2030 Annual Community Update

Issue 5 April 2006

Minister's Message

This Melbourne 2030 Annual Looking ahead, there is plenty to do. This year the Victorian Community Update reflects on Government will continue to build on Linking Melbourne achievements in my first year as and Melbourne 2030 with the release of a Transport and Minister for Planning. While the last Liveability Statement which will outline a significant new 12 months have been challenging, I agenda for transport and include both short and long term have found the portfolio and planning options. It will be heavily focussed on addressing the need for the future of Victorian communities for additional bus services in growth areas and capacity extraordinarily rewarding. issues on the rail network.

We’re now more than half way through 2006 will also see the broader planning system further the first five-year implementation streamlined through the Cutting Red Tape review headed by program for Melbourne 2030, the Victorian Government’s strategy Parliamentary Secretary Elaine Carbines, which will identify to keep Melbourne liveable as it grows by more than 800,000 initiatives to reduce blockages that cost councils, developers people. and taxpayers time and money.

Looking back, the Bracks Government has made real progress New funding for urban improvement and heritage projects in a body of work that will span 30 years. We’ve introduced an will be provided to local government and heritage groups urban growth boundary to manage growth on the city's fringe over the coming four years through the $13.5 million and world-first legislation to protect our green wedges. Planning Creating Better Places Program. We will also continue the for activity centres is progressing, with 83 structure plans either dialogue with stakeholders and the community regarding complete or underway. And through the work of the five Regional planning for the future through forums, events and the Housing Working Groups, significant progress has been made with Melbourne 2030 Implementation Reference Group. Regional Housing Statements, ensuring that the right housing I look forward to continuing the Government's work in will be available for Melbourne’s growing and ageing population. planning ahead to protect what we love about Melbourne. Supported by over $23 million in State Government funding, this and other important work is putting Melbourne 2030 into action within local communities.

Last year also saw the release of A plan for Melbourne’s growth areas, providing a new approach to planning and enough land in Melbourne’s five growth areas for housing and employment Rob Hulls MP growth over the next 25 years. Transport was also a priority, with Minister for Planning the 2005/06 State Budget providing $200 million to fund key projects contained in Linking Melbourne – an integrated strategy covering walking, cycling, public transport, car travel and freight – including a new SmartBus service between Frankston and Ringwood, improved/new outer metropolitan arterial roads, and a boost for public transport in our growth areas. Last year also saw significant investment in Transit Cities, including announcement of a $92.8 million infrastructure-funding package to kick-start the urban renewal of Dandenong.

www.melbourne2030.vic.gov.au Liveable communities

Partnerships between the State Government, councils, developers and community are creating sustainable and vibrant communities across Melbourne Guiding 20 years of development in Preston

State Government, Darebin City Council, local business, traders and community groups are all benefiting from relationships strengthened by working together on the Preston Central Structure Plan.

Supported by a State Government grant of $320,000 through the Pride of Place program, the Preston Central Structure Plan will guide development of the heart of Darebin. Preston Central is home to the Preston Market – Melbourne’s second largest fresh food market – as well as Darebin’s train and police stations, the Preston Oval, shops, restaurants and cafes, and a vast array of community facilities.

Wide consultation with Preston residents during the structure planning process has produced a vision focussed on serving the needs of local people. Better access to public transport and greater diversity of new housing are planned to create a pedestrian-friendly centre and enable more people to live close to job opportunities, services and transport.

The structure plan clearly indicates where development in Preston is encouraged and where it is discouraged, giving greater certainty to both the community and developers. It includes:

• Guidelines for the form and location of new housing. • Urban Design Frameworks for key development sites including the Preston Market Precinct and the Civic Precinct. • A transport and parking strategy.

Preston Town Hall For more information visit www.darebin.vic.gov.au

Cutting Red Tape

The State Government is continuing to look for ways to make the planning system user-friendly and efficient. "Streamlining the Planning Permit Process: Cutting Red Tape" is a new review to remove unnecessary permit requirements and provide more efficient ways to deal with delays in the planning system.

Headed by Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Elaine Carbines, a taskforce is looking at removing the need for permits for things like small sheds, cubby houses and sail shades, with a view to freeing up valuable council resources. The review joins a number of initiatives already underway by State and Completion of missing link joins local government to streamline the planning system. The work focuses on improving: Port Melbourne and Beaumaris

• management systems Pedestrians, cyclists and skaters now have a continuous • planning approach and culture trail from Beaumaris to Port Melbourne with the completion of the Bay Trail project. The missing link at • information and education Brighton foreshore was officially opened in October 2005, • quality of applications connecting Middle Brighton Baths and Bay Street • fast tracking certain permit applications to provide a total of 16km of off-road pathways. • advertising. Following extensive community consultation by Bayside Reducing workloads should allow councils to focus on 'bigger picture' issues, City Council, a trail including a 100 metre boardwalk in the reduce delays for developers and decrease community frustration over the more sensitive foreshore areas has been constructed. need for excessive paper work. Path users can also enjoy viewing decks, seating, lighting Interested persons and organisations were invited to make written and disabled access. The project was identified in submissions to the Cutting Red Tape review by mid February. The review Melbourne 2030 as a priority action, and has been jointly taskforce will report to the Minister for Planning by mid 2006. funded by Parks Victoria and Bayside City Council.

2 Partnership and Consulation

State and local government are working in partnership with communities to plan for the future

Picturing a fresh future for Noble Park Protecting our river valleys Noble Park is part of the City of Greater Maribyrnong River Project Dandenong, which is the most culturally diverse Through the Maribyrnong River Project, DSE has been municipality in Melbourne with around 54% of working with local government, Parks Victoria and residents born overseas and 48% from non- Melbourne Water to develop a vision for the Maribyrnong English speaking backgrounds. The council and River valley from the Port to the Organ Pipes. Supported the Department of Sustainability and Environment by a grant from the Melbourne 2030 Local Government (DSE) faced a range of challenges engaging Assistance Fund and informed by public forums in 2004, Noble Park’s diverse community during the work has also focussed on developing urban and landscape structure planning process for the area. These guidelines to underpin revised planning provisions for the challenges required some innovative solutions. Debbie Thomson and urban part of the valley. Public comment will be sought on Councillor Pinar Yesilagac Noble Park Secondary College abuts the local the proposals in mid 2006, before finalising new planning train station and shopping strip, making the school’s students regular users of controls to protect the river valley. the activity centre. With the help of teacher Steve Seddon, a creative and fun method to engage a class of Year 9 students was devised. After a presentation Project on the principles of Melbourne 2030 and structure planning, the students were Work to review policies and controls for the Yarra valley each given a disposable camera with instructions to photograph aspects of between Punt Road and Burke Road is well underway. Noble Park that they liked and disliked, places they felt welcome and safe, The project is being led by DSE in collaboration with or unwanted and unsafe. local government, Parks Victoria and Melbourne Water. The results highlighted problems particular to young people. For example, A consultant's report was released by the Minister for the students felt they had nowhere safe and pleasant to hang out after school, Planning for public consultation, which indicated significant and wanted something like a ‘kid’s café’ where they could feel welcome and community support for the recommended strengthening relax. A prize of a digital camera was awarded by Councillor Pinar Yesilagac of planning provisions. Informed by this work, the Minister to Debbie Thomson, the student who put most effort into her project. for Planning approved interim planning provisions for At the presentation, she said the prize was a bonus, “I would have done the Toorak river frontage in the City of Stonnington in it anyway; I’ve lived in Noble Park all my life.” December 2005. DSE is working with councils in 2006 to develop final proposals to protect the Yarra River.

Integrated police headquarters boosts community safety Population in the news

Over the last year, population was big news as Victoria’s population passed the five million mark.

But Melbourne’s main sources of growth continue to come from decisions made by Melburnians themselves, not outside factors. Over the next 25 years Melbourne will grow by nearly 540,000 households due to:

• Natural population increase: births will continue to outnumber deaths.

• Children leaving home to set up their own households. A new $11 million police and emergency services complex in Pakenham • People divorcing and separating, creating demand for will boost community safety in the rapidly expanding Casey-Cardinia more housing. growth area. • More households made up of the 'baby boomer' Due for completion in late 2006, the complex will house fire fighting, population bulge, as they retire or become ‘empty emergency rescue and crime prevention services together, making it nesters’. easier for the community to become involved and for volunteers to be trained. • Net gains to the population through overseas and interstate migration. The site was earmarked early in the planning process and collaboration between police, fire and emergency services agencies and local councils For more information on population change in Victoria, has produced a model that can be used for future growth area planning. visit www.dse.vic.gov.au/victoriainfuture

3 A plan for Melbourne's growth areas

Over the next 25 years, Melbourne 2030 aims to accommodate a larger share of new households in the established metropolitan area. It is expected there will be a gradual decline in the overall share of new households moving to the growth areas on the city’s fringe. However, how we manage this growth will determine the quality of life that families enjoy in the future. In November 2005, the Victorian Government released a plan to manage the development of Melbourne’s five growth areas – Casey-Cardinia, Hume, Melton-Caroline Springs, Whittlesea and Wyndham.

What's in the plan?

A plan for Melbourne’s growth areas recognises that we have to plan ahead so our newest communities will be well- designed and have the facilities and services they need. It is the culmination of community consultation and has been developed in partnership with local government, through the Smart Growth Committees for Casey-Cardinia, Hume, Melton- Caroline Springs, Whittlesea and Wyndham.

The plan includes:

▪ New land for future urban development.

▪ A new partnership approach to infrastructure provision.

▪ A new Growth Areas Authority to oversee and provide advice on future development in growth areas.

How will the plan work?

Releasing more land to keep homes affordable

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4 Adopting a new partnership approach to infrastructure provision

Over $10 billion of state-supported infrastructure is likely to be required in growth areas up to 2030. By adopting a new partnership approach to infrastructure provision that builds on existing arrangements, new communities will be provided with transport and facilities as they grow. Development contributions will ensure infrastructure is delivered in a more timely way and to higher standards.

Establishing a new Growth Areas Authority

The sheer scale and complexity of planning for and overseeing the development of Melbourne’s growth areas over the next 25 years requires a new approach. The new Growth Areas Authority will work with councils, communities and developers to ensure new neighbourhoods are properly planned and that new communities receive the services and infrastructure they need sooner. The Authority will also help coordinate government agencies, reducing the regulatory burden on developers and councils, and provide advice to government about the provision of infrastructure and services.

For more information visit www.dse.vic.gov.au/growthareas

5 Transit cities

The Melbourne 2030 Transit Cities Program is creating vibrant, walkable communities around transport hubs in Ballarat, Bendigo, Box Hill, Broadmeadows, Dandenong, Epping, Footscray, Frankston, Geelong, Latrobe, Ringwood, Sydenham and Werribee.

Revitalising Central Dandenong

In 2005, the State Government announced a major $92.8 million infrastructure-funding program of urban renewal to position Dandenong for the future while capturing the best of Dandenong today.

The Revitalising Central Dandenong project includes: • $50.3 million to purchase and redevelop land in a declared area in central Dandenong. • $17.5 million to build the George Street Bridge linking southern Dandenong with the Central Business District. • A $25 million housing development at the former saleyards.

Revitalising Central Dandenong boosts significant works already underway as part of the Melbourne 2030 Transit Cities Program to unlock Dandenong’s potential to become a thriving centre in Melbourne’s growing south-east corridor. Concept plan for Dandenong CBD For more information visit www.dandenong.vic.gov.au

Footscray's winning design Frankston takes off

The annual Planning Institute of Australia (Victorian Division) From its early days as a sleepy fishing Awards for Planning Excellence are an opportunity to village to its transformation to a booming showcase innovation, creativity and strategic flair across the seaside resort in the 1920s, Frankston spectrum of planning related activities. has reinvented itself on numerous occasions throughout its history. The 2005 Awards in November included the Victorian Today, Frankston and its surrounds Government sponsored “Planning Minister’s Award for are undergoing another major period of renewal as a result of the Melbourne 2030 Implementation”. The award recognises Melbourne 2030 Transit Cities Program. Major projects like the new projects that are best practice examples or make a significant Bayside Entertainment complex are part of a broader plan to position contribution to the integrated implementation of Melbourne the regional centre as a gateway between metropolitan Melbourne and 2030. Eligible projects can include research, studies, policy, the lifestyle opportunities of Mornington Peninsula. community forums or built form. The winning project, The 12 screen cinema, Strike Bowling bar, shops, restaurants and public Footscray Principal Activity Centre and Transit City, was a space have reinvigorated the Wells Street area since opening just over combination of all of the above. In Footscray, Maribyrnong a year ago. City Council is working in partnership with the community and the State Government to renew and revitalise the area A range of other infrastructure and urban design works are detailed in using a range of creative and collaborative methods. the Frankston Tafe to Bay Structure Plan. Adopted by Frankston Council in September 2005, it plans specific redevelopment activities for the Strategic projects include the (re)Visioning Footscray transport interchange, Kananook Creek and the central activities district community engagement process and an innovative 3D interactive modelling skyline study to examine the area’s Other projects include: potential for higher density development. An ambitious • Upgrading Bayside Shopping Centre and White Street Mall. series of capital works and place making projects are already • Restoration of the Kananook Creek corridor through central happening, including the Nicholson Street Mall Re-design Frankston. and the Finding Footscray, Footscray Found traders' initiative. The project took another step forward after the awards • Redeveloping the former Village Cinemas into a new and with the announcement of $250,000 of State Government restaurant complex. funding towards refurbishment works for the mall and the • Redeveloping the Peninsula Building into a multi-million dollar appointment of a Place Manager. apartment and spa resort complex.

For more information visit www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au For more information visit www.frankston.vic.gov.au

6 Sydenham Transit City update Framework to monitor sustainability

The Sydenham Transit City project is developing Sydenham as an economically Triple bottom line reporting – measuring social, vibrant and sustainable community with improved transport services centred environmental and economic performance – is a on the Watergardens Town Centre. A masterplan adopted by Brimbank growing trend across a range of businesses and City Council in September 2005 sets out a plan for well-located, mixed-use industries. The Victorian Government has embraced development in key precincts, covering a combined area of over 200 hectares. the approach, with Growing Victoria Together setting out a vision which balances social, economic and Other projects resulting from the Sydenham Transit City program include: environmental considerations to form the basis • The $5 million Sydenham Interactive Learning Centre. of budget and policy decisions across the

• Improved services and facilities at the transport interchange at whole-of-government. Watergardens Station. But how do you calculate the triple bottom line

• $19.7 million funded by VicRoads for the duplication of Kings Road between performance of a neighbourhood? Recognising the Taylors Road and the Melton Highway. challenge, DSE worked in partnership with Tract consultants and ACIL Tasman to design a method • $180,000 joint funding by the State Government and Brimbank City Council for measuring the performance of the 9 Transit Cities for landscape improvements to Melton Highway. and 130 activity centres across metropolitan Melbourne.

Using the Transit Cities and activity centre objectives detailed in Melbourne 2030, the consultants selected a diverse range of indicators, reflecting a triple bottom line framework of economic progress, environmental sustainability and social advancement. The performance measures allow for a structured comparison of individual areas over time, providing feedback for State Government and councils that can be used to guide future policy development and implementation.

Artist's impression only The innovative project received a commendation at the PIA (Victorian Division) 2005 Awards for 'Proposition 3047' — Broadmeadows Planning Excellence.

Broadmeadows Transit City is the subject of 'Proposition', a new national, annual architecture ideas competition. Each year, a new site will be chosen for its potential as an urban catalyst, challenging architects and urban designers to South Melbourne Central come up with solutions to ‘big picture’ issues in Australian urban growth. South Melbourne Central is identified in Melbourne 2030 The starting point for 'Proposition 3047' entrants is the Broadmeadows as a major activity centre. The South Melbourne Central Transit City Masterplan, adopted by Hume City Council in 2004. The Structure Plan was prepared by the City of masterplan proposes a new Main Street and laneways network within the Port Phillip for the integrated mixed-use area anchored town centre which includes the existing Town Hall and Global Learning around the Clarendon Street strip shopping centre Centre, incorporating Broadmeadows Library and training facilities. Architects, and South Melbourne Market. The area takes in planners and developers are invited to provide creative solutions to managing important heritage, shopping, business, industry Broadmeadows Transit City’s population growth and suburban consolidation. and residential places. John Denton, the new Government Architect, will chair the Proposition 3047 The City of Port Phillip has taken a proactive approach judging jury. in responding to current development pressures and For more information visit www.proposition.com.au or www.stateofdesign.com.au implementing Melbourne 2030. It has undertaken extensive community engagement and has worked closely with stakeholders to look at the future for Transit City briefs South Melbourne Central.

• More than $1 billion in investment has been leveraged through the In March 2005, the government approved interim Transit Cities Program to date. planning controls for the South Melbourne area to give effect to the structure plan. • The Ringwood Transit City Community Reference Group continues Port Phillip Council has now commenced the formal to meet every two months, and is currently investigating options for process to provide permanent planning controls for improved green open spaces in the centre of Ringwood. South Melbourne.

7 Melbourne 2030 in action

Here's a snapshot of some of the Protecting our environment and heritage key projects and • World first legislation enacted to protect green wedges - key environmental, agricultural and industrial areas on Melbourne’s fringe. achievements over • Provision of bicycle facilities mandated for commercial buildings. the last three years: • Introduction of 5-star energy ratings for all new residential buildings. • TravelSmart program helping people across Melbourne and Victoria to choose healthier and more environmentally sustainable travel options. • Four new marine parks and two new marine sanctuaries for Melbourne’s bays and surrounds. Well planned new communities • Launch of A plan for Melbourne’s growth areas setting out a new approach to managing development of new communities in Melbourne’s growth areas on the city’s fringe. • Announcement of a new Growth Areas Authority to ensure effective coordination of growth area planning, infrastructure and service provision. • Creation of Birrarung Marr, the first substantial new park in Melbourne’s CBD since 1901, and planning for major new parks across Melbourne. Streamlining our planning system • Better Decisions Faster initiatives delivering estimated savings of $50 million for the development industry. • "Streamlining the Planning Permit Process: Cutting Red Tape review" established. • Priority Development Panel and Priority Development Zones established to drive projects of state and regional significance, with Priority Development Zones established in Footscray and Casey. • Greater planning certainty provided through the Protecting the Suburbs package, including height controls in residential areas, interim height controls in neighbourhood centres and interim structure plans to assist councils in larger centres. Working in partnership with local government and stakeholders • Over $23 million announced or given in grants to local government. • More than $1 billion in investment leveraged through the Transit Cities Program to date. • Structure planning for activity centres is underway in all councils and commenced or completed for 83 of the 130 metropolitan activity centres. • Inner Regional Housing Statement adopted and Draft Regional Housing Statements released for comment in the Eastern and Southern Regions of metropolitan Melbourne. • Urban Development Program annual reports monitoring and providing information on the supply and demand of residential and industrial land. • PLANET program delivering professional development training for planners in partnership with the Municipal Association of Victoria and the Planning Institute of Australia.

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