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Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan 1 2 Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan Office for Suburban Development 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 Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan 3 Office for Suburban Development Introduction The Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan for Jobs, Services and Infrastructure 2018–2022 outlines the Victorian Government’s ongoing commitment to Melbourne’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. 4 Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan Office for Suburban Development 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. Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan 5 Office for Suburban Development 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 • Dandenong Ranges 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 8 Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan Office for Suburban Development 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