Integrated Infrastructure Planning & Spatial Mapping Presenter: Heidi Dixon, Principal Social Planner, DTPLI 23 May 2014
PART 1 PLAN MELBOURNE : Metropolitan Planning Strategy PART 2 Case Study: DTPLI Statement of Opportunity mapping project
PART 1 PLAN MELBOURNE : Metropolitan Planning Strategy
The Vision for Melbourne Melbourne will be a global city of opportunity and choice. This will be achieved by: + Protecting the suburbs + Developing in defined areas + Creating a clearer and simpler planning system + Rebalancing growth between Melbourne and Regional Victoria + Identifying an infrastructure pipeline
delivering a new integrated economic triangle a state of cities delivering a pipeline of investment opportunity better use of existing assets transitioning to a more sustainable city protecting the suburbs by delivering density in defined locations housing choice and affordability 20-minute neighbourhoods good governance and strong partnerships
Population pressures Melbourne s recent population growth has been profound. Over the past decade, the city has added over 600,000 new residents, with almost 60 per cent making their home in the outer suburbs. Key Issues: + Congestion + Affordability + Accessibility + A changing climate + Rural encroachment
New regional structure + 5 metropolitan subregions: Central, Western, Northern, Southern, Eastern + Each subregion: anchored by a National Employment Cluster, major economic gateways (a port, airport or interstate freight terminal) and contains Metropolitan Activity Centres
National Employment Clusters + Focused on knowledge-based businesses that locate close to each other + Access to a skilled labour pool and infrastructure and the potential to share ideas and knowledge + Will continue to evolve into vibrant, diverse locations well-served by public transport + Each NEC is anchored by specialised activity (such as a university, research facility, medical facility or manufacturing enterprise) + Existing: Parkville, Dandenong South, Monash + Emerging: Sunshine, East Werribee, La Trobe
Metropolitan Activity Centres + Play a strategically important role for their subregional catchments by providing the community with good access to a range of major retail, community, government, entertainment, cultural and transport services. + These centres are a focus of public transport networks and will continue to attract broad investment in education, health and other services. + Existing: Dandenong, Footscray, Fountain Gate/ Narre Warren, Epping, Sunshine, Ringwood, Broadmeadows, Box Hill, Frankston + Future: Toolern, Lockerbie
Liveable Communities & Neighbourhoods Create healthy and active neighbourhoods and maintain Melbourne s identity as one of the world s most liveable cities Directions: + 4.1 Create a city of 20-minute neighbourhoods + 4.2 Protect Melbourne and its suburbs from inappropriate development + 4.3 Create neighbourhoods and communities that support healthy lifestyles + 4.4 Plan for future social infrastructure + 4.5 Make our city greener + 4.6 Create more great public places throughout Melbourne + 4.7 Respect our heritage as we build for the future + 4.8 Achieve and promote design excellence
Direction 4.1 Create a city of 20-minute neighbourhoods + walkability and safety to provide healthier communities + improving housing choice and diversity + increasing the usability of and access to, open space + improving local economic opportunities + encouraging adequate local services and infrastructure + ensuring access to public transport
Direction 4.1 Create a city of 20-minute neighbourhoods + Initiative 4.1.1: Support a network of vibrant Neighbourhood Centres + Initiative 4.1.2: Support local governments to plan and manage their neighbourhoods See case study: Healthy Places and Spaces Guidelines, Australia
Direction 4.2 Protect Melbourne and its suburbs from inappropriate development + Initiative 4.2.1: Protect our unique neighbourhoods from residential densification + Initiative 4.2.2: Protect Melbourne s Neighbourhood Centres, including provision for mandatory controls + Initiatives 4.2.3 and 4.2.4: Protect unique city precincts, and our waterways, from inappropriate development + Initiative 4.2.5: Measure and monitor the liveability of our neighbourhoods
Direction 4.3 Create neighbourhoods and communities that support healthy lifestyles + 4.3.1 Implement design guidelines to promote walking and cycling neighbourhoods for healthy living + 4.3.2 Ensure that municipal public health and wellbeing plans inform and shape municipal strategic statements See case study: Healthy Together Wyndham Plan Melbourne (p.210)
Direction 4.4 Plan for future social infrastructure + 4.4.1 Create health & education precincts to meet the needs of residents across Melbourne + 4.4.2 A coordinated approach to the delivery of education, health, recreation and cultural facilities + 4.4.3 Remove planning impediments to not-forprofits + 4.4.4 Identify and secure cemetery locations
Direction 7.2 Better informed decision making and greater alignment of infrastructure delivery to growth + 7.2.1 Sequence growth in major urban renewal precincts to encourage productive use of infrastructure + 7.2.2 Support local government to deliver infrastructure in a more timely manner
Direction 7.3 Make more efficient use of existing resources + 7.3.1 Increase the productivity of the Victorian economy by improving the utilisation of existing and proposed state infrastructure + 7.3.2 Better use of surplus or underutilised government land + 7.3.3 Prioritise state investment + 7.3.4 Improve coordination in urban renewal precincts + 7.3.5 Achieve better economies of scale in infrastructure development + 7.3.6 Create more opportunities for private sector partnerships
Direction 7.4 Open up new funding sources + 7.4.1 Reform development contributions + 7.4.2 Use value-capture to change the way city-shaping infrastructure is funded