Latest from the MAV Housing Taskforce

Councils – and industry – are worried that the current State Government approach is not joined-up in a way that will deliver practical outcomes on the ground, while risking poor planning decisions across Melbourne and Victoria.

The State has sought feedback on a range of proposed planning reforms to ResCode and key activity centres identified in the Housing Statement. The MAV worked with our Housing Taskforce to recommended a commitment to the following good planning principles and engage with councils, industry and communities to:

• Undertake co-design with councils and industry leaders to ensure proposed plans and provisions align with the intent of the Victorian planning system, community expectations and shared strategic goals.
• Outcomes must be focused on place-making for growing, sustainable communities and deliver on local housing needs – not just housing numbers.
• Share information on how plans have been developed, and be transparent why certain decisions were made
• Give councils a seat at the table on discussions on reforms to infrastructure contributions and ways to do value capture in our activity centres
• Be honest with communities on the changes coming to their neighbourhoods, and commit to partnerships with councils who know their communities the best.

Check out those submission here:

• Submission to ResCode ‘deemed-to-comply’ reforms (PDF - 268KB)
• Submission to Activity Centre Pilot Program (PDF - 305KB)