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Growing metropolitan Melbourne
Melbourne is one of the world’s most liveable cities because
of the foundations laid out by a succession of earlier plans.
To protect what we like about Melbourne for future generations,
we must now take stock and plan a more compact and sustainable city.
With our population set to grow by one million by 2030, Melbourne
2030 – planning for sustainable growth prepares the groundwork
for where we will live.
Families in new suburbs will have the schools, transport and other
services they need, existing suburbs will be protected from overdevelopment
and our productive land will be retained.
Melbourne 2030 is an action plan to ensure the benefits
of growth are shared fairly across the State, and in a sustainable
way.
Initiatives include protecting our rural vistas, such as the Dandenongs,
Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula, by setting an interim growth
boundary that will have immediate effect on planning decisions.
Twelve ‘green wedges’ will be protected and 10 new parks
created.
Our ageing population and a big increase in one-and-two person
households, will promote a better mix of housing with, as a start,
more than 130 major sites identified for potential large residential
developments and 25 centres with a capacity for higher density housing.
Speeding up basic infrastructure in new housing estates, extending
the waterfront focus in Melbourne and encouraging apartment-style
living beyond the city centre are among other key initiatives.
Melbourne 2030 shifts from a city-centric ‘hub and
spoke’ development view of Victoria to seeing our State as
a network of cities, towns and regions that relate to, and depend
on, each other.
Growth will be shared with regional and rural Victoria by capitalising
on the fast-train links. Public transport will also be expanded
to the suburbs where people that are now car-dependent live.
Melbourne 2030 is part of our Growing Victoria Together
vision that balances economic, social and environmental goals, so
that our children will enjoy an even better quality of life.
I thank everyone who has taken the time, through public forums
and written submissions, to shape this 30-year plan. Now, I look
forward to working with the community to put it into action.
Steve Bracks
Premier of Victoria
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