armstrong creek urban growth plan volume 1 - City of Greater Geelong

P 4.7 Development in the growth area should provide for 22,000 jobs. The
job offer should meet best practice standards in terms of number and
type of jobs, including provision of the so-called ‘higher order’
professional, managerial and advanced technical jobs.
P 4.8 Development in the growth area should complement the existing
activity centre and industrial development structure of Geelong, with a
focus on meeting the sub-regional needs of the local population and
business base.
The application of these principles is expressed in three urban land use groups as
follows:
Activity centres;
Industrial areas; and
Emergent business locations.
Activity centres are discussed in section 4.6.
4.4.4 INDUSTRIAL AREAS
Industrial Land Budget
The overall generation of industrial (including new economy industrial) activity from
Armstrong Creek’s population base is assessed as potentially 645 hectares. Of
this figure, 270 hectares will be accommodated within the growth area and the
residual in other parts of the Geelong region, which has vacant land stock.
This is based on the 54,000 residents in Armstrong Creek potentially generating a
need for:
187 hectares of land for manufacturing;
316 hectares of land for logistics;
103 hectares of land for service industry; and
39 hectares of land for other purposes.
Armstrong Creek is being positioned (see below) for two of the possible industrial
segments: manufacturing (in particular hi tech manufacturing) and service industry.
The other segments are to be accommodated elsewhere in the Geelong region.
This provides an Armstrong Creek industrial land budget of 290 hectares,
segmented as:
ARMSTRONG CREEK URBAN GROWTH PLAN / VOLUME 1 (ADOPTED 13 MAY 2008, AMENDED MAY 2010)
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