Housing Opportunity Zone – Metropolis Melbourne
Strategy
Determine opportunities to provide more medium- and high-density housing for employment and transportation in Melbourne’s metropolitan area.
Manage new housing supply to meet population growth and create sustainable cities by developing housing and mixed-use development opportunities in:
Central City and its surroundings.
Urban renewal area and ruins.
The area of residential growth.
The area of the grey area is updated, especially through land consolidation opportunities.
Designated as a region of national employment and innovation clusters.
Metropolitan Events Center and main event center.
Neighbourhood Activity Center – especially those with good public transport connections
The area near the existing and proposed railway stations can support the development of bus guidance.
Promote the increase in housing in the built-up area to build a 20-minute community to close the city
Existing services, jobs and public transportation.
Introduce new homes directly into areas with appropriate infrastructure.
Residential development location – Geelong G21
strategy
Facilitate the development of filling around the Geelong and West Fyans Central and Geelong City and District Urban Activity Areas.
Housing diversity
purpose
A range of housing types are available to meet different needs.
Strategy
Ensuring that housing stocks meet changing needs by expanding housing options
Promote diversified housing options to meet changing household needs by:
Mixed housing type.
Adaptive interior design.
Universal design.
Encourage the development of well-designed medium-density housing:
Respect the neighborhood role.
Improve housing options.
Make better use of your existing infrastructure.
Improve the energy efficiency of housing.
Support a range of income groups to choose housing in a well-served location.
Ensuring that the planning of the growth area provides various types of housing, including higher housing density in and around the activity center.
Housing affordability
purpose
Provide more affordable housing that is closer to work, transportation and service.
Strategy
Improve housing affordability:
Ensure that land supply continues to meet demand.
Increase the choice of housing types, tenure and cost to meet the needs of families in changing life cycles and support diverse communities.
Promote good housing and urban design to minimize negative environmental impacts and reduce the cost of residents and the wider community.
Most new development projects are encouraged to be affordable for low- and middle-income families.
Increase the availability of affordable housing in the following ways:
In the suburbs, activity centers and urban renewal areas promote a combination of private, economic and social housing.
Ensuring that public housing is rebuilt and renewed to better meet community needs.
Promote the delivery of social housing by identifying the remaining government land suitable for housing.
Policy documents
Consider related:
Victorian Homes – Affordability, Access and Choice (Victoria Government, 2017)
Rural housing development
purpose
Identify land suitable for rural residential development.
Strategy
Manage the development of rural areas to protect agriculture and avoid inappropriate rural housing development.
Encourage the integration of new homes in existing settlements that have already invested in physical and community infrastructure and services.
Prove and identify the location of rural residential development through housing and resettlement strategies.
Ensuring rural residential development planning avoids or significantly reduces adverse economic, social and environmental impacts:
Maintain long-term sustainable use and management of existing natural resource attributes in activities such as agricultural production, water, minerals and energy.
Protect existing landscape values and environmental quality such as water quality, native vegetation, biodiversity and habitat.
Minimize or avoid property and service costs incurred by local and state governments.
Maintain adequate buffer distance between rural residential development and animal production.
If the land encroaches on high-quality agricultural land or adversely affects waterways or other natural resources, ensure that the land is not classified as a rural residential development.
The development of small quantities in rural areas for residential or other incompatible uses is discouraged.
Encourage the integration of existing isolated small plots of land in rural areas.
Ensure that the land is only used for rural residential development, where:
Close to existing towns and city centres, but not in areas where full service cities are needed.
Power, water and quality road access are available.
Community care accommodation
purpose
Promote the establishment of community care accommodation and support their location confidentiality.
Strategy
Planning plans should not require planning permits or prohibit residential areas that care about accommodation in all sectors of society, can accommodate no more than 20 client-use land, by funding, or by or on behalf of government departments or public agencies, including “Federal Law” is a public institution established for public purposes.
Promote confidentiality of community care accommodation through appropriate licensing, notification and review exemptions.
Residential aged care facility
purpose
Promote the development of well-designed and properly positioned residential aged care facilities.
Strategy
Recognizing that residential aged care facilities contribute to housing diversity and choice, and to residential areas.
It is recognized that the purpose and function of a residential aged care facility is different from that of a home and will have different architectural forms (including height, scale and quality).
Ensure that the local housing strategy, regional structure planning and activity center structure plan support residential aged care facilities.
Ensure that residential aged care facilities are located in residential areas, activity centers and urban renewal areas, close to services and public transportation.
Encourage planning for housing:
Provide adequate land supply or reconstruction opportunities for residential aged care facilities.
Enable older people to live in adequate housing in the local community.
Provide mixed housing for the elderly and provide appropriate care and support services.
Advice to ensure that residential geriatric care facilities are established early in the growing area is located in locations where access to services and public transportation is available in advance.
Ensure that the residential aged care facility is designed to match the site and its context.
Promote high standards of urban design and architecture in residential aged care facilities.
Policy guide
Consider related:
Federal government is responsible for providing rates for aged care beds
According to the 1997 “Elderly Care Act”.