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Contributions to this engagement have now closed. The findings were evaluated and a final plan was developed.
On 28 July 2020, the Council endorsed the Social Infrastructure Plan - Generation One: 2020-2023, and the accompanying Social Infrastructure Planning and Investment Policy.
Click here to explore what's planned for the place you live using an interactive map.
Click here to view the Final Social Infrastructure Plan - Generation One: 2020 - 2023.
This engagement is now closed. Thank you to all those who contributed, your feedback helped us to enhance the final plan.
"For many of us, these places are like our second home."
Remarkably, the City of Greater Geelong provides over 865 indoor and outdoor community places and spaces, including sporting facilities, playgrounds and parks, leisure centres, community halls, libraries, neighbourhood houses and much more.
As Geelong’s population grows, and through trying times such as these as our community deals with the impacts of Covid-19, these places will become more important than ever in helping us maintain the lifestyle and strong sense of community connection this region has always enjoyed.
The new Social Infrastructure Policy and Plan marks a journey to a new way of working and is aimed at ensuring our future decision making and investment in community infrastructure and services is clear, fair, equitable, and based on evidence of need and insights from our community. We want to ensure we’re providing access to places, spaces and services where and when people need them the most.
"For many of us, these places are like our second home."
Remarkably, the City of Greater Geelong provides over 865 indoor and outdoor community places and spaces, including sporting facilities, playgrounds and parks, leisure centres, community halls, libraries, neighbourhood houses and much more.
As Geelong’s population grows, and through trying times such as these as our community deals with the impacts of Covid-19, these places will become more important than ever in helping us maintain the lifestyle and strong sense of community connection this region has always enjoyed.
Planning, building and maintaining high quality social infrastructure, in partnership with our community and key stakeholders, will be essential for our overall physical and mental health, wellbeing and economic prosperity.
The plan also marks the beginning of a journey to a new way of working, to ensure we’re providing access to places, spaces and services where and when people need them the most.
It promotes municipality-wide solutions, but it's not a one-size-fits-all or linear approach. It includes recommendations for improving equity, accessibility, integration, operation, maintenance, use and experience of the City’s social infrastructure.
The plan has been developed through an assessment of the current state of the City’s infrastructure, rigorous analysis of the available evidence, existing strategic guidance, and extensive community and stakeholder feedback.
We now invite you to explore our new way of working and what is planned for the place where you live; then please take a moment to tell us what you think.
Explore the map by typing in your address to see what's planned for the place where you live or simply navigate around the map as you please. You can even filter the map by a network of interest to you (for example; Early Years, Libraries, Sport and Recreation and so on).
Timeline item 1 - complete
2017 - Project Commencement
Commence review of the Draft Social Infrastructure Plan (2015).
Timeline item 2 - complete
Engagement - Review vision, principles and approach
Test the vision, principles and approach.
Timeline item 3 - complete
2018 - Scope New Approach
Scope and commence approach for a new Policy and Plan.
Timeline item 4 - complete
Engagement - Needs, preferences and values
Understand the needs, preferences and values of our community and key stakeholders.
Timeline item 5 - complete
2019 - Develop the Social Infrastructure Planning and Investment Policy
Develop the foundation policy framework to underpin the new plan.
Timeline item 6 - complete
Engagement - Test the Draft Policy
Seek feedback and insights from our community on the Draft Policy.
Timeline item 7 - complete
2020 - Develop the Draft Social Infrastructure Plan
Following strong support for the Draft Policy; develop a Draft Social Infrastructure Plan to respond to identified needs.
Timeline item 8 - complete
Engagement - Test the Draft Plan
We’ve now reached an important milestone and we need your feedback on the Draft Social Infrastructure Plan.
Timeline item 9 - complete
2020 - Endorse the Final Policy and Plan
Following community engagement, finalise and endorse the Policy and Plan.
Social Infrastructure relates to places and spaces of a communal, human or social nature that is required, by the different areas of the community, and progressively as a community grows.
Social infrastructure includes both informal and formal places and spaces providing access to community activities and services. Social infrastructure is the sum of both ‘hard’ infrastructure (community facilities and public open space) and ‘soft’ infrastructure (support services, technology, information sharing, management systems, data and insights).
The scope of social infrastructure includes;
Generation One of the plan provides recommendations on most social infrastructure recognised in the scope, with the exception of, education and training spaces, health, safety and emergency services, tourist facilities, day respite, social housing, migrant services and social services. These important elements will be further considered in Generation Two of the plan.
Generation One focuses on thirteen (13) key social infrastructure networks, these are:
Community feedback on the draft plan is open for a period of six (6) weeks, beginning on Friday 01 May 2020.
This engagement will close on Friday 12 June 2020.
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