Access and Inclusion

Find out about our commitment to ensuring our community is accessible and inclusive for everyone, our Disability Access and Inclusion Plan and how you can be involved in helping us shape our City’s future.

Our Commitment

We believe that a community that recognises and promotes its diversity and supports the participation and inclusion of all its members, makes for a richer community life and a positive contribution to social justice. We actively seek input from community members to ensure we gather feedback and insights that enable us to contribute to improving access and inclusion for our community.

Access Advisory Panel

Our Access Advisory Panel (AAP) advocates for the access requirements of people with disability, older people and promotes universal access across our city. The main function of the panel is to provide insights into built environments and event plans within our city that comment on accessibility factors. The panel meets every quarter to discuss agenda items.

Membership of the Access Advisory Panel

Better Together Melville Reference Group

The Better Together Melville Reference Group will help guide us in creating our first Access and Inclusion Plan (AIP). The group will provide input based on their lived experience of barriers to access and inclusion, and will incorporate diverse perspectives including people with disability and their family, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, and those experiencing housing insecurity or homelessness.

Applications are now closed, but you can find out more about the project and register to receive updates through Better Together Melville on Melville Talks.

Disability Access and Inclusion Plan

Our Disability Access and Inclusion Plan provides a means of ensuring that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as others to access services, community events, buildings and facilities, information, as well as feedback and complaint resolution processes.

Read our Disability Access and Inclusion Plan 2024-2029

Download a pdf of our Disability Access and Inclusion Plan 2024-2029

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Get in Contact with Us

We want to hear from you if you have any suggestions to help make our community more accessible and inclusive. Contact us to express your ideas or give feedback.