Holmes Dyer, in collaboration with the Yankalilla District Council and visual communications company Flux, delivered the Yankalilla Community Strategy Plan ‘Nature’s Best 2020 – 2024’.
This document provides a compelling and visual demonstration of Council’s 10-year vision, and strategic directions over a 4-year planning horizon.
The Strategic Plan followed the most comprehensive community consultation program ever undertaken by the District Council of Yankalilla. The Nature’s Best – Let’s Plan the Rest consultation program ran from October 2019 until February 2020, with Council opting to approach the community with a blank page to capture broad ideas and aspirations.
The role of Holmes Dyer was to synthesise the consultation outcomes and create the strategic plan vision, narrative, content, and structure to meet legislative requirements under the Local Government Act 1999.
Key tasks undertaken by Holmes Dyer included:
- A comprehensive review of raw consultation materials and summarisation of findings;
- Identification of key themes and priorities to establish the framework for the Strategic Plan;
- An external environmental scan to identify strategic drivers that may influence Council’s delivery on expectations, and pinpointed where partners and resources were available;
- Critical research, socio-economic assessments, and synthesised policy and legislative changes; and
- Implemented validation stages to test and confirm engagement findings and context-setting research that underpinned the proposed strategy framework.
The Community Strategic Plan was well received by the community and stakeholders as an innovative plan that remained true to the consultation outcomes.
