Planning Context - Shire of Colac Otway...Planning Context Citizen Jury Day One – 28 October 2017...
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Planning Context Citizen Jury Day One – 28 October 2017
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Planning Context
Citizen Jury Day One – 28 October 2017
Planning in Victoria • Governed by legislation and Planning
Schemes • Planning and Environment Act, 1987 • Other legislation
• Planning Schemes • Any change to Planning Schemes
require an amendment • The Minister for Planning is the final
decision maker
The Growth Plan will need to be implemented
What is a growth plan? – A note on scale and detail
Framework Pan
Precinct Areas
Structure Plan
Development Plan
Subdivision Plan
Another subdivision
What might we expect from your questions…
• A vision • A map:
• With a township boundary, identifying areas for future residential housing • Areas of major opens space • Key roads or connections • Direction for long term growth beyond 2050?
• Principles for growth • Perhaps options or preferred ways for implementation
Colac 2050 Growth Plan is a long-term strategy that will guide the location of new housing, associated servicing infrastructure, and open
space for the township of Colac. It builds on the vision for Colac established by the CBD and Entrances Project as a “Botanic Garden
City”.
It is a response to the G21 Regional Growth Plan prepared by the G21 Regional Growth Alliance in 2013 which sets Colac an aspirational
population target of 20,000 people by 2050.
• Population Target of 20,000 by 2050
• Identified in State policy for growth
• Spatially central in south western Victoria
• Infrastructure investments in highway duplication and rail
• Population pressures in Melbourne and policy directing growth to the regions
• Need to provide at least 15 years suitably zoned residential land supply
Presenter
Presentation Notes
In planning for growth in Colac several matters need to be considered, including a consideration of climate impacts and opportunities for climate-ready actions. Colac has some unique demographic challenges compared with the rest of the State including: higher levels of disadvantage; higher occurrence of people in the community who experience a disability; and lower median weekly household income. Colac also has unique opportunities including a diverse range of employment industries and an expanding manufacturing sector, bucking nationwide trends. Colac is following national trends with a growing portion of its households with only one or two people living in them. State planning policy requires that Council plan to accommodate at least 15 years of growth across the Shire, and ensure orderly planning through structure planning. The key aim of Colac 2050 is to spatially identify where growth should occur. The Colac Framework Plan is the current plan in the Colac Otway Planning Scheme which guides land use planning and locates the settlement boundary for Colac. Colac 2050 will update (or supersede) this Framework Plan.
Colac: from now to 2015
Colac Framework Plan
Presenter
Presentation Notes
The Colac Otway Planning Scheme is the statutory document which regulates the use and development of land in the Colac Otway Shire. The Colac Framework Plan is part of the Scheme’s Municipal Strategic Statement and is the key map which broadly guides land use in Colac. It shows the current settlement boundary for Colac, and indicates where residential, industrial and commercial land uses are to be located. The plan identifies the opportunity to consolidate development around the town centre and activity nodes taking heritage constraints into account. It identifies some future investigation areas (for residential), some of which are subject to inundation (flooding). Prior to their development, the inundation constraint would need to be mitigated through a cost-effective engineering solution. The plan also indicates that rural residential areas could be potential long term urban growth areas, also subject to flood mitigation measures. Whilst Colac 2050 will update the Colac Framework Plan, there is value in recognising elements of the existing plan which remain relevant.
Amendment C86: Future industrial land
Presenter
Presentation Notes
Builds on place making and environmental strategies
Residential Land Supply and Demand
• A recent study found that Colac has at least a 16 years’ supply of land in the General Residential Zone, composed of land that is either unconstrained or subject to low or moderate level constraints.
• The existing residential areas of Colac also contain vacant lots, derelict vacant dwellings, and single dwellings on larger parcels of land which could be redeveloped as infill development. This would add to the potential future supply of dwellings.
• It is estimated to meet growth Colac will need an additional 75 ha of land supply at a lot yield rate of 12/hectare, or 60ha at 15/ha. This does not include land within the LSIO which could be reengineered.
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