By 2051, Melton will be required to add 132,000 new homes, an increase of 190%. Mitchell Shire, which covers Beveridge and Wallan, to increase housing from 21,800 to 89,800 by 2051, more than 300% of the current housing stock. And Melbourne City Council suburbs are expected to have 122 per cent more homes.
RMIT urban planning professor Andrew Butt welcomed the housing targets, saying they provided clarity and expectations.
But he encouraged the government to consider infrastructure targets, similar to those announced in Queensland, given the pressure Melbourne's inner and outer suburbs were already under to accommodate hundreds of thousands of new homes.
“The burden remains on the outer fringe and downtown, which have done their part,” Butt said.
YIMBY Melbourne's Jonathan O'Brien at Moreland Station, where the group is proposing the redevelopment.Credit: Eddie Jim
“If it's just housing, you're missing out on other strategies such as community buildings, green spaces, social infrastructure. Where are the job goals? Where are the infrastructure goals?”
Jonathan O'Brien, from pro-development group YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) Melbourne, said he was encouraged to see targets for townships where Victorians wanted to live, including Darebin, Kingston and Yarra. These councils have been asked to increase the number of homes by between 85 and 103 percent.
But he said the State Government was still relying on fringe suburbs to drive the bulk of new homes and letting some councils in the middle ring “off the hook”.
O'Brien said some boroughs such as Boroondara, which was asked to accommodate 67,000 new homes by 2051 to grow by 90%, had been “liberated” compared to other council areas. “The government is still somewhat taking the path of least resistance, allowing growth areas to take the majority of new housing,” he said.
New houses needed to be built “in places where Victorians want to live”. He pointed to Brimbank (which needs to accommodate 72,000 new homes, or a 98 per cent jump in housing) and Maribyrnong (which needs to add 49,000 homes, or a 114 per cent increase in housing stock) as examples of municipalities that would have problems. to achieve their goals. “In some of these areas, the demand just isn't there,” he said.
The Victorian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia argued councils would need support from the state government to deal with the housing crisis.
“Some of the local government's biggest targets for delivering more homes are in outer Melbourne,” chief executive Linda Allison said.
He called on the government to approve more lots for housing development, saying the institute's independent modeling showed Victoria was “way behind in approving new land supply”.
Opposition planning spokesman James Newbury described the targets as “bogus” and said they would not be achieved.
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“What I suspect the government will do is … announce a regime of severe penalties for any council that fails to meet these targets,” he said.
On Sunday, Allan would not be blamed for the penalties on councils that failed to meet the targets, but accused some of failing to support the building of new homes.
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