Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan adopted

Published on 18 September 2025

Pyrenees Shire Council has adopted its four-year Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan (MPHWP) 2025-2029.

The plan includes six priority areas:

1. Increasing healthier eating

2. Increasing active living

3. Creating a safer community

4. Connecting our community and supporting mental wellbeing

5. Supporting our population through all stages of life

6. Being a climate resilient community

Some of its key initiatives include:

• Reviewing Council’s Recreation Strategy to help increase active participation

• Continuing to support an organisational culture that promotes respect and embraces diversity, equity and inclusion

• Supporting programs that promote volunteerism, local leadership, carers, and the sustainable better practices of community groups

• Advocating for improved access to medical, allied, social, and mental health services by mapping current networks and identifying service gaps

• Reviewing and supporting the implementation of Council’s Climate Response & Mitigation Plan

Pyrenees Shire Mayor Tanya Kehoe said the MPHWP identified ways to create a healthier, more active and safer community.

“The plan also looks at a whole range of ways we can bring our community together and support them through all the various life stages, from newborn babies to our older residents,” Cr Kehoe said.

“It also has a focus on creating a climate resilient community which is so important at the current time when we have faced fire, flood and now drought in a short space of time in this area.”

The full plan can be found at pyrenees.vic.gov.au