Both sites are currently accepting:• Recycling (residential sized cardboard, e-waste, steel loads)• Concrete, Green waste and small waste loads that can be unloaded into bins at the designated area.
Protected industrial action may affect waste collections in Hume. Put your bin out as usual on your scheduled collection day. If your bin is not collected, please leave it out for a catch-up collection.
Local shopping strips are more than places to shop. They’re where people meet, connect, and support local businesses.
The Hume’s Places Program guides how Council plans and delivers upgrades to local shopping strips across the city. The program focuses on creating safer, more attractive, and more functional places for the community, while supporting local traders and businesses.
As part of Council’s 10-year Capital Works Program, upgrades are planned and delivered over time based on evidence, available funding and community input.
Projects under Hume’s Places Program are prioritised through Council’s annual budget process. Once funding is confirmed, the community has opportunities to help shape the draft and final concept designs for individual projects.
To guide these decisions, Council uses a consistent, place-based framework that helps ensure investment goes where it can make the greatest difference.
Council identifies where upgrades are most needed and where investment is likely to deliver the best outcomes for communities and local businesses.
Each shopping strip is assessed using four key criteria:
The program also considers other Council initiatives that contribute to shopping strip improvements, such as transport upgrades, safety works, public art, and economic development projects.
The program works alongside and with other council projects including:
This coordinated approach helps ensure upgrades support long-term health and activity of local places
Design
We're upgrading the Railway Crescent streetscape to provide a more attractive and welcoming environment for the community and visitors alike.
We're upgrading the Macedon Street streetscape to provide a more attractive and welcoming environment for the community and visitors alike.
We've enhanced the streetscape to deliver a safer, more accessible village centre in Westmeadows.
Current proposed projects include:
Recent projects include:
Opportunities to share your feedback on individual upgrades will be advertised through Participate Hume.
Council assesses areas based on streetscape quality, business vitality, sense of place and connectivity, alongside greatest need and value for money. Decisions about which locations will be upgraded next are made through Council’s budget process
Yes. Community feedback is invited on individual projects through Participate Hume once planning on each project begins.