Thank you to everyone who participated in the ‘Coburg is here’ engagement program in late 2025.

Throughout the engagement program we heard a wide range of views that both aligned with and diverged from the draft concept.

Across different feedback there was general support for:

• a greener, livelier, cleaner precinct with a diversity of retail

• ensuring new buildings and urban design meet high quality standards

• spaces for community organisations and artists in the precinct

• the new library and piazza, and

• continued engagement with impacted stakeholders including local businesses and adjacent property owners.

There were areas where there were more divergent views regarding:

• the provision, design and management of traffic and car parking, and

• the amount and type of new housing.

We are now preparing a revised framework which responds to the feedback received from the community which will be presented to Council for consideration. In addition to this, the following high-level areas for further investigation have been identified:

• continue to engage with highly impacted stakeholders

• review approach to public parking provision and distribution

• review the provision of commercial, retail and community use to diversify retail and create

• affordable spaces for a vibrant community

• develop design standards to ensure high quality building and urban design outcomes

• identify preferred bicycle routes and locations for bicycle parking

• explore opportunities for increased greening in the precinct

• further thinking on the layout of the streets and managing traffic impacts

• continue to test and refine the mix of social, affordable and market housing

• carefully plan out construction and staging to minimise impacts on neighbours, and

• continue to test and refine building height and car parking provision feasibility modelling.