Land Development Strategy

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Like other communities in Victoria, the Alpine Shire is growing and changing. Planning for the future is more important than ever.

About

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 

Engagement update

Community Engagement to date

  • Survey - Open October - Closed February 2023 - View the survey results here (best read on a desktop computer)
  • Facebook and local paper advertising
  • 6x Friday/Saturday Pop ups (Bright Market, Mt Beauty Market, Mt Beauty Main street, Porepunkah main street, Myrtleford Market, Myrtleford Main Street) 
  • Letter drop to landowners 
  • 3x 2.5 hour Community Reference Group - (25 individuals with even split between townships, all issuing an EOI to volunteer time) 
  • 1x 3hr Technical Reference Group with key stakeholders  
  • Independent meetings with landowners and community members at request
  • Independent written requests and email responses

How you can be involved

Community members are encouraged to take part in a range of opportunities to learn more, connect with Councillors and staff and share their views.

Your views are important. We need as much feedback as possible to ensure the final document meets the needs of our community into the future - please take this opportunity to have your say!

A community survey has now closed. You can view the survey results here (best read on a desktop computer)

The Your Town, Your Future Land Development Strategy focuses on these four township areas - it does not address growth in smaller towns or Dinner Plain Alpine Village.

View high resolutions copies of the maps available in the Future Directions paper:

What happens next

The Land Development Strategy is currently under internal review by Councillors and Executive team. This may take some time to reach endorsement. We acknowledge this is delayed beyond the expected and communicated outcomes. Council will ensure we continue to update our webpage and socials in regard to this Strategy as more information becomes available.

The Community Engagement Report is now available for viewing. 

Results of the survey (best read on a desktop computer) will be used to guide the development of the draft Your Town, Your Future Land Development Strategy.

The community will be invited to review and comment on the draft document before it is adopted by Council at a future Council Meeting.

Your Town – Your Future began in March 2021 with the appointment of consultants SGS Planning and Economics. 

The project aims to provide a clear framework for safely and sustainably accommodating forecast population and employment growth in the Shire to 2041. It is being completed over several stages.

Project Category: 
Planning
Last Updated: 
Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
Project Status: 
Current Project

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!

info@alpineshire.vic.gov.au
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!

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