Local Planning Policy Framework - Moreland City Council

Central Coburg 2020 Background Report [ Phase 2A: Setting the Objectives ]
3.1 Values, Challenges & Aspirations
Integrated Plan Framework
The development of an integrated framework for the Plan is to be driven by a series of
values identified from the community. A number of overarching objectives for the Plan
begin to emerge from this integrated approach to thinking.
Values Objectives
? Stem population decline – support
future growth and increased density.
? Maintain community/social diversity -
a vibrant community.
? Support aging in place.
? Encourage diversity of housing types.
? Support local employment and
economic vitality – Improve viability of
existing business.
? Shared understanding/vision of
future.
? Maintain/enhance open space.
? Sustainable development
? Support Coburg as a prime shopping
area.
? Network of different transport
products – Increased density at
transport nodes.
? Spatial diversity.
? Enhance Public safety.
? Safe and accessible streets, places
and parks for pedestrians.
? Accessible to all sectors of the
community.
? Preserve valued character and
ensure new development is
compatible with this.
? Encourage multiple functions and
services.
? Communicate the ‘story’ to the
community.
? Increase local resident population.
? Support ageing in this place.
? Facilitate sustainable local economy
Increase local employment.
? Intensification of people, activities,
built form.
? Increase non-motorised trips.
? Develop a sense of place/character.
? Improve quality of and access to
open space.
? Arterial roads developed as
integrating elements.
? To ensure provision of affordable
housing.
Planning Challenges for the Next Stage
The key challenges that the Plan will need to work through in developing the next
stages of the Plan were identified.
? Understand the ‘givens’ of Pentridge development.
? Communication of this process to community.
? Understand likely population change/impacts/ability to influence.
? Likely impacts of urban consolidation.
? Options for improving transport integration/network/supply.
? Impact of changing social needs over time and infrastructure – role of social
infrastructure in the future.
? Benchmarks of sustainable development in Coburg.
? Define what we mean by “urban village” and what this means for Coburg (test this
concept against our values).
? Inventory of existing assets and what it means to maintain/enhance their value.
? Inventory of public land ownership / valuation.
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