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Challenges
Planning
Manage population growth and change:
• Secure a long term strategy to manage growth and change.
• Restore confidence and transparency of decision making in the planning system.
• Protect and enhance the public realm and significant physical and cultural assets.
• Enhance Victoria’s capacity to compete globally for investment and jobs.
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Planning’s contribution to economic growth & jobs
Planning
Land, Development and construction industry in Victoria:
• Strongest residential construction sector in Australia.
• Over 17,000 dwellings approved in quarter to March 2015, compared with
16,000 in New South Wales and 12,000 in Queensland.
• $4 billion in annual construction value for central city planning permits.
• 750,000 land registration transactions conducted each year.
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Election Commitment – Living Heritage
• Committed to protecting Victoria’s heritage.
• Currently more than 2,400 heritage places and objects on the Victorian Heritage Register.
• $150,000 in 2015-16, to deliver on commitment to audit at risk state significant heritage places and objects.
Planning 2015-16 Budget initiatives
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Protecting the Yarra River
• Committed to preserving rivers and open spaces for the health of future generations.
• $1 million in 2015-16 to guard the Yarra River
corridor from inappropriate development, including improved planning controls.
Planning 2015-16 Budget initiatives
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Secure a long term strategy to manage growth and change. • Refresh Plan Melbourne with the reconvening of the Ministerial Advisory Committee. • Recasting of Fishermans Bend to ensure best practice urban renewal. Restore confidence and transparency of decision making • Strengthen collaborative decision making process with the City of Melbourne for
planning permit applications of developments over 25,000 square metres. • Rezoned Moonee Valley Racecourse to address concerns in relation to the existing
master plan. • Independent review into the approval process for the Brunswick Terminal Station
upgrade. • Robust and effective planning approval processes for the Government’s major
transport projects.
Planning What we are doing to address the challenges
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Protect and enhance the public realm and significant physical and cultural assets. • Commitment of $100 million to restore and upgrade Flinders Street Station.
Enhance Victoria’s capacity to compete globally for investment and jobs. • Removed restrictive planning controls on wind farm projects.
Improve housing diversity and affordability • Undertake an Inclusionary zoning pilot on government owned land. • Released discussion paper on apartments.
Planning What we are doing to address the challenges
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