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The Growth Corridor Plans are high level integrated land use and transport plans that provide a strategy for the development of Melbournes growth corridors over the coming decades. Melbournes urban growth PDF File 28 MB.
The City of Melton is subject to two Growth Corridor Plans.
Melbourne urban growth boundary expansion map. Most of this future growth was designated to be in the north and west of Melbourne. The expansion of Melbournes boundary was only approved after rigorous environmental studies were undertaken by State agencies and approved by the Commonwealth government to ensure natural features and protected species were managed incorporated or left outside the UGB. There was also provision.
Melbournes urban growth CABINET-IN-CONFIDENCE Western Port Port Phillip Bay Bass Strait Frankston Mornington Rosebud 0 20 kilometres N Melbournes urban growth CABINET-IN-CONFIDENCE Western Port Port Phillip Bay Bass Strait Frankston Mornington Rosebud 0 20 kilometres N Melbournes urban growth CABINET-IN-CONFIDENCE Map 1 Melbournes urban growth. Melbournes urban growth PDF File 28 MB. The urban growth boundary UGB indicates the long-term limits of urban development and where non-urban values and land uses should prevail in metropolitan Melbourne including the Mornington Peninsula see Figure 1.
It appears on the maps forming part of planning schemes affected by Melbourne 2030. The expansion of Melbournes urban growth boundary passed through the Victorian Parliament amendment VC68. This amendment put in place Public Acquisition Overlays for the 15000 hectare Western Grassland reserve.
The Victorian Government gazetted this amendment on 6 August 2010. A map of the urban growth boundary expansion. Todays vote was opposed by the Greens but supported by the Liberal-Nationals coalition.
Developers argue the decision and any subsequent residential. The Growth Corridor Plans are high level integrated land use and transport plans that provide a strategy for the development of Melbournes growth corridors over the coming decades. These plans will guide the delivery of key housing employment and transport infrastructure in Melbournes new suburbs and provide a clear strategy for the development of the growth corridors over the next 30 to 40 years.
Interactive map providing demographic housing and employment information for Melbourne Housing development data Download information on housing development data and spatial data commissioned to provide information on small lot residential development across Melbourne. The Growth Corridor Plans set the strategic direction for future urban development of land that was included within the Urban Growth Boundary UGB as part of its 2010 review. The plans identify areas for housing employment transport town centres open space and key public infrastructure.
The City of Melton is subject to two Growth Corridor Plans. The Metropolitan Strategy Melbourne 2030 is a Victorian Government strategic planning policy framework for the metropolitan area of Greater Melbourne intended to cover the period 20012030. During this period the population of the metropolitan area is expected to grow by a million people to over 5 million.
Population projections now predict Melbournes population could reach 7 million by that time. According to Mr Guy the area under consideration is 200 Ha. Thats quite a bit smaller than the 41000 Ha expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary approved last year.
Mr Guy also says the area is going to be developed over a 20-30 year time frame. If its total capacity is the 10000 to 15000 dwellings estimated by the Chief Executive of the Property Council Jennifer Cunich thats at most. Planning scheme zoning maps for expansion of Melbournes Urban Growth Boundary UGB are now available.
These maps and changes will be debated in Victorias Upper House on November 24. An urban growth boundary or UGB is a regional boundary set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by in its simplest form mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for urban development and the area outside be preserved in its natural state or used for agriculture. Legislating for an urban growth boundary is one way among many others of managing the major challenges posed by unplanned urban growth.
The Metro Council can under certain circumstances expand the urban growth boundary to meet immediate needs to provide lands for specific purposes that cannot be accommodated within the existing urban growth boundary and cannot wait until the completion of the next urban growth report. In some cases local governments may petition the Metro Council to consider an urban growth boundary expansion. That has changed radically.
Over the past two years the median house price in Melbourne has risen by 30. Expanding Melbournes Urban Growth Boundary. In this environment it comes as welcome news that the Brumby Labor government has enacted an expansion of the Melbourne urban growth boundary.
The initiative attracted broad based support including that of the Liberal-National opposition in the Victoria state parliament. The government expects that the expansion. View a map of the urban growth boundary a land use planning line to control urban expansion onto farm and forest lands.
A map of the boundarys expansion history is also available. Urban growth boundary map. Plan Melbourne the latest strategy on the citys growth forecasts that the Victorian capitals population now at 43 million is expected to reach 77 million by 2051.