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Eastern Metro Region

Eastern Metro RegionFive Year Plan for Jobs, Services and Infrastructure 2018–2022

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Aboriginal acknowledgement

The Victorian Government proudly acknowledges Victoria’s Aboriginal community and their rich culture and pays respect to their Elders past and present.

We acknowledge Aboriginal people as Australia’s first peoples and as the Traditional Owners and custodians of the land and water on which we rely. We recognise and value the ongoing contribution of Aboriginal people and communities to Victorian life and how this enriches us.

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Office for Suburban Development

1Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan

2 Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan

Introduction 4

Your Eastern Metro Region 5

Eastern Metro Region snapshot 8

The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership 9

Putting community at the centre 10

Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel 10

Metropolitan Partnership Development Fund 10

The Eastern Metro Region – Land Use Framework Plan 11

Investment overview 13

Pick My Project 22

Growing Suburbs Fund 23

Victorian Government election commitments 24

Appendix 1: Eastern Metro Region Metropolitan Partnership – Membership 27

Appendix 2: Victorian Government Response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership Priorities 2017 30

Appendix 3: Glossary 41

Contents



This year’s Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan provides an update on the eastern region’s growing population and economy, and outlines the Government’s investments from the Victorian Budget 2018/19 to support jobs and deliver infrastructure and services in the region over the next five years.

New sections in this year’s Plan include:

• a report on the advice provided by the newly formed Eastern Metropolitan Partnership on priorities for enhancing the eastern region’s economy and liveability

• the Government’s response to the Partnership’s advice, including details on its response to each of the Partnership’s priority actions

• a report on the joint development of the Eastern Metro Region’s Land Use Framework Plan by the Government and eastern region councils, creating a shared understanding across all levels of government and the community about future population and employment growth, and housing and land use needs

• details on new government initiatives designed to strengthen metropolitan regional development and engage with communities in identifying and delivering local infrastructure and services such as the $30 million Pick My Project program.

By bringing together this information at the metropolitan regional level, the Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan will assist all levels of government and the eastern region’s communities to work together to identify challenges and opportunities, and develop new ways to enhance liveability and prosperity.

By bringing together this information at the metropolitan regional level, the Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan will assist all levels of government and the eastern region’s communities to work together

The Eastern Metro Region Five Year Plan for Jobs, Services and Infrastructure 2018–2022 outlines the Victorian Government’s ongoing commitment to Melbourne’s eastern region.

Introduction



Your Eastern Metro Region The Eastern Metro Region covers six Local Government Areas (LGAs): suburban Monash, Whitehorse and Manningham, the outer suburban LGAs of Knox and Maroondah and the Shire of Yarra Ranges.

Box Hill and Ringwood are the region’s key Metropolitan Activity Centres, serving as major hubs for the local community. These are underpinned by 23 Major Activity Centres. Together these sites contain a significant concentrations of private, government and community sector jobs and services – and are critical to meeting the employment, service and infrastructure needs of the region’s growing population.

The Eastern Metro Region is one of Melbourne’s largest, with a population of more than 930,400 residents (approximately 19 per cent of metropolitan Melbourne’s total population) in 2017. Its population is projected to grow by around 62,200 over the five years to 2022, reaching 992,600 residents.

The Eastern Metro Region’s suburbs have traditionally housed much of Melbourne’s early and post-war growth. In the outer east, residential areas and commercial centres, such as the Monash National Employment and Innovation Cluster (NEIC), give way to the significant tourist destinations of the Dandenong Ranges National Park and the expansive bushland of the Yarra Ranges. The region’s natural assets are a focus for tourism and include the Puffing Billy Railway, Healesville Sanctuary and the Yarra Valley wine industry.



Eastern Metro Region snapshot

Population Households Housing mix

• 930,400 residents

• 20 per cent of metropolitan Melbourne’s total population

• projected to grow by 62,200 residents over the five years to 2022

• estimated population of more than 990,000 residents by 2022

• 122,000 couples with children

• 91,000 couples without children

• 75,000 lone-person households

• 36,000 one-parent families

Regional housing mix as at June 2016:

• 9,326 apartments of 3 or more storeys

• 271,046 separate houses

• 63,531 townhouses/flats/small apartments

Industry and business Key employment centres Employment

Top five employing industries:

• health care and social assistance

• retail trade

• education and training

• manufacturing

• construction

• Monash National Employment and Innovation Cluster (NEIC)

• manufacturing cluster at Bayswater

• Box Hill, and Ringwood

• health precincts in Box Hill and Clayton

• 429,645 jobs in 2016

• 19 per cent of all jobs in metropolitan Melbourne

• 40 per cent of employment in the region was in the health care and social assistance, retail trade and manufacturing sectors

• 4.5 per cent unemployment rate, 1.6 per cent lower than the metropolitan average

Future employment growth Regional strengths Regional Challenges/Opportunities

Employment in the Eastern Metro Region is projected to increase by an additional 18,700 jobs by 2022:

• 7,800 additional jobs in health care and social assistance

• 5,400 additional jobs in professional scientific and technical services

• 5,200 additional jobs in construction

• 2,600 additional jobs in retail trade

• 2,000 additional jobs in education and training

• large-scale retail destinations

• concentration of manufacturing supply chain businesses

• affordable industrial land on the urban fringe with good proximity to transport routes

• Dandenong Ranges and the Yarra Valley tourism and agriculture

• state-significant water catchments and waterways

• safeguarding employment land

• protecting local heritage and neighbourhood character

• improving and prioritising open space

• creating employment opportunities for young people



The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership

The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership was established in June 2017. Its membership includes eight community and business representatives, the CEO of each local council in the region and a Deputy Secretary from the Victorian Government (Appendix 1).

Over its first 12 months of operation, the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership has consulted regional stakeholders and community leaders to identify opportunities for driving improved outcomes for the region and its suburbs. This included hosting its inaugural annual assembly of regional community and business leaders on 31 August 2017 to assist in developing its advice to government.

In communicating its priorities to government, the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership outlined its vision to ‘build stronger connections between people, places, services and jobs, with an emphasis on addressing disadvantage’.

The Partnership’s priority outcomes cover five principal themes, with specific actions that the Partnership believes should be progressed by government:

• Improved connectivity across the eastern region – Improved connectivity across the region, improving access to natural assets and improving walkability and access to public transport

• Jobs for youth – Create jobs for youth through investment in early research and regional governance structures to underpin the growth of regional apprenticeship opportunities and completion rates

• Seamless health and social services – Support seamless health and social services by undertaking research and identifying options for linking the available services together, and improving the user’s ability to navigate the system and to access the range of integrated, complementary services they need

• Social inclusion – Promote social inclusion through improved gender equity in sports with increased female participation, and development of a roadmap for addressing social isolation focusing on elderly and disability communities

• Affordable housing – Support affordable housing through the funding model for joint ventures between different levels of government and the private sector; research to quantify the region’s future social and affordable housing needs; and a regional audit to identify under-utilised land for social housing project development.

The Government has responded to the Partnership’s vision and advice on priority action with commitments such as:

• $1 million in funding provided for cycling and hiking trails priority projects identified as part of the Eastern Regional Trails Strategy

• funding to help address the region’s priority to promote social inclusion through improved gender equity in sports

• support by the Department of Health and Human Services, who will work with Eastern Primary Health to identify options for integrating health and social services in ways that assist people to more easily navigate the service system.

Appendix 1 provides details on the Government’s response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership’s advice on regional priorities, including actions funded in the Victorian Budget 2018/19.

Full details of the Partnership’s 2017 advice and the response from the Government are at Appendix 2. The Eastern Partnership has also submitted its 2018 advice to the Government. The Government has already commenced considering this advice and will be providing a detailed response through the 2019 Eastern Metropolitan Five Year Plan.



Building on its establishment of Metropolitan Partnerships to involve communities in determining local priorities, the Government has launched additional initiatives in the Suburban Development portfolio that will strengthen our focus on supporting the Eastern region and engaging with its communities to identify and deliver innovative local infrastructure, services and initiatives.

Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel

In late 2017, the Minister for Suburban Development and Minister for Planning jointly established the Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel (MDAP).

The role of MDAP is to provide expert advice to the Ministers on metropolitan development, including the implementation of Plan Melbourne 2017–2050, Metropolitan Partnership priorities and advice on enhancing Melbourne’s liveability, sustainability and international competitiveness at the whole-of-city level.

The panel includes the six chairpersons of the Metropolitan Partnerships and four members with broad skills and expertise in planning and related fields such as economic and community development.

MDAP will play a key role in keeping the Government informed about the impact of planning policies and population growth on regional communities. The panel will help the Government identify practical solutions to managing Melbourne’s growth and maintaining the city’s liveability. It will also ensure that Metropolitan Partnerships are supported to engage and play an active role in shaping the delivery of policies critical to Melbourne’s future growth and development.

Metropolitan Partnership Development Fund

As part of the Victorian Budget 2018/19, the Government has established a new $2 million Metropolitan Partnerships Development Fund.

This fund will be used to support the implementation of responses to the advice provided by Metropolitan Partnerships. It will provide seed funding for program pilots, feasibility studies and business cases to support the development of responses to Metropolitan Partnership priority actions.

Administered by the Office for Suburban Development, funding will be allocated annually across Melbourne’s six partnership regions over the next two years. Funding allocations for 2018–19 will be developed as part of the Government’s response to priorities identified by the Eastern Region Metropolitan Partnership.

Putting community at the centre

The Victorian Government is focused on putting communities at the centre of what we do, including making sure local residents have a greater say in determining local priorities.



The Eastern Metro Region – Land Use Framework Plan

Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 recognises the importance of a regional approach to planning for our city and suburbs.

Action 1 in the Plan Melbourne Implementation Plan requires the development of a Land Use Framework Plan (LUFP) for each of the six metropolitan regions. The LUFPs will be forward-focused to ensure that each region has a plan to provide for the population growth and change that is projected to occur over the next 30 years. It will mean that state and local government, working together, can be clear about how best to develop land and what supporting networks and infrastructure will be needed when and where.

The LUFPs will provide a means to ensure that our suburbs are planned holistically, that we provide not only enough suitable housing, but also set aside land for employment, community spaces and parks, while protecting our natural environment. The LUFPs developed in consultation with Metropolitan Partnerships, will inform the strategies and initiatives in future releases of the Five Year Plans for Jobs, Services and Infrastructure.

The benefits of planning at a regional scale across metropolitan Melbourne include:

• bridging the gap between metropolitan and local government strategic plans by delivering a single regional view

• providing the strategic planning basis for identifying future infrastructure, service and funding priorities

• clearly defining a land-use framework within which each council can prepare their municipal strategies and policies

• ongoing partnership and collaboration between state and local government.

The LUFPs build upon existing strategic work undertaken by state and local government to deliver a regional picture through an integrated partnership approach.

The Eastern Metro Region is projected to accommodate an additional 436,000 people by 2050, with a projected total population of 1.36 million. The projected jobs growth is more modest. Protecting employment land while innovatively accommodating growth, ensuring provision of infrastructure and enhancing the valued natural environment are key land use issues for the region.

Driven by the Economy and Planning Working Groups (EPWGs) that have been established for each region, state and local government officers have collated existing planning strategies and policies to understand what is important to the Eastern Metro Region, its strengths and opportunities. Strengths of the Eastern Metro Region identified include:

• The Monash NEIC will deliver major jobs growth, with a focus on health biotechnology and medical technology, along with advanced technology and engineering.

• Green wedge land, bushland and broadacre sites are significant tourist attractions and have important agricultural value, which generate substantial economic investment as well as being important landscape and biodiversity assets.

• The green and leafy character and significant environmental features, including the Dandenong Ranges, Yarra River, Dandenong Valley Parklands and Lysterfield Park provide a visual backdrop that contributes to the identity of the region.

• The region is home to state-significant water catchments and waterways. Regional cooperation in water cycle management and innovation in water sensitive urban design is important in safeguarding the water quality and security of the state.



Feedback received to date indicate there are opportunities in the region for:

• promoting connectivity and innovation between identified regional employment clusters and the Monash NEIC to stimulate jobs growth and strengthen the region’s role in the broader advanced manufacturing corridor of Melbourne’s south-east

• a network of connected regional-level health and education precincts and activity centres to provide significant opportunities for jobs and housing

• future jobs, housing and services to be intelligently accommodated in established areas to manage growth while enhancing the region’s liveability and distinctive environments

• improving public transport connections and regional strategic cycling corridors to deliver viable sustainable commuter options between activity centres and employment precincts

• delivering diverse forms of housing, including affordable and social housing, that are close to jobs, including the Monash NEIC environs, Ringwood and Box Hill Metropolitan Activity Centres, other Major Activity Centres and in urban renewal precincts

• renewal and replacement of older building stock, including in lower density residential areas, to focus on environmentally sustainable design and adaptability

• collaborating to deliver community and recreation facilities, as well as other infrastructure, to maximise efficiencies and better meet the needs of the growing population

• expanding existing treed boulevards and better integrating canopy vegetation into developments to enhance the landscape character of the region

• balancing tensions in green wedge land to support industries while protecting environmental value.

Next steps

The implementation partners for the LUFP project include the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP); the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR); the Department of Transport (DoT); the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); the Department of Education and Training (DET); the Victorian Planning Authority (VPA); and the councils of the region. Working together, they will expand on the scoping work undertaken to date to prepare a draft LUFP, which delivers a regional picture of the issues, opportunities and aspirations of the region. The Government will continue working with local and regional partners to develop draft plans for consultation.



These investments are based on the Government’s long-term strategic plans for strengthening the economy and liveability of Victoria and managing Melbourne’s continued growth and development as a globally connected city.

This section provides an overview of:

• Major investments in services and infrastructure in the eastern region contained in the Victorian Budget 2018/19;

• Pick My Project grants to strengthen the liveability of local areas announced for the Eastern Metro Region;

• Growing Suburbs Fund grants for community infrastructure in the eastern region LGA of Yarra ranges; and

• Election commitments made in the November 2018 state election to improve outcomes for people in the Eastern Metro Region.

Investment overview

The Victorian Government is responding to the growing needs of Melbourne’s Eastern Metro Region by investing in local services and infrastructure.



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JOBS

The Victorian Government is focused on supporting and driving economic development, investment and job creation across the state, and is committed to projects, industries and ideas that will encourage small businesses to grow and big businesses to invest. The Eastern Metropolitan Region will benefit from funding provided in the Victorian Budget 2018/19 including a $21 million boost for Jobs Victoria.

$10 million to extend the Premier’s Jobs and Investment Fund to support the Government’s economic development priorities to build a strong economy, improve economic growth and create more jobs.

$6 million statewide to increase employment inclusion on Victoria’s major projects through a new, dedicated service to connect young people from Aboriginal and migrant communities and women into jobs on Victoria’s major projects, including roles generated by the Major Projects Skills Guarantee.

$5 million statewide for a new specialised employment support program to be established for long-term unemployed youth and young people facing significant barriers to employment.

Victorian Budget 2018/19 – Eastern Metropolitan Region Outcomes


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TRANSPORT

The Victorian Government is delivering a massive pipeline of transport infrastructure projects, including removing level crossings, building the Metro Tunnel, building the West Gate Tunnel, widening City Link and the Tullamarine Freeway, streamlining Hoddle Street, upgrading the M80 Ring Road, delivering Stage 1 of the Monash Freeway Upgrade, and completion of the Mernda Rail Extension.

$110 million for North East Link for development to procure the project, which will establish a motorway connection between the M80 Ring Road and the Eastern Freeway. The new six-lane, 11 kilometre motorway will include a tunnel beneath environmentally sensitive areas and interchanges at Bulleen Road, Manningham Road, Lower Plenty Road and Grimshaw Street. Local access along key arterial roads such as Greensborough Road and Greensborough Bypass will be maintained and remain toll-free. The project also includes a major upgrade of the Eastern Freeway between Chandler Highway and Springvale Road, which will remain toll-free, and a new dedicated busway facility between the Doncaster Park and Ride and Hoddle Street. The $7-$9 billion Primary Package of works and the $200 million Early Works Package were put out to market at the end of November.

$60 million to upgrade and build more than 2,000 car parks at key train stations, including Belgrave. This will improve amenity and provide more options to access train stations and encourage the increased uptake of public transport.

$22.7 million for priority active transport projects to promote safety and increased use of Victoria’s cycling and walking network. Projects include bike lanes, paths and trails along the Burwood Highway, and from Carrum Downs to Warburton; and pedestrian infrastructure upgrades at Police Road in Mulgrave.

$3 million for planning and design work on a tram line extension between Caulfield, Monash, Waverley Park and Rowville.




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EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD

In the Eastern Metro Region, the Victorian Government is responding to the growing demand for student places by investing to build new schools and to modernise and upgrade existing secondary and primary schools.

$92.68 million to upgrade 16 schools in the Eastern Metro Region. This will improve educational outcomes through providing high-quality classrooms and facilities for learning and community use.

• Lilydale and Upper Yarra Secondary Schools Education Plan comprising Lilydale Heights College, Lilydale High School and Upper Yarra Secondary College

• Box Hill High School

• Heathmont College

• Melba College

• Mulgrave Primary School

• Oakleigh Primary School

• Ringwood Secondary College

• Launching Place Primary School

• Monbulk College

• Montrose Primary School

• Mooroolbark College

• Monash Special Developmental School

• Glenallen School

• Huntingdale Primary School

• Waverley Meadows Primary School

• Upwey High School.

$13.8 million in additional funding for the Monash Children’s Hospital School to continue to provide educational support to students receiving medical care at the Monash Children’s Hospital and as outpatients.

$60.9 million statewide for building the Education State. Funding will be provided for operating costs associated with school asset initiatives including early childhood development facilities on school sites and new schools construction.

$33.9 million statewide for grants to local councils and eligible providers to construct new, and upgrade existing, early learning facilities and integrated children’s centres. This funding will support additional kindergarten places and the expansion of other early childhood services across Victoria, including to support areas experiencing or expecting population growth or other demand pressures.




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$28.6 million for 10 Tech Schools statewide, including in Yarra Ranges and Monash, connecting students to the skills and jobs of the future. Funding will provide for renewal of high-tech equipment at these shared hubs over time and will increase the reach of the industry-linked Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths programs and facilities for school and community use.

Mental Health in Schools. Every Victorian Government Secondary School will have access to a mental health professional with $51.2 million to allow schools across the state to employ over 190 qualified mental health professionals.

COMMUNITY SAFETY

Since 2015, the Victorian Government has made record investments to reduce crime and make communities safer by recruiting police, addressing family violence and strengthening our emergency services. This year’s Budget includes new investments that strengthen the justice system and prevent crime.

$390.7 million for to better support children who need to go into out of home care with more home-based care placements and better support for carers.

$282.6 million statewide to support vulnerable children and their families. This includes:

• $225.5 million to better assist children in the statutory child protection system through an extra 450 child protection practitioners

• $7.7 million in 2018–19 to cover civil claims costs for historical institutional child abuse

• $49.9 million for family violence therapeutic and flexible support, including approximately 6,500 flexible support packages to enable victim survivors of family violence to access counselling and therapeutic supports to aid recovery.

$96.9 million for Victoria Police prosecutors and $21.8 million to equip the Office of Public Prosecutions to prosecute serious crimes and hold offenders to account.

$27.7 million for twenty-four hour, seven days a week refuge responses for victims of family violence to provide secure, after-hours crisis accommodation for women and children seeking immediate support.

$25 million statewide for local crime prevention initiatives, including youth crime prevention projects, the Public Safety Infrastructure and Community Safety funds, and crime prevention agencies such as Crime Stoppers and Neighbourhood Watch.




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HEALTH, HOUSING AND WELLBEING

The Victorian Government is continuing to build a high-quality, proactive health and human service system. Building on the Government’s major investments in hospitals, we are making further investments in our health workforce, boosting access to mental health services, expanding alcohol and drug treatment and early intervention services, and improving ambulance response times. The Victorian Government also continues to have a strong focus on affordable housing and addressing homelessness, with record investment in housing and homelessness support, as well as financial backing for new forms of social housing investment across the state.

Victorian Budget 2018/19 will provide $2.1 billion, supporting the 1.96 million patients expected to be admitted to our hospitals, and the 1.84 million patients to be seen in our emergency departments, this year.

More than 207,000 Victorians will get the surgery they need sooner, with a $217.6 million elective surgery blitz to cut down waiting times and lists. This is equivalent to nearly 14,370 hip replacements or more than 76,000 eye surgeries.

Budget funding will also help meet the growing demand on our health and ambulance services, giving patients the emergency care they need, when they need it.

• $25 million for a Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund to help the sector identify, scale and embed innovation effectively

• $6.7 million to deliver immunisation programs that tackle meningococcal and influenza

• $217.6 million elective surgery blitz to cut down waiting times and lists

• $2.1 million for more rural and regional patients to access support through the Victorian Patient Transport Assistance Scheme

• $6.5 million to respond to people’s end-of-life care choices.

$705 million for more mental health support, extra regional rehabilitation facilities and new emergency department crisis hubs to help Victorians struggling with mental illness.

• $232.4 million to support 89 new and existing acute inpatient beds and boost the number of treatment hours in community-based services, giving around 12,800 more Victorians the care they require

• $100.5 million in six emergency department crisis hubs across the state, including Monash Medical Centre to help people with urgent mental health, alcohol and drug issues

• $18.7 million to support the development of six new Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement sites

• $153.8 million to provide intensive community mental health services and support for current high-need mental health clients.

$543 million to construct the world class Victorian Heart Hospital to ensure all Victorian patients with heart disease can access the world’s best cardiac care, by bringing together cardiovascular treatment, ground-breaking medical research and training under one roof.




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$45 million for the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan. The Action Plan initiatives include 20 one-bedroom modular units with intensive onsite support, multidisciplinary housing teams to support complex clients to maintain stable housing, eight additional assertive outreach teams in locations of highest need, and funding therapeutic services in major inner city crisis accommodation centres to improve health, wellbeing and housing outcomes.

$9.7 million to process more planning permits.

$3.5 million to help councils do faster subdivision approvals.

CULTURE AND RECREATION

The Eastern Metro Region offers a variety of cultural, sport and recreation infrastructure and programs with a network of regional and local tracks and trails, parks and aquatic and leisure facilities. The Victorian Government is ensuring that new and existing sport and recreation facilities meet the demand generated by population growth in established areas, as well as growth area communities in the outer east.

$15.4 million to boost sport and recreation upgrades at parks in Melbourne including Jells Park and Olinda Park to increase opportunities for participation and meet the demand of local grassroots sporting clubs to attract more participants.

$15 million statewide for the Female Friendly Facilities fund to provide grants for developing community pavilions, playing grounds, courts and lighting to ensure women and girls can access appropriate community sporting facilities.

$1 million to implement projects from the Eastern Regional Trails Strategy.

$50 million for the Growing Suburbs Fund to boost the number of community infrastructure projects delivered in Melbourne’s interface councils including the Yarra Ranges. Infrastructure such as parks, community centres, town centres, swimming pools and cultural facilities will be built or upgraded.




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LIVEABLE AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

The health of Melbourne’s natural environment contributes to the liveability of our suburbs. The Victorian Government is working on innovative integrated planning approaches to protect open space in the Eastern Metro Region and enhance public access to the region’s many natural assets and green wedge areas.

$48 million statewide to help Victorians bust their energy bills. Through the Power Saving Bonus, all Victorian households will be eligible to receive a $50 bonus if they seek out a better electricity deal on the Government’s Victorian Energy Compare website.

$3 million for areas within the eastern region for Victoria’s faunal emblems to better protect helmeted honeyeater and leadbeater’s possum habitats, safeguarding populations of these threatened species.

$3 million for the clean-up and remediation of Lysterfield shooting range. The Government is committed to ensuring public health and the environment are protected from the contamination of public land.

$1.25 million to implement the next steps of the Government’s Yarra River Action Plan. The initiative will finalise the Yarra strategic plan, which will introduce stronger planning controls along the Yarra to help preserve the natural landscape along the river’s corridor.

$2.1 million to improve the Olinda Precinct, which will transform the former Olinda Golf Course into 34 hectares of community parklands including a nature-based play space, sports oval, walking trails, picnic facilities, upgraded entry and car park.




Pick My Project

To further support communities to develop and deliver initiatives that strengthen the liveability of their local areas, the Victorian Budget 2018/19 set aside $30 million for a community grants initiative, Pick My Project. With this innovative grassroots democratic program, local residents had the opportunity to nominate local community-building projects, which were then put forward for the community to vote on.

Pick My Project backs ideas to improve local communities, such as new or improved sport and recreation activities, or programs supporting health and wellbeing, innovation and arts and culture.

Residents were encouraged to come up with a great idea to make life in their community even better and to identify an eligible local organisation to sponsor their idea, such as a community group, school or local council. Eligible ideas were put forward for community voting. In the eastern region a total of $2.93 million of funding was allocated across 25 successful project, including:

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Saving wombats with mange, BoroniaCommunity Robotics Lab at Oakleigh South Primary School, Oakleigh South

Riding for the Disabled Centre - Purpose Built, Wantirna South

Monash Community Harvest, Oakleigh

Fairhills High School and Knox Basketball toilet & changeroom upgrade, Knoxfield

Free gentle dance and exercise movement for all ages, Glen Waverley

Women’s Retreat Centre, Donvale Autism ID and Lanyard Project, Forest Hill

Expansion of community space at Domeney Reserve, Park Orchards

Umbrella Dementia Cafes, Blackburn North

A room to play, learn, grow, share, Park OrchardsRenewal of Basketball court outdoor play space, Box Hill North

Norwood Secondary College Wellbeing Space and Community Garden, Ringwood

Pinks Reserve Netball Court Covers, Kilsyth

Community ‘Stay and Play’ Program at Maroondah Toy Library, Ringwood North

Olinda Pool: Toddler Pool & Play Area Upgrade, Olinda

Teen Mums Wellness Social Enterprise Program, Croydon21st century learners need 21st technology! - Chirnside Park Pre-School, Chirnside Park

A Safe and Sustainable Maroondah Scout Hall for Community Use, Ringwood North

Light up Lilydale Dog Park! Lilydale

Warranwood Community Multi-Purpose Sporting Surface and Basketball Court Redevelopment, Warranwood

Autism Carers Connect Events with Spectrum Journeys, Lilydale

Community Fitness Stations, Running Track and Courts, Glen Waverley

Mooroolbark Street Art, Mooroolbark

Supporting Youth Mental Health, Glen Waverley

More information about the 25 successful projects in the east can be found at www.pickmyproject.vic.gov.au/successful-projects



Growing Suburbs Fund

The Growing Suburbs Fund (GSF) is a $200 million fund to deliver critical local infrastructure for communities in Melbourne’s fastest-growing outer suburbs.

The GSF is designed to bring forward critical community infrastructure priorities, delivering projects that improve the amenity, liveability and resilience of interface communities, support connections, enhance services and provide local jobs. These include family and community centres, town centre and civic revitalisation projects, and open space and amenity improvements.

The GSF is available to 10 interface councils: Cardinia, Casey, Melton, Mornington Peninsula, Wyndham, Whittlesea, Hume, Mitchell and Nillumbik, and the eastern region’s Shire of Yarra Ranges. GSF funding provided to Yarra Ranges in 2017–18 included:

Eastern Growth Area

CouncilsProjects 2017–18

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Yarra RangesYarra Valley Trail $2,500,000

Warburton Mountain Bike Destination $3,000,000

The Ridgewalk $2,000,000

Esther Park Synthetic Soccer Pitches $1,250,000

Table 1: GAIC funding committed in the Eastern Metro Region for 2018-19


Victorian Government election commitments

Jobs

Election Commitment Investment area

The Suburban Rail Loop will create around 20,000 jobs during construction – with up to 2,000 apprentices, trainees and cadets employed through the Major Projects Skills Guarantee.

Statewide

Protecting Victorians at work - new criminal offence of workplace manslaughter in the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004.

Statewide

Protect public holiday penalty rates of Victorian workers, introducing legislation in the first year.

Statewide

Transport


As part of the $150 million Car Parks for Commuters Fund, up to 450 new and upgraded car spaces will be invested in Mooroolbark.

Shire of Yarra ranges

An additional 25 level crossings will be removed by 2025. This includes:

• Mont Albert Road, Mont Albert

• Union Road, Surrey Hills.

City of Whitehorse

$5 billion towards the construction of Melbourne Airport Rail Link, which will run from the CBD to the airport via Sunshine. The full business case is now underway, with the project set to begin construction by 2022.

Statewide

The Suburban Rail Loop will connect every major train line from the Frankston line all the way to the Werribee line through Melbourne Airport, with up to 12 new underground stations. The Government will invest $300 million in a full business case, design, and pre-construction works, with work on the first section in Melbourne’s south east expected to begin by the end of 2022. The south east section will run underground between Cheltenham and Box Hill – with new rail tunnels linking the Frankston, Cranbourne-Pakenham, Glen Waverley and Belgrave-Lilydale lines.

Statewide

Education and early childhood


Kinder for every three-year-old

Labor will invest almost $5 billion over the next decade to deliver a full 15 hours of three-year-old kinder, with the rollout beginning in 2020.

Statewide

Kinder infrastructure

1,000 new and upgraded kinders across the state.Statewide

Free of charge pads and tampons in every government school

Labor will provide free sanitary items in all female, unisex and accessible bathrooms at all government schools from term three, 2019.

Statewide

The Victorian Government is continuing to respond to the growth and change in Melbourne’s Eastern Metro Region through the following election commitments.



$220 million to build better TAFEs. Statewide

Nine schools upgrades including:

• $1.1 million upgrade to Waverley Meadows Primary School in Wheelers Hill

• $2.7 million upgrade to Upwey High School

• $6.8 million upgrade to Brandon Park Primary School

• $9.35 million upgrade to Monbulk College

• $7.1 million upgrade to Monbulk Primary School

• $4 million upgrade to Parkhill Primary School

• $10.5 million upgrade to Wellington Secondary College

• $3.45 million upgrade to Yarra Ranges Special Developmental School

• $1.5 million upgrade to Oakleigh Grammar.

Statewide

Upgrade to Healesville Scout Hall

$7,500 to upgrade the hall’s facilities with Scouts Victoria to provide match funding.Shire of Yarra Ranges

Health, housing and wellbeing


Ensure that Development Victoria and other statutory authorities deliver a range of housing options at suitable sites across the State using the redevelopment of under-utilised urban sites to achieve appropriate urban densities of housing, including social housing.

Statewide

$232 million towards a comprehensive package of new parent and early childhood supports to help Victorian parents. This includes:

• Building seven new early Parenting Centres and refurbish existing two

• Deliver a range of critical services, including day stays, longer residential stays and more support at home that will help more than 4,500 Victorian families every year

• Revamped 24 hour phone line with specialist in sleep and settling issues

• Boosting the number of home visits for vulnerable families, with 7,000 families getting more support.

Statewide

New parents and early childhood investment

$21.8 million over four years to give new parents a Baby Bundle, which will include a nappy bag to hold essential baby products, a teething ring or toy with information on teething, key advice on child safety, feeding, sleeping and an emergency contacts list.

The bundle will also include a safe sleeping bag and muslin wrap with advice from the Royal Children’s Hospital about how to safely wrap babies, and four picture books by Victorian authors for different stages of development.

Statewide

Funding for nurses and midwives to:

• Undertake further nurse and midwife to patient ratio improvements to better support nurses and midwives to provide quality care to Victorian patients

• Recruit more than 1,100 new nurses and midwives to rollout these improvements.

Statewide



Emergency services

$109 million for 90 new paramedics to be recruited, including $25 million to upgrade and build new ambulance stations and deliver 23 new vehicles on the road.

Statewide

Culture and recreation


$250,000 redevelopment of the Cypus Community of Melbourne and Victoria. City of Monash

$7.5 million to develop new cricket hubs and upgrade facilities. The first upgrade will be Jubilee park in Ringwood.

City of Maroondah

Bringing Bollywood to Victoria

$3 million to a dedicated Indian Cinema and Bollywood Attraction Fund.Statewide

$3.4 million in a historic boost to multicultural senior citizen organisations

• $52,000 flowing directly to 13 Jewish organisations across Victoria

• $96,000 flowing directly to 24 Vietnamese organisations across Victoria.

Statewide

Liveable and sustainable communities


Half price solar panels at no up-front cost for 650,000 homes. Statewide

$82 million over ten years to provide an additional 50,000 rebates on solar panels for Victorian renters.

Statewide



Appendix 1: Eastern Metro Region Metropolitan Partnership – Membership

Name Description Position

Robin Whyte Robin is the CEO at Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network. She has extensive experience in health policy and strategy, service system reform and health care improvement.

Chair

Phil Murton Phil is CEO of the Eastern Football League, the largest community football/ netball league in Australia with over 600 teams. He is Deputy Chair of the Key Leaders Group for Knox Communities That Care and was a member of the Knox Council Recreation and Leisure Liaison Group. Phil has degrees in Human Movement (Hons), Education and an MBA from Monash Business School.

Deputy Chair

Kristian Dauncey

Kristian is the CEO of Knoxbrooke Inc. a leading disability service in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He has a commercial background, working in Australia and overseas.

Member

Susan Maastricht

Susan is the Executive Director of the Lilydale Lakeside Campus at Box Hill Institute and a registered veterinarian with diverse clinical, operational and senior management experience in university, research institute and education settings.

Member

Simon O’Callaghan

Simon is the CEO of Yarra Ranges Tourism. He was a member of the Melbourne East Regional Development Australia Committee and held the positions of Chair and Director of the Yarra Ranges Enterprise Centres.

Member

David Plunkett David is the CEO of Eastern Health and has extensive executive and senior management experience in the public and private sectors. He has a clinical background as a registered nurse and holds an MBA.

Member

Fiona Purcell Fiona is the CEO of the Outer Eastern Local Learning and Employment Network. She has had extensive experience working with local schools, TAFE, business and industry and community groups.

Member

Elizabeth Langdon

Elizabeth is the Deputy Victorian Public Sector Commissioner, and has more than 20 years’ public and private sector experience, leading policy and operational teams.

Victorian Government representative



Name Description Position

Warwick Winn Warwick has extensive experience in senior leadership positions in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Prior to his position as CEO of Manningham City Council, he was General Manager of North Sydney Council.

CEO,

Manningham City Council

Steve Kozlowski

Steve is CEO of Maroondah City Council. He has more than 25 years of senior local government management experience across Melbourne and served for 10 years as a local government CEO in Gippsland. He is also Chair of the Melbourne East Regional Development Australia Committee.

CEO,

Maroondah City Council

Tony Doyle Before joining local government, Tony had a successful career in the financial services sector, holding senior leadership positions with one of Australia’s largest banks. He has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and led large and diverse teams across a number of environments.

CEO, Knox City Council

Andi Diamond Andi is the CEO of Monash Council and a former president of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Prior to her current role she served as CEO of Yarra Council for four years. She holds a BA Social Work, MBA and a Doctorate of Business and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

CEO, Monash City Council

Glenn Patterson

Glenn was appointed Yarra Ranges CEO in 2008, following time as the Baw Baw Council CEO. He has 25 years’ senior management experience with a number of metropolitan and rural councils, his first CEO role being at Colac Otway Shire in 1998. He also spent a period as the CEO of a Melbourne-based property development group.

CEO, Yarra Ranges Shire Council

Noelene Duff Prior to joining the City of Whitehorse in 2000, Noelene was Director of Customer Services at the City of Monash and has held management roles in state and local government and the not for profit sector, including Senior Policy Advisor at Department of the Premier and Cabinet and the Health Department of Victoria

CEO,

Whitehorse City Council



Appendix 2: Victorian Government Response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership Priorities 2017

Following receipt of the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership’s advice on regional priorities in November 2017, the Victorian Government considered this advice and developed responses to each of the Partnership’s stated priorities. This has included:

• responding to priorities through engagement with existing government programs and services

• providing funding and departmental resources to further develop proposals, where government believes detailed work and evidence are required before government can consider proposals for new infrastructure and services

• developing new initiatives funded in the Victorian Budget 2018/19.

The following outlines the Government’s detailed response to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership’s advice on regional priorities.



Priority Outcome 1: Improved connectivity across the eastern region

Improved connectivity across the eastern region, improving access to natural assets and improving walkability and access to public transport.

Victorian Government response:

The Government supports this priority outcome and is providing the infrastructure needed to improve connectivity in Melbourne’s Eastern Metro Region.

Priorities will focus on developing transport networks to move people efficiently and keep pace with population growth, improving the frequency, priority and integration of public transport, improving travel times and the reliability of public transport and enhancing options for active transport.

Over recent years, the Victorian Government has been responding to the broad transport needs of the Eastern Metro region by delivering a suite of major transformational city shaping transport infrastructure projects and new trains and trams, supported by projects that respond to the Eastern Metro Region’s more local transport needs. The Victorian Budget 2018/19 continues our investment in the Eastern Metro Region’s transport infrastructure.

This includes $711 million for the second stage of the upgrade to the Monash Freeway which adds 36 kilometres of new lanes between Warrigal Road and Eastlink and from Clyde Road to Cardinia Road; an additional $110 million to fast track the detail design and planning for the North East Link; and building a better Fitzsimons Lane as part of the $2.2 billion suburban road upgrade. The Government is investing $3 million for design and planning works for a tram line connection between Caulfield and Rowville linking Caulfield Station to Monash University’s Clayton campus via Chadstone Shopping Centre and more than doubling car parking at Belgrave with a new multi-deck car park in the station precinct providing 470 new car parks for commuters. The Government has also invested $193.2 million to maintain the public transport Night Network, which provides 24-hour services across metropolitan Melbourne each weekend. Residents in the Eastern Metro Region will be able to travel later and stay out longer with all-night metropolitan trains and trams and late night bus services.

Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Construction of the region’s top 12 high-priority arterial road crossings with pedestrian operated signals

VicRoads will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to identify and prioritise locations for pedestrian crossing improvements.

Continuing into 2019

Change to pedestrian crossing funding criteria

VicRoads uses technical guidance to assess the appropriateness of providing a new or upgraded pedestrian facility on an arterial road, such as the Australian Standards, Austroads Guide to Traffic Management, and the VicRoads Traffic Engineering Manual. This is generally the first step in determining whether such a proposal is considered for funding.

VicRoads will meet with the Partnership to discuss their issues to further clarify pedestrian crossing needs.

VicRoads will continue to work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership in 2019.




Implementation of the Eastern Regional Trails Strategy project to construct a network of shared hiking and cycling trails

The Government is providing $1 million for the Partnership to prioritise and implement cycling and hiking trails priority projects identified as part of the Eastern Regional Trails Strategy. DELWP will provide administrative assistancein prioritising and implementing these trails.

In the 2018-19 financial year

Implementation of the Eastern Regional Trails Strategy project to construct a network of shared hiking and cycling trails:

• Ringwood to Belgrave Rail Trail connection

• Waverley Rail Trail

• shared path from EastLink bridge, Wantirna South to Morack Rd, Vermont South

• Main Yarra Trail connection to Warrandyte.

The Government supports a shared path from Eastlink Bridge, Wantirna South to Morack Road, Vermont South. The missing link in the strategic cycling corridor on Burwood Highway connecting the East Link path to the Dandenong Creek trail was funded in the Victorian Budget 2018/19.

Next 2 years.



Create jobs for youth through investment in early research and regional governance structures to underpin the growth of regional apprenticeship opportunities and completion rates.


The Government supports this priority outcome and is generating new jobs in the Eastern Metro Region, and investing in programs to support people to find employment and to develop new markets and jobs in the region. The Government is creating more pathways to employment through youth and apprenticeship programs. This includes funding for Apprenticeship Support Officers to support all first-year apprentices up to the age of 24 years in the Eastern Metro Region to complete their training. Funds are also provided for the Empower Youth Program, which provides intensive, coordinated support to vulnerable young people in areas experiencing social and economic disadvantage to strengthen their health and wellbeing, connection to community, engagement in education and training, and their pathways to employment.

Priority Outcome 2: Jobs for youth


Research to identify gaps and develop a framework for a holistic response to youth unemployment including ascan of existing programs and services, employer needs and best use of current funding

Funding in the Victorian Budget 2018/19 expands Jobs Victoria employment services to unemployed young people. DJPR will brief the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership on current employment support services for young people, and consult with the Partnership about implementation of the new youth employment initiative.

2018/19

Leverage existing governance structures or form a new Eastern Regional Industry Advisory Taskforce to:

• facilitate integrated, cooperative service operation, linking in careers advice

• drive enhanced employability skills and training for young people in closer alignment with industry and workplace needs

• identify strategies for growing regional apprenticeship opportunities and completion rates

• broaden the Youth Initiatives Network

The Skills and Jobs Centres in the Eastern region will provide expert advice on training and employment to support the establishment of an Eastern Metropolitan Partnership taskforce.

Project timing is being determined in consultation with the Office of the Victorian Skills Commissioner, TAFEs and local councils



Support seamless health and social services by undertaking research and identifying options for linking the available services together, and improving the user’s ability to navigate the system and access the range of integrated, complementary services they need.


The Government supports this priority outcome and will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to improve the health and well-being of eastern region communities.

Major new investments in health are being guided by the Government’s Statewide Design, Service and Infrastructure Plan for Victoria’s Health System 2017– 2037, released in December 2017. This plan supports joined-up planning at the regional level across health services, local government, Primary Health Networks, Aboriginal-controlled health services, and other service sectors. We are providing more support for new parents and their children, as well as vulnerable families for whom support in times of crisis or following trauma is critical to keeping children safe.

Under the Absolutely Everyone: State Disability Plan 2017–2020, the Government is assisting people with a disability to overcome barriers to employment, education and housing, and investing further in support services so that people achieve a smooth transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Priority Outcome 3: Health and social services


Scoping study to identify areas of greatest need and a range of options for integrating health and social services and assisting users navigate the health and human services system

DHHS will work with the Eastern Primary Health Network to investigate service connectivity and referral pathways to identify options for integrating health and social services in ways that assist people to more easily navigate the service system. Options identified for further action will be provided to the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership for input.

Discussions with the Primary Health Network will continue to occur in 2019.



Promote social inclusion through improved gender equity in sports with increased female participation and development of a roadmap for addressing social isolation focusing on elderly and disability communities.


The Government supports this priority outcome and will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to strengthen social inclusion and enhance support for the elderly and citizens with disability in the eastern region.

Over the last four years the Government has made its largest investment in women’s participation in sport through the Female Friendly Facilities Grants Program, assisting local councils to build new and upgrade existing, outdated change facilities at sports clubs. Last year, the Government also provided $0.5 million for upgrades at Scammell Reserve in Oakleigh South to support more female participation in sport.

Priority Outcome 4: Social inclusion


Female-friendly sporting facilities

• modular pavilion trial

The Government is investing a further $15 million to build more female-friendly facilities at grassroots clubs across Victoria in 2018–19.

DHHS will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to identify potential investments through the fund.

Applications were open until July 2018.


• upgrade existing pavilions

The Government is investing a further $15 million to build more female-friendly changes rooms at grassroots clubs across Victoria in 2018–19.

DHHS will work with the Partnership to determine potential investments through the fund.

Applications were open until July 2018.


• relocatable female change facilities during construction

The Government is investing $15 million to build more female-friendly changes rooms at grassroots clubs across Victoria in 2018–19.

DHHS will work with the Partnership to determine the feasibility of this initiative.

Grant applications closed in June 2018. The pilot will continue with successful applicants until July 2019.

Equal access to grounds – lighting upgrades funding

The Government is providing an additional $60 million to the Community Sporting Infrastructure Fund to support upgrading existing and building new facilities across the state, from sports lighting to sports fields, to new courts, trails and play spaces.

DHHS will work with the Partnership to determine potential investments through the fund.

Applications were open until June 2018.




Gender equity training in sporting clubs

The Government’s ambitious gender equity agenda includes initiatives to create more welcoming and inclusive spaces for women in sports.

Sport and recreation organisations can apply to the recently announced $670,000 grants program for pilot initiatives that promote cultural change and create safer sporting environments for women and girls. Making sports clubs more inclusive encourages equal participation in sport.

DHHS will meet with Partnership to discuss this program and how to develop it.

Options to deliver this action will continue to be explored with the Partnership in 2019.

Roadmap to address social isolation

DHHS will work with local councils and major public health services to enhance the inclusion of people with a disability in all core business through their Disability Action Plans and Diversity Inclusion Plans, with a focus on activities that reduce social isolation and enhance participation in community.

The Eastern Metropolitan Partnership will be invited to contribute areas for consideration within the planning process.

Discussions will continue to occur into 2019.




The Government supports this priority outcome and will work with the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to strengthen social housing provision in the eastern region. Since the release of Homes for Victorians in March 2017, the Government has committed over $1 billion in housing and homelessness support, as well as $2.1 billion in financial support to grow social housing across the state. Collectively, these investments will help to deliver 6,000 new social housing properties, renew 2,500 aged public housing homes and support more than 19,000 people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Through the Victorian Government’s Social Housing Investment Planning (SHIP) grants program, Knox ($200,000) and Yarra Ranges ($200,000) councils received funding to help drive the planning and development of social housing in their respective areas.

Support affordable housing through the funding model for joint ventures between different levels of government and the private sector; research to quantify the region’s future social and affordable housing needs; and a regional audit to identify under-utilised land for social housing project development.

Priority Outcome 5: Affordable and social housing


Funding model and pilot project

• develop a funding andpartnership model for increasing the supply of affordable housing in the Eastern Metro Region

DHHS supports the growth of social and affordable housing. Homes for Victorians outlines a number of mechanisms to grow social and affordable housing.

These include the low-cost loan and guarantee program for Housing Associations and the Social Housing Growth Fund which will be open to all registered agencies through a competitive allocation process.

DHHS will invite the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership to discuss options for future growth, including the Social Housing Growth Fund.


Funding model and pilot project

• implement a pilot project within the region to trial the funding model as a mechanism for driving the development of affordable housing

DHHS supports the growth of social and affordable housing. Homes for Victorians outlines mechanisms to grow social and affordable housing. These include the low-cost loan and guarantee program for housing associations and the Social Housing Growth Fund which will be open to all registered providers through a competitive allocation process.

DHHS will invite the Partnership to discuss options for future growth, including the Social Housing Growth Fund.





Unused land identification

• audit of underutilised and surplus government owned land for potential affordable housing development

The Homes for Victorians strategy contains a commitment to increase the supply of social and affordable housing through inclusionary housing.

The Government is delivering an Inclusionary Housing Pilot, to use surplus government land for social housing.

One of the six surplus government sites nominated for the pilot is in Boronia.

DELWP will brief the Eastern Metropolitan Partnership on the progress of the Boronia pilot.

If the pilot is extended, lessons learned from its delivery will be used to identify other surplus government sites potentially suitable for inclusionary housing, including in the Eastern Metro Region.

1-2 years.

Unused land identification

• identify privately-owned adjacent lots that could be purchased concurrently for affordable housing development

DHHS supports the growth of social and affordable housing. Homes for Victorians outlines mechanisms to grow social and affordable housing. These include the low-cost loan and guarantee program for housing associations and the Social Housing Growth Fund which will be open to all registered providers through a competitive allocation process.

DHHS will invite the Partnership to discuss options for future growth, including the Social Housing Growth Fund.


Research

• update the Minimum Supply of Social Housing, Eastern Metropolitan Region 2014–2036 research and expand to also quantify any shortfall in affordable housing for moderate income households and for inclusive/disability housing

DHHS is undertaking Victorian projections of long-term housing assistance demand on a spatial basis which will be a valuable input to this initiative. DHHS will engage with the Partnership following the completion of this exercise.

Housing demand projections to be completed by June 2019.




Regulatory/policy settings

• inclusionary zoning provisions for each of the LGAs of the region to apply as part of rezoning processes and permit applications for major developments

In Plan Melbourne 2017–2050, the Government announced that the planning system would play a greater role in facilitating the supply of affordable housing. It recognised that local councils and land owners have been attempting to negotiate agreements for the provision of affordable housing as part of development applications using section 173 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (Planning Act) but these attempts were hampered by uncertainty.

The Government understands the need for greater legal certainty regarding the role of the planning system in the provision of affordable housing, and introduced three amendments to the Planning Act:

• inclusion of the facilitation of affordable housing as an objective

• affirmation that parties could enter into an agreement under section 173 for the provision of affordable housing as part of a development

• introduction of a definition of affordable housing.

DELWP will brief the Partnership on the intent and nature of these amendments and their impact over time.

These amendments came into operation on 1 June 2018. The Government will monitor the effect of these amendments.




Regulatory / Policy settings

• develop a voluntary tool to enable affordable housing agreements between developers, LGAs and registered housing associations

In Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 the Government announced that the planning system would play a greater role in facilitating the supply of affordable housing. It recognised that local councils and land owners had been attempting to negotiate agreements to provide affordable housing as part of development applications using section 173 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (Planning Act) but these attempts were hampered by uncertainty.

The Government has recognised the need for greater legal certainty regarding the role of planning in the provision of affordable housing, and

introduced three amendments to the Planning Act:

• inclusion of the facilitation of affordable housing as an objective

• affirmation that parties could enter into an agreement under section 173 for the provision of affordable housing as part of a development

• introduction of a definition of affordable housing.

The Government has been working with stakeholders, including representatives from inner metropolitan councils, to develop instruments to implement the amendments. This includes Guidelines and a non-mandatory Affordable Housing Agreement using section 173 of the Act.

DELWP will brief the Partnership on the intent and nature of the amendments and their impact over time.

These amendments came into operation on 1 June 2018. The Government will monitor the effect of these amendments.



20-minute neighbourhood: Accessible, safe and attractive local areas where people can access most of their everyday needs within a 20-minute walk, cycle or local public transport trip.

Active transport: Transport requiring physical activity, typically walking and cycling.

Activity centres: Areas that provide a focus for services, employment, housing, transport and social interaction. They range in size and intensity of use from smaller neighbourhood centres to major suburban centres and larger metropolitan centres.

Affordable housing: Housing that is appropriate for the needs of a range of very low to moderate income households, and priced (whether mortgage repayments or rent) so these households are able to meet their other essential basic living costs.

Annual Assembly: Annual meeting in each metropolitan region in June/July/August 2018 to assist Metropolitan Partnerships to test, refine and finalise their annual advice to government.

Community infrastructure: Public places and spaces that accommodate community facilities and services and support individuals, families and groups to meet their social needs, maximise their potential and enhance community wellbeing.

Greenfield: Undeveloped land identified for residential or industrial/commercial development, generally on the fringe of metropolitan Melbourne.

Green wedges: Defined under Part 3AA of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 as “land that is described in a metropolitan fringe planning scheme as being outside an urban growth boundary”. There are 12 defined green wedges spanning parts of 17 municipalities.

Growth areas: Locations on the fringe of metropolitan Melbourne designated in planning schemes for large- scale transformation, over many years, from rural to urban use.

Infrastructure: Basic facilities and networks needed for the functioning of a local community or broader society.

Liveability: A measure of a city’s residents’ quality of life, used to benchmark cities around the world. It includes socioeconomic, environmental, transport and recreational measures.

Major Activity Centres: Suburban centres that provide access to a wide range of goods and services. They have different attributes and provide different functions, with some serving larger subregional catchments. Plan Melbourne identified 121 Major Activity Centres.

Melbourne’s 10 interface councils: Outer-suburban councils in some of the most rapidly growing areas in Melbourne: Cardinia, Casey, Hume, Melton, Mitchell, Mornington Peninsula, Nillumbik, Whittlesea, Wyndham and Yarra Ranges.

Metropolitan Activity Centres: Higher-order centres with diverse employment options, services and housing stock, supported by good transport connections. Existing centres include Box Hill, Broadmeadows, Dandenong, Epping, Footscray, Fountain Gate/Narre Warren, Frankston, Ringwood and Sunshine. Future centres will include Lockerbie and Toolern.

Metropolitan Melbourne: The 31 municipalities that make up metropolitan Melbourne, plus part of Mitchell Shire within the urban growth boundary.

Metropolitan region: A grouping of metropolitan local government areas that are connected by their alignment within the city’s major transport corridors and shared use of major metropolitan infrastructure and services. Plan Melbourne identified six metropolitan regions: Western, Eastern, Southern, Northern, Inner South East and Inner Metro.

National Employment and Innovation Cluster: Designated concentrations of employment distinguished by a strong core of nationally significant knowledge-sector businesses and institutions that make a major contribution to the national economy and Melbourne’s positioning in the global economy.

Resilience: The capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, systems and infrastructure to survive, adapt and grow, no matter what chronic stresses or shocks they encounter.

Urban growth boundary: The geographic limit for the future urban area of Melbourne.

Urban renewal: The process of planning and redeveloping underutilised medium and large-scale urban areas, precincts or sites for mixed land-use purposes.

Appendix 3: Glossary



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