NOTES: Land Use and Population Research. (2018) ‘Housing Outcomes in Established Melbourne 2005 -2016: Monotoring Land Use Planning Outcomes’ State of Victoria Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Melbourne.

NOTES:
Land Use and Population Research. (2018) ‘Housing Outcomes in Established Melbourne 2005 -2016: Monotoring Land Use Planning Outcomes’ State of Victoria Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Melbourne.

Introduction:

- Housing development activity accross metropolitan melbourne
- Compliments ABS
- Profiles 12 years of housing
o Increased residential construction
o Throughout melbourne

Context:

- Total number of dwellings
o Doubled
o 27’000 – 58’000
o 2005-2017
- Detatched houses
o Record high over 18’000 in 2017
- Middle and outer LGA
o Stable 9000 pa

Outer LGA:

 Brimbank, frankston, greater dandenong, knox, maroondah, mornington penninsula, nillumbik, yarra ranges
Middle LGA:
 Banyule, Bayside, Boroondara, Darebin, Glen Eira, Hobsons Bay, Kingston, Manningham, Maribynong, Monash, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Whitehorse.

Inner:

 Melbourne, Port Philip, Stonnington, Yarra
- Middle and outer:
o Small scale developments
o Doubled
o 4’000 to 11’000
- Highrise apartments:
o 2000 in 2005
o 20’000 in 2015
o 18’000 in 2017
- Middle ring highrise
o 600 in 2005
o 9000 in 2015
o 7500 in 2017

Why Housing Development Data:

- Lot by lot ‘snapshot’
- Detailed spacial analysis

Reports:

- Key information
- Individual local government

The Central City:

- Melbourne, Southbank, Docklands
o More than doubled
- Development projects
o Increased in boh number and size
 2012-2016
- Added reform to built form controls
o Melbourne city

Activity Centres:

- State and local planning:
o Encouraged residential development
o Activity centres
o Linking:
 Residents
 Employment
 Transportation
 Services
o Combined:
 Mixed use
 Commercial
 Residential
- Creates high level of residential growth for moderate change

- Additional 220’000 dwellings
o 113’000 within 400m of activity centre
o 50% of net dwellings
- City of Melbourne
o 3rd of activity centre growth
o 40’000 dwellings
- Out of centre
o b/n 8000 -10’000 dwellings per annum.
- Core areas of activity centres;
o Increased housing stock 89%
- Hawthorn, Doncaster, Brunswick
o 2014-2016 below median dwelling price for those suburbs
- Heidleburg, Oakleigh, Moonee Ponds
o Improved safety
o Impreoved security
o Retail demand

Development Density:

- High access to:
o Jobs
o Services
o Transport
 Developed at highest densities
- Outside of activity centres:
o Lower scale suburban dwellings
o Keeping with suburban character
o Meeting requirements of local planning provisions
- Mixture reflects greater housing choice
- Redevelopment projects increasing in density
- Density of housing changes gradually
- CBD and immidiate surrounds have much higher density
- Dense sites around
o public transport routes
o activity centres
-
Development by Planning Zones:

- Majority of residential development
o Residentially zoned land
 Encompass wide variety of development formats
• Large number single dwelings
• Dual occupancy
• Small-scale unit development
- Planning zones
o Mixture within
 Capitol City Zone
 Commercial 1 Zone
- Between 2005 -2016
o Names , objectives changed
o Residential zones reformed.
- Mixed Use:
o Important source of housing supply
 Up form 30% 2005-2010
 50% 2011-2016
 Diversification of commercial/mixed use
- 1/3 mixed use occure:
o Capital city
o Docklands

Heritage:

- Cultural connection to the past
o Development data:
 Yarra
 Port philip
 Stonnington LGAs
 Constraint on demolition.
 Volume and density
 Significantly less
- Port Philip, Yarra, Stonnington
o Have heritage overlay
 44%
o Combination of land both residential and commercial
- Housing change, nonetheless occurs within heritage areas which is often the result of the adaptive re-use and repurposing former industrial and commercial heritage buildings
- Buildings that are deemed non-contributory to the character of heritage precincts are approved for demolition by local authorities.
Demolition of Dwellings:
- In Yarra 70% of lots covored by hritage overlay
- Development occurs:
o Development occurs on land converted from non residential uses.
o Demolition in these municipalities often involves the replacement of an existing dwelling by new single dwelling
- The areas with a high number of demolitions
- Have the highest proportion
- One for one replacement
- Development projects
- Bayside (58%)
- Boroondara (64%)
- Stonnington 48%
- Monash 36%
- Moonee Valley is the next highest with 34%

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