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The Knox community is growing and we need to deliver a wide range of services to meet the diverse needs of our community. Our assets are core to us delivering these services.

Building on the work already completed to define priorities and services, we need to develop a plan that balances the potential financial investment into assets with long term financial sustainability.

In preparing the plan Council has considered a lot of data, including:

• Feedback from the Asset Plan Community Panel and other recent community engagements.
• Data about our assets including current conditions, utilsation and service levels
• Regulatory requirements and minimum standards
• Council financial plans.

We will consider changes to the draft Plan based on feedback through this consultation.

The final endorsement of the Asset Plan 2026 - 2035 will be by Council in a public meeting.

Council's assets are used by the whole community.

For this project we will be engaging our community at the level of Consult on the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Spectrum.
This means we will listen to what you say and consider it when we make a decision.

Council will consider feedback on the whole Plan.

We are particularly interested to understand the level of support for the six priorities Council will consider when making decisions on long term asset management.

• Budgetary constraints
• Non-discretionary expenditure required by legislation (eg maintaining minimum standards)

Council manages a large and diverse portfolio of community assets worth $1.88 billion (excluding land value). This includes:

• buildings (e.g. civic centre, libraries, community centres, public toilets, pre-school, sporting pavilions), heating and cooling systems, solar panels
• roads, bridges, car parks
• footpaths, shared pathways, accessibility needs (e.g. ramps)
• playground equipment, park seats and other furniture
• trees and vegetation, bushland, sites of biological significance
• sporting fields, playing courts
• drains, stormwater quality devices

The Asset Plan provides strategic direction on how Council cost-effectively manages the large portfolio of community assets to meet evolving community needs.

We are developing a new Asset Plan to guide how we manage community assets into the future. For the next 10 years, Council has a budget of $689.69 million to manage community assets.

The draft plan will detail principals on how Council will strategically manage its assets to ensure they provide benefit to current and future generations, having regard to the planning, construction, use, maintenance, renewal and disposal of infrastructure assets.

In addressing the above, the plan must have regard to the ongoing financial sustainability of Council’s investment in its assets to ensure we meet service expectations, in addition to legal, compliance and safety standards.

A community panel is a group of randomly selected people that generally represents the demographic makeup of a community. Panel members will learn and discuss topics important to the community. The Panel will work with Council to develop draft recommendations for the Asset Plan.

In March 2025, Council invited residents of Knox to submit an expression of interest to be a part of the Knox Asset Plan Community Panel (the panel). Over 80 people nominated, with 25 members selected to align with the demographic profile of Knox. This process was completed using de-identified information managed by an independent organisation.

Summary of demographic profile of the Panel:

• Gender: 12 Men, 12 Women, 1 non-binary
• Age: all targets met, noting slightly under for ages 50-59 and no EOI received from anyone aged over 85
• Suburb: all suburbs represented and target met, noting Boronia slightly under target
• Language: 12 panellists spoke a language other than English at home

You can review the full demographic profile listing targets and selected panel profile.

Session 1 was attended by 23 participants, and session 2 was attended by 21 participants.

The Panel Report provides a summary of the activities the group completed, and all the feedback shared with Council.