Plan Melbourne - Metropolitan Planning Strategy

Plan Melbourne sets out the Victorian Government’s vision that will guide the city’s growth to 2050. After a thorough consultation process, Plan Melbourne has been amended to bring the strategy up to date, improve clarity and further explain some of its concepts and policies.

Plan Melbourne can be viewed at its dedicated website.

The key aspects of Plan Melbourne include:

  • a permanent urban growth boundary will be put in place to curb urban sprawl by distributing population growth to our regions. A ‘State of Cities’ will be created as new major population and employment towns for growth across Victoria. This includes Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Broadford, Kilmore, Warragul-Drouin and Wonthaggi.
  • at least half of Melbourne’s residential zoned land will be protected from high-rise apartment development with a Neighbourhood Residential Zone.
  • driving the growth of the City of Melbourne as Australia’s largest jobs hub by 2040 as major new urban renewal precincts including Fishermans Bend, E-Gate and Arden Macaulay begin and Docklands is completed.
  • implementing the Victorian Planning Authority which will play a critical role in managing and delivering Plan Melbourne along with the largest urban renewal pipeline in Victoria’s history. The Authority will be charged with working with local governments, landowners and other stakeholders in delivering many of the initiatives of Plan Melbourne as well as the structure planning of a number of new precincts.
  • investigating a third airport for Melbourne’s South East to serve Gippsland and Melbourne’s South East. The airport would serve one-third of Victoria’s population including the 300,000 residents of Gippsland.
  • the expansion of central Melbourne, making it Australia’s largest jobs hub, and the development of major national employment clusters at Dandenong South, Monash, La Trobe, Parkville, Sunshine and East Werribee.

Plan Melbourne includes a couple of items which are specific to the City of Melton, these include:

  • the elevation of the Toolern Principal Activity Centre to a Metropolitan Activity Centre;
  • ongoing commitment to the establishment of the Toolern Creek Regional Park, the Kororoit Creek Regional Park, and the Western Grassland Reserve;
  • identification of the Outer Metropolitan Ring Road and Rail alignment; and
  • discussion around the Western Interstate Freight Terminal, which will form the core of an industrial precinct of State Significance (Western Industrial Precinct).

For more information about Plan Melbourne, please contact our Strategic Planning Team on 9747 7200 or email citysupport@vic.gov.au

 

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