What is the vision?

This proposal provides alternative options which offer new ideas and promotes discussion. This will benefit the community in the long term and provide choices.This draft master plan is a vision at this stage but that vision will evolve. It is not a final vision it has many options for the community to consider and will improve significantly with community input. The community needs to ask itself what does it really want and who does it want to provide for under what conditions. Does it want to be an innovator? And play an open and engaging role to support innovation.

High housing costs are preventing families buying their own homes. The community needs clever answers if it wants to develop the world’s most innovative affordable and sustainable suburb. The Australian dream of home ownership is slipping away.

Currently, younger people who have grown up in the Northern suburbs cannot afford to buy in the area they grew up in. This draft masterplan proposes that this can be changed, inspired by a site known as Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

This is not a substandard suburb, this proposal puts forward concepts for ultra low energy housing and positive energy housing – the energy rating is well above any 7 star rated houses currently on the market.

There is an option that you buy a house and land that includes planning permission for an additional house if you wish for your children to live next door or you require to double the amount of space in your house. In the mean time you have more open space or a vegetable garden. You also save on interest payments and bank fees savings could be up to 150,000 dollars per house.

Children should be able to go to school in a safer way without being driven and meet there friends along the way all under CCTV surveillance or by using the local tram with a local police station nearby. Increasing the number of people increases the need for the sites own police station especially if a tram line or future metro station is considered.

An option for only 50% of households with a single car using the Vic Urban proposal. This significantly reduces traffic and provides streets safer for children with traffic calming and 5 k/m limits in areas. There is an option for additional cars but at a yearly financial cost. The Vauban precedent charges 35,000 dollars yearly per household wether this is suitable should be investigated. People who do not drive are rewarded with savings and priority when purchasing.