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22 Yarra Housing Strategy 3. POLICY CONTEXT This strategy has been prepared within the context To manage the supply of housing in Melbourne, it is Regional housing context of relevant planning strategies and policies, which expected that established areas (such as Yarra) will set the parameters for what can and should be accommodate a greater share of housing growth. Plan Melbourne includes Yarra, along with the Cities addressed through local strategic policy. Plan Melbourne provides an aspirational outlook of Melbourne and Port Phillip, in the inner metro of 70% of new housing being provided within region, which in 2015 had a combined estimated Metropolitan planning strategy Melbourne’s established areas. resident population of approximately 325,00015. It forecasts the region to grow to 495,000 by 2031, It is also expected that new housing will be directed Plan Melbourne 2017-2050 and to 695,000 by 2051. to activity centres and other places that offer good Promoting urban consolidation has been an access to jobs, services and public transport. An initiative of Plan Melbourne is to focus investment and growth to major urban renewal important policy direction of metropolitan strategies Plan Melbourne identifies five major activity centres precincts within the inner metro region, including: since the 1980s. The Victorian Government’s current in Yarra: metropolitan planning strategy, Plan Melbourne ●● Docklands, Arden, Macaulay, E-Gate and Dynon 14 ●● Brunswick Street, Fitzroy; 2017-2050 (Plan Melbourne) builds upon the (City of Melbourne); ●● Smith Street, Collingwood/Fitzroy; core strategies of the former strategy, Melbourne ●● Fishermans Bend (Cities of Melbourne and Port ●● 2030, which encouraged urban consolidation Bridge Road, Richmond; Phillip); and and introduced an urban growth boundary. Plan ●● Swan Street, Richmond; and ●● Flinders Street Station to Richmond Station Melbourne aims to create a city where most of a ●● Victoria Street, Richmond. Corridor (Cities of Melbourne and Yarra). person’s everyday needs are within a 20-minute walk, cycle or local public transport trip. Yarra also has seven designated neighbourhood Fishermans Bend is Australia’s largest urban renewal activity centres; including: area, with 455 ha of land expected to accommodate Key directions in Plan Melbourne relating to housing 80,000 residents by 2025. Docklands is a 146 ha include: ●● Johnston Street, Collingwood/Abbotsford; ●● Queens Parade, North Fitzroy/Clifton Hill; precinct and is expected to contain approximately ●● Deliver more housing closer to jobs and public 20,000 residents by 2051. Only a small area of Yarra ●● Gertrude Street, Fitzroy; transport; (land in and around Richmond Station) is included as ●● Heidelberg Road, Alphington; ●● Manage the supply of new housing in the right a major urban renewal precinct (the Flinders Street ●● locations to meet population growth and create Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy/Clifton Hill; Station to Richmond Station Corridor). ●● Rathdowne Street, Carlton North; and a sustainable city; One of the key short-term activities of Plan ●● St Georges Road, North Fitzroy. ●● Increase the supply of social and affordable Melbourne is the preparation of metropolitan housing; and regional housing plans by the regional metropolitan ●● Provide greater choice and diversity of housing. groups. This strategy will provide important information to inform the content of the inner metro regional housing plan. 14 Department of Environment, Land Water and Planning 2017, Plan Melbourne 2017-2050. 15 Department of Environment, Land Water and Planning 2017, Plan Melbourne 2017-2050, Five-Year Implementation Plan. YARRA HOUSING SRATEGY Yarra Housing Strategy 23 INNER MELBOURNE LEGEND Features Administration Tram route Plan Melbourne 2017-2050 inner metro region E Rail line City of Yarra local government area Brunswick & Smith St E MAC Train stations Inner Melbourne Action Plan (IMAP) area Arden Freeways E Activity centres Mcauley Waterways Dynon Rd Parkville Melbourne central business district E Open space NEIC 5 Major activity centres E Victoria St K M Health facility E-Gate MAC Neighbourhood activity centres Footscray MELBOURNE E E E Education facility AC (Yarra only) Port ofMelbourne YARRA Bridge Rd MARI- MAC Key precincts Plan Melbourne 2017-2050 precincts BYRNONG Arts precinct Priority urban renewal precinct Docklands 1 Swan St Richmond Station 2 Sports precinct Other urban renewal precinct 2 MAC Southbank 1 3 St Kilda Road Port of Melbourne precinct Fisherman’sNEIC Bend E precinct National employment E Fisherman’s Bend & innovation cluster Chapel St MAC 3 STONNINGTON Port Melbourne E MAC South Melbourne E MAC PORT PHILLIP St Kilda MAC East St Kilda MAC 0 1 2 3 4 km LEGEND Features Administration Plan Melbourne Precincts Tram Route Plan Melbourne - Inner Melbourne Region Priority Urban Renewal Precinct YARRA Rail Line City of Yarra Local Government Area Other Urban Renewal Precinct HOUSING Train Stations Inner Melbourne Action Plan (IMPAP) area. Port of Melbourne Precinct STRATEGY Freeways National Employment Activity Centres Waterways & Innovation Cluster Melbourne Central Business District Open Space Major Activity Centres Key Precincts (YHS) Health Facility Neighbourhood Activity Centres 1 Arts Precinct E Education Facility (Yarra Only) 2 Sports Precinct 3 St Kilda Road Precinct 24 Yarra Housing Strategy Planning Policy Framework The Planning Policy Framework (PPF) is the policy content of the planning scheme. The PPF structure provides for three tiers of integrated planning policy, grouping state, regional and local planning policy by theme. State Planning Policy Statewide Statewide policies provide direction on planning and managing residential growth in Victoria. Key housing directions for all Victorian councils are: ●● Provide for housing diversity, and ensure the efficient provision of supporting infrastructure; ●● Ensure the long term sustainability of new housing, including access to services, walkability to activity centres, public transport, schools and open space; ●● Include the provision of land for affordable housing; ●● Increase the supply of housing in existing urban areas by facilitating increased housing yield in appropriate locations, including under-utilised urban land; ●● Ensure that an appropriate quantity, quality and type of housing is provided, including aged care facilities and other housing suitable for older people, supported accommodation for people with disability, rooming houses, student accommodation and social housing; YARRA HOUSING SRATEGY Yarra Housing Strategy 25 ●● Facilitate the delivery of high quality social This strategy will undertake the necessary strategic There are, however, challenges with directing housing; work to identify and categorise areas in Yarra that housing growth to designated SRSs. Yarra’s list of ●● Demonstrate a 15 year housing supply and can accommodate more medium and high density SRSs in the MSS is not exhaustive and there are provide clear direction on locations where housing growth (near employment and transport in other sites in Yarra that can be considered to be growth should occur; metropolitan Melbourne), which will provide more appropriate locations for higher density housing ●● When planning for urban growth consider the certainty to the community about where growth can development. The overall development pattern of VIF2016 projections; and and can’t be accommodated within Yarra. Yarra also shows that a substantial proportion of development has occurred in Yarra’s activity centres. ●● Conserve places that have identified heritage Local Planning Policy significance. The new local planning policy, relating to housing, The Municipal Strategic Statement (MSS) in the will reflect the key directions of the strategy and will Regional Yarra Planning Scheme provides a statement of the provide: Regional policies provide planning guidance to key strategic planning, land use and development ●● Current population and housing forecasts; councils within the same regional context. Yarra is objectives for Yarra. The vision for housing is that ●● grouped under the metropolitan Melbourne region. Yarra will continue to accommodate a diverse Clear direction and guidance on the appropriate range of people including families, the aged, the locations for growth; The relevant housing strategies for metropolitan disabled, and those who are socially or economically ●● A growth strategy that takes a holistic approach Melbourne councils are: disadvantaged. to housing growth beyond directing housing ●● Allow for a range of minimal, incremental and growth to designated SRSs; The MSS lists three key housing objectives: high change residential areas that balance the ●● Certainty about the levels of growth in need to protect valued areas with the need to ●● Objective 1: To accommodate forecast increases neighbourhoods and activity centres; and ensure choice and growth in housing; in population; ●● Direction on key issues such as housing diversity ●● Create mixed-use neighbourhoods at varying ●● Objective 2: To retain a diverse population and and adaptability, affordable housing and family densities that offer more choice in housing; household structure; and friendly apartments. ●● Identify areas that offer opportunities for ●● Objective 3: To reduce potential amenity more medium and high density housing near conflicts between residential and other uses. employment and transport in Metropolitan Melbourne; The Yarra Planning Scheme relies upon 42 designated Strategic Redevelopment