You have been invited to fill out this online application form following your submission of an Expression of Interest and subsequent meeting with Council staff, to establish a community garden on Council or Crown Land in the Hunters Hill LGA.

Refer to Hunter’s Hill Council’s Community Garden Policy to assist in filling out this form.

Council staff will contact you following your submission of this form.

1. Vision
   • purpose, aims and objectives
2. Site management
   • management of the whole site (e.g. waste management, pest management, soil improvement, water management of runoff and drainage, use and harvesting of water and types of sustainable materials brought on site and their storage)
   • site safety—how you will manage health and safety in the garden e.g. risk management plan, safe use of tools and outline training process for new gardeners, how will you document accidents etc
   • allocation and management of plots
   • management of shared areas
3. Management structure
   • include a list of the management positions and their role (e.g. president, treasurer, secretary)
   • what will be your members’ responsibilities to other gardeners and to the community garden (e.g. behaviour, site safety and orderliness, treatment of visitors)
   • how you will make decisions together (e.g. consensus, majority rule, code of conduct, resolving conflict)
   • how you will communicate between the management team and the membership.
4. Policies
   • access and inclusion (e.g. opening times, will the garden be locked at night, when can interested people enquire about joining, disabled access and acceptance of a range of people and children)
   • alcohol, smoking and drugs onsite
   • dogs onsite.
5. Funding the continued operation of the community garden
   • membership costs / resourcing plan/ fundraising / grants.
6. Training
   • what will be your process of inducting new gardeners into the garden practices (e.g. compost production, organic gardening methods such as pest management)
   • what initial training will be needed in the start-up stage of the garden.
7. Partnerships and community engagement
   • potential partnerships with other organisations (if these already exist, consider attaching letters of support from them to this application)
   • how the garden will involve the local community.
8. Contacts
   • for the public / for council / internal / coordinators of teams.

• Purpose of collection: for assessment of an application to use Public Land for a new community garden
• Intended recipients: Council officers and authorised contractors of Hunters Hill Council
• Supply: Voluntary, however, a completed application is necessary to seek permission to use an area of Public Land for a new community garden in the Hunters Hill Council area
• Access and correction: Council staff or Freedom of Information Requests
• Storage: Council's Document Management Systems and Archives.

• assessment process: your application will be assessed by relevant Council staff.
• consultation process: during the Council exhibition period, local residents and business surrounding the proposed site is be consulted, any feedback will be considered by Council.
• council approval: if the application is supported by Council, Council will contact your group regarding the result
• Licence agreement: if your Community Garden Application is approved by Council, then a formal licence agreement will be entered into with your group, at this stage your group must become incorporated and have public liability insurance. However for community gardens groups not selling their produce, Council’s Community Support Liability policy can cover Public Liability insurance.
• funding: Council encourages successful applicants to apply for grants after they have approval and a signed licence agreement.