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6.14Collaborate to elevate Environmentally Sustainable Development targets for new development

Progress

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  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Completed
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Joint research project underway.

Council signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment (CASBE) to join the Elevating Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) Targets Planning Policy project together with other councils in June 2021.

The main purpose of this was to help address the policy gap - no dedicated planning policy within the Boroondara Planning Scheme to require an ESD assessment as part of a planning application or require developments to incorporate specific sustainability measures. While more than 20 Victorian Councils already have a dedicated ESD policy within their planning schemes, this remains a key policy gap within the Boroondara Planning Scheme.

Official description

Collaborate on a joint research project with twenty-seven other Victorian councils and the Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment (CASBE) that aims to elevate Environmentally Sustainable Development targets for new development. Consider a planning scheme amendment to implement the planning policy developed as part of the CASBE joint research project.
(According to the action plan)

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Tasks

What's left to do?

  • Todo30/06/2023

    Stage 2

    Stage 2 will encompass a planning scheme amendment to implement the Particular Provision developed in Stage 1.

What has been done?

  • Done31/12/2022

    Stage 1

    Stage 1 of this collaborative research project aims to provide the justification for introducing stronger policy direction within planning schemes to elevate ESD targets for new developments (concluded).

Timeline

27/09/2021 → 30/06/2023

Target audience

Theme

Contact persons

  • Main contact person Environmental Sustainability team

    Environmental Sustainability team

    City of Boroondara

Information updated 03/08/2023