Earlier this week the community consultation period for feedback on the Ocean Grove Sporting Infrastructure Plan came to a close.
This is a renewal of a 2010 plan and aims to provide a new vision for the suite of reserves in and around Ocean Grove for the next 10 years.
The plan considers the sporting and recreation activities conducted at Arthur Powell Reserve, Collendina Reserve, Devlins Road Reserve, Memorial Reserve, Shell Road Reserve and Wallington Reserve.
I want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone who provided feedback via the council’s Have Your Say page on this plan.
In total, the page had in excess of 6500 views, and we received more than 300 contributions from members of the community.
That equates to an average of just above 50 contributions a week for the six-week engagement period.
In addition to this, we held three community consultation sessions that were well attended and provided a further opportunity for residents to ask additional questions.
This type of quality consultation means we will now be armed with a wonderful insight into the views of the community on this important infrastructure project.
One of the key roles of local government is listening to residents, so it is really important that we get a detailed understanding of how locals are feeling about particular issues so that we can then make informed decisions.
Our project team will now analyse this feedback and the data that has been acquired through this process, and an interim engagement report will be shared on Council’s Have Your Say Page at a later date.
All feedback received will be considered and evaluated as part of the decision-making process for the final master plan.
Again, I say thanks to the many people who provided their thoughts on the draft masterplan and I look forward to engaging with our community in the future.
