Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan for Jobs, Services and Infrastructure 2018–2022

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Contents

Introduction 4

Your Eastern Metro Region 5

Eastern Metro Region snapshot 8

The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership 9 Putting community at the centre 10

Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel 10 Metropolitan Partnership Development Fund 10 The Eastern Metro Region – Land Use Framework Plan 11

Investment overview 13

Pick My Project 22 Growing Suburbs Fund 23 Victorian Government election commitments 24

Appendix 1: Eastern Metro Region Metropolitan Partnership – Membership 27

Appendix 2: Victorian Government Response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership Priorities 2017 30

Appendix 3: Glossary 41

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Introduction

The Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan for Jobs, Services and Infrastructure 2018–2022 outlines the Victorian Government’s ongoing commitment to ’s eastern region.

This year’s Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan provides an update on By bringing together the eastern region’s growing population and economy, and outlines the this information at the Government’s investments from the Victorian Budget 2018/19 to support jobs and deliver infrastructure and services in the region over the next metropolitan regional level, five years. the Eastern Metro Region New sections in this year’s Plan include: Five Year Plan will assist all levels of government • a report on the advice provided by the newly formed Eastern and the eastern region’s Metropolitan Partnership on priorities for enhancing the eastern region’s economy and liveability communities to work together • the Government’s response to the Partnership’s advice, including details on its response to each of the Partnership’s priority actions • a report on the joint development of the Eastern Metro Region’s Land Use Framework Plan by the Government and eastern region councils, creating a shared understanding across all levels of government and the community about future population and employment growth, and housing and land use needs • details on new government initiatives designed to strengthen metropolitan regional development and engage with communities in identifying and delivering local infrastructure and services such as the $30 million Pick My Project program. By bringing together this information at the metropolitan regional level, the Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan will assist all levels of government and the eastern region’s communities to work together to identify challenges and opportunities, and develop new ways to enhance liveability and prosperity.

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Your Eastern Metro Region

The Eastern Metro Region covers six Local The Eastern Metro Region’s suburbs have traditionally Government Areas (LGAs): suburban Monash, housed much of Melbourne’s early and post-war Whitehorse and Manningham, the outer suburban growth. In the outer east, residential areas and LGAs of Knox and Maroondah and the Shire of Yarra commercial centres, such as the Monash National Ranges. Employment and Innovation Cluster (NEIC), give way to the significant tourist destinations of the Dandenong Box Hill and Ringwood are the region’s key Ranges National Park and the expansive bushland Metropolitan Activity Centres, serving as major hubs of the Yarra Ranges. The region’s natural assets are a for the local community. These are underpinned by 23 focus for tourism and include the Puffing Billy Railway, Major Activity Centres. Together these sites contain a Healesville Sanctuary and the Yarra Valley wine significant concentrations of private, government and industry. community sector jobs and services – and are critical to meeting the employment, service and infrastructure needs of the region’s growing population. The Eastern Metro Region is one of Melbourne’s largest, with a population of more than 930,400 residents (approximately 19 per cent of metropolitan Melbourne’s total population) in 2017. Its population is projected to grow by around 62,200 over the five years to 2022, reaching 992,600 residents.

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Eastern Metro Region snapshot

Population Households Housing mix

• 930,400 residents • 122,000 couples with children Regional housing mix as at June 2016: • 20 per cent of metropolitan • 91,000 couples without children • 9,326 apartments of 3 or more Melbourne’s total population • 75,000 lone-person households storeys • projected to grow by 62,200 • 36,000 one-parent families • 271,046 separate houses residents over the five years to 2022 • 63,531 townhouses/flats/small • estimated population of more than apartments 990,000 residents by 2022

Industry and business Key employment centres Employment

Top five employing industries: • Monash National Employment and • 429,645 jobs in 2016 Innovation Cluster (NEIC) • health care and social assistance • 19 per cent of all jobs in • manufacturing cluster at Bayswater metropolitan Melbourne • retail trade • Box Hill, and Ringwood • 40 per cent of employment in the • education and training • health precincts in Box Hill and region was in the health care and • manufacturing Clayton social assistance, retail trade and • construction manufacturing sectors • 4.5 per cent unemployment rate, 1.6 per cent lower than the metropolitan average

Future employment growth Regional strengths Regional Challenges/Opportunities

Employment in the Eastern • large-scale retail destinations • safeguarding employment land Metro Region is projected to • concentration of manufacturing • protecting local heritage and increase by an additional 18,700 supply chain businesses neighbourhood character jobs by 2022: • affordable industrial land on the • improving and prioritising open • 7,800 additional jobs in health care urban fringe with good proximity to space and social assistance transport routes • creating employment opportunities • 5,400 additional jobs in professional • and the Yarra for young people scientific and technical services Valley tourism and agriculture • 5,200 additional jobs in construction • state-significant water catchments and waterways • 2,600 additional jobs in retail trade • 2,000 additional jobs in education and training

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The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership • Social inclusion – Promote social inclusion through improved gender equity in sports with increased The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership was established female participation, and development of a in June 2017. Its membership includes eight community roadmap for addressing social isolation focusing and business representatives, the CEO of each local on elderly and disability communities council in the region and a Deputy Secretary from the Victorian Government (Appendix 1). • Affordable housing – Support affordable housing through the funding model for joint ventures Over its first 12 months of operation, the Eastern between different levels of government and the Metropolitan Partnership has consulted regional private sector; research to quantify the region’s stakeholders and community leaders to identify future social and affordable housing needs; and opportunities for driving improved outcomes for a regional audit to identify under-utilised land for the region and its suburbs. This included hosting its social housing project development. inaugural annual assembly of regional community and business leaders on 31 August 2017 to assist in The Government has responded to the Partnership’s developing its advice to government. vision and advice on priority action with commitments such as: In communicating its priorities to government, the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership outlined its vision to • $1 million in funding provided for cycling and hiking ‘build stronger connections between people, places, trails priority projects identified as part of the services and jobs, with an emphasis on addressing Eastern Regional Trails Strategy disadvantage’. • funding to help address the region’s priority to The Partnership’s priority outcomes cover five promote social inclusion through improved gender principal themes, with specific actions that the equity in sports Partnership believes should be progressed by • support by the Department of Health and Human government: Services, who will work with Eastern Primary Health • Improved connectivity across the eastern region – to identify options for integrating health and social Improved connectivity across the region, improving services in ways that assist people to more easily access to natural assets and improving walkability navigate the service system. and access to public transport Appendix 1 provides details on the Government’s • Jobs for youth – Create jobs for youth through response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership’s investment in early research and regional advice on regional priorities, including actions funded governance structures to underpin the growth in the Victorian Budget 2018/19. of regional apprenticeship opportunities and Full details of the Partnership’s 2017 advice and the completion rates response from the Government are at Appendix 2. • Seamless health and social services – Support The Eastern Partnership has also submitted its 2018 seamless health and social services by undertaking advice to the Government. The Government has research and identifying options for linking the already commenced considering this advice and will available services together, and improving the be providing a detailed response through the 2019 user’s ability to navigate the system and to access Eastern Metropolitan Five Year Plan. the range of integrated, complementary services they need

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Putting community at the centre

The Victorian Government is focused on putting communities at the centre of what we do, including making sure local residents have a greater say in determining local priorities.

Building on its establishment of Metropolitan Metropolitan Partnership Partnerships to involve communities in determining Development Fund local priorities, the Government has launched additional initiatives in the Suburban Development As part of the Victorian Budget 2018/19, the portfolio that will strengthen our focus on Government has established a new $2 million supporting the Eastern region and engaging with its Metropolitan Partnerships Development Fund. communities to identify and deliver innovative local This fund will be used to support the implementation infrastructure, services and initiatives. of responses to the advice provided by Metropolitan Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel Partnerships. It will provide seed funding for program pilots, feasibility studies and business In late 2017, the Minister for Suburban Development cases to support the development of responses to and Minister for Planning jointly established the Metropolitan Partnership priority actions. Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel (MDAP). Administered by the Office for Suburban The role of MDAP is to provide expert advice to the Development, funding will be allocated annually Ministers on metropolitan development, including across Melbourne’s six partnership regions over the implementation of Plan Melbourne 2017–2050, the next two years. Funding allocations for 2018–19 Metropolitan Partnership priorities and advice on will be developed as part of the Government’s enhancing Melbourne’s liveability, sustainability and response to priorities identified by the Eastern Region international competitiveness at the whole-of-city Metropolitan Partnership. level. The panel includes the six chairpersons of the Metropolitan Partnerships and four members with broad skills and expertise in planning and related fields such as economic and community development. MDAP will play a key role in keeping the Government informed about the impact of planning policies and population growth on regional communities. The panel will help the Government identify practical solutions to managing Melbourne’s growth and maintaining the city’s liveability. It will also ensure that Metropolitan Partnerships are supported to engage and play an active role in shaping the delivery of policies critical to Melbourne’s future growth and development.

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The Eastern Metro Region – Land Use Framework Plan

Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 recognises the importance of a regional approach to planning for our city and suburbs.

Action 1 in the Plan Melbourne Implementation Plan The Eastern Metro Region is projected to requires the development of a Land Use Framework accommodate an additional 436,000 people by 2050, Plan (LUFP) for each of the six metropolitan regions. with a projected total population of 1.36 million. The The LUFPs will be forward-focused to ensure that projected jobs growth is more modest. Protecting each region has a plan to provide for the population employment land while innovatively accommodating growth and change that is projected to occur over growth, ensuring provision of infrastructure and the next 30 years. It will mean that state and local enhancing the valued natural environment are key government, working together, can be clear about land use issues for the region. how best to develop land and what supporting Driven by the Economy and Planning Working networks and infrastructure will be needed when and Groups (EPWGs) that have been established for each where. region, state and local government officers have The LUFPs will provide a means to ensure that our collated existing planning strategies and policies to suburbs are planned holistically, that we provide understand what is important to the Eastern Metro not only enough suitable housing, but also set Region, its strengths and opportunities. Strengths of aside land for employment, community spaces and the Eastern Metro Region identified include: parks, while protecting our natural environment. The • The Monash NEIC will deliver major jobs growth, LUFPs developed in consultation with Metropolitan with a focus on health biotechnology and medical Partnerships, will inform the strategies and initiatives technology, along with advanced technology and in future releases of the Five Year Plans for Jobs, engineering. Services and Infrastructure. • Green wedge land, bushland and broadacre The benefits of planning at a regional scale across sites are significant tourist attractions and have metropolitan Melbourne include: important agricultural value, which generate • bridging the gap between metropolitan and local substantial economic investment as well as being government strategic plans by delivering a single important landscape and biodiversity assets. regional view • The green and leafy character and significant • providing the strategic planning basis for environmental features, including the Dandenong identifying future infrastructure, service and Ranges, , Dandenong Valley Parklands funding priorities and Lysterfield Park provide a visual backdrop that contributes to the identity of the region. • clearly defining a land-use framework within which each council can prepare their municipal • The region is home to state-significant water strategies and policies catchments and waterways. Regional cooperation in water cycle management and innovation in • ongoing partnership and collaboration between water sensitive urban design is important in state and local government. safeguarding the water quality and security of the The LUFPs build upon existing strategic work state. undertaken by state and local government to deliver a regional picture through an integrated partnership approach.

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Feedback received to date indicate there are Next steps opportunities in the region for: The implementation partners for the LUFP project • promoting connectivity and innovation between include the Department of Environment, Land, identified regional employment clusters and Water and Planning (DELWP); the Department of the Monash NEIC to stimulate jobs growth and Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR); the Department strengthen the region’s role in the broader of Transport (DoT); the Department of Health advanced manufacturing corridor of Melbourne’s and Human Services (DHHS); the Department south-east of Education and Training (DET); the Victorian • a network of connected regional-level health and Planning Authority (VPA); and the councils of the education precincts and activity centres to provide region. Working together, they will expand on the significant opportunities for jobs and housing scoping work undertaken to date to prepare a draft LUFP, which delivers a regional picture of the • future jobs, housing and services to be intelligently issues, opportunities and aspirations of the region. accommodated in established areas to manage The Government will continue working with local growth while enhancing the region’s liveability and and regional partners to develop draft plans for distinctive environments consultation. • improving public transport connections and regional strategic cycling corridors to deliver viable sustainable commuter options between activity centres and employment precincts • delivering diverse forms of housing, including affordable and social housing, that are close to jobs, including the Monash NEIC environs, Ringwood and Box Hill Metropolitan Activity Centres, other Major Activity Centres and in urban renewal precincts • renewal and replacement of older building stock, including in lower density residential areas, to focus on environmentally sustainable design and adaptability • collaborating to deliver community and recreation facilities, as well as other infrastructure, to maximise efficiencies and better meet the needs of the growing population • expanding existing treed boulevards and better integrating canopy vegetation into developments to enhance the landscape character of the region • balancing tensions in green wedge land to support industries while protecting environmental value.

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Investment overview

The Victorian Government is responding to the growing needs of Melbourne’s Eastern Metro Region by investing in local services and infrastructure.

These investments are based on the Government’s long-term strategic plans for strengthening the economy and liveability of Victoria and managing Melbourne’s continued growth and development as a globally connected city. This section provides an overview of: • Major investments in services and infrastructure in the eastern region contained in the Victorian Budget 2018/19; • Pick My Project grants to strengthen the liveability of local areas announced for the Eastern Metro Region; • Growing Suburbs Fund grants for community infrastructure in the eastern region LGA of Yarra ranges; and • Election commitments made in the November 2018 state election to improve outcomes for people in the Eastern Metro Region.

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Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes

Expected delivery timeframe Description YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

JOBS

The Victorian Government is focused on supporting and driving economic development, investment and job creation across the state, and is committed to projects, industries and ideas that will encourage small businesses to grow and big businesses to invest. The Eastern Metropolitan Region will benefit from funding provided in the Victorian Budget 2018/19 including a $21 million boost for Jobs Victoria.

$10 million to extend the Premier’s Jobs and Investment Fund to support the Government’s economic development priorities to build a strong economy, improve economic growth and create more jobs.

$6 million statewide to increase employment inclusion on Victoria’s major projects through a new, dedicated service to connect young people from Aboriginal and migrant communities and women into jobs on Victoria’s major projects, including roles generated by the Major Projects Skills Guarantee.

$5 million statewide for a new specialised employment support program to be established for long-term unemployed youth and young people facing significant barriers to employment. Office for Suburban Development

Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes

Expected delivery timeframe Description YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

TRANSPORT

The Victorian Government is delivering a massive pipeline of transport infrastructure projects, including removing level crossings, building the Metro Tunnel, building the West Gate Tunnel, widening City Link and the Tullamarine Freeway, streamlining Hoddle Street, upgrading the M80 Ring Road, delivering Stage 1 of the Upgrade, and completion of the Mernda Rail Extension.

$110 million for North East Link for development to procure the project, which will establish a motorway connection between the M80 Ring Road and the Eastern Freeway. The new six-lane, 11 kilometre motorway will include a tunnel beneath environmentally sensitive areas and interchanges at Bulleen Road, Manningham Road, Lower Plenty Road and Grimshaw Street. Local access along key arterial roads such as Greensborough Road and Greensborough Bypass will be maintained and remain toll-free. The project also includes a major upgrade of the Eastern Freeway between and Springvale Road, which will remain toll-free, and a new dedicated busway facility between the Doncaster Park and Ride and Hoddle Street. The $7-$9 billion Primary Package of works and the $200 million Early Works Package were put out to market at the end of November.

$60 million to upgrade and build more than 2,000 car parks at key train stations, including Belgrave. This will improve amenity and provide more options to access train stations and encourage the increased uptake of public transport.

$22.7 million for priority active transport projects to promote safety and increased use of Victoria’s cycling and walking network. Projects include bike lanes, paths and trails along the , and from Carrum Downs to Warburton; and pedestrian infrastructure upgrades at Police Road in Mulgrave.

$3 million for planning and design work on a tram line extension between Caulfield, Monash, Waverley Park and Rowville.

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Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes

Expected delivery timeframe Description YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD

In the Eastern Metro Region, the Victorian Government is responding to the growing demand for student places by investing to build new schools and to modernise and upgrade existing secondary and primary schools.

$92.68 million to upgrade 16 schools in the Eastern Metro Region. This will improve educational outcomes through providing high- quality classrooms and facilities for learning and community use. • Lilydale and Upper Yarra Secondary Schools Education Plan comprising Lilydale Heights College, Lilydale High School and Upper Yarra Secondary College • Box Hill High School • Heathmont College • Melba College • Mulgrave Primary School • Oakleigh Primary School • Ringwood Secondary College • Launching Place Primary School • Monbulk College • Montrose Primary School • Mooroolbark College • Monash Special Developmental School • Glenallen School • Huntingdale Primary School • Waverley Meadows Primary School • Upwey High School.

$13.8 million in additional funding for the Monash Children’s Hospital School to continue to provide educational support to students receiving medical care at the Monash Children’s Hospital and as outpatients.

$60.9 million statewide for building the Education State. Funding will be provided for operating costs associated with school asset initiatives including early childhood development facilities on school sites and new schools construction.

$33.9 million statewide for grants to local councils and eligible providers to construct new, and upgrade existing, early learning facilities and integrated children’s centres. This funding will support additional kindergarten places and the expansion of other early childhood services across Victoria, including to support areas experiencing or expecting population growth or other demand pressures.

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Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes

Expected delivery timeframe Description YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

$28.6 million for 10 Tech Schools statewide, including in Yarra Ranges and Monash, connecting students to the skills and jobs of the future. Funding will provide for renewal of high-tech equipment at these shared hubs over time and will increase the reach of the industry- linked Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths programs and facilities for school and community use.

Mental Health in Schools. Every Victorian Government Secondary School will have access to a mental health professional with $51.2 million to allow schools across the state to employ over 190 qualified mental health professionals.

COMMUNITY SAFETY

Since 2015, the Victorian Government has made record investments to reduce crime and make communities safer by recruiting police, addressing family violence and strengthening our emergency services. This year’s Budget includes new investments that strengthen the justice system and prevent crime.

$390.7 million for to better support children who need to go into out of home care with more home-based care placements and better support for carers.

$282.6 million statewide to support vulnerable children and their families. This includes: • $225.5 million to better assist children in the statutory child protection system through an extra 450 child protection practitioners • $7.7 million in 2018–19 to cover civil claims costs for historical institutional child abuse • $49.9 million for family violence therapeutic and flexible support, including approximately 6,500 flexible support packages to enable victim survivors of family violence to access counselling and therapeutic supports to aid recovery.

$96.9 million for Victoria Police prosecutors and $21.8 million to equip the Office of Public Prosecutions to prosecute serious crimes and hold offenders to account.

$27.7 million for twenty-four hour, seven days a week refuge responses for victims of family violence to provide secure, after- hours crisis accommodation for women and children seeking immediate support.

$25 million statewide for local crime prevention initiatives, including youth crime prevention projects, the Public Safety Infrastructure and Community Safety funds, and crime prevention agencies such as Crime Stoppers and Neighbourhood Watch.

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Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes

Expected delivery timeframe Description YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

HEALTH, HOUSING AND WELLBEING

The Victorian Government is continuing to build a high-quality, proactive health and human service system. Building on the Government’s major investments in hospitals, we are making further investments in our health workforce, boosting access to mental health services, expanding alcohol and drug treatment and early intervention services, and improving ambulance response times. The Victorian Government also continues to have a strong focus on affordable housing and addressing homelessness, with record investment in housing and homelessness support, as well as financial backing for new forms of social housing investment across the state. Victorian Budget 2018/19 will provide $2.1 billion, supporting the 1.96 million patients expected to be admitted to our hospitals, and the 1.84 million patients to be seen in our emergency departments, this year. More than 207,000 Victorians will get the surgery they need sooner, with a $217.6 million elective surgery blitz to cut down waiting times and lists. This is equivalent to nearly 14,370 hip replacements or more than 76,000 eye surgeries. Budget funding will also help meet the growing demand on our health and ambulance services, giving patients the emergency care they need, when they need it. • $25 million for a Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund to help the sector identify, scale and embed innovation effectively • $6.7 million to deliver immunisation programs that tackle meningococcal and influenza • $217.6 million elective surgery blitz to cut down waiting times and lists • $2.1 million for more rural and regional patients to access support through the Victorian Patient Transport Assistance Scheme • $6.5 million to respond to people’s end-of-life care choices. $705 million for more mental health support, extra regional rehabilitation facilities and new emergency department crisis hubs to help Victorians struggling with mental illness. • $232.4 million to support 89 new and existing acute inpatient beds and boost the number of treatment hours in community-based services, giving around 12,800 more Victorians the care they require • $100.5 million in six emergency department crisis hubs across the state, including Monash Medical Centre to help people with urgent mental health, alcohol and drug issues • $18.7 million to support the development of six new Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement sites • $153.8 million to provide intensive community mental health services and support for current high-need mental health clients.

$543 million to construct the world class Victorian Heart Hospital to ensure all Victorian patients with heart disease can access the world’s best cardiac care, by bringing together cardiovascular treatment, ground-breaking medical research and training under one roof.

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Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes

Expected delivery timeframe Description YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

$45 million for the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan. The Action Plan initiatives include 20 one-bedroom modular units with intensive onsite support, multidisciplinary housing teams to support complex clients to maintain stable housing, eight additional assertive outreach teams in locations of highest need, and funding therapeutic services in major inner city crisis accommodation centres to improve health, wellbeing and housing outcomes.

$9.7 million to process more planning permits. $3.5 million to help councils do faster subdivision approvals.

CULTURE AND RECREATION

The Eastern Metro Region offers a variety of cultural, sport and recreation infrastructure and programs with a network of regional and local tracks and trails, parks and aquatic and leisure facilities. The Victorian Government is ensuring that new and existing sport and recreation facilities meet the demand generated by population growth in established areas, as well as growth area communities in the outer east.

$15.4 million to boost sport and recreation upgrades at parks in Melbourne including and Olinda Park to increase opportunities for participation and meet the demand of local grassroots sporting clubs to attract more participants.

$15 million statewide for the Female Friendly Facilities fund to provide grants for developing community pavilions, playing grounds, courts and lighting to ensure women and girls can access appropriate community sporting facilities.

$1 million to implement projects from the Eastern Regional Trails Strategy.

$50 million for the Growing Suburbs Fund to boost the number of community infrastructure projects delivered in Melbourne’s interface councils including the Yarra Ranges. Infrastructure such as parks, community centres, town centres, swimming pools and cultural facilities will be built or upgraded.

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Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes

Expected delivery timeframe Description YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

LIVEABLE AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

The health of Melbourne’s natural environment contributes to the liveability of our suburbs. The Victorian Government is working on innovative integrated planning approaches to protect open space in the Eastern Metro Region and enhance public access to the region’s many natural assets and green wedge areas.

$48 million statewide to help Victorians bust their energy bills. Through the Power Saving Bonus, all Victorian households will be eligible to receive a $50 bonus if they seek out a better electricity deal on the Government’s Victorian Energy Compare website.

$3 million for areas within the eastern region for Victoria’s faunal emblems to better protect helmeted honeyeater and leadbeater’s possum habitats, safeguarding populations of these threatened species.

$3 million for the clean-up and remediation of Lysterfield shooting range. The Government is committed to ensuring public health and the environment are protected from the contamination of public land.

$1.25 million to implement the next steps of the Government’s Yarra River Action Plan. The initiative will finalise the Yarra strategic plan, which will introduce stronger planning controls along the Yarra to help preserve the natural landscape along the river’s corridor.

$2.1 million to improve the Olinda Precinct, which will transform the former Olinda Golf Course into 34 hectares of community parklands including a nature-based play space, sports oval, walking trails, picnic facilities, upgraded entry and car park.

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Pick My Project Pick My Project backs ideas to improve local communities, such as new or improved sport and To further support communities to develop and recreation activities, or programs supporting health deliver initiatives that strengthen the liveability of and wellbeing, innovation and arts and culture. their local areas, the Victorian Budget 2018/19 set aside $30 million for a community grants initiative, Residents were encouraged to come up with a great Pick My Project. With this innovative grassroots idea to make life in their community even better and democratic program, local residents had the to identify an eligible local organisation to sponsor opportunity to nominate local community-building their idea, such as a community group, school or projects, which were then put forward for the local council. Eligible ideas were put forward for community to vote on. community voting. In the eastern region a total of $2.93 million of funding was allocated across 25 successful project, including:

Budget 2018-19

Community Robotics Lab at Oakleigh South Primary Saving wombats with mange, Boronia School, Oakleigh South Riding for the Disabled Centre - Purpose Built, Wantirna Monash Community Harvest, Oakleigh South Fairhills High School and Knox Basketball toilet & Free gentle dance and exercise movement for all ages, changeroom upgrade, Knoxfield Glen Waverley

Women’s Retreat Centre, Donvale Autism ID and Lanyard Project, Forest Hill

Expansion of community space at Domeney Reserve, Umbrella Dementia Cafes, Blackburn North Park Orchards Renewal of Basketball court outdoor play space, Box Hill A room to play, learn, grow, share, Park Orchards North Norwood Secondary College Wellbeing Space and Pinks Reserve Netball Court Covers, Kilsyth Community Garden, Ringwood Community ‘Stay and Play’ Program at Maroondah Toy Olinda Pool: Toddler Pool & Play Area Upgrade, Olinda Library, Ringwood North 21st century learners need 21st technology! - Chirnside Teen Mums Wellness Social Enterprise Program, Croydon Park Pre-School, Chirnside Park A Safe and Sustainable Maroondah Scout Hall for Light up Lilydale Dog Park! Lilydale Community Use, Ringwood North Warranwood Community Multi-Purpose Sporting Surface Autism Carers Connect Events with Spectrum Journeys, and Basketball Court Redevelopment, Warranwood Lilydale Community Fitness Stations, Running Track and Courts, Mooroolbark Street Art, Mooroolbark Glen Waverley

Supporting Youth Mental Health, Glen Waverley

More information about the 25 successful projects in the east can be found at www.pickmyproject.vic.gov.au/successful-projects

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Growing Suburbs Fund The Growing Suburbs Fund (GSF) is a $200 million fund to deliver critical local infrastructure for communities in Melbourne’s fastest-growing outer suburbs. The GSF is designed to bring forward critical community infrastructure priorities, delivering projects that improve the amenity, liveability and resilience of interface communities, support connections, enhance services and provide local jobs. These include family and community centres, town centre and civic revitalisation projects, and open space and amenity improvements. The GSF is available to 10 interface councils: Cardinia, Casey, Melton, Mornington Peninsula, Wyndham, Whittlesea, Hume, Mitchell and Nillumbik, and the eastern region’s Shire of Yarra Ranges. GSF funding provided to Yarra Ranges in 2017–18 included:

Table 1: GAIC funding committed in the Eastern Metro Region for 2018-19

Eastern GAIC funding Growth Area Projects 2017–18 contribution Councils

Yarra Ranges Yarra Valley Trail $2,500,000

Warburton Mountain Bike Destination $3,000,000

The Ridgewalk $2,000,000

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Victorian Government election commitments

The Victorian Government is continuing to respond to the growth and change in Melbourne’s Eastern Metro Region through the following election commitments.

Jobs

Election Commitment Investment area

The Suburban Rail Loop will create around 20,000 jobs during construction – with up to 2,000 apprentices, trainees and cadets employed through the Major Projects Skills Statewide Guarantee. Protecting Victorians at work - new criminal offence of workplace manslaughter in the Statewide Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004. Protect public holiday penalty rates of Victorian workers, introducing legislation in the first Statewide year.

Transport

Election Commitment Investment area

As part of the $150 million Car Parks for Commuters Fund, up to 450 new and upgraded Shire of Yarra ranges car spaces will be invested in Mooroolbark. An additional 25 level crossings will be removed by 2025. This includes: • Mont Albert Road, Mont Albert City of Whitehorse • Union Road, Surrey Hills. $5 billion towards the construction of Melbourne Airport Rail Link, which will run from the CBD to the airport via Sunshine. The full business case is now underway, with the project Statewide set to begin construction by 2022. The Suburban Rail Loop will connect every major train line from the Frankston line all the way to the Werribee line through Melbourne Airport, with up to 12 new underground stations. The Government will invest $300 million in a full business case, design, and pre-construction works, with work on the first section in Melbourne’s south east expected Statewide to begin by the end of 2022. The south east section will run underground between Cheltenham and Box Hill – with new rail tunnels linking the Frankston, Cranbourne- Pakenham, Glen Waverley and Belgrave-Lilydale lines.

Education and early childhood

Election Commitment Investment area

Kinder for every three-year-old Labor will invest almost $5 billion over the next decade to deliver a full 15 hours of three- Statewide year-old kinder, with the rollout beginning in 2020. Kinder infrastructure Statewide 1,000 new and upgraded kinders across the state. Free of charge pads and tampons in every government school Labor will provide free sanitary items in all female, unisex and accessible bathrooms at all Statewide government schools from term three, 2019.

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$220 million to build better TAFEs. Statewide

Nine schools upgrades including: • $1.1 million upgrade to Waverley Meadows Primary School in Wheelers Hill • $2.7 million upgrade to Upwey High School • $6.8 million upgrade to Brandon Park Primary School • $9.35 million upgrade to Monbulk College Statewide • $7.1 million upgrade to Monbulk Primary School • $4 million upgrade to Parkhill Primary School • $10.5 million upgrade to Wellington Secondary College • $3.45 million upgrade to Yarra Ranges Special Developmental School • $1.5 million upgrade to Oakleigh Grammar. Upgrade to Healesville Scout Hall Shire of Yarra Ranges $7,500 to upgrade the hall’s facilities with Scouts Victoria to provide match funding.

Health, housing and wellbeing

Election Commitment Investment area

Ensure that Development Victoria and other statutory authorities deliver a range of housing options at suitable sites across the State using the redevelopment of under- Statewide utilised urban sites to achieve appropriate urban densities of housing, including social housing. $232 million towards a comprehensive package of new parent and early childhood supports to help Victorian parents. This includes: • Building seven new early Parenting Centres and refurbish existing two • Deliver a range of critical services, including day stays, longer residential stays and more Statewide support at home that will help more than 4,500 Victorian families every year • Revamped 24 hour phone line with specialist in sleep and settling issues • Boosting the number of home visits for vulnerable families, with 7,000 families getting more support. New parents and early childhood investment $21.8 million over four years to give new parents a Baby Bundle, which will include a nappy bag to hold essential baby products, a teething ring or toy with information on teething, key advice on child safety, feeding, sleeping and an emergency contacts list. Statewide The bundle will also include a safe sleeping bag and muslin wrap with advice from the Royal Children’s Hospital about how to safely wrap babies, and four picture books by Victorian authors for different stages of development. Funding for nurses and midwives to: • Undertake further nurse and midwife to patient ratio improvements to better support Statewide nurses and midwives to provide quality care to Victorian patients • Recruit more than 1,100 new nurses and midwives to rollout these improvements.

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Emergency services $109 million for 90 new paramedics to be recruited, including $25 million to upgrade and Statewide build new ambulance stations and deliver 23 new vehicles on the road.

Culture and recreation

Election Commitment Investment area

$250,000 redevelopment of the Cypus Community of Melbourne and Victoria. City of Monash

$7.5 million to develop new cricket hubs and upgrade facilities. The first upgrade will be City of Maroondah Jubilee park in Ringwood. Bringing Bollywood to Victoria Statewide $3 million to a dedicated Indian Cinema and Bollywood Attraction Fund. $3.4 million in a historic boost to multicultural senior citizen organisations • $52,000 flowing directly to 13 Jewish organisations across Victoria Statewide • $96,000 flowing directly to 24 Vietnamese organisations across Victoria.

Liveable and sustainable communities

Election Commitment Investment area

Half price solar panels at no up-front cost for 650,000 homes. Statewide

$82 million over ten years to provide an additional 50,000 rebates on solar panels for Statewide Victorian renters.

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Appendix 1: Eastern Metro Region Metropolitan Partnership – Membership

Name Description Position

Robin Whyte Robin is the CEO at Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network. She has Chair extensive experience in health policy and strategy, service system reform and health care improvement.

Phil Murton Phil is CEO of the Eastern Football League, the largest community football/ Deputy Chair netball league in Australia with over 600 teams. He is Deputy Chair of the Key Leaders Group for Knox Communities That Care and was a member of the Knox Council Recreation and Leisure Liaison Group. Phil has degrees in Human Movement (Hons), Education and an MBA from Monash Business School.

Kristian Kristian is the CEO of Knoxbrooke Inc. a leading disability service in the Member Dauncey eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He has a commercial background, working in Australia and overseas.

Susan Susan is the Executive Director of the Lilydale Lakeside Campus at Box Member Maastricht Hill Institute and a registered veterinarian with diverse clinical, operational and senior management experience in university, research institute and education settings.

Simon Simon is the CEO of Yarra Ranges Tourism. He was a member of the Member O’Callaghan Melbourne East Regional Development Australia Committee and held the positions of Chair and Director of the Yarra Ranges Enterprise Centres.

David Plunkett David is the CEO of Eastern Health and has extensive executive and senior Member management experience in the public and private sectors. He has a clinical background as a registered nurse and holds an MBA.

Fiona Purcell Fiona is the CEO of the Outer Eastern Local Learning and Employment Member Network. She has had extensive experience working with local schools, TAFE, business and industry and community groups.

Elizabeth Elizabeth is the Deputy Victorian Public Sector Commissioner, and has more Victorian Langdon than 20 years’ public and private sector experience, leading policy and Government operational teams. representative

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Name Description Position

Warwick Winn Warwick has extensive experience in senior leadership positions in Australia, CEO, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Prior to his position as CEO of Manningham Manningham City Council, he was General Manager of North Sydney Council. City Council

Steve Steve is CEO of Maroondah City Council. He has more than 25 years of senior CEO, Kozlowski local government management experience across Melbourne and served Maroondah for 10 years as a local government CEO in Gippsland. He is also Chair of the City Council Melbourne East Regional Development Australia Committee.

Tony Doyle Before joining local government, Tony had a successful career in the financial CEO, Knox City services sector, holding senior leadership positions with one of Australia’s Council largest banks. He has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and led large and diverse teams across a number of environments.

Andi Diamond Andi is the CEO of Monash Council and a former president of the CEO, Monash Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Prior to her current role she served as CEO of Yarra City Council Council for four years. She holds a BA Social Work, MBA and a Doctorate of Business and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Glenn Glenn was appointed Yarra Ranges CEO in 2008, following time as the Baw CEO, Yarra Patterson Baw Council CEO. He has 25 years’ senior management experience with a Ranges Shire number of metropolitan and rural councils, his first CEO role being at Colac Council Otway Shire in 1998. He also spent a period as the CEO of a Melbourne-based property development group.

Noelene Duff Prior to joining the City of Whitehorse in 2000, Noelene was Director of CEO, Customer Services at the City of Monash and has held management roles Whitehorse in state and local government and the not for profit sector, including Senior City Council Policy Advisor at Department of the Premier and Cabinet and the Health Department of Victoria

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Appendix 2: Victorian Government Response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership Priorities 2017

Following receipt of the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership’s advice on regional priorities in November 2017, the Victorian Government considered this advice and developed responses to each of the Partnership’s stated priorities. This has included: • responding to priorities through engagement with existing government programs and services • providing funding and departmental resources to further develop proposals, where government believes detailed work and evidence are required before government can consider proposals for new infrastructure and services • developing new initiatives funded in the Victorian Budget 2018/19. The following outlines the Government’s detailed response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership’s advice on regional priorities.

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Priority Outcome 1: Improved connectivity across the eastern region

Improved connectivity across the eastern region, improving access to natural assets and improving walkability and access to public transport.

Victorian Government response: This includes $711 million for the second stage of the upgrade to the Monash Freeway which adds 36 The Government supports this priority outcome and kilometres of new lanes between Warrigal Road and is providing the infrastructure needed to improve Eastlink and from Clyde Road to Cardinia Road; an connectivity in Melbourne’s Eastern Metro Region. additional $110 million to fast track the detail design Priorities will focus on developing transport networks and planning for the North East Link; and building to move people efficiently and keep pace with a better Fitzsimons Lane as part of the $2.2 billion population growth, improving the frequency, priority suburban road upgrade. The Government is investing and integration of public transport, improving travel $3 million for design and planning works for a tram times and the reliability of public transport and line connection between Caulfield and Rowville linking enhancing options for active transport. Caulfield Station to Monash University’s Clayton campus via Chadstone Shopping Centre and more Over recent years, the Victorian Government has than doubling car parking at Belgrave with a new been responding to the broad transport needs of the multi-deck car park in the station precinct providing Eastern Metro region by delivering a suite of major 470 new car parks for commuters. The Government transformational city shaping transport infrastructure has also invested $193.2 million to maintain the projects and new trains and trams, supported by public transport Night Network, which provides 24- projects that respond to the Eastern Metro Region’s hour services across metropolitan Melbourne each more local transport needs. The Victorian Budget weekend. Residents in the Eastern Metro Region will 2018/19 continues our investment in the Eastern Metro be able to travel later and stay out longer with all- Region’s transport infrastructure. night metropolitan trains and trams and late night bus services.

Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Construction of the region’s VicRoads will work with the Eastern Continuing into 2019 top 12 high-priority arterial Metropolitan Partnership to identify road crossings with pedestrian and prioritise locations for pedestrian operated signals crossing improvements.

Change to pedestrian crossing VicRoads uses technical guidance to VicRoads will continue to work funding criteria assess the appropriateness of providing with the Eastern Metropolitan a new or upgraded pedestrian facility on Partnership in 2019. an arterial road, such as the Australian Standards, Austroads Guide to Traffic Management, and the VicRoads Traffic Engineering Manual. This is generally the first step in determining whether such a proposal is considered for funding. VicRoads will meet with the Partnership to discuss their issues to further clarify pedestrian crossing needs.

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Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Implementation of the Eastern The Government is providing $1 million In the 2018-19 financial year Regional Trails Strategy project for the Partnership to prioritise and to construct a network of shared implement cycling and hiking trails hiking and cycling trails priority projects identified as part of the Eastern Regional Trails Strategy. DELWP will provide administrative assistance in prioritising and implementing these trails.

Implementation of the Eastern The Government supports a shared Next 2 years. Regional Trails Strategy project path from Eastlink Bridge, Wantirna to construct a network of shared South to Morack Road, Vermont hiking and cycling trails: South. The missing link in the strategic • Ringwood to Belgrave Rail Trail cycling corridor on Burwood Highway connection connecting the East Link path to the trail was funded in • Waverley Rail Trail the Victorian Budget 2018/19. • shared path from EastLink bridge, Wantirna South to Morack Rd, Vermont South • connection to Warrandyte.

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Priority Outcome 2: Jobs for youth

Create jobs for youth through investment in early research and regional governance structures to underpin the growth of regional apprenticeship opportunities and completion rates.

Victorian Government response: The Government supports this priority outcome and is generating new jobs in the Eastern Metro Region, and investing in programs to support people to find employment and to develop new markets and jobs in the region. The Government is creating more pathways to employment through youth and apprenticeship programs. This includes funding for Apprenticeship Support Officers to support all first-year apprentices up to the age of 24 years in the Eastern Metro Region to complete their training. Funds are also provided for the Empower Youth Program, which provides intensive, coordinated support to vulnerable young people in areas experiencing social and economic disadvantage to strengthen their health and wellbeing, connection to community, engagement in education and training, and their pathways to employment.

Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Research to identify gaps Funding in the Victorian Budget 2018/19 2018/19 and develop a framework for expands Jobs Victoria employment services a holistic response to youth to unemployed young people. DJPR will unemployment including a brief the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership scan of existing programs and on current employment support services services, employer needs and for young people, and consult with the best use of current funding Partnership about implementation of the new youth employment initiative.

Leverage existing governance The Skills and Jobs Centres in the Eastern Project timing is being structures or form a new region will provide expert advice on determined in consultation Eastern Regional Industry training and employment to support the with the Office of the Victorian Advisory Taskforce to: establishment of an Eastern Metropolitan Skills Commissioner, TAFEs • facilitate integrated, Partnership taskforce. and local councils cooperative service operation, linking in careers advice • drive enhanced employability skills and training for young people in closer alignment with industry and workplace needs • identify strategies for growing regional apprenticeship opportunities and completion rates • broaden the Youth Initiatives Network

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Priority Outcome 3: Health and social services

Support seamless health and social services by undertaking research and identifying options for linking the available services together, and improving the user’s ability to navigate the system and access the range of integrated, complementary services they need.

Victorian Government response: Under the Absolutely Everyone: State Disability Plan 2017–2020, the Government is assisting people with The Government supports this priority outcome and a disability to overcome barriers to employment, will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to education and housing, and investing further in improve the health and well-being of eastern region support services so that people achieve a smooth communities. transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Major new investments in health are being guided by the Government’s Statewide Design, Service and Infrastructure Plan for Victoria’s Health System 2017– 2037, released in December 2017. This plan supports joined-up planning at the regional level across health services, local government, Primary Health Networks, Aboriginal-controlled health services, and other service sectors. We are providing more support for new parents and their children, as well as vulnerable families for whom support in times of crisis or following trauma is critical to keeping children safe.

Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Scoping study to identify areas DHHS will work with the Eastern Primary Discussions with the Primary of greatest need and a range of Health Network to investigate service Health Network will continue to options for integrating health connectivity and referral pathways to occur in 2019. and social services and assisting identify options for integrating health users navigate the health and and social services in ways that assist human services system people to more easily navigate the service system. Options identified for further action will be provided to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership for input.

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Priority Outcome 4: Social inclusion

Promote social inclusion through improved gender equity in sports with increased female participation and development of a roadmap for addressing social isolation focusing on elderly and disability communities.

Victorian Government response: The Government supports this priority outcome and will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to strengthen social inclusion and enhance support for the elderly and citizens with disability in the eastern region. Over the last four years the Government has made its largest investment in women’s participation in sport through the Female Friendly Facilities Grants Program, assisting local councils to build new and upgrade existing, outdated change facilities at sports clubs. Last year, the Government also provided $0.5 million for upgrades at Scammell Reserve in Oakleigh South to support more female participation in sport.

Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Female-friendly sporting facilities The Government is investing a further Applications were open until July • modular pavilion trial $15 million to build more female-friendly 2018. facilities at grassroots clubs across Victoria in 2018–19. DHHS will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to identify potential investments through the fund.

Female-friendly sporting facilities The Government is investing a further Applications were open until July • upgrade existing pavilions $15 million to build more female-friendly 2018. changes rooms at grassroots clubs across Victoria in 2018–19. DHHS will work with the Partnership to determine potential investments through the fund.

Female-friendly sporting facilities The Government is investing $15 million Grant applications closed in • relocatable female change to build more female-friendly changes June 2018. The pilot will continue facilities during construction rooms at grassroots clubs across with successful applicants until Victoria in 2018–19. July 2019. DHHS will work with the Partnership to determine the feasibility of this initiative.

Equal access to grounds – The Government is providing an Applications were open until lighting upgrades funding additional $60 million to the Community June 2018. Sporting Infrastructure Fund to support upgrading existing and building new facilities across the state, from sports lighting to sports fields, to new courts, trails and play spaces. DHHS will work with the Partnership to determine potential investments through the fund.

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Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Gender equity training in The Government’s ambitious gender Options to deliver this action will sporting clubs equity agenda includes initiatives to continue to be explored with the create more welcoming and inclusive Partnership in 2019. spaces for women in sports. Sport and recreation organisations can apply to the recently announced $670,000 grants program for pilot initiatives that promote cultural change and create safer sporting environments for women and girls. Making sports clubs more inclusive encourages equal participation in sport. DHHS will meet with Partnership to discuss this program and how to develop it.

Roadmap to address social DHHS will work with local councils and Discussions will continue to occur isolation major public health services to enhance into 2019. the inclusion of people with a disability in all core business through their Disability Action Plans and Diversity Inclusion Plans, with a focus on activities that reduce social isolation and enhance participation in community. The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership will be invited to contribute areas for consideration within the planning process.

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Priority Outcome 5: Affordable and social housing

Support affordable housing through the funding model for joint ventures between different levels of government and the private sector; research to quantify the region’s future social and affordable housing needs; and a regional audit to identify under-utilised land for social housing project development.

Victorian Government response: The Government supports this priority outcome and will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to strengthen social housing provision in the eastern region. Since the release of Homes for Victorians in March 2017, the Government has committed over $1 billion in housing and homelessness support, as well as $2.1 billion in financial support to grow social housing across the state. Collectively, these investments will help to deliver 6,000 new social housing properties, renew 2,500 aged public housing homes and support more than 19,000 people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Through the Victorian Government’s Social Housing Investment Planning (SHIP) grants program, Knox ($200,000) and Yarra Ranges ($200,000) councils received funding to help drive the planning and development of social housing in their respective areas.

Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Funding model and pilot project DHHS supports the growth of social and Options to deliver this action will • develop a funding and affordable housing. Homes for Victorians continue to be explored with the partnership model for increasing outlines a number of mechanisms to Partnership in 2019. the supply of affordable housing grow social and affordable housing. in the Eastern Metro Region These include the low-cost loan and guarantee program for Housing Associations and the Social Housing Growth Fund which will be open to all registered agencies through a competitive allocation process. DHHS will invite the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to discuss options for future growth, including the Social Housing Growth Fund.

Funding model and pilot project DHHS supports the growth of social and Options to deliver this action will • implement a pilot project within affordable housing. Homes for Victorians continue to be explored with the the region to trial the funding outlines mechanisms to grow social and Partnership in 2019. model as a mechanism for affordable housing. These include the driving the development of low-cost loan and guarantee program affordable housing for housing associations and the Social Housing Growth Fund which will be open to all registered providers through a competitive allocation process. DHHS will invite the Partnership to discuss options for future growth, including the Social Housing Growth Fund.

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Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Unused land identification The Homes for Victorians strategy 1-2 years. • audit of underutilised and contains a commitment to increase the surplus government owned supply of social and affordable housing land for potential affordable through inclusionary housing. housing development The Government is delivering an Inclusionary Housing Pilot, to use surplus government land for social housing. One of the six surplus government sites nominated for the pilot is in Boronia. DELWP will brief the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership on the progress of the Boronia pilot. If the pilot is extended, lessons learned from its delivery will be used to identify other surplus government sites potentially suitable for inclusionary housing, including in the Eastern Metro Region.

Unused land identification DHHS supports the growth of social and Options to deliver this action will • identify privately-owned affordable housing. Homes for Victorians continue to be explored with the adjacent lots that could be outlines mechanisms to grow social and Partnership in 2019. purchased concurrently affordable housing. These include the for affordable housing low-cost loan and guarantee program development for housing associations and the Social Housing Growth Fund which will be open to all registered providers through a competitive allocation process. DHHS will invite the Partnership to discuss options for future growth, including the Social Housing Growth Fund.

Research DHHS is undertaking Victorian Housing demand projections to • update the Minimum Supply projections of long-term housing be completed by June 2019. of Social Housing, Eastern assistance demand on a spatial basis Metropolitan Region 2014–2036 which will be a valuable input to this research and expand to initiative. DHHS will engage with the also quantify any shortfall Partnership following the completion of in affordable housing for this exercise. moderate income households and for inclusive/disability housing

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Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Regulatory/policy settings In Plan Melbourne 2017–2050, the These amendments came into • inclusionary zoning provisions Government announced that the operation on 1 June 2018. The for each of the LGAs of the planning system would play a Government will monitor the region to apply as part of greater role in facilitating the supply effect of these amendments. rezoning processes and of affordable housing. It recognised permit applications for major that local councils and land owners developments have been attempting to negotiate agreements for the provision of affordable housing as part of development applications using section 173 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (Planning Act) but these attempts were hampered by uncertainty. The Government understands the need for greater legal certainty regarding the role of the planning system in the provision of affordable housing, and introduced three amendments to the Planning Act: • inclusion of the facilitation of affordable housing as an objective • affirmation that parties could enter into an agreement under section 173 for the provision of affordable housing as part of a development • introduction of a definition of affordable housing. DELWP will brief the Partnership on the intent and nature of these amendments and their impact over time.

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Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Regulatory / Policy settings In Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 the These amendments came into • develop a voluntary tool Government announced that the operation on 1 June 2018. The to enable affordable planning system would play a greater Government will monitor the housing agreements role in facilitating the supply of effect of these amendments. between developers, LGAs affordable housing. It recognised that and registered housing local councils and land owners had been associations attempting to negotiate agreements to provide affordable housing as part of development applications using section 173 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (Planning Act) but these attempts were hampered by uncertainty. The Government has recognised the need for greater legal certainty regarding the role of planning in the provision of affordable housing, and introduced three amendments to the Planning Act: • inclusion of the facilitation of affordable housing as an objective • affirmation that parties could enter into an agreement under section 173 for the provision of affordable housing as part of a development • introduction of a definition of affordable housing. The Government has been working with stakeholders, including representatives from inner metropolitan councils, to develop instruments to implement the amendments. This includes Guidelines and a non-mandatory Affordable Housing Agreement using section 173 of the Act. DELWP will brief the Partnership on the intent and nature of the amendments and their impact over time.

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Appendix 3: Glossary

20-minute neighbourhood: Accessible, safe and Major Activity Centres: Suburban centres that attractive local areas where people can access most provide access to a wide range of goods and services. of their everyday needs within a 20-minute walk, cycle They have different attributes and provide different or local public transport trip. functions, with some serving larger subregional catchments. Plan Melbourne identified 121 Major Active transport: Transport requiring physical activity, Activity Centres. typically walking and cycling. Melbourne’s 10 interface councils: Outer-suburban Activity centres: Areas that provide a focus for councils in some of the most rapidly growing services, employment, housing, transport and social areas in Melbourne: Cardinia, Casey, Hume, Melton, interaction. They range in size and intensity of Mitchell, Mornington Peninsula, Nillumbik, Whittlesea, use from smaller neighbourhood centres to major Wyndham and Yarra Ranges. suburban centres and larger metropolitan centres. Metropolitan Activity Centres: Higher-order Affordable housing: Housing that is appropriate centres with diverse employment options, services for the needs of a range of very low to moderate and housing stock, supported by good transport income households, and priced (whether mortgage connections. Existing centres include Box Hill, repayments or rent) so these households are able to Broadmeadows, Dandenong, Epping, Footscray, meet their other essential basic living costs. Fountain Gate/Narre Warren, Frankston, Ringwood Annual Assembly: Annual meeting in each and Sunshine. Future centres will include Lockerbie metropolitan region in June/July/August 2018 to assist and Toolern. Metropolitan Partnerships to test, refine and finalise Metropolitan Melbourne: The 31 municipalities that their annual advice to government. make up metropolitan Melbourne, plus part of Mitchell Community infrastructure: Public places and spaces Shire within the urban growth boundary. that accommodate community facilities and services Metropolitan region: A grouping of metropolitan and support individuals, families and groups to meet local government areas that are connected by their social needs, maximise their potential and their alignment within the city’s major transport enhance community wellbeing. corridors and shared use of major metropolitan Greenfield: Undeveloped land identified for residential infrastructure and services. Plan Melbourne identified or industrial/commercial development, generally on six metropolitan regions: Western, Eastern, Southern, the fringe of metropolitan Melbourne. Northern, Inner South East and Inner Metro. Green wedges: Defined under Part 3AA of the National Employment and Innovation Cluster: Planning and Environment Act 1987 as “land that is Designated concentrations of employment described in a metropolitan fringe planning scheme distinguished by a strong core of nationally significant as being outside an urban growth boundary”. There knowledge-sector businesses and institutions that are 12 defined green wedges spanning parts of 17 make a major contribution to the national economy municipalities. and Melbourne’s positioning in the global economy. Growth areas: Locations on the fringe of metropolitan Resilience: The capacity of individuals, communities, Melbourne designated in planning schemes for large- institutions, businesses, systems and infrastructure scale transformation, over many years, from rural to to survive, adapt and grow, no matter what chronic urban use. stresses or shocks they encounter. Infrastructure: Basic facilities and networks needed Urban growth boundary: The geographic limit for the for the functioning of a local community or broader future urban area of Melbourne. society. Urban renewal: The process of planning and Liveability: A measure of a city’s residents’ quality redeveloping underutilised medium and large-scale of life, used to benchmark cities around the world. It urban areas, precincts or sites for mixed land-use includes socioeconomic, environmental, transport and purposes. recreational measures.

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