper – exhibited from 1 March 2022 to 5 April 2022
  • Stage 2: The Draft Housing Strategy – exhibited from 25 October 2023 to 11 December 2023

Highlights from Stage 2:

  • Receiving over 5,200 views on Shaping Yarra Ranges.
  • 40 detailed submissions sharing your feedback on chapters in the strategy.
  • Engaging with over 500 community members at events, pop ups, webinars and focus groups around Yarra Ranges.
  • Speaking to identified stakeholder groups including: Monbulk and District Community Opportunities Workgroup, Yarra Ranges Township Network, Council’s Health and Wellbeing Advisory Committee, Council’s Positive Ageing Reference Group, and students from Mooroolbark College. 

Next steps:

Council will now prepare a planning scheme amendment to implement the Housing Strategy, which will be presented to Council in early 2025 to formally commence the planning scheme amendment process. This is expected to be finalised in late 2025 with a new a new planning framework introduced into the Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme.

In addition, there are a number of actions of the Housing Strategy which will be implemented across different departments of Council. 

Linked in the attachments below, these two reports explain the Stage 2 consultation in detail:

  • Draft Housing Strategy Consultation and Engagement Report
  • Draft Housing Strategy Engagement Feedback Report

The reports include feedback from the community and responses from officers regarding the issues raised.

Tree Canopy Strategy

Trees are fundamental to the story of Yarra Ranges, shaping our cultures, values and communities. They are a prominent feature in our landscape, providing benefits to our health and well-being, community and culture, the environment, ecology and economy.

The Tree Canopy Strategy sets our vision, objectives and targets for the long-term protection, management and planting of trees in the Yarra Ranges. For each of the six strategy objectives, actions are detailed in the Implementation Plan (Appendix 1). The Strategy provides the direction necessary to effectively plan, allocate resources and act to maximise the benefits of our tree canopy and to minimise tree risk.

 

Municipal Recovery Plan 2021

At the December 2022 Council Meeting, Council endorsed the final Municipal Recovery Plan (December 2022) which details the actions that were undertaken during the 18 months following the June 2021 storm. 

Commitments were made at the December 2021 Council meeting when the original Municipal Recovery Plan 2021, was presented that the Plan would be updated at regular intervals to reflect the funding received and actions that will be/have been undertaken. 

 

Active Recreation Plan

The Active Recreation Plan is a plan to encourage people in the Yarra Ranges to be more active.

Currently, only 40% of Yarra Ranges residents are meeting the Australian physical activity guidelines of at least 30 minutes per day on at least 5 days a week.

We have heard that 89% of residents are interested in being, or would be, more active if the type of activity that suited their needs and interests was available and accessible.

This plan focuses on you and the factors influencing your participation in active recreation. It suggests a combination of actions to help us reach our target of increasing the physical activity of Yarra Ranges residents by 15% over ten years.

 

Key Life Stages Plan

The Key Life Stages Plan is a four year Plan that is led by Council's Health and Wellbeing Strategy. The Key Life Stages Plan sets the direction for how Council supports the health and wellbeing of children, young people and older adults, and the families/carers of all of these age cohorts.

 

Council Plan and Budget
Outlines our strategic direction, details key priorities and the actions we will carry out over a four year period. It states how the activities will be resourced and our performance measured.
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