The City of Stonnington is home to over 18,000 businesses, all of which play a critical role in creating a thriving local economy and making our shopping precincts a must-visit destination for locals and visitors to our city.

To help us help local business thrive, we need to hear what's important to them to ensure we are delivering the right programs, services and initiatives to meet their needs.

Earlier this year we invited all Stonnington businesses to complete a Business Health Survey and share key insights into priorities and challenges they face now and into the future.

Through the survey we heard there are areas we can improve to help our local businesses, with the following key themes consistent across many of the survey respondents:

• Stonnington needs to communicate more clearly about the services and programs it can provide
• Better public space, precinct activation and access to marketing support
• Stonnington to provide grant funding, destination and local area marketing
• Parking traffic and transportation as a key amenity issue and constraint
• High rent, utilities and overheads as a key economic challenge

Learn more about the feedback received from the Business Health Survey Engagement Snapshot

Where to from here?

In a follow up to the Business Health Survey we now want to test some of the key themes and delve a little deeper into the types of improvements businesses would like to see.

Your continued input will be used to evaluate our current service delivery and assist with the development of new business support programs and initiatives to better serve the business community.

Have your say

We want to hear from Stonnington businesses to help us better understand the themes that came out of our recent Business Health Survey.

From the survey analysis we’ve been able to draw out two key themes that we’re seeking further feedback on. These are highlighted in the tabs labelled:

• Opportunities – this relates to what things would make doing business easier Stonnington.
• Council Services – this focusses in on what Council Services businesses would like provided.

The third tab, ‘Deep Dive Survey’, seeks to question these themes in more detail through a targeted set of questions.

You can have your say in the following ways:

• Leave a comment, or like someone else's comment on our forums:
  Opportunities forum (tab 1)
  Council Services forum (tab 2)
• Complete our survey (tab 3): a more in-depth way to give feedback.

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact the Economic & Place Development team on yourbusiness@stonnington.vic.gov.au or call 8290 1333

Business health deep dive survey

Responses from the Business Health Survey have us believe there are more opportunities for us to enhance business services. We want to explore what this might look like by unpacking some of the key insights from the survey.

In our new survey we are asking you more detailed questions around your priorities to improve public space, amenities and streetscapes, precinct activation, marketing, shop vacancy and grant funding.

Please complete the survey to share more information with us about the business support services that are important to you and your business.

Your privacy and personal information

The personal information requested on this project is being collected by Council for the purpose of the business health engagement program.

To find out how your personal information will be used by Council please visit the privacy policy page.