Shaping our shire's future

A suite of new key strategic Council documents have now been drafted, following community and stakeholder consultation throughout 2025.

Also known as our Integrated Strategic Planning documents, these long-term plans include:

  • Shaping The Ranges 2025-2035: a document guiding Council's aspirations and strategic direction, incorporating a new Community Vision, Council Plan, Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, and Disability Action Plan.
  • Financial Plan 2025-2035: a document that aligns with the aspirations set out in Shaping The Ranges, identifying how these priorities can be achieved within Council’s financial capacity.
  • Asset Plan 2025-2035: a document that sets out how Council will acquire, build, look after, and use assets over the next 10 years and beyond.

You can view these new draft documents in full by clicking each of the cards listed below:

Have Your Say

Click the link below to access a survey on our new draft key Council documents, which have been informed by community consultation throughout 2025.

  • Survey link - New draft key Council documents

    A suite of new key strategic Council documents have now been drafted, following community and stakeholder consultation throughout 2025.

    Have your say 

Background

In 2021, Council (through an independent consultant) facilitated an extensive community consultation process to help inform and develop a number of key documents that drive what we do on behalf of the community. This process included deliberative engagement with an assembly of 28 community members, independently selected to represent the broad demographics of the community.

The documents developed included the Community Vision, Council Plan, Financial Plan, Asset Plan, and Revenue and Rating Plan. Links to these existing documents are available via the earlier (now closed) survey link to the existing documents below.

  • Earlier 2021 suite of documents

    * CLOSED* - In February 2025, we asked you to tell us what you thought about the existing key documents for the Macedon Ranges.

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Macedon Ranges Shire Council, like all councils across Victoria, is legislatively required to complete deliberative engagement to review or renew these key documents by 31 October in the year following a general election (in this case, 31 October 2025).

With a new Councillor group elected, this is a timely opportunity to check back in with our key stakeholders including the community, to ensure we are still delivering on appropriate priorities and to refresh these documents where required.

This process

This process is following a similar path to how the original documents above were developed, including:

  • the creation of a representative Community Assembly, who will meet several times in 2025 to provide more intensive deliberative engagement (organised through independent facilitators to remove any conscious or unconscious bias)
  • internal consultation with Councillors and Council staff
  • broader community consultation around these documents at times where appropriate, to support the Community Assembly process and ensure broader representation in feedback.

In addition to the above documents developed through the previous process, this process will also inform the integration of the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, and the Disability Action Plan, into the new Council Plan.