Thank you to all who contributed thoughts, ideas and feedback on the draft Open Space Strategy.

The Open Space Strategy 2024 was adopted at the Council meeting 25 June 2024. The Strategy and Implementation Plan will guide Council’s investment in Moonee Valley's open spaces.

The Open Space Strategy 2024 includes a vision, strategic directions, objectives and prioritisation themes. These will guide programming of open space projects in the years ahead. The Open Space Strategy Implementation Plan is an overview of programs organised by the four Strategic Directions to be implemented to achieve the objectives of the Moonee Valley Open Space Strategy 2024. The plan will be updated to be responsive to the changing context in Moonee Valley. The Open Space Strategy and Implementation Plan are both available in the document library.

Moonee Valley's diverse open spaces range in character and the way they are used from conservation reserves along our waterways, large garden style parks and mixed use sporting reserves through to smaller open spaces and urban plazas.

Various challenges impact our open space such as population growth and density, climate change, the biodiversity crisis and competing demands for available open space. The Strategy and Implementation Plan include objectives and initiativesto address these impacts to provide a healthy, vibrant and resilient open space network now and into the future.

In 2020 we consulted with the community on how they use open space, how often they visit and how far they travel to get there. The findings from this consultation can be viewed in the document library. In September 2023 the Moonee Valley Community Advisory Panel reported on how Council can achieve biodiversity in public open spaces. These recommendations are included in the document library. We have also provided a summary of the parks that have master plans – some of which are mainly complete, and others which are still underway.

Consultation was held in late 2023 on the draft Open Space Strategy and Key Actions document. The outcomes of this consultation are reflected in the final Open Space Strategy and Implementation Plan. A Community Consultation Summary report about this engagement is available to be viewed in the document library.