Plan Melbourne Refresh 2017

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Plan Melbourne seeks to provide greater clarity to the role of education and health precincts, particularly supporting co-location of health and education facilitates.

Plan Melbourne Refresh:

• Remains supportive of urban renewal precincts, but maps identifying the location of potential urban renewal areas have been deleted.
• Names key employment areas as National Employment and Innovation Clusters. Fishermans Bend is one of these clusters.
• Updates key infrastructure projects to align with current projects underway and new planned projects.
• Seeks to provide greater clarity on the role of education and health precincts, particularly supporting co-location of health and education facilitates.
• Seeks to improve freight efficiency, including airports and an enhanced role for rail.

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As well as looking at the use of surplus Government land to boost social housing supply, the plan includes various mechanisms to support affordable housing.

Plan Melbourne Refresh:

• Sets an aspirational target of 70/30 split of housing to be accommodated in established vs greenfield locations.
• Requires development in growth areas to be sequenced and staged to better link infrastructure delivery to land release.
• Looks at the use of surplus Government land to boost social housing supply.
• Reforms the planning system to provide for affordable housing contribution.
• Includes value capture uplift from rezoning to put towards policy priorities, such as affordable housing

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Plan Melbourne Refresh seeks to strengthen community participation in planning for Melbourne.

Plan Melbourne Refresh:

• Provides stronger policy for green wedge and per-urban areas.
• Reforms residential zones to provide minimum open space requirements.
• Supports community gardens and productive landscapes, which provide for local food production at a modest scale.
• Seeks to deliver social infrastructure to support communities in a whole-of-government approach.
• Respects heritage while managing change.
• Seeks to strengthen community participation in planning for Melbourne.

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One priority is transitioning to a low-carbon economy, with a target of 25% energy from renewal sources by 2020.

Plan Melbourne Refresh:

• Aims to transition to a low-carbon economy, with a target of 25% energy from renewal sources by 2020.
• Includes provisions for climate change impacts to be included in future infrastructure planning, with a focus on precinct-scale energy production.