Our planning aims to balance population growth with enhancing the unique character and heritage of our City.
03 A liveable and well planned city
We will focus on progressing planning controls which seek to balance the need for population growth with maintaining the character of our neighbourhoods and activity centres. We will seek to strengthen controls to enable us to sustainably manage the growth and change and direct most of the new growth into our network of vibrant activity centres.
Strategic priorities
- actively progress our planning priorities to manage growth and maintain the character and heritage of our City;
- plan for diverse housing options to meet community needs now and into the future;
- advocate for a transport network that provides safe, accessible and sustainable transport options for our community; and
- support and facilitate local job creation by enhancing our activity centres to be thriving and vibrant hubs.
Related strategies and plans
Neighbourhood Development
City Places and Streets
Housing
Under the Victorian Government’s metropolitan strategic plan — Plan Melbourne, Glen Eira is required to plan for residential growth. Indeed all councils are expected to have a strategy to guide housing growth that covers a 15-year period.
Roads
Structure Plans
A structure plan is a set of guidelines — a recipe — for developing an area carefully as a great place to live, work and visit. It considers things like sustainability, land use, the scale, height and shape of buildings, the character and heritage of a neighbourhood, transport and parking, and open space.
Transport
We believe it should be easy for you to move around Glen Eira, in walkable neighbourhoods and using a range of safe travel options.
