Community Engagement

Your Say Busselton 

Your thoughts, feelings and ideas are important to us. What you say will assist Council decision making and ultimately help shape the future of our growing City.  

The City’s online engagement portal Your Say Busselton allows you to share your thoughts and ideas on a wide range of Council activities.

You can provide feedback on topics such as:

  • Specific projects and plans that the City has in mind
  • Development Approvals
  • Local Planning Policies, Local Planning Scheme or other Planning Strategies

Members of the public are also welcome to attend or speak at council or committee meetings. For further information see community participation on the council and committee meetings page.

Visit Your Say Busselton

Open Projects

Arts, Culture and Heritage Strategy

Have your say on the future of arts, culture and heritage in the City of Busselton.

The City of Busselton is home to a vibrant and evolving arts and cultural landscape, shaped by creativity, community connection and a deep sense of place. From local events and performances to galleries, public art and grassroots initiatives, our region celebrates the many ways people come together to share stories and experiences.

As our community continues to grow, we’re looking to the future- identifying opportunities to build on our strengths, address gaps, and better support arts, culture and heritage across the City. We’re developing a new integrated Strategy to guide this work and ensure it reflects the needs and aspirations of everyone in the community. It will define a long-term vision for arts, culture and heritage, identify investment priorities, and deliver a clear action plan for the next decade.

We invite you to share your ideas and help shape a more creative, inclusive and vibrant future for our community.

There are multiple ways you can have your say:

  • Complete the survey below
  • Use the mapping tool below to 'drop a pin' on where you access your arts and cultural experiences or see opportunities for improvement
  • Attend a community workshop
  • Complete the quick poll

In-person opportunities:

Visit Your Say Busselton

Community Engagement Framework

In 2021, following extensive community engagement, the City of Busselton adopted its first Community Engagement Framework. In 2024, the City conducted a whole of community satisfaction survey. Results of this survey were used to review the framework and in February 2025, the Community Engagement Framework 2025-2029 was adopted by Council. This review was a priority action of the City’s Council Plan 2024-2034.  

This Framework outlines how officers and elected members will work to build and maintain positive relationships with the community, and to ensure that they are kept informed on matters that will affect them or are important to them.

Community Engagement Framework

Previous Consultations

Community Satisfaction Survey 

The City of Busselton has engaged an independent consultant to undertake a whole of community satisfaction survey.

The past two surveys have been undertaken by Catalyse and a scorecard has been produced summarising outcomes and identifying areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.

The outcomes of the survey:

  • Support a review of the Strategic Community Plan
  • Assess performance against objectives and key performance indicators in the Strategic Community Plan
  • Help determine community priorities
  • Benchmarks our performance against past years and against other Western Australian local Governments

MARKYT Community Scorecard 2024

Community Survey 2020

Community Survey 2017

Liveability Census 2023

Thank you to everyone who took part in the 2023 Australian Liveability Census earlier this year. We had just over 400 responses from within the Local Government Area.

84% of respondents indicated they are satisfied with where they live, giving us an overall liveability score of 70 out of 100. This is a great result, above the national average!

So what are our strengths in the City of Busselton?

  1. Elements of the natural environment
  2. Sense of neighbourhood safety
  3. General condition of public open space

And what do we need to work on?

  1. Promoting protection of the natural environment
  2. Encouraging sustainable behaviours in the community  

Liveability Census 2023

 

Related Information

Community Engagement Framework

Community Engagement Policy

 

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