Lakes Entrance Growth and Adaptation Strategy
East Gippsland Shire Council, with support from the Victorian Government, is preparing a strategic plan for growth and adaptation in Lakes Entrance towards 2050.
The strategy will provide a framework for ensuring Lakes Entrance can grow positively into the future, support the needs of residents, and adapt to any challenges that it may face because of change brought about by growth or climate pressures such as flooding.
Council is working collaboratively with residents and business owners to deliver a strategy for a prosperous Lakes Entrance, which incorporates the aspirations of the community, creates a shared understanding of local issues and enables everyone to have a say in the town’s future. The project will run over two years.
Stage 2 of the process is now nearing completion and work has commenced on Stage 3 of the project which involves understanding and identifying those areas and assets of Lakes Entrance vulnerable to risk from natural hazards – specifically flooding - both now and in the future having considered the impacts of climate change.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the community engagement activities during the months of April and May 2018. All feedback from the survey, project hub and community workshop has been collected, reviewed and summarised in the Engagement Summary Report.
Get informed:
- Read the latest project news;
- Read frequently asked questions;
- Read a project bulletin in the document library on the right hand side of this web page;
Get involved:
- Map the places in Lakes Entrance that are most important to you;
Register your interest and sign-up for future project updates. Subscribe to Lakes Entrance Connect and receive updates by email
Contact Kate Nelson, Director Community Strategy: legas@egipps.vic.gov.au or telephone 03 5153 9500.
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Community workshop well attended
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Approximately 50 community members participated in the Community Workshop held in Lakes Entrance on Thursday 3 May 2018 to contribute to community information about what is important to people in Lakes Entrance.The Lakes Entrance Growth and Adaptation Strategy is focused on ensuring that Lakes Entrance can grow into the future in a way that the community can relate to, understand and support. We are looking to the long term, but building on past work and work that is happening today as well so we are not starting from scratch.We will be working to understand what is likely to drive change into the future and most importantly we are looking to first make sure that we understand what is important to community members, businesses and people visiting Lakes Entrance. This is critical to ensure that the way we plan for the future has these important things as a key focus.The workshop was one of a number of different opportunities for community members to provide their insights and thoughts about what is valued and important to the community and functioning of the town.The details of how you can get involved are included on this Your Say site and you can get involved in this part of the process through until the end of May.At the end of the consultation period, and once all of the data has been collated, we will publish a report letting everyone know what we’ve found out.Thanks very much to everyone who attended the workshop we really appreciate your input.
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Phone 03 5153 9500 Email legas@egipps.vic.gov.au
