Moorabool Gateways Strategy

What we are doing and why 

The Moorabool Gateways Strategy will identify key characteristics of townships to inform the design of town entries and their locations. We are engaging with the community to hear your insights into town identity characteristics as well as entry locations.

A ‘Gateway’ is a noticeable entry point that we pass through that shows us that we have gone from one location to another. In this project, the term ‘Gateway’ could include things like:

• physical signage 
• landscape features - eg. Mountain ranges, rivers, gorges
• geological features - eg. soils, rock formations
• vegetation and avenue tree planting – eg. Avenues of Honour, forest setting

What are the project’s aims?

We are developing a Gateways Strategy so that individual township entries can be more consistent across the Shire. The result will highlight the uniqueness of Moorabool Shire and its towns as well as the locations, type, materials and settings of each Gateway to be installed.

We want to better present individual township entries across Moorabool Shire for the benefit of locals and visitors alike. By supporting increased civic pride, visitation and the flow on benefits of economic development will also follow.

The Gateways Strategy will set out key principles to help guide future gateway decision making; it will not fully plan what will be designed for each town’s entry at this stage.