As the floodplain manager for Greater Melbourne, Melbourne Water is committed to supporting the delivery of housing that meets the needs of our growing city and appropriately manages flood risk.
Water underpins all aspects of a healthy, prosperous and liveable city. We play a key role in ensuring all aspects of the water cycle are appropriately planned for, and have supported the ongoing development of our city as it grows and changes.
Our housing statement roadmap
The Victorian Government’s Housing Statement calls on all authorities to meet the important challenge of delivering 800,000 new homes over ten years.
In response, our contribution to Victoria’s Housing Statement – our roadmap – supports delivering sustainable housing growth and outlines our priorities to help unlock tomorrow’s housing.
Key pillars
The roadmap contains a range of priority actions under five pillars. These focus our efforts on the challenges and activities with the most positive impact on supply, while ensuring flood risk is appropriately addressed.
- Good decisions, made faster to support growth: Streamlining processes and fast-tracking approvals in low-hazard areas, to get people in homes faster.
- Better information to identify risk and target growth: Providing information to enable faster processing in low-risk areas while inputting earlier in the development of higher flood risk areas.
- Greenfield areas: Enabling the 30% growth target in greenfield areas by addressing systemic barriers that slow down approvals.
- Established areas: Enabling the 70% growth target for urban infill by providing faster engineering advice to promote more development in low flood hazard areas, and to more quickly identify issues in high flood hazard areas.
- Innovative and well considered risk management: Work with government to set strategic directions and find innovative ways to promote growth and development, while minimising risk and navigating climate change challenges.
As we progress the actions in our roadmap we look forward to providing further updates.
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