Housing and Community Facilities Activity centre
1 housing , community facilities
1.1 melbourne’s housing , community facilities
1.2 melbourne’s planning history: housing
1.3 melbourne’s housing: flats, units , inner suburbs
1.4 housing , activity centres
housing , community facilities
melbourne’s housing , community facilities
melbourne’s housing needs have been focus of activity centre policies , planning policies ever since city’s future growth potential realised. intentions of planners regarding housing have been influenced contemporaneous (then current) (then existing) social , economic context. not until plan titled ‘melbourne 2030’, developed in 2002 direct connection made between housing , activity centres, , such structure plans activity centres introduced. plan did address roads, transport forms, compactness, economic activity, investment , liveability, , appeared take view community facilities follow without need particular attention in own right. number of historical policies, whilst not directly linking housing , activity centres, shaped suburbs melbourne has today, , hence relevant in melbourne’s 2030 activity centre policy.
melbourne’s planning history: housing
the 1971 melbourne metropolitan board of works (mmbw) plan, ‘planning policies melbourne metropolitan region’ determined melbourne’s green wedges, , considered first policy address melbourne’s outward growth constrains [3] (department of planning , community development, 2012). 1980 , 1981 mmbw’s ‘metropolitan strategy , implementation’ paved way future planning policies encouraging development in existing areas, focus on concentration of housing , community facilities in areas of high accessibility [1]. melbourne 2030, built on strategic aims of 1971 , 1981, addition of urban growth boundary (ugb) , quantified approach urban consolidation [3].
this brief history of melbourne’s planning in relation housing , community facilities involved planning scheme changes particularly evident in 1954 , 1971 plans (‘melbourne metropolitan planning scheme 1954 report, surveys , analysis’ , ‘planning policies melbourne metropolitan region’ respectively), , new state policies in 2002 [4].
melbourne’s housing: flats, units , inner suburbs
the 1954 plan introduced residential zoning regime melbourne classified inner urban houses through fringe development , density. @ time, plan did not intend on increasing densities. 1971 plan predicted limited growth in population. 1971 plan introduced building design guidelines improve 1960s era trend of deemed ‘ugly’ flat development in melbourne (40% of dwellings constructed in 1960s in melbourne either flats or villa units [3] (department of planning , community development, 2012)). 1970s saw renewed interest in housing possibilities of inner melbourne suburbs. 1981 plan emphasised trend proposing redevelopment of old inner industrial sites. city of melbourne introduced ‘postcode 3000’ in 1992 incentive live in melbourne’s city centre, , mid-1990s higher density , diversity housing occurring in inner suburbs , spread middle suburbs.
housing , activity centres
higher density housing in , around activity centres core focus of melbourne’s planning community, since 2002 melbourne 2030 plan. success of melbourne’s activity centres in accommodating higher density housing not universally agreed. affordability of higher density housing of great importance success in housing planning in melbourne 2030. analysis [2] birrell et al. (2005) suggests that;
“the housing side of activity centre strategy has been developed little real regard reality of land availability , cost of construction , development in suburban centres”.
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