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Policies and initiatives
> Direction 4. A more prosperous
city > Policy 4.1
Policy 4.1– Maintain access to productive
natural resources and an adequate supply of well-located land for
energy generation, infrastructure and industry
The availability of well-located industrial
land in metropolitan Melbourne and the surrounding region is a key
competitive strength. Industrial development will be concentrated
in locations near road and rail freight networks. Loss of this strategic
resource to other uses, such as stand-alone offices that are better
located in Principal and Major Activity Centres, will be prevented.
Industrial areas of State significance will continue to be protected
from inappropriate development, in order to maintain supplies of
land for industries that require significant buffer distances from
sensitive or incompatible uses.
Farmland and natural resources such as sand, mineral
and stone deposits are further important assets for the region’s
future development. There is also considerable potential to recycle
waste water.
The development of appropriate infrastructure to
meet community demand for energy services is a significant planning
issue. Electricity consumption continues to grow across Victoria
due to general economic growth and more affluent lifestyles, which
has led, for example, to increased use of air-conditioning. At the
same time, community sensitivity is growing about the environmental,
health and safety impacts of new electricity or gas projects. This
concern needs to be balanced against the need for investment in
new infra-structure. Adequate separation will be needed between
existing and future infrastructure and residential areas.
Melbourne 2030 protects strategic resources
from displacement and encroachment by incompatible land uses. It
will ensure that there is sufficient land to accommodate demand
from industry and infrastructure providers, and to provide appropriate
buffers between incompatible land uses.
Initiatives
| 4.1.1 |
Update the mapping of current and
potentially productive land resources in the region |
| 4.1.2 |
Identify and safeguard strategic
deposits of sand, mineral and stone, to maintain their potential
for exploitation, including provision for buffer areas |
| 4.1.3 |
Protect the identified areas for
potential supply of recycled water for forestry, agriculture
or other uses that can use treated effluent of an appropriate
quality |
| 4.1.4 |
Increase protection for natural
resource-based industries, industrial land and energy infrastructure
against competing and incompatible uses |
| 4.1.5 |
Set aside suitable land, protected
by appropriate buffers, for future energy infrastructure |
| 4.1.6 |
Implement measures to encourage
manufacturing and storage industries that generate significant
volumes of freight to locate close to air, rail and road freight
terminals |
| 4.1.7 |
Ensure an adequate supply for all
categories of industrial land and work with the land development
sector to address discrepancies in supply and demand |
| 4.1.8 |
Extend industrial land-use monitoring
to key regional cities and towns throughout the region |
| 4.1.9 |
Assess the impact of the Scoresby
Integrated Transport Corridor on the demand for new industrial
land, and address any supply issues |
| 4.1.10
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Protect the existing Laverton North
and Dandenong heavy industrial areas, determine the need for
and location of future industrial precincts in the metropolitan
area to cater for heavy and potentially hazardous industry,
and provide adequate protection for those uses in those areas
including buffer areas |
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