Overview
Amendment C174mona proposes to implement the recommendations of the Monash Affordable Housing Strategy by making changes to the Municipal Planning Strategy, Planning Policy Framework and other relevant provisions of the Monash Planning Scheme to facilitate an increase in the provision of affordable housing across Monash.
The proposed changes also provide additional policy context that recognises that there has been a significant decline in housing affordability in Monash.
For further details, refer to the explanatory report about the amendment.
Details of the amendment
The Monash City Council planning authority has prepared Amendment C174mona to the Monash Planning Scheme.
The land affected by the amendment is all land affected by the Monash Planning Scheme.
The amendment proposes to implement the Monash Affordable Housing Strategy by making the following changes to the Monash Planning Scheme:
- Amend Clause 02.03-5 (Housing) to recognise that there has been a significant decline in housing affordability in Monash and include a strategic direction to prioritise, facilitate and increase the availability of affordable housing in the municipality.
- Introduce Clause 16.01-2L (Housing affordability) to include strategies and policy guidelines that support opportunities to increase affordable housing across Monash and include the Monash Affordable Housing Strategy (Monash City Council, September 2023) as a policy document.
- Amend the Schedule to Clause 72.08 (Background Documents) to include the Monash Affordable Housing Strategy (Monash City Council, September 2023) as a background document.
You may inspect the amendment, any documents that support the amendment and the explanatory report about the amendment, free of charge, at:
- the Department of Transport and Planning website www.planning.vic.gov.au/public-inspection or by contacting 1800 789 386 to arrange a time to view the amendment documentation.
- the Monash City Council website at www.monash.vic.gov.au/Amendment-C174; and
- on request, during office hours, at the office of the planning authority, Monash City Council by contacting 9518 3555 to arrange a time to view the amendment documentation.
Any person may make a submission to the planning authority about the amendment. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make.
Name and contact details of submitters are required for the planning authority to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend planning authority meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions.
The closing date for submissions is Friday 7 March 2025. A submission must be sent to the Monash City Council, PO Box 1, Glen Waverley VIC 3150.
The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office and/or on its website for any person to inspect free of charge until the end of the two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.
ANDI DIAMOND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER