The draft Plan aims to provide of a range of cultural and community places that support our vibrant communities as they come together to celebrate different cultural and life experiences.

We will achieve that by focussing on the following goals:

• Our places provide facilities that support healthy and active lifestyle choices for our communities.
• Our places are safe facilities that support our communities’ resilience and capacity to recover from major events and adversity.
• Our places provide facilities for participation in creative experiences and celebrate our stories, cultures, and identities.
• Our places and facilities are designed and built to be respectful, inclusive and allow for diversity and connection within our communities.

The plan establishes a series of policy areas and actions for implementation to help Council achieve the outcomes desired by the plan.

These policies support or investigate:

• activation of centres across City of Moreton Bay with an aim to enhance precincts and hubs
• environmental Sustainability for the development of cultural and community facilities
• good design principles for cultural and community facilities
• cost benefit (social return and monetary)
• assessment of communities’ social needs and how these can be supported by cultural and community places
• innovation and partnerships in delivering cultural and community places
• land preservation for future community facilities
• relationships to Traditional Custodians
• a process for evaluating potential projects and priorities.

Feedback received on the Community Wellbeing Strategy and Moreton Says data was used to understand community sentiment and priorities around values and priorities for cultural and community spaces.

Council also undertook a number of benchmarking studies to identify best practice responses to current and projected future community needs. This included workshops with internal stakeholders and experts.