Surf Coast Shire Council is delivering strong progress during the half-year mark of its Council Plan, with six initiatives already completed.
The Council Plan 2025-2029 set the strategic direction and outlined how council would deliver the community’s 10-Year Community Vision, with progress tracked through an annual Action Plan.
Mayor Libby Stapleton said the half-year report covered council’s performance to 31 January this year and identified 43 key initiatives for 2025-26, with six completed, 33 on track and four being monitored.
“Public health and wellbeing remain central to our work, with the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan formally integrated into the Council Plan,” she said.
“Six months into the plan and almost 90 per cent of our Year 1 initiatives are progressing as planned or completed, and we are already seeing tangible benefits flowing to our community.
“Every initiative is aligned to health and wellbeing pillars to ensure we see benefits such as active living, social connection, environmental sustainability and long-term community resilience.
“Our Council Plan isn’t a document that’s just filed away on a shelf; it guides most of what we do, and these Action Plan progress reports will help keep us on track and accountable over its four-year life span.”
Completed initiatives included delivery of the Community Grants Program and Surf Coast Arts Trail, Social Infrastructure Plan finalisation, new synthetic Torquay hockey field construction, Service Review Policy development and Anglesea community plan development support.
Visit Surf Coast Shire Council’s website to read the full Council Plan report.
