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The Corangamite Shire Council Plan 2025-2029 is Council’s key strategic document guiding our activities over the next four years. The plan outlines the vision of a connected, thriving and sustainable community.

The draft plan builds on the foundations of the previous plan but introduces more specific, measurable actions and a stronger emphasis on sustainability, inclusivity, and community engagement.

The new plan commits to advocacy to support mental health services, healthcare access, improving aged care, and enhancing recreational facilities. It expands on economic development with initiatives to diversify the economy, support creative industries, enhance job creation

There is a focus on providing housing for the future, youth engagement, and promoting cultural diversity, alongside a commitment to financial responsibility and sustainability. The draft plan also puts an emphasis on climate action, renewable energy, and biodiversity conservation.

View draft Council Plan 2025-2029(PDF, 8MB)

The Community Vision 2040 outlines the long-term aspirations and goals of the Corangamite Shire community. The existing vision was developed by a jury of residents in 2021.

The community engagement in 2024 and 2025 has confirmed that the existing vision remains largely consistent with community views and aspirations. However, the community has voiced some issues more strongly and the vision has been updated to reflect these sentiments. The refreshed document retains previous vision’s focus on environmental sustainability and First Nations engagement. The updated vision presents objectives in a clean, user-friendly format.

New or strengthened objectives include:

• increasing affordable childcare
• advocating for increased housing for all ages
• aged care provision and supports to age in place
• diverse training and employment opportunities
• improving public transport services
• improving pedestrian access
• promoting community safety
• supporting local businesses
• promoting arts and culture
• protecting agricultural land 

View updated Community Vision 2040(PDF, 8MB)

The Financial Plan provides a 10-year financially sustainable projection for how Council will fund its activities to meet the objectives of the Council Plan and Community Vision.

The draft plan aims to ensure sustainable service delivery and responsible management of assets. It puts a large emphasis on asset renewal, projecting more than $200 million for capital works across the coming decade, more than 75 per cent of which is targeted at renewing existing assets.

It is forecast that Council will draw down on existing cash reserves to fund the asset renewal and service provision in the Plan.

View draft Financial Plan 2025-2035(PDF, 4MB)

The Revenue and Rating Plan aims to determine the most appropriate and affordable revenue and rating approach for Corangamite Shire Council which, in conjunction with other income sources, will adequately finance the objectives in the council plan. 

This Asset Plan outlines the way we will manage our assets now and into the future, so we can meet the service needs of our community in a cost-effective way.

The plan lays out a clear system for rating the condition of assets, and defines the triggers for renewing or upgrading infrastructure

It commits council to maintaining its assets at existing service levels, with a continued focus on high-quality roads, sustainable community facilities, enhanced town presentation, and ensuring community safety, health and wellbeing.

Council manages over $0.698 billion of infrastructure and property assets including:

• 169 public buildings (including halls, public toilets, playing field amenities, community centres), heritage buildings, council offices and depots
•  2,142km of roads comprising 915km of sealed roads and 1,227km of unsealed roads
•  132km of footpaths
•  188km of kerb & channel
•  101km of pipe
•  55 bridges and 48 major culverts
•  45 play spaces
•  22 monuments

View the draft Asset Plan 2025-2035(PDF, 2MB)

The Road Management Plan defines how council manages roads and footpaths, and sets standards for maintenance, renewal and upgrades of roads and paths. The draft plan proposes more frequent inspections of footpaths, and faster response times to respond to hazards on footpaths.

The number of inspections of primary route footpaths is proposed to increase from once a year to twice a year. These would now include inspecting the kerb and channel for hazards when it is directly abutting a footpath. Council response times to treating hazards in footpaths would be sped up from 6 to 3 months on the primary routes and from 12 to 6 months on the secondary routes. Timeframes for inspecting roads remain unchanged from the previous plan - this includes inspections every three months for main link roads.

The development of the Road Management plan compliments the Council Plan by addressing specific elements of the maintenance and management of the road network, as well as the legislative responsibilities under the Road Management Act 2004.

View the draft Road Management Plan 2025-2029(PDF, 4MB)