What you need to know
Our vision for Moonee Valley in 2040 (MV2040) is a great place to live, work and visit, strengthened by a network of 20-minute neighbourhoods.
MV2040: our long-term plan
We’ve developed our long-term plan MV2040 to guide how we will make Moonee Valley a great place to live for current and future generations.
The MV2040 Strategy is our ‘umbrella’ strategy which will guide all of our future work through action plans to deliver on the five themes of the strategy.
We’ve developed implementation initiatives for these themes based on our 13 neighbourhoods, so you can see what projects are planned near you.
We’re changing how we work to take a neighbourhood planning approach. This means we identify local priorities and tailor responses to suit each neighbourhood, while improving the health and vibrancy of all parts of our city.
We’re working to deliver infrastructure, services and events to the right people, in the right location, at the right time as we prioritise health and wellbeing outcomes through our planning.
All of this is to work towards creating a healthy city that is fair, thriving, connected, green and beautiful.
Council is embarking on a refresh of the MV2040 Strategy, to make sure MV2040 still aligns with our community's vision for the future. This will help us ensure we are setting our priorities and focusing our activities to help build a future that everyone is proud of. Visit our Your Say page to share your thoughts on your vision for the years to come.
Council Budget 2024-25
We are proud to present the Budget for the 2024-25 financial year to our community.
Download the Moonee Valley City Council Budget 2024-25 (PDF - 6.48mb)
The budget allows us to continue to maintain, upgrade and replace ageing infrastructure including sporting precincts, libraries, early years facilities, playgrounds, footpaths and roads. It also recognises the importance of our natural environment, and our commitment to reducing waste and lowering community carbon emissions.
The final Budget was informed by a record amount of feedback gathered during the consultation period from 26 April to 17 May 2024. A total of 107 community submissions were reviewed and considered during the public consultation.
Listening to our community and learning from your feedback helps Council to direct funding to key service areas that reflect our shared priorities.
With a focus on education, sustainability, and infrastructure, the budget ensures that every resident, from newborns to pensioners, have access to the services they need most.
The adopted Budget includes total revenue of $227.48 million, total expenses of $222.11 million and a $48.78 million-capital works program.
An operating surplus of $5.37 million is projected.
Key projects delivered in this year's budget include:
- Clifton Park Pavilion improvements – $6.15 million (of a total estimated cost of $9.95 million)
- Renewing local roads – $5.91 million
- Improving pedestrian and shared paths – $5.02 million
- Improving drainage – $2.48 million
- Ascot Vale Library redevelopment – $1.58 million (of a total estimated project cost of $6.71 million)
- Renewing and upgrading buildings – $1.49 million
- Renewing and upgrading leisure facilities – $1.07 million
- Essendon Rowing Club female change room upgrade – $969,000
- Early Years Building Blocks fit-out program – $400,000.
The budget also addresses sustainability and the climate emergency, including:
- $1.1 million for tree planting to cool and green the city, to help us reach our 30% canopy cover target by 2040
- $350,000 on greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives to reduce our carbon emissions and energy costs
- $500,000 for the Community Carbon Emissions Reduction Reserve.
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Our Strategies
Our Plans
One of the primary roles of Local Government is to provide leadership to the local community through advocacy.
This means seeking the support of partners - like the State and Federal Government - to help us deliver the services and infrastructure our community needs.
Why do we do this? Some projects and initiatives are out of our direct control - like building train stations, or improving major roads to ease traffic and make them safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Even though those aren't projects we can deliver directly, we know they are important to our community. So, we advocate to other levels of Government to help turn good ideas, into reality.
Other projects, like building a new leisure centre or a community hub, do sit with Council. To deliver these projects faster and help balance the contribution made by ratepayers, we seek funding from partners.
Some of the ways we might advocate for our community include applying for grants, meeting with politicians, and running public campaigns. This might mean seeking your views then sharing them with decision makers through petitions, letter-writing campaigns, or public meetings.
Our Advocacy Strategy 2022-25 outlines the key priority projects we're currently seeking support for.
You can also interact with many of our current advocacy campaigns on our YourSay site: yoursay.mvcc.vic.gov.au
If you've got any questions about our Advocacy Strategy or would like to find out how you can help us advocate for an even better Moonee Valley, get in touch at advocacy@mvcc.vic.gov.au or on (03) 9243 1127.
Our Walking and Cycling Strategy 2012 - 2022 (3.2 MB) is a plan to get more people walking and cycling.
The strategy has an Implementation Plan consisting of 13 action packages.
The strategy includes 15 new actions as well as an updated map showing proposed walking and cycling routes and links.
The strategy recommends that improvements to infrastructure be supported by programs to help people to walk and cycle more.
What do we want to do
- develop a walking and cycling culture including increasing the number of people who walk and cycle particularly for show trips (under two kilometers walk and five kilometers ride)
- prioritise walking and cycling in planning and decision-making processes across Council
- promote walkinga and cycling as easy, healthy, inexpensive and enjoyable ways to travel that promote social inclusion
The Moonee Valley Open Space Strategy 2024 provides a framework to guide Council’s long term investment in our open spaces. The Strategy aligns with Council’s long-term strategic plan, MV2040, and its vision for a ‘healthy and resilient city’.
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.
The Moonee Valley Open Space Strategy 2024 acknowledges the challenges and opportunities for our open spaces. It provides a foundation for planning, delivering, and managing Moonee Valley’s open space network through its vision, strategic directions, objectives and prioritisation themes. The strategy’s four strategic directions are:
- Increased community access to open spaces and nature
- Improved open space quality
- Strengthened ecological connectivity and climate resilient open spaces
- Well-planned, collaborative and community informed open spaces
The Open Space Strategy Implementation Plan is an overview of programs, organised by the four strategic directions, to achieve the objectives of the Open Space Strategy and provide a healthy, vibrant and resilient open space network now and into the future.
More information
If you have any questions or would like more information, call our City Design team on 9243 8888 or email parkimprovements@mvcc.vic.gov.au
Moonee Valley is a city in transition. As Melbourne's population continues to increase, our municipality and the cities around us will continue to grow. If not managed properly, this could lead to more cars driving in and through Moonee Valley, more congestion and increased parking issues.
Watch the video on the growth of Melbourne to understand the impact of accommodating population growth on a city like Moonee Valley.
Our Municipal Parking Strategy (pdf, 1MB) adopted late 2011 and last updated in 2017, provides systems to tackle these complex traffic and parking issues in a planned, fair and consistent way.
Appropriate car parking is important in residential, commercial, recreational and industrial areas. However, the need for car parking must be balanced with other users’ needs for kerbside space. Sometimes, having a lot of car parking options can encourage people to use their vehicles more, therefore creating more traffic and parking congestion. Sometimes the existing parking supply can be managed better to cater for different road users.
The strategy considers current and future demand, provides clear processes to review parking resources and implement or adapt restrictions as the situation changes. It also sets out steps to encourage residents to be less car reliant and use sustainable forms of transport.
A key action of the Municipal Parking Strategy is to develop car parking plans for activity centres. We are currently developing the Moonee Ponds Activity Centre Car Parking Plan which is aimed at gaining a better understanding of how parking is used in the activity centre and to help plan for future growth.
We take road safety very seriously and value your views and concerns on traffic, parking and transport issues. If you have a concern you would like to draw our attention to, please contact us via email council@mvcc.vic.gov.au or speak to our Traffic and Transport department on 9243 8888. A sketch plan indicating the location and the nature of the problem would also be useful.
All traffic, parking and transport concerns will be investigated and if required, referred to our Capital Works Program.
Tools of the Strategy
Kerbside Road Space User Hierarchy
There are many users competing for limited kerbside space in our city. Kerbside space is required for example for bus and tram stops, bicycle lanes, delivery access, emergency vehicle access, alfresco dining and car park spaces for residents, non-residents and visitors.
The Kerbside Road Space User hierarchy (pdf, 20KB) is a system that prioritises the needs of the various users depending on the type of area considered, for example residential area or commercial zone. Once the needs of the highest ranked users are satisfied, the space is allocated to the next highest user, continuing until all available space is used. This system ensures that kerbside space is allocated in an appropriate, fair, consistent and transparent way across the city.
Parking management - the 85% rule
The Parking Demand Management framework (pdf, 114KB) establishes a clear rule to manage parking resources efficiently. Where the demand is high, for example in busy shopping areas, there may be a need for parking restrictions to encourage a regular turnover of cars.
There are four steps to the system. When more than 85% of car parking spaces are regularly occupied, Council will consult the community to establish the level of support for changes to the parking restrictions. These restrictions are designed to ensure a sufficient turnover of parking spaces so that people who cannot walk, cycle or take public transport to the area can still access it by car and find a parking space.
Narrow streets management framework
Parking can be particularly problematic in narrow streets. Some residents park on the nature strips or footpaths because they feel it is safer, even though it is against the Victorian Road Rules. The strategy reaffirms our commitment to changing and preventing this practice. It outlines possible parking arrangements based on the width of the street.
Encourage the use of sustainable modes of transport
We are committed to encouraging residents to think about how they travel or move about each day. We want to encourage more people, especially those living in and around busy centres, to choose more sustainable ways to get around. We are working to make our city more pleasant and safer to use for walkers and people who ride a bike as well as advocating to the State Government and major transport providers for improved public transport across our city.
Local area traffic management
We are taking a local area approach when it comes to traffic and parking in order to help coordinate and integrate parking initiatives around the city. For more information, visit the traffic and parking studies page.
Parking permit policy
The parking strategy includes a new policy on parking permits which reviews the number of permits allocated and their cost. More information is available on the parking permits page. For more information please contact us on 9243 8888.
The Transport Safety Strategy 2016-26 (pdf, 4MB) is a 10-year strategy to provide safe travel for the whole community and achieve a goal of zero fatalities and serious injuries on Moonee Valley roads.
We aim to provide safe travel for the whole community by adopting the Safe System approach.
This approach will prioritise safe people, safe speeds, safe vehicles and safe roads and will assist us to achieve our goal of zero fatalities and serious injuries within Moonee Valley.
The plan recognises that we’re all in this together and seeks to build greater partnerships within the community, other levels of government and industry to reach our ambitious target of zero fatalities.
Why do we need a Transport Safety Strategy
Over the last 10 years, 2,474 people were involved in road trauma in Moonee Valley. 28 were killed, 759 sustained serious injuries and 1,687 suffered other injuries.
All of them have a family, friends and are part of a community. That’s why it’s important we do everything we can to avoid these tragedies happening into the future.
What we are committing to do
We will:
- embrace the Safe Systems approach
- build on the success of previous initiatives
- focus on the biggest problem area, locations with the highest crash risk and address emerging issues
- work in partnership with other councils, citizens, civic organisations and schools and industry and private sector
- only accept safe developments, projects, designs and construction
- reduce the real and perceived risks for sustainable travel
- make our streets a place to enjoy, live and bring our community together.
Our Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan for 2021-25 was adopted by Council at a meeting on 26 October 2021. For the second time, we have integrated our Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan into the Council Plan.
The plan is our strategic blueprint for the next 4 years. It details how we will implement our MV2040 vision, and will guide us as we work to build a healthy city that is fair, thriving, connected, green and beautiful.
Our vision statement was refreshed in 2021, to include addressing climate change and recognition of our diverse community.
The plan outlines 21 strategies Council will focus on over the next 4 years. Each year, we will create an annual plan showing the Council Plan initiatives we will carry out over the next twelve months, to achieve the strategies.
These initiatives will be supported by the services, facilities and programs that Council delivers daily to safeguard and improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of our community.
The plan also outlines the integrated strategic indicators we will use to monitor our progress and success. These are the key community outcomes we will work towards achieving, both over the four years of the Council Plan and until 2040.
The Moonee Valley Health and Wellbeing Profile 2021 presents data on the many factors that influence our health and wellbeing - known as the social determinants of health.
This includes research on:
- demographics
- individual lifestyle behaviours
- living and working conditions
- neighbourhood and environmental factors
- health and wellbeing conditions.
It also examines the impact of COVID-19 on the health and wellbeing of our community. This data helps inform the Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-25 and is useful when planning for the municipality’s future needs, ensuring that no one in our community is left behind.
Are you a dog or cat owner? Pet sitter, dog walker, or maybe an all-round animal enthusiast?
In 2020 and early 2021, we worked with our community to plan the future for the pets of Moonee Valley, by creating our Domestic Animal Management Plan.
During community consultation, you provided your thoughts and ideas to help us inform our approach to animal management in Moonee Valley.
This plan’s key purpose is to support the growing pet population in our Moonee Valley community, while also preserving local fauna and flora.
It focuses our efforts on a few key areas: managing urban stray cats, educating the community about safe and responsible pet ownership, and investigating the feasibility of additional dog parks and facilities.
Developing and renewing this plan every 4 years is a requirement of Victorian councils under the Domestic Animals Act 1994.
For more information visit our pets and animals page or contact our Animal Management team on 9243 8888.
What's in the plan
The Domestic Animal Management Plan outlines the services and strategies we intend to pursue and includes activities which will:
- encourage the registration of dogs and cats
- promote and educate responsible pet ownership
- minimise the potential for domestic animals to create a nuisance
- minimise the risk of dog attacks on people and animals
- manage dangerous, menacing and restricted breed dogs
- monitor and address overpopulation and euthanasia rates.
Our Integrated Transport Plan short version (pdf, 2.86KB) long version (pdf, 3.52MB) aims to transform the way people travel in and around our city.
We are in the process of updating this plan.
The plan is a transport plan that is designed with the objective of handling the future challenges of population growth, increasing congestion and freight, rising fuel costs, and environmental impacts to ensure we all have access to appropriate transport solutions.
The plan takes a holistic approach to providing a better-integrated transport network by including: public transport, private vehicles, freight, cycling, pedestrian and travel demand management.
What do we want to do
The Integrated Transport Plan aims to:
- reduce the need to travel, number of trips and travel lengths
- reduce congestion and manage private and heavy vehicles
- reduce environmental impact and improving the look and feel of the city
- improve transport safety
- create a more inclusive society.
The Road Management Plan 2021-2025 (RMP) aims to guide us in relation to maintaining the road and path network. This plan provides clarity to the community about the level of service provided in maintaining the roads and paths we manage. It commits us to an inspection and maintenance program, which is supported by an appropriate budget.
The plan states how we will maintain defects and repairs on roadways, kerbs and channels, pathways, constructed right of ways and other assets within a public road where we are the responsible road authority.
The plan shows what is considered a defect and how long it is expected to repair the defect. Defects are identified through regular inspections or by a resident contacting us.
The Road Management Plan and supporting documents have been developed in response to the Road Management Act 2004. The Act outlines the legislative requirements in the development of a Road Management Plan.
Read our Road Management Plan 2021-25 (pdf, 719KB)
8. Related documents:
8.1. Register of public roads:
8.2. Register of Paths outside the Road Reserve (xls, 48KB)
8.3. Road and Pathway Hierarchy Maps (pdf, 7MB)
8.4. Register of Car Parks (xls, 36KB)
8.5. Register of Right of Ways
We manage approximately $1.24 billion worth of infrastructure assets on behalf of our community. These assets, which range from significant structures such as roads and buildings through to park furniture and play equipment, are fundamental to supporting the services we provide.
Our Asset Plan provides an assessment of how we plan to maintain our assets over the next ten (10) years in a way that is consistent with related plans and adopted strategies to achieve our MV2040 Community Vision and supporting Council Plan objectives. Check out the background to the Asset Plan and results from the community consultation by heading to Council’s YourSay Page.
Council's Disability Action Plan (DAP) assists our work towards greater inclusion of people with disabilities, in line with the Fair Action Plan.
Visit our Disability Action Plan page to find a number of different versions of the DAP, or contact us for a format that meets your accessibility requirements.