While the avalanche of community outrage about NSW’s proposed new planning regime spilled onto our pages in the past two weeks, with accusations that the community was being shut out, the Victorian government released a toolkit to help community and local councils engage with its Metropolitan Strategy.
Sustainable values, including local energy generation and protecting food growing areas, are a strong feature of the Discussion Paper for the strategy released in October last year.
Planning Minister Matthew Guy said metropolitan councils would take “a lead role in driving extensive community consultation about planning for Melbourne’s growth and development over the next 40 years”.
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