The Healesville Structure Plan,once developed, will provide the framework for future growth, development and use. The process is only beginning and the Healesville Structure Plan Discussion_Paper_Feb_2013 offers a chance for your to make your voice heard about what you would like our town to become. Email, write or join the online forum (www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au) before the 18th March. There will be much more consultation as we move through the process but please share your thoughts now!
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Save Our Green
The Green Street ‘green’ is a much loved piece of open space in our town. Plans by VicTrack to rezone it to commercial and sell it are underway and we need to continue to fight to stop this. Council’s position remains that it should be kept as public open space and stay the way it […]
Healesville Structure Plan
The draft Healesville Structure Plan is now available for your feedback. This is a critical document that sets the direction for our town in areas such as housing density, type of development, open space and much more. Please have a look and submit your comments, questions and thoughts to Council. You don’t have to write […]
Community Meeting – Healesville Hospital
100 people attended a community meeting in Healesville last night in support of getting the right health services locally. They were presented with the results of the research commissioned by the community into the demand and need for services locally and the best way forward. To read the consultancy report HOI_Healesville Health Services Research Paper_Final
Frequently Asked Questions
In meeting with community members, local business operators, community groups and a range of other interested parties across the shire over the past months I have been asked a range of questions. Here are some of the more frequently asked ones as well as my views and responses: Why made you decide to stand? I have been working closely with local government for over 12 years now and … [Read more...]
The Media Asks…
The following questions were posed by some of the local papers. Fiona responds as follows: Have you run for council/ been a councillor before, or any other level of government? If so, please list details (where, when, length of time, etc). Yes, I have been the Ryrie Ward Councillor for 4 years including a term as Mayor. I have however in my own business worked with councils across the … [Read more...]
Consultation
Real community engagement and consultation is critical – council action and planning must start with conversations with all members of our communities, not at the end of the process. Community should be engaged in decision making at the start of the process whether it be about expenditure priorities, community planning issues or what local laws we want and need. Meaningful conversations and … [Read more...]
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