Structure Planning for Activity Centres
This full day program focuses on the new Structure Planning for Activity Centres Practice Note 2009.
Content
Melbourne 2030 Planning for sustainable growth (2002), and Melbourne 2030: a planning update, Melbourne @ 5 million(2008), promote the importance of Melbourne’s metropolitan activity centre network in managing urban growth and change. Individual activity centres need to be understood as being part of a connected regional and metropolitan activity centre network. Activity centres have a clear individual role and function, and many centres share similar characteristics. Centres provide a network that maximises choice in services, retail, housing, employment and social interactions.
Structure planning aims to guide activity centre development into the future and needs to be informed through a municipal and regional understanding of activity centres. The key aims of structure planning are to identify the type and quantity of change projected within the activity centre network, and to responsibly manage and facilitate that change within individual activity centres in accordance with the directions of Melbourne 2030. They provide development certainty to encourage particular land use outcomes and promote the appropriate development of opportunity sites, and to promote high quality architecture and urban design through appropriate built form, height and setback provisions.
The program focuses on how to develop a structure plan including an implementation plan, identifying any planning scheme changes required through a statutory framework or development framework, and exploring non-statutory implementation measures such as land exchange or site consolidation, public/private partnerships, marketing, centre promotions and place management.
Designed for:
Local government statutory and strategic planners, economic and social planners, urban designers, architects/designers, place managers, property developers, transportation planners, traffic engineers and private consultants.
Learning outcomes:
- apply a methodology/process for preparing structure plans
- recognise statutory implications when considering the development of structure plans
- identify statutory and non-statutory implementation requirements
- better understanding of urban design principles for activity centres
- analyse built form - height and setback controls in activity centres (from a technical viewpoint)
- improved ability to identify opportunities for public and private partnerships.
Paul Buxton, Assistant Director: Activity Centres Unit; Peter Boyle, Senior Urban Designer: Urban Design Unit DPCD; and Steve Thorne, Director, Design Urban Pty Ltd. All presenters are effective in delivering training that improves the skills and expertise of planning and design professionals.
| Date: | Wednesday 9 September 2009 (FULL) |
| Venue: | Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne |
| Time: | 10.00am - 4.00pm |
| Cost: | $180.00 (inc. GST) Numbers strictly limited to 24 persons |
| PD Points: | 5 |
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