Land Development Strategy

Council is preparing the ‘Your Town, Your Future’ Alpine Land Development Strategy to guide the use of urban land into the future - and we need your help!

The strategy is being prepared to ensure growth and change in our towns is managed in a way that preserves our valued historic, cultural, and natural landscapes for future generations and contributes to the wellbeing and prosperity of our residents. 

Council is required under State Government planning policy to maintain 15 years of land supply in the Alpine Shire.

Recent growth in our towns is driving a need to review how we want to grow.

What Your Town – Your Future does:

• Provides growth forecasts for population and employment in our major towns to 2041  
• Identifies constraints to development e.g. flood, bushfire
• Identifies issues with housing and development e.g. affordability, access to services
• Provides recommendations and options for how our towns will grow to accommodate the forecast growth 
• Provides the evidence base for future planning scheme amendments (rezoning) to support growth 

Your Town – Your Future does not:

• Provide detailed guidance on growth in rural / rural residential or small settlement areas
• Provide enough evidence to proceed immediately to rezoning