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Yarra Ranges Council recognises its aquatic services play an important role in the health and wellbeing of the community and are inviting input from the community on how they use their local pools and water parks, and what aquatic services they might need in the future.

Feedback from the survey will help inform Council’s draft Aquatic Strategy, which is due to come out later this year and will feature another round of community consultation.

Yarra Ranges Mayor Jim Child notes “our facilities have come a long way over the years. We’ve gone from diving boards and outdoor baths to now having some modern indoor pools and water parks, but we need to continue to evolve these in line with the community’s needs.

“What this survey will do is help us better understand the current and future needs of our community when it comes to our aquatics services.

“The feedback we receive on our services will also help us determine how they add to the health and wellbeing of our community.

“This feedback will then be combined with the environmental and financial impacts of how we maintain our facilities which will all feed into the upcoming draft Aquatic Strategy.

“This is just step one of a multi-staged approach towards creating an Aquatic Strategy, so I really encourage every resident to take part in this survey to give us the strongest data possible.”

Yarra Ranges residents have until Friday, 24th March to complete the survey.

There will also be multiple opportunities for community members to have a chat with Council staff about aquatics and the survey at upcoming drop-in sessions.

For more information on aquatics, the drop-in sessions or to provide feedback, head to https://shaping.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/aquatic-strategy. 

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