Asset Plan 2022 - 2032

Our new Asset Plan was adopted by Council in June.

Download the engagement report below to see how we responded to your feedback or fill in the survey to tell us what you thought about our process.

Engagement report Tell us how we did

Asset Plan Background

Wyndham City is responsible for creating, maintaining and managing assets to deliver Council’s services, to ensure we realise our Wyndham 2040 vision.

The reason assets exist are to provide services to the community. Roads exist to help people move around the city, parks exist for people to play, socialise and recreate, facilities exist to provide a wide range of services in a safe environment, Our drainage network exists to keep our properties free from water damage. All assets exist because there was a service need identified, and infrastructure provided to support that need. We need to keep providing assets for our community to use and also ensure that our assets are well managed for future generations. For this reason, the Asset Plan includes information about maintenance, renewal, acquisition, expansion, upgrade, and disposal in relation to each major asset class under the control of the Council.

The Wyndham Asset Plan ensures effective investment in assets which need it most by having a planned, systematic approach to asset management. with an asset base of over $4.7 billion and growing, our ability to fund the renewal of our assets over the long term is impacted by the services and service levels that Council provides today and into the future. It is for this reason that we asked the community to provide recommendations on Councils services and service levels to guide our future financial and asset planning.

The Wyndham Asset Plan shapes our investment in assets over the next 10 years. It outlines how Wyndham City will create, maintain, manage and adapt all assets to deliver Council services, responding to the challenges and opportunities of change while ensuring our resilience and realising our Wyndham 2040 Community Vision.

Deliberative Approach

To ensure Council is delivering for our community, we recruited 40 members from the People's Advisory Panel to participate in the deliberative engagement process for the Asset Plan. The recruited Panel members represented a 'mini Wyndham' which reflected the diversity of our community.

The Deliberative Approach for the Asset Plan saw panel members taken through a series of workshops where they received information about Wyndham services and assets, deliberated and came back to the Council with a report written by themselves. The report developed by the group has been used as an important input to help inform future service and asset strategic planning.

Watch the Deliberative Asset Plan video on the right of this page to learn more about the process.

Asset Plan Quick Facts

Council manages a range of different assets all across Wyndham. Here are some examples of just how many assets this includes in our City.

Document Library

Asset Plan 2022 - 2032
PDF (3.85 MB)
Read our final Asset Plan here.

Timeline

Timeline item 1 - complete

Help Shape Wyndham's Future Project

November 2020 - May 2021
Timeline item 2 - complete

Adoption of the Wyndham Council Plan and MPHWP 2021-2025 and Long Term Financial Plan

October 2021
Timeline item 3 - complete

Wyndham Asset Plan Deliberative Panel

January - February 2022
Timeline item 4 - complete

Asset Plan development

January - April 2022
Timeline item 5 - complete

Draft Asset Plan Public Exhibition opens

Wednesday 27 April 2022
Timeline item 6 - complete

Draft Asset Plan Public Exhibition closes

11:59PM Wednesday 25 May 2022
Timeline item 7 - complete

Asset Plan Adopted

June 2022

Want to know more about the Asset Plan Deliberative Panel?

Watch the below video to learn more about the process.

Asset Plan FAQs

The Asset Plan is a document that outlines information about maintenance, renewal, acquisition, expansion, upgrade, and disposal in relation to each major asset class under the control of the Council. The Asset Plan ensures effective investment in assets which need it most by having a planned, systematic approach to asset management, to ensure that services in the community can continue to be provided.

Assets include:

Buildings
Pools
Local roads
Playgrounds
Sports Reserves
Stormwater Pipes
Footpaths
Wetlands

These items (along with a range of others) exist to provide services to benefit to our community. The Asset Plan outlines how Council makes informed decisions about its assets.

The Local Government Act 2020 outlines that a Council must develop an Asset Plan by 30 June 2022 through a deliberative engagement process in accordance with its community engagement policy, and that this plan must:

Cover a period of at least the next 10 financial years.
Include information about maintenance, renewal, acquisition, expansion, upgrade, disposal and decommissioning in relation to each major asset class under the control of the Council.

In addition to the legislative requirement, there is a need for Council to ensure effective investment in assets which need it most by having a planned, systematic approach to asset management.

The Asset Plan is part of Wyndham City’s Integrated Strategic Planning, Reporting and Monitoring Framework which is driven by the Wyndham 2040 Vision, and the Council Plan 2021-25. The planning framework outlines the positioning of the Asset Plan as a key long term plan alongside the long term financial plan, and as a component of overall service and infrastructure planning.

The ownership and care of assets owned in common by the community is a core Council service. No other organisation can do this on behalf of the Wyndham community. The responsibility to care for the community's assets brings the expectation that Council will ensure assets are fit for purpose and managed to minimise whole of life costs. For some assets, such as roads, there are legislated standards to be met. For other assets, it is up to Council to determine the standards for asset provision and care.

Many of the services Council delivers to the community rely on assets. The two components rely on each other to ensure that we provide services to the community in the right place, at the right time and at an affordable cost.

Council Asset Planning incorporates detailed digital asset management plans which are used to display the data of specific asset classes, consider different options in service delivery, and to maintain real-time modelling of asset information. These plans allow the generation of financial, renewal, and maintenance requirements based on factors such as asset value, condition and useful life. Being one of the fastest growing Council’s in Australia, we include assets that we do not currently own yet into our future financial and lifecycle projections to ensure we adequately plan for the known assets that we will acquire. These plans consider multiple scenarios and service levels and the impacts this has on both the asset and our long term financial sustainability.

Who's listening?

Have a question or want to learn more about the Asset Plan, contact us below:

Name	David Semmens - Manager Infrastructure Services Planning
Phone	9742 0822
Email	david.semmens@wyndham.vic.gov.au

Help in your language

If you speak a language other than English and need help understanding a Council matter, letter, report, or other correspondence, you can contact Telephone Interpreting Service on 13 14 50. The Telephone Interpreting Service will coordinate a three-way telephone conversation, where Council Customer Service Officers will be able to provide assistance through the interpreter.