Community Plans
2025
Millgrove Community Plan Final
2025
Millgrove Community Plan Flyer Final
What is Community Planning
It is a process of creating a shared vision and objectives, which serves to guide communities towards improvements for community members and townships. It is prepared by the community for the community, with Yarra Ranges Council supporting the process and acknowledging the outcome.
The process is driven by community members, who decide when to start, how to proceed, who should be involved, what objectives will be attempted, and what the priorities for action will be. This ensures that the process and the outcomes are ‘owned’ by the community.
The Process
Since the development of the 2015 Community Plan, MRAG continued to actively work on gathering community thoughts and ideas towards the development of the 2021 Community Plan. To ensure the plan reflects ‘community need’, MRAG used a range of community consultative strategies including Facebook surveys, face to face market stall discussions with residents and tourists, walk-in conversations at the local newsagent (owned and operated by MRAG President Maureen Halit till Feb 2020) and the utilisation of meetings including the MRAG AGM, to generate ideas and discussion.
Resilient Millgrove
Community Resilience Plan
Millgrove’s Community Resilience Plan, complements the Millgrove Community Plan (2021). It focuses on how we as the Millgrove community can best prepare ourselves to meet the natural hazards that we face, particularly fires and floods. This Plan represents a starting point. The Millgrove Residents Action Group (MRAG) has been working with the support of the Minderoo Foundation and ResilientCo, to identify how to best help Millgrove to be prepared, so we can manage – and hopefully avoid – flood and fire disasters We designed six key projects we think will make the most difference to our community.
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MRAG working bee
Every 2nd Saturday and 4th Tuesday of the month MRAG organises working bees which are announced on our Facebook and Instagram site. It is fun working together and we have great morning teas. A great way of meeting new people. Hope to see you at our next working bee.
Muster
In April 2023 a working bee/Muster was held, which was led by Australian Resilience Corps and Connecting Communities Australia. It was held over three days in April 2023 and was a huge success!
Most of the volunteers came from further afield, giving up their time to support our community, with everyone having their own unique reason to come and help us to prepare for a fire resilient season. We had a great time working together and learning along the way.
Photos Working Bee
Video Development of Resilience Plan