Community infrastructure
Open space
purpose
Establish, manage and improve a diverse and integrated public open space network that meets the needs of the community.
Strategy
Plan regional and local open space networks to entertain and protect the natural cultural environment.
Ensuring an open space network:
Interconnected, including by providing walking and cycling trails.
Combined with the open space of adjacent subdivisions.
Where possible, connect the main park to the event area, waterways and natural drainage corridors to connect natural and cultural attractions.
Maintain public accessibility on public land adjacent to waterways and coasts.
Create opportunities to strengthen the open space network within settlements and settlements.
Ensure that land for local recreational uses is set aside and developed in residential areas, and pedestrian and bicycle connections to commercial and community facilities are established.
Ensuring an open space network adjacent to the region, and the use and development of land in national parks and protected areas complements open space in terms of visual and noise impact, and protects
Vegetation and wastewater treatment to reduce turbidity and pollution.
Improve the quality and distribution of open spaces to ensure long-term protection.
Protect large regional parks and important protected areas.
Ensure that key land identified as completing the open space link is diverted for open space purposes.
Ensure that additional or alternative parks of the same or larger size and quality are provided where land use or occupancy changes result in reduced open space.
Ensuring urban open spaces provide nature protection, entertainment and gaming, formal and informal movements, social interactions, and opportunities to connect with natural peace and loneliness.
Organize community sports facilities in a manner that does not compromise other park activities.
Ensuring that open space is provided is fair and reasonable, with the aim of providing access to meet the needs of all members of the community, regardless of age, gender, ability or location of the individual.
Develop open spaces to maintain wildlife corridors and greenhouse sinks.
New park green spaces are provided in areas where growth areas and gardens are under-supplied.
Encourage the development of a management plan or clearly state the management objectives of the city park.
Ensuring that community organizations’ exclusive use of the park is limited to activities that meet the park’s management objectives to maximize the scope of community openness
space.
Ensure that the building and infrastructure are provided in line with the park’s management objectives.
Ensuring that the development of streaming banks and frontiers does not prevent public access.
Ensuring that public land is immediately adjacent to waterways and coastlines remains publicly owned.
Plan open space areas for multiple uses, such as community gardens, sports and recreation, active transport routes, wildlife corridors and flood storage ponds.
Health facilities
purpose
Assist health agencies in integrating with local and regional communities.
Strategy
Promote the location of health and wellness-related facilities, including acute health, aged care, disability services and community care facilities, taking into account demographic trends, current and future demand requirements, and integration of services and communities.
Co-plan public and private development where possible, including a degree of flexibility in use.
Find hospitals and other large medical institutions in designated health districts and areas where public and private transport are highly accessible.
Provide adequate parking for staff and visitors to health facilities.
educational facility
purpose
Help integrate education and child care facilities with local and regional communities.
Strategy
Consider demographic trends, current and future demand requirements, and the integration of facilities into the community to plan the location of education and child care facilities.
Find nurseries, kindergartens and elementary school facilities to maximize access through public transportation and safe walking and cycling routes.
Ensure that childcare, kindergarten and elementary school facilities provide a safe drop zone for vehicles.
Find secondary and higher education facilities in designated educational districts and areas with convenient public transport.
Find higher education facilities in or near the event center.
Ensure that the streets and passages adjacent to the education and child care facilities are designed to encourage safe cycling and pedestrian access.
Building the library as a community learning center.
Education District – Geelong G21
strategy
Support the educational centers of Waurn Ponds and Central Geelong with Deakin and The Gordon.
Cultural facilities
purpose
Develop a strong cultural environment and increase the use of art, entertainment and other cultural facilities.
Strategy
Encourage more art, culture and entertainment facilities, including cinemas, restaurants, nightclubs and live theatres in the Central City, as well as the Metropolitan Events Center.
Strengthen existing major art, sports and a wide range of major event areas.
Establish new facilities in locations with convenient public transportation.
Social and cultural infrastructure
purpose
Provide a more equitable distribution and access to social and cultural infrastructure.
Strategy
Identify and address gaps and deficiencies in social and cultural infrastructure, including other culturally and sports facilities of regional importance.
Encourage the establishment of social and cultural infrastructure in the event centre.
Make sure the design of your social infrastructure is easy to access.
Ensure that the social infrastructure in the growth area is available early in the development process and in the right place.
Plan and design community sites and buildings to adapt to demographic changes and different patterns of work and social life.
Support innovative approaches to maintain fair service to settlements with limited or inability to grow further or experience demographic decline.
Identify and protect the land for use in cemeteries and crematoriums.
Emergency service
purpose
Ensure the right place for police, fire, ambulance and other emergency services.
Strategy
Ensure that police, fire, ambulance and other emergency services are available in or near the event center.
Find emergency services together in emerging areas.
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