Award Winner Community Engagement
Port Phillip City Council wins Core Values Award
The Core Values Awards honour outstanding projects and practitioners who exemplify meaningful, inclusive, and effective engagement.
The Urban Forest Strategy was shaped through collaborative, data-driven community engagement, including four rounds of consultation.
This four-stage process engaged over 600 individuals and organisations, with overall positive feedback highlighting the Strategy’s transparency, inclusiveness, and achievability.
Innovative tools such as advanced canopy mapping technology, interactive online spatial mapping, and iterative feedback loops were employed, resulting in a more informed and detailed action plan.
The engagement was underpinned by transparent data sharing, enabling informed dialogue and alignment of diverse community interests.
To read the case study visit, Case Studies Series 2025 - Port Phillip Urban Forest Strategy 2024–2040 Healthy, biodiverse, connected.
To read the final endorsed strategy, visit Urban Forest Strategy 2024 to 2040.