The Knox Community Vision 2035 describes our long-term hopes and aspirations for Knox:

Knox: where we connect with our people and our environment, ensuring they are safe, supported and have every opportunity to thrive.

This Community Vision helps us to plan for the needs of our community now and into the future. It’s based on the idea that by creating a picture of the future that we all agree to, we can all make a shared commitment to work together to get there.

Council is developing a suite of plans to deliver on this vision and address the priorities of our community, drive Council performance and ensure transparency and sound financial management. These documents include:

• Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025-2029
• Asset Plan 2025-35
• Financial Plan 2025-2035
• Revenue and Rating Plan 2025-29
• Annual Budget 2025-26

The Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan is our promise to the Knox community. It sets out what we will do to respond to changing needs and will be shaped by our aspirations, needs, values and priorities, and inform long term financial planning.

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

The Financial Plan details our approach to strategic planning and financial planning over the next decade and the Revenue and Rating Plan defines how Council will calculate and apply rates and generating other sources of revenue.

To ensure Council remains responsive to the community's evolving needs and priorities, each financial year actions will be published in the Annual Budget. The development of the Annual Budget and Action Plan will also include setting an annual target for each performance measure of the Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan.

Community engagement

A detailed research and engagement program has been undertaken to ensure our plans reflect the vision, values and aspirations of the people of Knox. This included over 1100 community members having their say through broad community engagement. You can read more about this in the Our Knox Broad Community Engagement Report.

The Our Knox Community Panel. a representative group of residents, was then formed in April 2024 to help us interpret the findings from the broader community and provide recommendations to confirm the Community Vision and prepare the Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan and the Financial Plan. The Our Knox Community Panel also had a specific session to consider the Annual Budget. You can read more about this process and their recommendations to council in the Our Knox Community Panel Engagement Report and their final report after their final session in February 2025.

To inform the development of the Asset Plan a separate representative Community Panel met in April and May 2025. A report on the Asset Plan Community Panel process and feedback is being prepared and it is anticipated this report will be available in late June 2025. Visit the project page to read more about this project.

Have your say

The Draft Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025-2029, Draft Financial Plan 2025-2035, Draft Revenue and Rating Plan 2025-29 and Draft Annual Budget 2025-26 are available for questions and feedback, closing midnight Monday 9 June 2025.

All questions and feedback received will be provided to Councillors for consideration prior to the adoption of the suite of documents on Monday 23 June 2025.

For this project we will be engaging our community at the level of Collaborate on the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Spectrum.
This means we will look to the community for advice and innovation in formulating solutions and incorporate your advice and recommendations into the decisions as much as possible.