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Inner Metro Region

Inner 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.

We embrace the spirit of reconciliation, working towards the equality of outcomes and ensuring an equal voice.

Office for Suburban Development

1Inner Metro Region Five Year Plan

2 Inner Metro Region Five Year Plan

Introduction 4

Your Inner Metro Region 5

Inner Metro Region snapshot 8

The Inner Metropolitan Partnership 9

Putting community at the centre 10

Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel 10

Metropolitan Partnership Development Fund 10

The Inner Metro Region – Land Use Framework Plan 11

Investment overview 13

Pick My Project 22

Victorian Government election commitments 23

Appendix 1: Inner Metropolitan Partnership – Membership 26

Appendix 2: The Inner Metro Partnership’s 2017 Advice and the Victorian Government’s Response 27

Appendix 3: Glossary 39

Contents



This year’s Inner Metro Region Five Year Plan provides an update on the region’s growing population and economy and outlines the Government’s investments from the Victorian Budget 2018/19 and 2018 election commitments 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 advice provided by the newly formed Inner Metropolitan Partnership on priorities for enhancing the inner 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 Inner Metro Region’s Land Use Framework Plan by the Government and inner metropolitan councils, creating a shared understanding across all levels of government and the community about future population and employment growth, as well as 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 Inner Metro Region Five Year Plan will assist all levels of government and the inner region’s communities to work together to identify challenges and opportunities, and develop new approaches to enhance liveability and prosperity.

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

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

Introduction



Your Inner Metro Region The Inner Metro Region is the urban centre of Melbourne – home to the central business district (CBD), and world-class sporting and cultural facilities, along with high-density residential, commercial and heritage precincts in its surrounding inner suburbs. The region covers the local government areas (LGAs) of Melbourne, Yarra and Port Phillip.

The Inner Metro Region is home to a number of areas designated as major urban renewal precincts including Docklands, Fishermans Bend (Lorimer, Montague, Sandridge and Wirraway), Arden, Macaulay, Dynon and the Flinders Street station to Docklands corridor. The region includes the Port of Melbourne, recognised as a key transport gateway in Plan Melbourne, significant health and education precincts including St Vincent’s and Epworth hospitals, the Australian Catholic University Precinct in East Melbourne and Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct in Prahran.

The region had a population of approximately 366,800 residents (8 per cent of metropolitan Melbourne’s total population) in 2017. Its population is projected to grow by approximately 28 per cent over the five years to 2022. This is the highest projected population growth rate of the six metropolitan regions.

As Victoria’s cultural heartland, this region hosts key sporting events – the Australian Open tennis, the Formula 1 Grand Prix and the Spring Racing Carnival. It also has a vibrant Arts Precinct at Southbank and retail, food and entertainment precincts in Prahran, St Kilda, the inner north and Richmond.

Despite its high level of development and densification, the region is home to many sites of environmental significance – stretches of the lower Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers, and iconic coastal assets in Port Phillip Bay including the protected little penguin colony in St Kilda.



Inner Metro Region snapshot

Population Households Housing mix

• 366,800 residents

• 8 per cent of metropolitan Melbourne’s total population

• projected to grow by 28 per cent over the next four years

• estimated population of almost 470,000 residents by 2022

• 22,000 couples with children

• 44,000 couples without children

• 62,000 lone-person households

• 10,000 one-parent families

Regional housing mix as at June 2016:

• 107,894 apartments of three or more storeys

• 12,818 separate houses

• 53,802 townhouses/flats/small apartments

Industry and business Key employment centres Employment

Top five employing industries:

• professional, scientific and technical services

• financial and insurance services

• health care and social assistance

• public administration and safety

• accommodation and food services

• Melbourne CBD – including Docklands, Southbank and St Kilda Road

• Fishermans Bend Priority Precinct National Employment and Innovation Cluster (NEIC)

• Melbourne University, RMIT and Melbourne Biomedical Precinct (Parkville NEIC)

• major suburban retail areas including Lygon St, Brunswick St, Chapel St and South Melbourne

• Richmond Station to Docklands

• 682,825 jobs in 2016–17

• 30 per cent of all jobs in metropolitan Melbourne

• 54 per cent of the region’s employment concentrated in the top five industry sectors

• 4.7 per cent unemployment rate, 1.4 percentage points lower than the metropolitan average

Future employment growth Regional strengths Regional Challenges/Opportunities

Employment in the Inner Metro Region is projected to increase by an additional 71,300 jobs by 2022:

• 25,100 additional jobs in professional scientific and technical services

• 11,900 additional jobs in health care and social assistance

• 6,100 additional jobs in public administration and safety

• 5,500 additional jobs in financial and insurance services

• 4,700 additional jobs in administrative and support services

• concentration of retail, tourism, service industry and public administration jobs

• high-quality universities and training institutions

• high-quality cultural and sporting infrastructure and events

• public transport and logistics infrastructure

• accessible natural assets/open space including Port Phillip Bay foreshore and the Yarra River

• Maribyrnong River, Royal Park and the Royal Botanic Gardens

• development of the Arden precinct and Fishermans Bend NEIC

• affordable and community housing

• provision of local services and infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing residential population

• urban environmental sustainability



The Inner Metropolitan Partnership

The Inner 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 Partnership has worked to engage with its regional communities to identify opportunities to drive improved social, economic and environmental outcomes and make a real difference to the liveability and prosperity of the Inner Metro Region and its suburbs. This included hosting its inaugural annual assembly of regional community and business leaders to assist in developing its advice to government.

In communicating its priorities to government, the Inner Metropolitan Partnership outlined its vision for its communities ‘to harness and manage the opportunities growth provides in a way that supports a strong economy, a sustainable future and greater social inclusion’.

The Partnership’s priorities

• Rough sleeping and housing affordability – Provide support to rough sleepers by increasing the number of affordable housing units in the Inner Metro Region, ensuring 500 people who are currently rough sleeping exit homelessness, and eliminating rough sleeping over time through establishing longer term initiatives

• Aboriginal children – Improve the health, wellbeing, safety and educational outcomes for all Aboriginal children 0-4 years in the Cities of Melbourne, Yarra and Port Phillip

• Fishermans Bend tramline extension – Ensure the Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area is well connected to attract, promote and develop new economy jobs and businesses, and manage growth

• Innovation and Creative Economies – Ensure Innovation and Creative Economies have the right levers to attract, promote and develop new economy jobs and businesses, and manage growth

• Environment – Ensure there are environmental gains for the region, including: improved transport options that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution; stronger business cases to support energy efficiency and renewable energy; improved waste treatment and minimisation; improved water recycling; reductions to the heat island effect; and increased biodiversity.

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

• additional funding to implement the Rough Sleeping Action Plan

• $1 million for planning to extend tramline to Fishermans Bend

• $200,000 to develop businesses cases for waste and sustainability precincts, including a sustainability hub at Fishermans Bend.

Full details of the Partnership’s 2017 advice and the response from the Government are at Appendix 2. The Inner Metro 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 Inner 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 Inner Metro 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 progress 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 Inner Metro Region Metropolitan Partnership.

Putting community at the centre

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



The Inner 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 the 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 population of the Inner Metro Region is projected to grow from 366,800 in 2017 to 756,000 by 2050. The region faces pressures of an inflating population from visitors and commuters each day and has a national role in supporting business and innovation. How the region tackles the challenges and opportunities of the projected growth will be vital in retaining the Inner Metro Region’s liveability and values.

Driven by the Economy and Planning Working Groups (EPWG) 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 Inner Metro Region, including its strengths and opportunities. Strengths of the Inner Metro Region identified include:

• It is the knowledge capital of the southern hemisphere, Australia’s research capital and a leading producer of applied knowledge skills. The region provides a nucleus for university campuses, attracting students, knowledge and talent, and is the national gateway for overseas and local investment in knowledge industries.

• Major growth in employment can be delivered in the Parkville NEIC, the Arden business precinct, Queen Victoria Market precinct, the Cremorne and Gipps Street specialised design precincts, and the South Melbourne business precinct. Current and emerging centres in surrounding suburbs also have an important role in accommodating future growth and facilitating additional employment opportunities.

• The region is internationally recognised as one of the world’s best tourism and major events destinations and will continue to produce a world-class events calendar. It will expand its offering of the much marketed ‘Melbourne life’ across the region, with entertainment precincts regarded as safe, accessible and vibrant places.

• The Port Phillip Bay foreshore, the Yarra River, its tributaries and parkland, the Maribyrnong River, Royal Park, Fawkner Park, and the Royal Botanic Gardens are iconic open spaces highly valued by the community. Providing connections to these public spaces will assist in meeting the needs of growing communities.



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

• substantial jobs growth in Fishermans Bend, with a focus on education, manufacturing and advanced technology, including engineering and defence industries, and supported by high quality and capacity, sustainable transport links

• improving the connectivity and capacity of public transport systems to keep the region moving, as well as providing a network of high amenity, safe active transport links to balance the demand on the private and public transport networks

• accommodating much of the region’s housing growth through designated urban renewal precincts of Fishermans Bend, Arden and Macaulay; precincts that should be resilient, walkable, distinctive places contributing to the diversity and appeal of the Inner Metro Region

• facilitate the provision of affordable and community housing through planning mechanisms and housing initiatives

• providing social and community infrastructure and active and public transport connections, necessary for a resilient, connected and healthy community

• growing and diversifying activity centres to contribute to a wider network of sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods, while respecting important heritage and neighbourhood character values

• providing inclusive public spaces with high levels of amenity, improved streetscapes and an increase in green infrastructure; new developments will contribute to the public realm to strengthen this region’s network of unique places with distinct character

• new buildings being well designed, environmentally sustainable and adaptable to accommodate a variety of different uses over time

• valuing Aboriginal culture and cultural heritage significance that underpin the identity of the region and their integral role in planning for the future

• becoming a world leader in urban environmental sustainability; leading new technologies to adapt to climate change; planning for water and greening in sustainable urban landscapes; and managing environmental pressures from a growing urban community.

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 that 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 inner metro contained in the Victorian Budget 2018/19;

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

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

Investment overview

The Victorian Government is responding to the growing needs of Melbourne’s Inner 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 Inner Metro 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 new dedicated services 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.

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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.

The Metro Tunnel project will create capacity in the City Loop to run more trains, more often across Melbourne. The Metro Tunnel includes 9km rail tunnels and five new underground stations. Construction is one year ahead of schedule with the Metro Tunnel on track to be completed by 2025.

$23.8 million for a new smoke management and sprinkler system at Melbourne Central Station to ensure the City Loop meets required safety standards.

$21.1 million to strengthen key bridges to improve the productivity and safety of Victoria’s road freight network. The St Kilda Junction tram bridge will also be strengthened to improve tram punctuality, reduce tram congestion and enable the introduction of higher capacity trams on St Kilda Road.

$1 million for planning to extend tramline to Fishermans Bend.

EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD

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

$271.7 million for land to be acquired for new schools across Victoria including for Melbourne and Yarra.

$17.2 million for master planning, detailed design and early works at 14 current and future sites. In the Inner Region this includes:

• Fishermans Bend Secondary School

• Fitzroy Gasworks, new senior campus

• North Melbourne Hill

• Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School.




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$17.1 million to upgrade seven schools in the Inner Metro Region. This will improve educational outcomes through the provision of high-quality classrooms and facilities for learning and community use.

• Abbotsford Primary School

• Albert Park Primary School

• Elwood College

• Richmond Primary School

• Richmond West Primary School

• Spensley Street Primary School

• St Kilda Primary School.

A further $3.8 million for design and early works for an additional campus at Docklands Primary School to meet growing demand.

Every child deserves the best start in life. That’s why the Government is delivering quality early childhood education to help all Victorian kids learn, play and grow, including statewide:

• $27.2 million for more kindergarten places

• $17.9 million for language programs for children in kindergartens and introducing 10 new bilingual programs

• $8.9 million to maintain universal access to 15 hours per week of four-year old kindergarten in 2019 by funding additional costs for educator-to-child ratios, educator salaries and other related costs

• $8 million to support the early childhood education workforce

• $4 million for early start kindergarten for vulnerable children and the introduction of the LOOKOUT program for early years to support access to kindergarten and effective transition to school for children in out of home care.

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.

$41.3 million for critical police stations including the relocation of the East Melbourne Police Station to a new fit-for-purpose building in the CBD. This new station will be critical in supporting police operations and patrols across the Melbourne CBD.




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$40.7 million to progress further security measures under Melbourne’s Central Business District Protective Security Works program including bollards and other protective measures.

$2.6 million to develop a strategy for the future service needs of the County Court and to secure ongoing accommodation.

$382.2 million statewide to support children experiencing, or at risk of, abuse and neglect.

$283.1 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 being employed statewide

• $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 statewide for new police prosecutors and staff to be recruited to support the establishment of the Bail and Remand Court and to meet growing demand in the court system. This will support the implementation of bail reforms and help ensure offenders are held to account.

$38.36 million statewide related to family violence prevention:

• $9.6 million to improve gender equality in Victorian communities

• $24 million to prevent family violence in Victoria

• $5 million to support implementation of Building from Strength: 10-Year Industry Plan for Family Violence Prevention and Response to strengthen capacity and capability of the family violence and primary prevention workforces.

$25 million 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.

$123.8 million to implement electronic medical records in Parkville precinct, encompassing the Royal Melbourne, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Women’s hospitals. This will enhance patient safety through improved clinical decision support and medication management.

$69.5 million to upgrade The Alfred Hospital including fire safety compliance and associated core building services works in the multi-level main ward.

$21.7 million for the High-Rise Fire Upgrade Program to install sprinklers and smoke detection to the walkways, and smoke separation to the lift lobbies in public housing residential towers. Works will be undertaken in several LGAs including in the City of Yarra and City of Port Phillip.




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$2.1 million to establish a Centre of Research Excellence for bone marrow biology in Melbourne to help accelerate the work of Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision in finding a cure for bone marrow failure syndromes.

$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 St Vincent’s and the Royal Melbourne, 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.

$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, expansion of the CBD Rough Sleepers Initiative, 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.

CULTURE AND RECREATION

The Inner Metro Region offers a variety of cultural, sport and recreation infrastructure and programs with a network of state-significant sporting and cultural facilities. The Victorian Government is ensuring that the Inner Metro Region continues to deliver a diversity of culture and sporting experiences for the benefit of all Victorians and visitors to Melbourne.

$225 million including assistance for the Victorian Major Stadia Funding Program to help redevelop Etihad Stadium and the National Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

$67 million for a professional women’s sports fund to develop or upgrade facilities for professional women’s sport across Melbourne, including $20 million for Ikon Park and $2 million for Victoria Park to deliver new and improved infrastructure and better accommodate women’s sport.




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$64.6 million to redevelop the State Netball and Hockey Centre, which will include six new indoor netball courts, one indoor hockey court, a high-performance and conditioning gym, sports house and upgrades to amenity at the centre. This funding will also establish the inaugural Women in Sport Leadership Centre at this facility.

$36.6 million for the redevelopment of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image including a new permanent exhibition, technology-enhanced whole-of-museum visitor interaction experience and a new learning centre.

$208 million towards a transformed Southbank Arts Precinct. This will kickstart the planning and design phase for a once-in-a-generation renewal of this iconic area. This project includes a new contemporary gallery for NGV, a re-imagined Arts Centre Melbourne, a new Australian Performing Arts Gallery, rehearsal and performance spaces and new public space.

$15.4 million to boost sport and recreation upgrades at parks in Melbourne including Albert Park, Yarra Bend and Ryan’s Reserve Richmond to increase opportunities for participation and meet the demand of local grassroots sporting clubs to attract more participants.

$5.8 million for Port Melbourne Station Pier to undertake strategic planning to support the vision for both domestic ferry and cruise ship operations in Victoria. This will enable necessary upgrades for our growing cruise ship industry. These services, which both operate out of Station Pier, provide significant tourism and freight benefits to the Victorian economy.

$2.9 million for Victoria to host the Australian Performing Arts Market from 2020 to 2024. This will build on the state’s profile as an international cultural capital and promote Melbourne’s cultural facilities and events. It will also benefit the state’s performing arts companies and artists by developing links with international presenters and increasing touring and export opportunities.




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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 Inner Metro Region, including new investments to improve access to the region’s natural assets and open spaces.

$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.

$37 million to implement the Recycling Industry Strategic Plan, which will transition Victoria’s recycling sector to a more sustainable and resilient model. This includes a $13 million assistance package to help councils and industry to respond to changed market conditions in the short term.

$13 million for the Shrine to Sea concept, which links the Domain Gardens and Port Phillip Bay, featuring a boulevard amenity through enhanced tree planting and walking and cycling reconfiguration.

$8.3 million to protect Port Phillip Bay and its beaches, including beach renourishment and developing the Port Phillip Bay Improvement Plan to improve stewardship of the bay, water quality and marine biodiversity.

$3.2 million statewide to improve use and environmental health of priority waterways and storages. This will support greater community access to, and use of, key waterways, storages and recreational fishing locations.

$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 Yarra corridor.



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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 inner metro region a total of $1.13 million of funding was allocated across 10 successful projects, including:

Budget 2018-19

Intersections - converging fashion, medicine and philanthropy for a cancer-free world, Melbourne

New school passive play area and community space, Port Melbourne

One Good Street, Kensington Elwood Outdoor Sports Courts Community Hub, Elwood

Kensington Mental Health Support Group, Kensington200,000 free, nutritious meals for vulnerable Victorians, Abbotsford

Many Hands: Empowering Refugee Women, MelbourneGiving women equal opportunity to play footy in Yarra, Fitzroy North

Men’s Shed at Parkville Precinct, North Melbourne



Victorian Government election commitments

The Victorian Government is continuing to respond to the growth and change in the Inner Metro Region through the following 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


$350,000 to roll out 32 mobile charging bars with a total of 160 mobile phone charging ports at Flagstaff, Flinders Street, Melbourne Central, Parliament, Southern Cross, North Melbourne, Richmond and South Yarra train stations.

City of Melbourne

City of Yarra

$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


A new secondary school in Fishermans Bend will open in 2022. The new funding builds on the $3.8 million already provided by the Government for the design and early works of the new school. The new secondary school will be a state-of-the-art new vertical school.

City of Port Phillip

Funding to complete Docklands Primary School, which will open in 2021. This builds on the funding already provided by the Government for the first stage of the new school.

City of Melbourne

A new senior secondary campus for Collingwood College and Fitzroy High School at the Fitzroy Gasworks site.

City of Yarra

Nine new school upgrades including:

• $12.8 million to construct new facilities at Clifton Hill Primary School

• $9 million to upgrade Fitzroy North Primary School

• $200,000 to upgrade Kensington Primary School

• $7.8 million to upgrade Port Melbourne Primary School

• $6 million to upgrade South Yarra Primary School

• $5 million to upgrade St Kilda Primary School

• $5 million to upgrade Galilee Regional Catholic Primary School

• $1 million to upgrade St Mary’s School (City of Port Phillip)

• $12.5 million for the first stage of a new state-of-the art facility for Albert Park College and the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.

Statewide



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 build ahead of kinder investment

1,000 new and upgraded kindergartens across the state. Kindergartens will be collocated and integrated into new school builds, including Docklands Primary School, which will open in 2021.

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

$220 million to build better TAFEs

Collingwood campus of Melbourne Polytechnic is set to benefit.Statewide including City of Yarra

Health, housing and wellbeing


New community hospital at Fishermans Bend.City of Port Phillip

City of Melbourne

$395.8 million to provide free dental care at all public primary and secondary schools. Statewide

Young Families Package

• $232 million in a comprehensive package of new parent and early childhood supports to help every Victorian parent. Seven new Early Parenting Centres will be built and two will be refurbished. The centres will deliver a range of critical services, including day stays, longer residential stays and more support at home

The Young Families Package also includes:

• a revamped 24-hour phone line with specialists in sleep and settling issues

• a boost to the number of home Maternal and Child Health Nurse visits for vulnerable families, so 7,000 families getting more support

• first aid training to around 26,000 first-time parents per year.

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.

State-wide



Funding for nurses and midwives including:

• recruit 1,100 new nurses and midwives

• ensure that nurse numbers are always rounded up – when applying ratios in every public hospital across Victoria, and across every shift

• allocate a Midwife in Charge in maternity wards with six or more birthing suites, and a Nurse in Charge in short-stay observation units where the unit and emergency department has 30 beds or more

• provide After-Hours Coordinators in hospitals with maternity or emergency services

• fund better care at night, with more nurses on the night shift in our busiest hospitals.

Statewide

Royal Commission into Mental Health 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


Funding towards a Melbourne Pride 2021 celebration

Part of a state-wide $6.4 million in a range of initiatives to further support our LGBTI community.

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

Bringing Bollywood to Victoria

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

Liveable and sustainable communities


New St Kilda Pier

Investing $50.3 million to build a curved pier out into the bay with a penguin viewing area, tiered seating providing access to the water, new toilets and sheltered areas.

City of Port Phillip

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: Inner Metropolitan Partnership – Membership

Name Description Position

Tony Keenan

Tony was CEO of launch Housing form 2015 until 2018, which was formed through a merger of Hanover Welfare Services and HomeGround Services. Tony was CEO of Hanover from 2006. He has served in many community and policy advisory roles including as a member of the Australian National Council on AIDS and the Australian Social Inclusion Board.

Chair

Alex Lawlor Currently Executive Director for Property and Sustainability with the University of Melbourne, Alex has worked in regional development for over 10 years from both government and commercial perspectives. She worked with Vic Urban on the Revitalising Central Dandenong project as well as Footscray and Maribyrnong, and now with the University of Melbourne’s metropolitan and regional campuses.

Deputy Chair

Peter McEwan

Peter is an experienced town planner and Director of the Board for Australia’s first Pride Centre, which will serve as a hub for LGBTI groups and organisations. Peter is also a sessional member of Planning Panels Victoria and a tribunal member of the Architects Registration Board. In 2007 he volunteered his skills as a town planner in the Post Tsunami Reconstruction project in Sri Lanka.

Member

Martin Brennan

Martin has a long association with local government as both an elected representative and a professional. Martin is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab at the University of Melbourne; his role is to provide local government advice to the research undertaken for the Post-carbon Resilient Future Cities Project.

Member

Laura Cavallo

Laura is a skilled professional with extensive experience in destination marketing communications and working in the Victorian tourism industry. In her current role as CEO Destination Melbourne she leads a team that is focussed on delivering their best for our visitors and visitor industry across Melbourne. Laura is also a recent graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Member

Sheree Siow As Head of Legal (Group Insurance) at AIA Australia, Sheree is a highly regarded and strategic commercial and corporate lawyer experienced in a range of sectors. Sheree is an active community member and has received industry recognition as a leader in the Women in Law Awards, Corporate Counsel Awards and Victorian Legal Awards.

Member

David Webster

David is Deputy Secretary, Commercial Division at Department of Treasury and Finance advising Government on balance sheet, commercial transactions and state-owned entities. Prior to DTF, David had more than 25 years’ extensive international structured finance and commercial senior management experience specialising in infrastructure.

Victorian Government Representative

Ben Rimmer Ben Rimmer was the CEO at the City of Melbourne from 9 February 2015 to the end of 2018. Previously, Ben was the Associate Secretary of the Australian Department of Human Services and Deputy Secretary of Strategic Policy and Implementation at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Ben has also worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Australia and the United Kingdom. Justin Hanney will commence as CEO in 2019.

CEO, City of Melbourne

Vijaya Vaidyanath

VJ has been the CEO of Yarra City Council since 2012. Prior to Yarra, VJ spent over a decade as CEO to two large metro councils in New Zealand. VJ also worked as a senior executive in the Reserve Bank in India with brief stints in the USA before migrating to New Zealand.

CEO, Yarra City Council

Peter Smith Peter Smith is the CEO of the City of Port Phillip. Peter started with the organisation on 29 May 2017. Peter has more than 20 years’ experience working in CEO and senior executive roles at all three levels of government, notably as CEO of Adelaide City Council (2008 to 2015), Deputy CEO of the South Australian Department of Families and Communities (2005 to 2008) and National Service Manager for Centrelink.

CEO, Port Phillip City Council



Appendix 2: The Inner Metro Partnership’s 2017 Advice and the Victorian Government’s Response

Following receipt of the Partnership’s advice on regional priorities in November 2017, Victorian Government Ministers and their departments have considered this advice and developed the Governments’ response 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 proposed actions, where government believes further detailed work and evidence are required before government can fully consider proposals for either policy changes or funding new infrastructure and services

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

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



Priority Outcome 1: Rough sleeping and housing affordability

Provide support to rough sleepers in the Inner Metro Region by increasing the number of affordable housing units in the region, ensuring 500 people who are currently rough sleeping exit homelessness, and eliminating rough sleeping over time through establishment of longer term initiatives.

Victorian Government response:

The Victorian 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, this will help to deliver 6,000 new social housing properties, renew 2,500 aged public housing homes and support more than 19,000 people at risk of experiencing homelessness.

In the region the Government is breathing new life into St Kilda’s CityGate Apartments – funding a conversion of the existing accommodation into safe, long-term homes for vulnerable people in the Port Phillip community.

The community housing project is funded by $13 million in grants from the Victorian Government, in addition to $5.4 million from Housing First. The project is expected to be completed by the end of June 2019. Through the Victorian Government’s Social Housing Investment Planning (SHIP) grants program, Port Phillip Council received $200,000 to help drive the planning and development of social housing.

Priority Action Government Response Timeframe

Establish 500 Homes governance structure. This includes:

• funding of services and a coordinator across the three Inner Metro LGAs

• expansion of the Rough Sleeping Initiative to all three Inner Metro LGAs

• a pool of funding to secure head leased (and support service) properties as part of housing offered for 500.

Elements of the priority action will be delivered through recent investment as outlined below.

Victoria’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan announced in January 2018 provided $19 million to expand the Rough Sleepers Initiative to areas that experience a high incidence of rough sleeping, including in the Cities of Melbourne, Yarra and Port Phillip.

Outcomes from evaluation findings will inform future decisions regarding the head leasing funding mode.

12-18 months




Support measures to prevent people from becoming homeless, or early and location interventions when people/ families become homeless


Victoria’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan provides a framework for reducing the incidence and effect of rough sleeping in Victoria. One of the four key themes is intervening early to prevent homelessness. Funding initiatives include:

• $19 million for assertive outreach teams in areas of high demand in metropolitan and regional Victoria

• $33.2 million over the next two years to expand the Private Rental Assistance Program which helps people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to maintain their existing tenancy or to secure a new private rental tenancy

• $10.1 million to design and test new medium-term housing options for vulnerable young people. This support includes housing subsides and leasing arrangements until the age of 21.

Next 12 months

Establish an expert advisory committee including three local governments to develop advice for the Victorian Government on implementation of inclusionary zoning (and/or other developer contributions) for the Inner Metro Region

In Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 the Government announced that the planning system would play a greater role in facilitating the supply of affordable housing. We recognised that local councils and land owners had been attempting to negotiate agreementsfor 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 introduced three amendments to the Planning Act:

• inclusion of the facilitation of affordable housing as an objective of the Planning Act

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

• introduction of a definition of affordable housing in the Planning Act.

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




The Government has been working with stakeholders, including representatives from the Inner Metro councils, to develop instruments to implement the amendments. This includes Guidelines and a non-mandatory ‘Affordable Housing Agreement’.

DELWP will brief the Inner Metropolitan Partnership on all of the mechanisms being developed for inclusionary housing. This briefing will also cover learnings from the Standing Advisory Committee that is considering planning controls on individual sites. This will help inform future pipelines.

Provide 50 beds in each Inner Metro Region LGA as an immediate solution to rough sleeping and homelessness via the ‘Common Ground/Housing First’ model. This would comprise 50 Common Ground units and 50 affordable units for each development.


The Victorian Government contributed$60 million in 2016–17 and 2017–18 to community sector-run accommodation services that assist people to exit homelessness.

These projects will increase supply by more than 300 units over the next four years and could be delivered in a core/ cluster model as evidenced by best practice. This is a more contemporary approach to the older ‘Common ground” model.

In addition, the $1 billion Social Housing Growth Fund will support up to 2,200 new social housing places over the next five years

1-4 years.



Improve the health, wellbeing, safety and educational outcomes for all Aboriginal children 0-4 years in the Cities of Melbourne, Yarra and Port Phillip.


The Victorian Government is continuing to make major investments in Victoria’s health and education systems.

The 2017 commitment to supporting early years health, education and child care through the $202 million Education State Early Childhood Reform Plan to expand and reform early childhood services across Victoria was supplemented by $76 million statewide for early childhood education.

These commitments include $5.4 million to help Aboriginal families to provide a strong foundation for their children’s learning and development and $4 million for Early Start Kindergarten for vulnerable children. Across Victoria $4 million is being provided to expand Maternal and Child Health services tailored for Aboriginal families. These initiatives will provide parents in the Inner Metro Region with better support.

The Government is also contributing $33.9 million statewide for grants to local councils to increase access to early childhood facilities, including the construction and upgrade of buildings, playgrounds and equipment.

Priority Outcome 2: Aboriginal children


Fund a targeted, multidisciplinary, integrated strategy to engage with Aboriginal parents to intervene early to ensure all Aboriginal infants and preschool children in the Inner Metro Region have equal access to high standards of health, early years childcare and education, family support and specialist services

By leveraging the existing Koorie Education Workforce and programs, DET will identify existing Aboriginal participation in early years programs and implement a range of strategies to actively promote participation, with a particular focus on Maternal and Child Health services and three and four- year-old kindergarten.

Environmental scans commenced in relevant DET Areas. Inner Metro strategies planning ended April 2018. Implementation of strategies to increase participation in the early years program continuing into 2019.




Promote systemic reform and the inclusion of Aboriginal children in early childhood education:

• support early years’ service providers, including kindergartens, to review their current approach to Aboriginal inclusion, using a cultural inclusion toolkit

• pilot delivery of cultural understanding and safety training to early years’ service providers (kindergarten and MCH services)

• target engagement with Koorie community to promote participation in kindergarten (using Koorie Kids Shine in Kindergarten campaign) and MCH services

• establish advisory committee to provide advice on Aboriginal inclusion

– representation from Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Incorporated, Koorie parents, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, DET, local government and kindergarten services

The priority actions will be addressed by leveraging the existing Koorie Education Workforce and programs and through the Compact Area-Based Governance Meetings.

DET will identify existing Aboriginal participation in early years programs and implement a range of strategies to actively promote participation of Koorie children in early childhood education, with a particular focus on Maternal and Child Health services and three and four-year-old kindergarten. Focus LGAs are Melbourne (West Melbourne Area), Yarra (north-east metro Area) and Port Phillip (Bayside Area).

Environmental scans commenced in relevant DET areas.

Implementation of strategies to increase participation in early years program from late May 2018 into 2019.



Ensure the Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area in the Inner Metro Region is well connected to attract, promote and develop new economy jobs and businesses, and manage growth.


Over recent years, the Victorian Government has been responding to the broad transport needs of the Inner Metro Region by delivering a suite of major transformational city shaping transport infrastructure projects, supported by projects that respond to the Inner Metro Region’s more local transport needs. The Victorian Government is working to ensure that Fisherman’s Bend is carefully planned and developed as a liveable, connected, thriving community. It is expected that by 2050, it will be home to approximately 80,000 residents and provide around 80,000 jobs. The Government has spent considerable time engaging with the local community, developers and other stakeholder groups to establish a robust and comprehensive plan as a guideline for future development in the area.

Priority Outcome 3: Fishermans Bend tramline extension


Consult with the Cities of Melbourne and Port Phillip in the development of the business case to immediately progress the Fishermans Bend tram extension to planning and detailed design for development of two new tram connections linking the CBDto Fishermans Bend, including crossings of the Yarra River and the Westgate Freeway

The Victorian Budget 2018/19 includes $5 million to complete the planning and begin the delivery of the services and infrastructure that turn Fishermans Bend into a world-class neighbourhood. This will include public transport planning for a new connection between Fishermans Bend and the CBD.

Business case finalised by mid 2019



Ensure Innovation and Creative Economies (I&CEs) in the Inner Metro Region have the right levers to attract, promote and develop new economy jobs and businesses.


The Inner Metro region is home to nationally- recognised creative industries including prominent broadcasting, film and sound recording and specialised design services sectors in Docklands, South Melbourne and Richmond/ Cremorne. The Victorian Government, through Creative Victoria and LaunchVic, is working with inner city councils and businesses to build on Melbourne’s growing international reputation for innovation and creativity.

The Government has purchased the General Motors Holden site at Fisherman’s Bend, paving the way for plans to develop a leading design and engineering precinct of excellence. This will bring together industry leaders in the cutting edge areas of aerospace, defence, marine design and automotive design.

The Melbourne Biomedical Precinct including the University of Melbourne, RMIT and Melbourne City Council based around Parkville and the CBD is also reinforcing Melbourne’s position as an acknowledged, world-class centre for international education and health and biosciences, and will continue to provide highly skilled jobs in this precinct.

Priority Outcome 4: Innovation and creative economies


Investigate regulation, planning controls and other levers that influence employment/ productivity outcomes of I&CEs and provision of co- working spaces, incubator and accelerator spaces Focus on identified precincts: Fishermans Bend, City North, Gipps Street Cremorne, Southbank Arts Precinct, South Melbourne. This includes:

• reviewing definitions for I&CEs in the Victoria Planning Provisions

• reviewing SEPP N-2, (control of music noise from public premises) to ensure the success of live music and night time economy

• establishing I&CE zoning: vertical zone and / or requirements for new developments to contribute I&CE spaces.

The Victorian Government has commenced work on Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 Action 64 relating to affordable spaces for creative industries. The action will identify opportunities for emerging creative industries to access affordable spaces to pursue cultural production and expression by removing regulatory barriers, and brokeringand facilitation cultural development programs.

DELWP (Planning) will meet with the Inner Metropolitan Partnership to explore opportunities to support I&CEs in Fishermans Bend.

Regarding SEPP N-2, the Government has committed to reform of environment protection in Victoria, focussing on a preventative approach. Review of the appropriate controls for music noise from public premises will be considered as part of this process.

2-5 years

Mid-2018

Commencing 2019




Fund a business case to identify, protect and accelerate growth and attractiveness of existing and new I&CE precincts in the Inner Metro Region:

• address underlying economic levers that bridge the lack of publicly accessible, affordable space such as co-working, live/work space and studios within 1km of I&CE precincts – subsidised rent for early stage entrepreneurs and startups

• better align local and state priorities and investment and coordinate these various levers

• identify affordable and suitable land for small batch manufacturing, start-ups, creative industries and SMEs (employment uses not being catered for by the CBD)

DJPR is working to identify, protect and stimulate the growth and attractiveness of creative spaces and precincts in the Inner Metro Region.

There are existing programs that might be used to support this initiative. Options include Creative Victoria’s existing Co- Working Spaces and Creative Places program.

DJPR will work with the Inner Metropolitan Partnership to identify support and progress the initiative.

DJPR will work with the Inner Metropolitan Partnership over the next 6 months to identify opportunities for support through the Co-Working Spaces and Creative Places program.

Promote business networking and collaboration through place- making and other initiatives (i.e. soft infrastructure to support agglomeration and hard precinct infrastructure)

• Activate early and ensure transitional / temporary use of government land assets, such as historic GMH site sheds

DJPR is working with various state and local government departments and agencies to identify vacant or under-utilised government land assets to activate for creative and cultural uses, place-making and industry development.

DJPR will work with the Inner Metropolitan Partnership and relevant state and localgovernment authorities over the next 6 months to identify sites for activation.




The health of Melbourne’s natural environment contributes to the liveability of our suburbs. This includes the presence of parks, trees and green spaces, waste management, planning of the built environment, water use and energy production. The Victorian Government is investing in initiatives to support liveability and the resilience of the environment and local communities across the region. This includes investments in active transport modes, new waste management, energy production and water use approaches and enhancing access to public and private housing.

The Government is investing $3.7 million to provide a drought-proof, secure and protected non-potable water supply to irrigate the Royal Botanic Gardens; and $4.8 million statewide for the Officers for the Protection of the Local Environment (OPLE) pilot program. The OPLE pilot will test the effectiveness of embedding 11 officers in 13 local councils (including the City of Port Phillip) over 15 months to address lower complexity waste and pollution issues.

Ensure there are environmental gains for the Inner Metro Region, including: improved transport options that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution; stronger business cases to support energy efficiency and renewable energy; improved waste treatment and minimisation; improved water recycling; reductions to the heat island effect; and increased biodiversity.

Priority Outcome 5: Environment


Secure the land to allow for the development of the Fishermans Bend Sustainability Hub. The Sustainability Hub will include community facilities for up- cycling, business innovation, education and public open space.

The Waste and Resource Recovery Groups (WRRG) are actively engaged in regional and metropolitan partnership discussions to identify waste and resource recovery investment opportunities. For example, the Metropolitan WRRG will support the Inner Metro Partnership to investigate the feasibility of establishing a Sustainability Hub at Fishermans Bend.

This work will align with the Government’s recent commitment to develop a whole-of-government circular economy policy, as outlined in the Recycling Industry Strategic Plan.

12-24 months




Coordinate greening plans and urban forest strategies across the Inner Metro Region and identify land, including state government-owned land, and local and private, to increase open space and road and laneway canopy cover.

The Victorian Government has commenced Cooling and Greening Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 Action 91 to facilitate urban forests throughout metropolitan Melbourne.

As a first stage, mapping of vegetation, heat and land use is being used to build an evidence base to support future changes to planning mechanisms to strengthen greening outcomes. This action also includes a commitment to investigate a targeted grants program to support innovation and actions for greening neighbourhoods.

DELWP is also working closely with the City of Melbourne to progress a public demonstration green roof in the CBD. The purpose of the green roof is to support research and to promote the role of green roofs in cooling and greening the city. The project is currently assessing expressions of interest from building owners to identify a preferred site for the demonstration project.

Learnings from the green roof demonstration project could be used to inform future amendments to the Greener Government Buildings policy.

DELWP will convene a workshop to present the findings of the urban forest mapping project and investigate how this data could be used to progress the development of green infrastructure, urban forests and open space strategy within the Inner Metro Region. The workshop will comprise representatives of each of the DELWP portfolios and the Cities of Melbourne, Yarra and Port Phillip. Outcomes from the workshop will be reported to the Inner Metropolitan Partnership.

A workshop was convened in August 2018




Active Transport:

• increase cycling and walking as a proportion of travel modes with a focus on planning for walkable neighbourhoods and safe and low stress cycling

• provide bicycle pods and other cycling infrastructure at every station and to be integrated into the Victorian Planning Provisions

• establish a consultative group comprising the city councils and the state government to coordinate and implement

• an inner metro cycling and walking strategy

• prioritise Strategic Cycling Corridors which link council cycle paths for state investment to offer the prospect of safer, lower-stress and more direct journeys to, within and through the Inner Metro Region for people who already cycle and to encourage ‘interested but concerned’ people to cycle.

The Government recently released the Victorian Cycling Strategy 2018-28 to guide planning and investment over the next decade. The strategy seeks a safer, lower-stress, better connected cycling network that prioritises strategic cycling corridors for investment.

A key direction in the strategy is to work with local councils to address gaps in the strategic cycling corridors.

The Victorian Cycling Strategy will guide planning and investment in cycling for the next 10 years



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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