OFFICER PRECINCT STRUCTURE PLAN - Growth Areas Authority

4.6 Transport and Movement
4.6.1 Transport and Movement
Objectives
The objectives for transport and movement are to:
• Provide a sustainable transport network that
promotes public transport use, walking and cycling
while reducing reliance on cars.
• Provide an efficient, legible and safe local road
network that:
– enables safe and efficient bus operations;
– complements the role and function of the arterial
road networks; and,
– provides good internal movement within and
between neighbourhoods and good access to
external destinations.
• Provide for a bus network that connects residential
areas to the Officer Railway Station.
• Ensure Officer Railway Station:
– becomes a key focus of the new activity centre;
– accommodates safe and efficient bus
movements;
– enables easy interchange to bus services;
– provides park and ride facilities; and
– is well connected to the pedestrian and bicycle
network.
• Create an attractive and safe interface with arterial
roads.
• Provide for landscaping of roads and streets to
create key public spaces, landscape corridors and
contribute to an attractive urban environment.
• Improve access from Officer to Beaconsfield via a
new east-west road.
• Recognise Kenilworth Avenue as an important
connection to Beaconsfield for Officer residents.
• Plan for the future grade separation of Brunt Road,
new North South Arterial and the Officer Town
Centre Main Street at the Gippsland Railway line.
• Plan for the closure of Station Street at the ‘at grade’
level crossing upon delivery of the new North South
Arterial.
• Plan for the delivery of the Stephens Road overpass
across the Princes Freeway.
• Support the early provision of a safe and efficient
pedestrian and bicycle network that links Officer
Railway Station, bus stops, activity centres and
major community facilities.
• Facilitate a regional bicycle path network linking
important destination points such as Cardinia Creek
Parklands, the Princes Freeway shared path, Officer
Town Centre, Gum Scrub Creek, Beaconsfield, the
Cardinia Road Precinct and future employment
areas south of the Freeway.
• Mitigate impacts of traffic noise from the Princes
Freeway and the railway line to an acceptable level.
• Ensure the transport network is planned to provide
for the safety of all road users.
• Ensure the transport network provides for the safe
and efficient operation of the existing and future
arterial network in the short and long term.
• Limit access to arterial roads to protect their
function and safety.
4.6.2 Implementation
The objectives for transport and movement are met by
implementation of all the following:
• Plan 15: Road Network;
• Plan 16: Public Transport;
• Plan 17: Walking and Trails;
• Planning and design guidelines set out in 4.6.3,
including Table 16;
• Table 17a: Road Hierarchy for the residential area;
• Table 17b: Road Hierarchy for Officer Town Centre;
• Figure 11a-k: Road Cross Sections - residential
area; and
• Figure 12a-f: Road Cross Sections - Officer Town
Centre.
NOTE: The alignment of Local Access Streets
Level 1 and 2 as shown in the plan series
(including Plan 5 and Plan 15) are indicative and
will be resolved at the subdivision stage. Where
these roads are shown on private land, they will
be delivered when landowners develop their
properties. The alignments are indicative and in
general, illustrate a requirement for a connection
from one point to another.
Officer Precinct Structure Plan 115