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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

    Reservoir enters the fray with The Plenty Residences
    Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 06:15
    A litmus test beckons for Reservoir as the suburb's largest apartment release becomes reality. The Plenty Residences at 830 Plenty Road has progressed to marketing, with the release of the first stage of the project's 347 dwellings across the site which sits atop the Summerhill Village Precinct.
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    Policy, Culture & Opinion

    Reflections on doing it right: Alphington, Williams Landing and Fishermans Bend
    Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 12:00
    Two important stories which traverse both transport and housing topic areas were highlighted on Urban Melbourne this week. The news that the medium and high-density components of Williams Landing will ramp up highlight what some might gloss over but what I think is the correct 'order' of doing things: the rail station is built first, developers then piggyback off the new infrastructure second.
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    Visual Melbourne

    Melbourne’s White Night 2017
    Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 07:00
    Once again Melbourne has turned it on for the spectacular cultural juggernaut that is White Night. A crowd of around 600,000 took part in the all night festival of projections, performances, artworks and installations. Stealing the show again this year was the extraordinary projections upon the Royal Exhibition Building.
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    Transport & Design

    Yarra One finally strikes a blow for Forrest Hill's urban realm
    Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 12:00
    South Yarra’s latest development is about to strike a blow for excellent and inclusive urban realm design...and not before time. As far back as 2014 and 2015 , Urban Melbourne has highlighted the runaway success of South Yarra's Forrest Hill urban renewal precinct.
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    Sustainability & Environment

    CoM launches two projects aimed at enhancing the CBD
    Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 12:00
    Two of City of Melbourne's key urban design initiatives are in the starters gates, with Lord Major Robert Doyle yesterday providing further information on the pair. As of next month, the long-awaited upgrade to the southern end of Elizabeth Street will begin.
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