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Loddon Mallee South Regional Growth Plan LODDON MALLEE SOUTH REGIONAL GROWTH PLAN Authorised and published by the Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne Printed by Finsbury Green, Melbourne If you would like to receive this publication in an accessible format, please telephone 1300 366 356. This document is also available in Word format at www.dtpli.vic.gov.au/regionalgrowthplans Unless indicated otherwise, this work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. To view a copy of the licence, visit creativecommons.org/licences/by/3.0/au It is a condition of this Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence that you must give credit to the original author who is the State of Victoria. Disclaimer This publication may be of assistance to you, but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. May 2014 REGIONAL OVERVIEWCONTENTS | PART B EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i 12. Environment and heritage 32 12.1 Environment and heritage assets 34 PART A INTRODUCTION 1 12.2 Natural hazards and risks 36 12.3 Approach to our settlement planning and 1. What is a regional growth plan? 1 environmental management 37 2. Why we need this plan 3 13. Living in the region 39 3. How this plan will be used 4 13.1 Loddon Mallee South urban settlement 39 4. How the plan was prepared 5 13.2 Bendigo – the regional city 42 5. Components of this plan 5 13.3 Growth of regional centres and towns 46 13.4 Growth of Bendigo’s hinterland towns 52 PART B REGIONAL OVERVIEW 7 13.5 Social inclusion 54 14. Regional infrastructure 56 6. Snapshot of the region 7 14.1 Water, energy and utilities 57 7. Drivers of change 16 14.2 Transport networks 61 8. Challenges for growth 16 9. Vision for the region 17 PART D REGIONAL GROWTH PLAN 69 10. Principles to achieve the vision 17 15. Future directions for regional growth 69 PART C TOWARDS THE REGIONAL GROWTH PLAN PART E DELIVERING REGIONAL GROWTH 75 — REGIONAL LAND USE FRAMEWORK 21 16. Implementation 75 11. Regional economy 21 16.1 Planning schemes 75 11.1 Building on economic strengths 22 16.2 Links to Regional Strategic Plan implementation 76 11.2 Working in the Loddon Mallee South region 24 16.3 A plan for implementation of actions 76 11.3 Agriculture 28 16.4 Review and performance 81 16.5 Implementation summary 82 GLOSSARY 83 Regional Growth Plan LODDON MALLEE SOUTH PARTCONTENTS B | REGIONAL OVERVIEW Tables Maps Table 1: Planning framework context 3 Map 1: Future growth framework iii, 73 Table 2: State significant land uses present within Map 2: The eight regional growth plans 2 Melbourne’s peri-urban region 10 Map 3: Loddon Mallee South region 7 Table 3: Projected population changes across the Map 4: Links to surrounding regions 14 Loddon Mallee South region to 2031 11 Map 5: Strategic assets 15 Table 4: Land use actions 77 Map 6: Future economic directions 27 Table 5: Key implementation actions, priorities, Map 7: Future rural land use directions 31 partners and responsibilities 82 Map 8: Future environment and heritage directions 33 Map 9: Future settlement growth directions 41 Map 10: Bendigo City future land use directions 45 Map 11: Maryborough future land use directions 47 Map 12: Gisborne future land use directions 48 Map 13: Castlemaine future land use directions 50 Map 14: Kyneton future land use directions 51 Map 15: Future infrastructure directions 60 Map 16: Future directions for transport 67 Regional Growth Plan LODDON MALLEE SOUTH EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Loddon Mallee South region has many important physical The Loddon Mallee South region is the geographic centre of Victoria, and lifestyle assets, which are the foundation of its economy and making it highly accessible to and from Melbourne and surrounding communities. The region’s rich goldfields history, rural production regional areas. The region extends from the floodplains of the mid- areas, earth resources industries, forests and natural landscapes Loddon River in the north west to the Macedon Ranges in the south surround a diverse network of settlements. These assets have and east. At its closest point, the region is 50 kilometres from central will continue to attract people to the region to live, work and visit. Melbourne and offers a variety of high level services that provide an attractive alternative to Melbourne and other regions. It has a Over the past decade, the region has outpaced the rest of regional rich natural and built heritage, attractive towns, a pleasant climate Victoria for economic growth. Gross Regional Product (GRP) increased and social and economic diversity. Its central location and excellent from $4.62 billion in 2001 to $6.63 billion in 2011 (Regional Development transport links allow safe and efficient travel to Melbourne and Victoria, 2013). The key sectors contributing to this growth are financial, other centres. health and insurance services, manufacturing and mining. Agriculture continues to be a significant employer in the region particularly horticulture, viticulture, poultry and swine. Population- The Loddon Mallee South Regional Growth Plan is the strategic land driven sectors such as healthcare, construction, education and retail use plan for the region to guide growth and change for the next 30 trade are also significant to the regional economy. Earth resource years. The plan covers the local government areas of the Central industries include diverse mining and quarrying operations and will Goldfields Shire, the City of Greater Bendigo, Loddon Shire, Macedon continue to contribute to the economy of the region. Ranges Shire and Mount Alexander Shire. It is one of eight regional growth plans being prepared in Victoria. The City of Greater Bendigo is a vibrant, growing regional city with an urban and rural population of over 100,000 people, providing quality education and healthcare facilities, a strong economy and thriving cultural life. The growth and wellbeing of the region as a whole depends heavily on the success of this regional city. A prosperous Bendigo that continues to grow in economic strength can offer an attractive alternative to Melbourne and other regions. Regional Growth Plan LODDON MALLEE SOUTH i PARTEXECUTIVEC|TOWARDS SUMMARYTHEREGIONALGROWTHPLAN The network of larger and smaller towns in the Loddon Mallee South Map 1 – Future growth framework highlights the key directions for growth region, most of which connect closely to Bendigo, are central to the of the region, directing population and economic growth to the regional city region’s unique character. Larger centres such as Gisborne, Kyneton, of Bendigo, managing and supporting growth in key regional centres and Castlemaine and Maryborough act as hubs to smaller surrounding fostering growth in some key hinterland towns around Bendigo. settlements and rural areas both inside and beyond the regional The region can build on its economic strengths in a variety of sectors, such boundaries. These larger centres offer a diversity of retail and community as health and finance, as well as emerging industries such as the tourism services and recreational and cultural opportunities, which complement and equine sectors. The plan aims to facilitate ongoing agricultural those in Bendigo and Melbourne. productivity and new opportunities that respond to climate change. The majority of the region is made up of non-urban land, a significant Opportunities for manufacturing and building on supply chain linkages are portion of which is used for agricultural production. The region is supported. Important environmental assets will be protected and improved. agriculturally diverse, with irrigated dairying, cropping and grazing in the north east and large-scale productive cropping, dry land and mixed farming in the north-west (predominantly Loddon Shire). Wineries, Vision for Loddon Mallee South region orchards and olive groves are located throughout the region, with clusters In 2041 our communities continue to enjoy regional liveability with in the Macedon Ranges, Harcourt Valley and Bendigo areas. One of the urban accessibility. We are a region with vibrant, innovative, sustainable world’s largest single estate olive groves is located near Boort. and connected communities offering a diversity of lifestyles, building on The Loddon Mallee South region has experienced, and continues to our heritage, natural environment and agricultural landscapes. experience, strong population and economic growth. This plan provides The region is home to some 300,000 people by 2041, with access to guidance to help achieve sustainable growth across the region, while employment, infrastructure, educational opportunities, healthcare and maintaining its highly attractive, liveable and accessible characteristics, other services. The region continues to attract new investment and a which offer a range of lifestyle and work opportunities for existing and diverse range of jobs, anchored within a diversifying economy, capitalising future residents and visitors. on competitive advantages. The plan identifies where future growth is promoted and supported in the region. It identifies environmental, economic, community and infrastructure resources of regional importance that should be preserved, maintained or developed. It also outlines key planning considerations, such as natural hazards that may influence growth, and seeks to guide future
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