Community Environment Recovery Action Plan project
The Community Environment Recovery Action Plan (CERAP) project will prepare an environment recovery action plan for the Strathewen catchment as well as recommend projects in a form suitable to be used for further grant applications.
The project has been contracted to EnPlan Partners and is being managed by Nillumbik Shire Council on behalf of the Strathewen, St Andrews and Christmas Hills communities.
The Strathewen community shares oversight of the project through the Nillumbik Environment Recovery Working Group - the Strathewen representatives are Bronwyn South (Steering Committee member), BarrieTully and Kylee Woods. If you would like to join this working group please contact Bronwyn on 0414 882 946.
Draft Literature Review for comment
Neighbourhood property visits
Prior to the community workshops in May, the project consultants are offering to meet groups of neighbours on site to have specific discussions about joint neighbourhood land management issues, priorities and practices.
The consultants have years of land management experience, and this is a great opportunity for residents to obtain free technical advice and solutions on how to best manage their immediate neighbourhood.
To arrange a neighbourhood property visit, please coordinate a group of your neighbours (at least 3 properties); nominate a property to be used as a meeting place, schedule a meeting in March or April, and contact:
Darrel Brewin, EnPlan 0417 185 071 or 5261 5229
dbrewin@pacific.net.au
Please be prepared to discuss joint land management issues that are important to your neighbourhood.
Literature Review
The Draft Literature Review is now available for comment.
Community Workshops- Strathewen Community Centre
Workshop 1 - Tell us what is important to you - 4th May 6PM
Workshop 2 - Tell us what changes are needed to the draft plans - 29th May 1PM
Project Schedule
Stage1: Preparation of Plans $107,000
The project is currently on schedule.
Summary of work completed to date:
- Scope of the project defined with Project Manager (Nillumbik Shire Council) and Steering Committee.
- Literature review is now available for comment. To review this click here
- CERAPs project launched at Christmas Hills and Strathewen. Some Strathewen property owners have already invited Darrel Brewin from Enplan to visit their property which is great. You are encouraged to get together with as many immediate neighbours as possible when he visits. Darrel can be contacted on
0417 185 071. - Project team members Darrel Brewin and Alan Thatcher received guided tours of the Christmas Hills, St Andrews and Strathewen project.
- Project launch at St Andrews scheduled for 17th February 2011.
- GIS data was received from the Shire and some field maps have been prepared.
We are currently looking to hold an extended community workshop in March where the EnPlan team can present the information they have gathered about Strathewen.
Stage 2: Demonstration sites $30,000
Stage 3: Biodiversity monitoring $15,000
Stage 4: Community education programs $10,000
Stage 5: Project management $8,000
Total budget: $ 170,000
