Together Towards 2035

Help shape our shire’s future

The Shire of Augusta Margaret River is inviting the community to get involved with the final stage of developing our 2025-2035 Strategic Community Plan, ‘Together Towards 2035’. This vital document will guide the Shire’s vision, priorities and actions over the next 10 years.

Following on from the first round of consultation, community members are now invited to review the revised content and share their feedback before the Strategic Community Plan is finalised.

What We Heard – and What’s Changed

Our previous round of community consultation included workshops, online surveys and hardcopy surveys.

Across the three themes, the community provided lots of input which has been carefully considered and reflected in the revised draft strategy:

Natural Environment

• What we heard: The community supports action on climate change, biodiversity protection, and sustainable water and land use, but there were questions about how the Shire could support these environmental outcomes with a rapidly growing community.
• What’s changed: Language has been clarified to better define the Shire’s role, and additional context has been added to show how these actions could be delivered in practice.

Built Environment

• What we heard: There was strong support for safe and accessible transport networks, alongside a desire to preserve the unique character of individual townsites. Some terminology used was confusing.

• What’s changed: Ambiguous language has been made clearer and Outcome Statements revised or, where appropriate, removed to ensure greater precision and focus.

Our Growing Community

• What we heard: There was some confusion about the Shire’s role, and whether all proposed actions fell within the Shire’s responsibilities. We also heard that our local businesses want to feel valued and supported.
• What’s changed: The revised plan clarifies the Shire’s role and has been expanded to include our business community.

Throughout the survey below click on each outcome statement if you would like to know more about what changes have been made since our last round of consultation.

Together Towards 2035 will be created with the community, for the community. Please get involved.