Community planning helps residents shape a shared vision for their area with support from the City of Greater Bendigo.
What is community planning?
Community planning empowers community members to create a shared vision for their area. It helps identify desired changes or new initiatives for their suburb or township. This process is community-led, with support from the City of Greater Bendigo.
Community planning involves engaging with community members to get their feedback about how to make the community a better place to live, work, study, and play. This process results in a community plan, which typically includes:
- An Acknowledgment of Country
- Introduction: Demographic information, community history, services, and groups, and the development process of your plan
- Vision Statement: Describing the community in 10 years
- Themes, goals, and actions
- Explanation of community planning
- Contact details of planning group and details on how to give feedback on the plan
Support the City can provide
The City is here to support you in developing your community plan in the following ways:
- A Community Strengthening Officer can guide you through the various stages of creating your community plan, offering advice and support
- Offers small grants to help cover costs associated with the community engagement and community plan development. Learn more at the Community grants webpage
- The City’s Customer Engagement & Communications team will manage the professional design and layout of your plan to ensure its visually engaging and accessible
- The City will upload your completed plan to its website and cover all associated printing costs
Contact a Community Strengthening Officer
[email protected]
1300 002 642