The City of Mitcham is home to more than 5,000 local businesses who provide 31,283 local jobs and deliver $3.69 billion to gross regional product – and we’re proud to play a key role in strengthening the capability of both existing and new businesses.

We’re here to help your business succeed

Your business is essential for the future of the City of Mitcham as a place to live, learn, work, and do business and invest in. That’s why we have a strong focus on building partnerships with other levels of government – as well as business and industry – so that together, we can create a city where businesses can succeed and our city can prosper.

Use this page to discover how we work with businesses, find out how you can get involved with a local business association, apply for business permits, get vital food safety information for food businesses, and learn how to register and maintain your water systems.

We’re committed to promoting economic development

We invest in a huge range of services and policies that promote economic development, including:

• Tree planting initiatives and upgrades to civil infrastructure to encourage development through improved property value (due to desirability of our suburbs).
• Community development activities that promote active community participation and commitment to ‘going local’.
• Investments in public art and events to add vibrancy, local pride and amenity.
• Investments in the development of key community infrastructure (including sporting facilities and the new Blackwood Community Hub) to provide an uplift to the surrounding areas and jobs during construction.
• Providing space for people to access Wi-Fi and technology resources (i.e. to meet and discuss ideas). These spaces range from free-of-charge (e.g. library spaces) to very modest charges for meeting room or community centre use.
• Providing lifelong learning and skill building opportunities for the entire community, so that we can help build people’s ability to enter the workforce or help them build specific skills to develop an entrepreneurial concept. This is particularly prevalent in the digital and technology space, with programs conducted at library and community centre locations.
• Facilitating community grants and public art grants.
• Providing opportunities to local businesses whenever possible.
• Developing new assessment policies that help to remove impediments and unnecessary fees, leading to greater fairness and transparency, more timely and consistent decision making and provide certainty to the community in Council’s decision-making processes.