- Plan for Victoria
- Acknowledgement of Country
- About Plan for Victoria
- The plan's vision for Victoria, by Victorians
- Self-determination and caring for Country
- Housing for all Victorians
- Accessible jobs and services
- Sustainable environments
- Great places, suburbs and towns
- Measuring the plan's success
- Actions and outcomes
- Action 1: Implementing housing targets for every local government area
- Action 2: Implement new planning controls to streamline planning in activity centres
- Action 3: Carefully manage the outward sprawl of regional cities and towns
- Action 4: Increase the number of social and affordable homes
- Action 5: Match car and bike parking requirements and bike facilities with demand
- Action 6: Update the Better Apartments Design Standards and the Apartment Design Guidelines for Victoria
- Action 7: Improve transport network planning policy
- Action 8: Ensure new industrial and commercial land is ready for development
- Action 9: Streamline community infrastructure developer contributions
- Action 10: Make the planning system fairer for Traditional Owners and First Peoples
- Action 11: Coordinate public infrastructure and service delivery to support more homes
- Action 12: Protect and enhance our canopy trees
- Action 13: Introduce minimum standards and guidance for open space in established urban areas
- Action 14: Make the best use of land at train stations
- Action 15: Update design guidance to deliver better public places
- Action 16: Embed Traditional Owners’ knowledge in the built environment and introduce more Traditional Owner place names in partnership with Traditional Owners
- Action 17: Encourage walking and cycling
- Action 18: Improve the environmental sustainability of development
- Action 19: Better communicate and manage flood, bushfire and climate hazard risks
- Action 20: Reflect Country in planning schemes where supported by and following ongoing engagement with Traditional Owners
- Action 21: Protect our Birrarung (Yarra River)
- Action 22: Protect and carefully use regional resources
- What's already happening
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Page last updated: 09/06/23