Garden Shire Public Health Plan 2026-2031
The Shire of Peppermint Grove provides a variety of environmental health services to residents, businesses and visitors to the area. The Shire’s role in improving community health and wellbeing is diverse. From the infrastructure it builds and provides to encourage active lifestyles, to early childhood health services to waste management and safer public places and spaces.
In 2026 the Shire in consultation with the community and the North Metropolitan Health Service prepared our inaugural Garden Shire Public Health Plan 2026-2031 (GSPHP). The GSPHP is an informing strategy under the Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework that aligns with the State Public Health Plan introduced under the Public Health Act 2016. It further aligns with the Shire’s Strategic Community Plan 2021-2031 (Strategic Community Plan) and Corporate Business Plan 2026/2027 -2030/2031 (Corporate Business Plan). By placing public and health and wellbeing at the forefront of the Shire’s strategic planning efforts, it will help to reduce the social and economic costs associated with higher rates of obesity, poor physical and mental health, social isolation and increased crime.
The goal of the GSPHP is to promote and enable optimal health and wellbeing while protecting against health risks to ensure the highest quality of life for Shire residents. In short, this document is a direct response to Shire’s public health needs, projections, and aspirations. It is the culmination of data collection from previous health plan reviews, feedback from the community and staff, and select stakeholder consultation. From this data, this GSPHP identifies strategies, actions and priorities that will help guide and contribute to the day-to-day business of the Shire and its public health services and ambitions.
Evaluation of the Shire’s public health status will be conducted through annual reports, statutory approvals, and monitor activity indicators that combine to improve the health and wellbeing of Shire residents, namely:
- Ongoing environmental health programs such as risk assessments of food premises, beauty therapy outlets, skin penetration premises, public buildings, private and public swimming pools
- Responding to community concerns related to environmental hazards such as asbestos, contaminated sites, chemical spills, sewerage spills and groundwater
- Prevalence of communicable disease and vaccination rates
- Adjustments in chronic disease incidence via data from North Metropolitan Health Services
- Changes in community demographics via future ABS census reports
- Mental health and wellbeing via data from North Metropolitan Health Services
The GSPHP places public health at the centre of the Shire’s local policy framework.
The GSPHP and the Shire's strategic plans can be view by selecting the link below.
Garden Shire Public Health Plan 2026-2031
Development Services can be contacted to provide further information on:
Telephone: 9286 8600
Email: admin@peppermintgrove.wa.gov.au