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Housing targets
The state government has asked the City of Yarra to build 44,000 new homes by 2050. Where will they go? In January 2026 the state government published Planning Practice Note 90: Planning for Housing. It asks councils to use the new Housing Capacity Assessment Platform (HCAP) to estimate housing capacity. If the capacity isn’t enough,…
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Welcome new champion – YIMBY Melbourne
Streets Alive Yarra is building an online record of broad community support for a beautiful, liveable and accessible city. One way that we do this is to have locals stand up as champions for a policy proposal. Please welcome our newest champion, YIMBY Melbourne, our champion for density. YIMBY Melbourne is a grassroots organisation advocating for housing abundance as a…
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Help build 1 million homes
Dear M9 Mayors and CEOs, The federal government has asked the states and territories to overhaul their planning and zoning regulations to help build 1 million homes across the country: One way that councils can support this, particularly the M9 group of inner city councils, is to collaborate to eliminate parking minimums from their planning…
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Productivity Commission supports Yarra’s Housing Strategy
Yarra’s Housing Strategy was adopted in September 2018: The strategy supports housing growth and housing choice, and directs growth toward ‘appropriate locations’. The strategy seeks to direct new housing to areas within or close to activity areas that have good access to public transport, open space, and other services and limit housing growth in established…
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Amendment C269 2021
Councillors will consider amendment C269 at the council meeting on 3rd August 2021, to decide whether it should proceed to a planning panel. We last wrote about this in November 2020, when the amendment was on public exhibition. Now, in 2021, we’re supporting the officer recommendation for the amendment to proceed to a planning panel.…
