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MV2040 Strategy

Your neighbourhood, your vision

MV2040 — Strategy at a glance

The MV2040 Strategy is Council’s long-term plan for improving the health, vibrancy and resilience of our city over the next 2 decades. It has been prepared to shape the type of city and neighbourhoods we want to live in.

The world is changing rapidly and, to enable us to keep pace, the ideas and concepts presented in MV2040 are designed to be bold, inspirational and transformational. MV2040 and the Council Plan form an integrated approach to planning, delivery, monitoring and reporting.

The Council Plan supports the vision and overarching strategic framework of MV2040 by outlining what Council will do in the 4-year term to achieve a healthy city.

We report on our progress on delivering the Council Plan initiatives in our Annual Report and quarterly reports.

Read more about our MV2040 Strategy

Vision Statement

Moonee Valley - 'A healthy city '

In 2040 Moonee Valley is a great place to live, work and visit, strengthened by a network of 20-minute neighbourhoods.

Our neighbourhoods allow all people, at all stages of life, to live locally and sustainably, accessing most of their needs close to their home and addressing climate change.

Our neighbourhoods are beautiful, diverse, sustainable and hold strong community connections which enable citizens and the environment to be healthy and resilient.

MV2040 Action Plans

The following action plans lay out how we will deliver on the directions we have set for our city through MV2040.

Building Blocks for a healthy city

We all deserve to live in a city where we are not just surviving, we are thriving.

These are the building blocks of our healthy city:

MV2040 Neighbourhoods

Council is moving to a neighbourhood planning approach for our planning and service delivery. This approach will help us create a more inclusive, vibrant and healthy city.

Get to know your neighbourhood - fact sheets:

 

A map of Moonee Valley City Council showing neighborhood areas marked with white borders and labeled with their names. The map is light blue, and the neighborhoods include Airport West, Keilor East, Keilor Road/Essendon North, Strathmore, Niddrie/Essendon West, Essendon, Aberfeldie, Moonee Ponds, Ascot Vale, Flemington, Avondale Heights, and Milleara.

 

20-minute neighbourhoods

Plan Melbourne 2017-2050 focuses on improving Melbourne’s health and liveability through the creation of 20-minute neighbourhoods. These neighbourhoods must:

be safe, accessible and well connected for pedestrians and cyclists

offer high-quality public realm and open space

provide services and destinations that support living locally

facilitate access to quality public transport that connects people to jobs and higher-order services

deliver housing/population at densities that make local services and transport viable

facilitate thriving local economies

Based on State Government directions, our city has been mapped into 13 20-minute neighbourhoods.

These neighbourhoods are defined by the ability to reach day to day needs and services such as shops, open spaces, schools, community facilities, public transport and some jobs within a 20-minute walk.

Each of our 13 neighbourhoods has a distinctive character and identity, with individual challenges and opportunities for improving liveability.

We know that a one size fits all solution does not work, and the benefit of neighbourhood planning is that we can identify local priorities and tailor responses to improve the health and vibrancy of all parts of our city.

It means prioritising health and wellbeing outcomes through our planning, and delivering services and infrastructure necessary to foster community pride and connection.

20min neighbourhoods

Statement of Commitment

Statement of Commitment to the Wurundjeri People and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Wanganyinu ngarr-gu Wurundjeri Gulinj ngargunin twarn biik wenerop Moonee Valley dharri, wanganyinu gahgook Nanggit baambuth ba yalingbu.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People as the Traditional Custodians of the Country on which Moonee Valley is located, we pay our respects to Elders past and present. This Statement of Commitment was updated in 2017 and reaffirms the partnership between Moonee Valley City Council and Wurundjeri Council and renews our commitment to the Wurundjeri People and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Respect - Gahgook

Moonee Valley City Council respects:

  • the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People as the first Australians on this land
  • the unique status of Aboriginal Peoples as the original custodians of traditional lands and waters
  • the special and distinctive spiritual and material relationship that Aboriginal Peoples have with the land, water, trees, rocks, hills and valley creeks, rivers and flood plains of the Moonee Valley area
  • the value of the diversity and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and cultures to the heritage of all Australians.

Recognition - Ngarngaith

Moonee Valley City Council recognises:

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as having a distinct culture, history and legacy with vibrancy, diversity and richness that all Australians can share in
  • the unique spirit and contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and the richness of traditional Indigenous languages
  • the historical and environmental importance of the significant and sacred sites, and special places within the city
  • the past injustices inflicted on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities by this and previous generations of non-Aboriginal Australians, and expresses our profound regret that these injustices occurred. In particular, Council is sorry for the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, confiscation of their traditional lands, the implementation of policies designed to extinguish Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practices, language and culture and for the pain these actions have caused and continue to cause the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Relationships - Djerri

Moonee Valley City Council will advocate for:

  • respect towards and recognition of the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Australian society, past and present
  • the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
  • increased opportunities and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
  • the sustainability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and programs.