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During 2019-21 the Gloucester community worked together to develop a local community plan.
The plan outlines a 10 year vision for the community and identify actions, partners and priorities to achieve this vision.
It aims to bring together the vision the community of Gloucester and surrounds has for its area and will be used to encourage support and funding from all levels of government as well as to foster a sense of common purpose within the community.
This plan was developed by the local community, with support from MidCoast Council through a series of facilitated and information activities.
Through surveys, workshops and feedback sessions the community got together to identify what is important for the future and to plan how they will go about achieving their goals and aspirations.
It recognises the importance of Gloucester as a hub for its outlying areas, with smaller communities relying on Gloucester for services, amenities, community, sporting and cultural opportunities.
Through this process key themes of environment, economy, community and infrastructure were identified around which aspirations and objectives could be aligned.
Work on this plan started back in late 2019 with a think tank session involving representatives from all sections of the Gloucester community.
This think tank looked at what people loved about Gloucester and what they wanted to see for the future.
Following that a dedicated group of community members worked to bring together a document that outlines what is important to Gloucester’s future, based on the think tank data, Council’s Community Conversations feedback and reviewing a number of previous plans and suggestions.
Local community planning is an opportunity for people within a community to come together, have a conversation about what they want for the future and develop a plan for how they will get there.
In developing a local plan the community works together to identify their own long term objectives to improve the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of their community.
Local Community Plans are owned by the communities. Council’s role is to provide advice and support to ensure they are as effective as possible.
The vision, focus areas and objectives outlined by communities in their community plans will provide important insight for Council to ensure what we deliver to our communities aligns with their identified needs and desires.
Actions identified within these plans can be community led or joint initiatives with other stakeholders.
The local community plans are intended to complement Council’s Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework, as well as other local and regional plans.
To view the Gloucester Local Community Plan document in full-screen in the interactive PDF viewer above, select the bracket icon at the bottom-right side the toolbar to enable full-screen.
If you are having trouble viewing the document in the interactive PDF viewer, you may also download the full Gloucester Local Community Plan in the Document library on this page.
The Gloucester community had an opportunity to provide feedback on the Local Community Plan during August 2021. Thank you to all those who provided submissions.
Consultation has concluded and the Gloucester Local Community Plan was noted by the elected Council in November 2021.
A report on the feedback provided by the community during this time can be found in the Document library on this page.
From the feedback received during the community consultation period, a number of minor changes and additions to the plan were recommended to the steering committee. The changes to the text of the plan included grammatical corrections, rewording and the below:
These additions to the priorities, outlined below, were discussed with steering group members and now form part of the plan put forward.
The community priorities were also indicated through asterisk notations.
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live, the Gathang-speaking people and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who now reside in the MidCoast Council area. We extend our respect to elders past and present, and to all future cultural-knowledge holders.
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