Who we are
A platform for organised local partnership.
The Greater Community exists to create a structured interface between communities, business, civil society, institutions and government — so that local need and local capacity can be brought forward in a form the responsible authority can properly consider.
Institutional purpose
Organised participation, properly documented.
GC organises participating stakeholder constituencies within a defined precinct. It records who participates, on what mandate and with what interest, and it structures the resulting propositions so that responsibility, cost and authorisation are visible from the outset.
GC does not represent an entire community or geographic population. It represents participating stakeholder constituencies that have formally associated themselves with a defined precinct, process or project.
Foundational principles
Clarity · Integrity · Wisdom · Service
01
Clarity
Roles, participation, responsibilities, funding and implementation must be clearly defined.
02
Integrity
Representation, interests, funding and implementation must be transparent and properly documented.
03
Wisdom
Local action must be informed by evidence, professional expertise, local knowledge, environmental conditions and long-term sustainability.
04
Service
Every activity must seek balanced public value across People · Ecology · Economy.
Boundaries
What GC is not.
- A sphere of government
- A municipality
- A ward committee
- A substitute for elected representation
- A regulatory authority
- A procurement authority
- An alternative budgeting structure
- A political movement
- A mechanism for directing officials
- A mechanism for exercising statutory functions
- A parallel local government structure
GC may identify, evidence and articulate local needs. It does not determine municipal planning or service-delivery priorities.
Understand the methodology behind the platform.
The Greater Community Model sets out the twelve stages through which a precinct partnership is defined, evidenced, costed, referred and — where authorised — implemented.