Your Place, Your Say
The Shire of Harvey is taking steps to simplify how we plan for the future, remain accountable for that plan, and have open, two-way conversations with our communities.
Over the past few years, we have consulted and engaged with the community extensively. Now we are looking to consolidate what we've heard into a simplified Council Plan.
The Council Plan will provide the community with one central plan. It will be our roadmap for the next eight years: it will help us plan, fund and deliver the services and facilities our localities want and need.
This consolidated plan will promote a shared understanding of what we prioritise as a community, and who is responsible for making it happen. It will help us focus our resources on service delivery and providing facilities rather than extensive planning.
This document will streamline and replace our existing ten year Community Strategic Plan, and four year Corporate Business Plan. It will help to guide budget decisions around projects and services in our localities.
As part of that process, we want to continue to engage with as many people as we can to understand what’s important to the community.
We're inviting all Shire of Harvey residents and businesses to get involved in this planning process. This will happen in two stages.
MARKYT Community Scorecard
The MARKYT Community Scorecard is research carried out by independent consultant CATALYSE®, who are specialists in assessing local government performance. The scorecard provides benchmarking data to see how we are doing as a council, compared to other local governments. 70 local governments have previously participated in this benchmarking program. This means we can see how we are doing compared to a wide range of local governments.
Filling out a community scorecard gives you the opportunity to rate our service delivery, as well as letting us know your priorities for your community. Your participation will help us to understand how we are doing. Your feedback will also inform the drafting of the Council Plan.
The MARKYT Community Scorecard will be live from February 14-March 14 2025.
A link to the survey will be live on this page from February 14.
Community Workshops
A series of community workshops will be held across the Shire in May 2025. At these workshops, we will report back on the results of the scorecard, explore any emerging themes, and work together to refine our priorities for development of the Council Plan.
More information about the workshops, including dates and how to register, will be available on this page as it becomes available.
For more information, check out the links below.