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Structure Plans

Airport West and Essendon Airport: auto-centricity status quo?

Tue, 25/03/2014 - 08:03 Alastair Taylor
On Wednesday 19th March the Planning Minister Matthew Guy announced the Metropolitan Planning Authority, Moonee Valley City Council and Essendon fields are to begin working on a new framework "to guide an exciting new aviation and employment precinct in Melbourne's inner north". According to the brochure on MPA's site , the plan will incorporate the Essendon Airport masterplan and Moonee Valley's Airport West structure plan into an overall...

Conversations with Matthew Guy, Episode II - In the Zone

Fri, 18/10/2013 - 05:31 Laurence Dragomir
Following on from Alastair's article on Monday , Urban Melbourne continues its coverage of the Plan Melbourne Strategy by today taking a look at the Reformed Zones, particularly the new Residential Zones - setting the scene for what is effectively Part 2 of our interview with Planning Minister Matthew Guy. July 1st 2013 saw the introduction of five new zones across the state - Residential Growth Zone, General Residential Zone, Neighbourhood...

Transforming Australian Cities - a must read

Fri, 30/08/2013 - 12:34 Alastair Taylor
Update: 30/8/13. Kevin Rudd has announced if the ALP are re-elected on September 7th, they will establish a Minister for Cities. We welcome Federal Leadership in cities and hope everyone who views the following lecture walks away with the same impression we did: increasing density in appropriate areas - distributed thoughtout entire metros - increases localised economic opportunity away from the central cores of Australia's cities. If we're to...

Port Phillip's Montague Structure plan

Mon, 01/04/2013 - 15:39 Alastair Taylor
As a precursor to numerous planning applications appearing for Fishermans Bend, today we'll focus on Montague - one of four defined Fisherman's Bend sub-precincts planned by the state government. Montague has a structure plan, with the City of Port Phillip adopting it during September 2012. To view the entire structure plan document suite, click here , but for the time being we'll focus on Montague as seen through Port Phillip's eyes. In the...
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    Development & Planning

    SEEK and you will find... a new Cremorne headquarters
    Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 12:00
    Architecture practice HASSELL is heading design efforts for a new office development with an end value of $163 million that will see job search firm SEEK take root within Cremorne. The atypically shaped campus-style building was lodged with City of Yarra earlier this month, nominating a large land parcel at 60-88 Cremorne Street as SEEK's new headquarters.
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    Policy, Culture & Opinion

    A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
    Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - 12:00
    Carolyn Whitzman , University of Melbourne Liveability is an increasingly important goal of Australian planning policy. And creating cities where residents can get to most of the services they need within 20 to 30 minutes has been proposed, at both federal and state level, as a key liveability-related mechanism.
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    Visual Melbourne

    Docklands Places and Spaces, Part Three: NewQuay + Harbour Town
    Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 12:00
    Part Three follows on from the Part One: Yarra's Edge and Part Two: Victoria Harbour. The focus of today's piece will be NewQuay and Harbour Town, the northern most precincts within Docklands. NewQuay NewQuay was the first precinct to open way back in 2003 and has probably evolved the most.
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    Transport & Design

    The case for West Gate Tunnel looking wobbly in light of Port Rail shuttle return
    Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 00:00
    Comment It was looking flakey already but now with the announcement over the weekend that the on-again, off-again rail port shuttles are back on the agenda, the West Gate Tunnel project has gone beyond barely scraping through the sniff test to stinking to high heaven.
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    Sustainability & Environment

    The 20-minute city, associated health benefits and expanding middle Melbourne
    Monday, August 21, 2017 - 12:00
    The notion of Melbourne becoming a 20-minute City has been explored heavily in recent times. Seeking to provide Melburnians with the ability to 'live locally', the 20-minute City, in essence, strives to provide people with the ability to meet most of their everyday needs within a 20-minute walk, cycle or local public transport trip of their home.
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