26 March 2013 - Nillumbik Shire Council

OCM.029/13 Submission to Metropolitan Planning Strategy 2012 Discussion PaperAttachment 1ConclusionOverall, Council considers the ideas and themes raised in the Discussion Paper to bebased on sound planning principles. However, integration between the principles islacking as well as a level of detail required to understand future policy directions.Fundamentally, Council sees a metropolitan planning strategy as one which serves tosustain and improve everyone’s quality of life and the quality of our urban and ruralenvironment. At this point, the Discussion Paper leads Council to question whetherMelburnians will have a good quality of life in the future, even if they have a job andwhether our urban and natural environment can function in a tide of development sprawl.Council urges the State Government to make a positive mark on Melbourne’s future byrevising the current Metropolitan Strategy and supplementing it with a comprehensiveImplementation Plan and Infrastructure Plan. The current trend to re-write metropolitanstrategy every decade according to the government in power will pin the city to shortterm and short-sighted projects and policies. Revisions and updates are requiredregularly to ensure population projections are accurate and implementation plans are ontrack but unnecessary reversals of policy only serve to undo years of good work andfunding.ReferencesNillumbik Shire Community Profile, .id (2012)Nillumbik Shire Council Economic Input to Planning Scheme Review, Essential Economics(2009)Inquiry into Liveability Options in Outer Suburban Melbourne, Outer suburban/interfaceservices and development committee (2012)45