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Town and Country Planning Board of Victoria 1968-69 VICTORIA TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD OF VICTORIA FOR THE PERIOD I sr JU LY, 196 7, T 0 3 OrH JUNE, 1968 PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT PURSUAKT TO SECTION 5 (2) OF THE TO\VN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1961 [Approximate C011t of Report.-Preparation, not given. Printing ( 250 copies), $770] By Authority: A. C. BROOKS, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, MELBOURNE. No. 29.-10102/69.-[45 cents] INDEX PAGE Introduction 5 Appointments and Retirements 5 Legislation 6 Reorganization of the Board 10 Planning Schemes Being Prepared by the Board 11 Coastal Planning Studies 12 Planning Schemes Being Prepared by Councils 16 Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Region 17 Interim Development Orders 17 Revocations of Portions of Planning Schemes 18 Organisation for Strategic Planning 18 Regional Planning 19 Western Port Development 19 Advertising Signs and Panels 20 Uniform Building Regulations 20 Place Names Committee 20 Port Phillip Authority 20 Pollution Committee 21 Extractive Industries Act 1966 21 Land Use Zoning-By-laws under the Local Government Act 22 Australian Institute of Urban Studies 22 Visit to State Planning Authority of New South Wales 22 Chair of Town Planning-Melbourne University 23 Seminars- Historic Preservation in Australia 23 Planning Conference 1968-Town and Country Planning Institute of New Zealand 23 Resources for Planning 23 Jubilee Conference-Adelaide 24 Staff and Office Accommodation 25 Town and Country Planning Board TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 179 Queen-street, Melbourne, 3000 The Honorable the Minister for Local Government, 61 Spring-street, Melbourne, 3000. SIR, In accordance with the provisions of Section 5 (2) of the Town and Country Planning Act the Board has pleasure in submitting to you for presentation to Parliament the following report on its activities during the twelve months ended 30th June, 1968. During the period under review the Board held 31 meetings, and in addition was represented at a number of conferences held in the metropolitan area and various country centres .. APPOINTMENTS AND RETIREMENTS. On the 2nd April, 1968, the Governor in Council appointed Mr. M. J. Lea a member of the Board for the statutory period of three years. Mr. Lea is a Civil Engineer and Licenced Surveyor, a member of the Institution of Engineers (Australia), a Fellow and Past President of the Institution of Surveyors (Australia) and a Fellow of the Australian Planning Institute and Past President of its Melbourne Division. He has had considerable experience in the planning field and has been a member of the National Capital Planning Committee, Canberra since its inception in 1958. Mr. Lea succeeded Mr. A. N. Kemsley who had rendered outstanding service to town and country planning in Victoria over very many years. At its meeting held on the lOth April, 1967, the Board passed a resolution recording its appreciation of Mr. Kemsley's service. The resolution reads as follows :- "Alfred Newcombe Kemsley was appointed to the Board on the 27th February, 1946 and retired on the 29th March, 1968, his 72nd birthday. Although a businessman and not a professional planner he brought to the Board's deliberations a wealth of understanding of the practical application of a wide range of planning principles. He derived this in the first place from his term as Secretary of the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission during the whole of its existence from 1923-1929 and later from his dedicated participation in the Board's affairs from its inception in 1946. During his term of office on the Board, town planning in Victoria under the Town and Country Planning Act developed from a theory for the guidance of town growth to an established and widely accepted practice. At the end of his term 57 planning schemes had been approved and 115 were in the course of preparation. The most notable of these was the Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme which was examined and reported on by the Board in considerable detail on both occasions of its public exhibition. During the same period the scope of planning was to widen to include areas of scenic and recreational interest. Since the modern town planning movement began about 50 years ago three notable reports on the growth and planning of Melbourne have been produced. Mr. Kemsley was closely associated with two of these, as Secretary of the Metropolitan Planning Commission in their Report of 1929 and as a member of the Town and Country Planning Board in their Report' Organisation for Strategic Planning' of 1967. He was also intimately connected with the report on the Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme 1954, the examination of which was the responsibility of the Town and Country Planning Board. Mr. Kemsley's service to town planning has been recognized by the Town and Country Planning Association by the award of the Sir James Barrett Memorial Medal and by the Australian Planning Institute in electing him an Honorary Member. Mr. Kemsley has been a citizen of Melbourne for nearly 50 years and in his time has taken a leading part in many civic and welfare activities. His services to the community were recognized by Her Majesty the Queen on the 11th June, 1960 in making him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The town planning movement has been fortunate in having such a forthright protagonist. He has retired greatly respected by his colleagues for the integrity, human understanding and determination he has always displayed in the conduct of the Board's affairs." 6 LEGISLATION. During the 1968 Autumn Session of Parliament a substantial amendment to the Town and Country Planning Act 1961 was enacted. One of the principal objects of the amendment was to give effect to the Government's intention to revise the organisation for town and country planning in the State. The main features of the Act, the Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act 1968 (No. 7676) are as follows :- (i) An increase in the membership of the Town and Country Planning Board by provision for a full-time Deputy Chairman. (ii) Charging the Board with the responsibilities of promoting and co-ordinating planning throughout the State and of preparing statements of planning policy. (iii) Establishment of a State Planning Council. (iv) Provision for the establishment of regional planning authorities. (v) Establishment of a tribunal to hear and determine town planning appeals. (vi) Extension of the metropolitan planning area and definition of the relationship between the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works and municipal Councils under an approved metropolitan planning scheme. (vii) Improvements in the provisions of the 1961 Act in the light of experience in its application. The Board's 22nd Annual Report referred to the Bill to amend the Town and Country Planning Act 1961 consideration of which was not concluded during the 1967 Autumn Session of Parliament. Act No. 7676 emanated from a revised Bill considerably augmented by provisions derived from the Board's Report "Organisation for Strategic Planning". Further reference to this Report is made on pages 18-19. The revised planning organisation under the amending Act provides for (1) Strategic Planning-broad structure planning at Government level incorporating major projects initiated by Government authorities and expressed as statements of planning policy setting the pattern and providing guide-lines for physical planning. (2) Regional Planning--physical planning at local government level for areas extending beyond the boundaries of one municipality and which require planning as a single unit. (3) Local Planning-physical planning for unified areas with a single municipality and also for detail planning with regional planning areas. The enactment of this legislation represents a substantial step forward in Government acceptance of the principles underlying town and country planning and in the means available for the accomplishment of better forward planning of over-all development. Details of the principal additions to the Act are as follows Membership of Board. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended to increase the membership of the Board from three to four. At present the Chairman is the only full-time member of the Board and provision has been made for the appointment of a full-time Deputy Chairman. This part of the amendment Act has yet to be implemented. Statements of Planning Policy. Section 7A ( 1) of the Act empowers the Board to prepare a statement of planning policy (including any necessary maps and plans) with respect to any portion of Victoria whether or not that portion is under planning administration. A statement of planning policy to be effective must be approved by the Governor in Council and notified as approved in the Government Gazette (Section 8c (3 and 4) ). Section 7A (2) stipulates that a statement of planning policy shall be directed primarily towards broad general planning to facilitate the co-ordination of planning (under the Town and Country Planning Act) throughout the State by all responsible authorities. Section 7A (3) also requires the Board, in preparing a statement of planning policy to have regard in particular to such influences on urban and rural development as (a) demographic, social and economic factors and influences ; 7 (b) conservation of natural resources for social, economic, environmental, ecological and scientific purposes ; (c) characteristics of land ; (d) characteristics and disposition of land use ; (e) amenity and environment ; (f) communications ; and (g) development requirements of public authorities. Section 8E requires that every responsible authority, that is, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, a regional planning authority or a council outside the metropolitan area where a regional authority has not been established, shall in preparing or amending a planning scheme have due regard to any approved statement of planning policy which affects its planning area. The concept of a statement of planning policy originating at Government level, is new to the Town and Country Planning Act.
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