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Action 3
Manage urban development

Update residential subdivision provisions in the Victoria Planning Provisions to incorporate the Neighbourhood Principles
Lead agent: DOI
DOI will update the residential subdivision provisions
in the Victoria Planning Provisions to incorporate the Neighbourhood Principles (see Appendix 3) into the subdivision and design of new urban areas. These principles focus on making subdivisions environmentally sustainable, easily accessible and walkable, and on creating a sense
of community.

Growth Area Plans will need to incorporate the Neighbourhood Principles, which will also be incorporated in local structure plans and subdivision layouts.

Prepare an interim plan for development sequencing in the growth areas
Lead agent: Committees for Smart Growth
The timely provision of physical infrastructure across metropolitan Melbourne will require a coordinated, regulated and programmed approach involving negotiations with a range of privatised infrastructure agencies.

To provide infrastructure in a more efficient, cost-effective and timely manner, its delivery is directed to preferred growth fronts where there is an agreed sequence of development. The Committees for Smart Growth will prepare an interim plan for development sequencing in growth areas, which will be used as guidance until the growth area review is completed and more detailed sequencing plans can be prepared.

Prepare a preferred sequence of development
Lead agent: Committee for Smart Growth
Once the growth area plan review is completed, the preferred sequence of development can be finalised to indicate the timing, extent and proportional cost of infrastructure. The preferred sequence of development will provide a starting point for the preparation of Development Contributions Plans.

Out-of-sequence development
This will include any urban development proposed outside the preferred sequence of development. A proposal that falls outside this sequence may still be able to proceed provided it is within the UGB, supports strategic planning principles established for the growth area and the proponent pays the full cost of the earlier provision of infrastructure.

Update Housing Melbourne to guide development and land supply in the growth areas, and to provide a 15-year development and land-supply program
Lead agent: DOI
DOI will set up a new program to monitor land supply for housing development that builds on Housing Melbourne.

A framework will be established to indicate where new housing demand will be met across the metropolitan area. The program will ensure that opportunities remain available to achieve a competitive housing market. It will identify and facilitate planning for large-scale development and redevelopment sites in metropolitan Melbourne, including greenfield sites.

Land-supply data will be collected and updated for each municipality. An annual forum will be dedicated to this process. All key stakeholders in the development industry will take part, including councils, developers, industry groups such as the Housing Industry Association, (HIA) the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) and infrastructure agencies.

Data collected will form the basis of a residential land supply and development program. This will provide a comprehensive picture of the timing and availability of both greenfield and strategic redevelopment sites across the metropolitan area for each five-year period, up to a threshold of 15 years.

The data will be used to:

• monitor land supply and dwelling production across the metropolitan area
• identify and plan for the provision of physical and social infrastructure
• coordinate land release with service provision
• manage land supply to meet housing needs.

DOI will disseminate this data each year.

Introduce new urban management processes and mechanisms to the growth areas to better coordinate government and private service providers
Lead agent: DOI and the Committees for Smart Growth
DOI will work with the Committees for Smart Growth, local government and key stakeholders to introduce new urban management processes and mechanisms. These will better coordinate the work of government and private service providers, and the timing and provision of infrastructure in the growth areas. As part of the consultation process to determine the nature and format of the urban management coordination process, DOI is open to suggestions from all stakeholders. The process may be uniform, or a system that is tailored to suit the needs of each growth area and each Committee for Smart Growth.