The Victorian government has announced 50 higher-density housing development zones across Melbourne.
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00:00Premier Jacinta Allen says that she is a builder, not a blocker, and she wants to see more younger
00:07Victorians get into their own homes.
00:10So this is part of a grand plan by the state government to increase the housing stock here
00:14in Melbourne by about 300,000 homes.
00:18So some of those eastern, leafy and bayside suburbs could soon look quite different.
00:25Now we're talking about some suburbs including Toorak and Brighton.
00:30They're among 25 activity centres that have been announced by the state government that
00:36are close to train stations, which will have some really high-rise developments right next
00:42to those train stations, as well as scaled developments the further away you are, out
00:48to 800 metres away.
00:49So that's within a walkable 800 metre so-called catchment zone.
00:55Most of these 25 that have been announced, the first 25 out of 50, are in the eastern
01:02and southeastern suburbs.
01:04They are along the Frankston, Sandringham, Glen Waverley and Belgrave-Lillydale lines.
01:11And this follows an earlier announcement for 10 activity zones in areas like Broadmeadows,
01:18Frankston, Moorabbin, Ringwood, as well as Camberwell.
01:24And Premier Jacinta Allen says that there will be a consultation period with people
01:30to try to determine exactly how high some of these high-rise buildings will be, how
01:37many storeys.
01:38We have seen some suggestions mooted that they might be as high as 20 storeys.
01:43We know that, for example, in Moorabbin, they're going up to about 12 or so.
01:48But she says that it really will depend on suburb by suburb.
01:53And she says that this is long overdue.
01:55This is what she had to say.
01:57Anyone pretty much under the age of 40 knows just how tough it is to find a home, particularly
02:03to find a home maybe close to where they grew up, close to families.
02:07We've got to get on and build more homes, particularly in and around the suburbs of
02:12Melbourne.
02:13And building those homes right next to train stations just makes sense because they're
02:19well located to transport services and great connections to jobs and schools and opportunities.
02:25That's Premier Jacinta Allen speaking there.
02:27We've also heard from Dr Monique Ryan.
02:30She is the federal member for Kooyong and she says that there is a little bit of concern
02:35among her electorate about the fact that there are going to be nine of these massive
02:41activity centres with the high rise developments in the electorate of Kooyong alone.
02:46Some residents have expressed alarm about whether or not they will be able to get their
02:51children into the local primary or secondary school, as well as big questions about what's
02:57going to happen to some of those amenities and open spaces as well.
03:02What we've heard from Premier Jacinta Allen is she was asked whether or not a lot of the
03:06opposition to some of these plans really comes down to nimbyism.
03:11She said, well, you could look at it like that, but this fundamentally is because politicians
03:16have ignored this situation with the housing crisis for so long that we have got to the
03:20point where we are right now.
03:23So the government is now saying that those second 25 activity centres are likely to be
03:30announced probably by the end of the year.
03:34And in the meantime, obviously, there's going to be a lot of consultation that happens and
03:39questions asked by councils as well.
03:41Some critics have said that the state government has brought this out just as some of those
03:46councils are in caretaker mode because there are local elections, which means that the
03:52local councillors can't really prosecute these issues to their full extent.
03:57We will just wait to see what all of the results are in terms of consultation as to how the
04:03rezoning process will take place and exactly how this is going to impact those local neighbourhoods.