Initial proposal to DCSCA

A proposal to Drysdale and Clifton Springs Community Association Inc.

What is Bellarine 10-20?
Bellarine 10-20 is a summit meeting run by and for the people of the Bellarine Peninsula. The summit happens in 2010 and gives people a chance to say where they want their communities to be in ten years - hence the title Bellarine 10-20.

Bellarine 10-20 is a community review of the City of Greater Geelong's Bellarine Peninsula Strategic Plan 2006 – 2016. The Plan is the result of extensive public consultation and for four years it has been the 'bigger picture' within which particular areas and towns have grown and developed. Now is a good time to review whether and how that bigger picture suits the Bellarine's bigger population. Specifically, at Bellarine 10-20, individuals, groups and organisations can discuss how to:
• improve the well-being of current and future residents and visitors in the area
• retain and celebrate the area's traditional defining characteristics (e.g. its diverse natural, built and social environments)
• become self-sufficient and sustainable via (i) wealth-creation and employment and (ii) generating, consuming and managing energy, water and waste
• increase the democratic accountability of public and private organizations involved in governing, managing and developing the Bellarine Peninsula.

Who runs Bellarine 10-20?
Bellarine 10-20 would be run primarily by The Association of Bellarine Community Associations (ABCA), drawing on the resources of its constituent organisations. The Association may wish to invite other groups and organisations - especially the City of Greater Geelong - to collaborate in organising, running and funding the summit.

How does Bellarine 10-20 benefit local people?
Bellarine 10-20 benefits local people - including those in Drysdale and Clifton Springs - because it gives us a chance to:
• discuss the changes that are happening not just in individual communities and towns but across the Bellarine Peninsula
• decide whether we wish to support or challenge those changes.
In particular, Bellarine 10-20 gives us a chance to decide whether The Bellarine Peninsula Strategic Plan 2006 – 2016, together with Structure Plans for individual towns, is promoting planned, coordinated development of the Peninsula.

What is DCSCA's role in Bellarine 10-20?
If DCSA accepts the idea of Bellarine 10-20, it would propose to the next ABCA meeting (19 August) that it should organise and run the summit as outlined here. If that proposal is accepted, DCSCA - like other ABCA constituents - would contribute to the preparation and running of the summit.


Patrick Hughes. July 2009.