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Southern Metro Region
Five Year Plan for Jobs, Services and Infrastructure 2018–2022
Southern Metro Region
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Aboriginal acknowledgement
The Victorian Government proudly acknowledges Victoria’s Aboriginal
community and their rich culture and pays respect to their Elders past
and present.
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as Australia’s first peoples and as
the Traditional Owners and custodians of the land and water on which
we rely. We recognise and value the ongoing contribution of Aboriginal
people and communities to Victorian life and how this enriches us.
We embrace the spirit of reconciliation, working towards the equality of
outcomes and ensuring an equal voice.
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Contents
Introduction 4
Your Southern Metro Region 5
Southern Metro Region snapshot 8
The Southern Metropolitan Partnership 9
Putting the Community at the Center 10
Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel 10
Metropolitan Partnership Development Fund 10
The Southern Metro Region – Land Use Framework Plan 11
Investment overview 13
Pick My Project 22
Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution 23
Growing Suburbs Fund 24
Victorian Government election commitments 25
Appendix 1: Southern Metro Region Metropolitan Partnership – Membership 30
Appendix 2: Victorian Government Response to the Southern Metropolitan
Partnership Priorities 2017 32
Appendix 3: Glossary 42
Southern Metro Region Five Year Plan 3
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Introduction
The Southern Metro Region Five Year Plan for Jobs, Services and
Infrastructure 2018–2022 outlines the Victorian Government’s ongoing
commitment to Melbourne’s southern region.
This year’s Southern Metro Region Five Year Plan provides an update on By bringing together
the southern region’s growing population and economy, and outlines the this information at the
Government’s investments from the Victorian Budget 2018/19 and 2018
election commitments to support jobs and deliver infrastructure and metropolitan regional level,
services in the region over the next five years. the Southern Metro Region
New sections in this year’s Plan include:
Five Year Plan will assist
all levels of government
• a report on the 2017 advice provided by the newly formed Southern
and the Southern Metro
Metropolitan Partnership on priorities for enhancing the Southern
Metro Region’s economy and liveability Region’s communities to
work together
• the Government’s response to the Partnership’s 2017 advice, including
details on its response to each of the Partnership’s priority actions
• a report on the joint development of the southern region’s Land Use
Framework Plan by the Government and southern region councils,
creating a shared understanding across all levels of government and
the community about future population and employment growth, and
housing and land use needs
• details on new government initiatives designed to strengthen
metropolitan regional development and engage with communities in
identifying and delivering local infrastructure and services such as the
$30 million Pick My Project program.
By bringing together this information at the metropolitan regional
level, the Southern Metro Region Five Year Plan will assist all levels of
government and the Southern Metro Region’s communities to work
together to identify local challenges and opportunities, and develop new
ways to enhance liveability and prosperity.
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Your Southern Metro Region
The Southern Metro Region includes the bayside Local Dandenong and Frankston are the region’s major
Government Areas (LGAs) of Kingston, Frankston and metropolitan hubs, serving as focal points for jobs and
Mornington Peninsula, the inland regional economic industry. The Southern Metro Region has the largest
centre of Greater Dandenong, and the growing outer concentration of manufacturing and related activity in
suburban LGAs of Cardinia and Casey. Together these Australia, which is centred on the Dandenong National
locations contain significant concentrations of private, Employment and Innovation Cluster. The region is also
government and community sector jobs and services leading the new direction in advanced manufacturing
– and are critical to meeting the employment, service as the sector transitions from automotive production.
and infrastructure needs of the region’s growing
Accommodating this growth within the region requires
population.
support to revitalise established suburbs and to
The Southern Metro Region has the largest population expand local services and infrastructure. Timely
of the six Melbourne regions at 1,059,000 people delivery of infrastructure and services in the region’s
(22 per cent of Melbourne’s total). Its population is newest outer suburbs will be critical to success.
expected to continue to grow, adding more than
126,000 people between 2017 and 2022.
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Southern Metro Region snapshot
The Southern Metro Region is home to a growing population against a backdrop of significant change and
transformation in its industry structure, employment and demographic profile. Future population projections
and industry trends suggest Melbourne’s south will continue to grow, with broader industry transitions driven by
technology and the shift to knowledge-based industries.
Population Households Housing mix
• 1,059,000 residents • 133,000 couples with children Regional housing mix as at June 2016:
• 22 per cent of metropolitan • 96,000 couples without children • 3,543 apartments of three or more
Melbourne’s total population • 85,000 lone-person households storeys
• projected to grow by 12 per cent • 46,000 one-parent families • 318,700 separate houses
over the next four years • 75,254 townhouses/flats/small
• estimated population of more than apartments
1.1 million residents by 2021
Industry and business Key employment centres Employment
Top five employing industries: • Dandenong National Employment • 392,268 jobs in 2016
• manufacturing and Innovation Cluster • 17 per cent of all jobs in
• retail trade • Frankston and Dandenong Major metropolitan Melbourne
Activity Centres • the top five sectors provide
• health care and social assistance
• Cheltenham, Southland and almost 60 per cent of the region’s
• construction
Fountain Gate, Narre Warren employment
• education and training
• health and education precincts • 6.9 per cent unemployment rate, 0.8
in Dandenong, Frankston, Narre percentage points higher than the
Warren and Berwick metropolitan average
Future employment growth Regional strengths Regional Challenges/Opportunities
Employment in the Southern Metro • rapid population growth in the • supporting industry to transition
Region is projected to increase by an region driving jobs growth in from the automotive sector
additional 25,800 jobs by 2022: services-based industries • creating employment opportunities
• 8,300 additional jobs in health care • concentration of manufacturing for young people
and social assistance businesses and growth in advanced • strengthening tourism
• 5,200 additional jobs in construction manufacturing infrastructure
• 4,800 additional jobs professional, • affordable housing options • increasing engagement and
scientific and technical services • natural assets including Point retention in education
• 3,900 additional jobs in education Nepean National Park and the • improving access to employment,
and training Mornington Peninsula education, services and recreation
• 3,600 additional jobs in retail trade across the region
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The Southern Metropolitan Partnership The government has responded positively to the
Partnership’s vision and advice on priority actions with
The Southern Metropolitan Partnership was commitments such as:
established in June 2017. Its membership includes
eight community and business representatives, the • $2.2 billion to duplicate and upgrade key arterial
CEO of each local council in the region and a Deputy roads in Melbourne, including roads in the
Secretary from the Victorian Government. Southern Metro Region
Over its first 18 months of operation, the Southern • $55.7 million to improve metropolitan bus services,
Metropolitan Partnership has consulted regional including routes servicing Carrum Downs,
stakeholders and community leaders to identify Cranbourne, Moorabbin and Narre Warren
opportunities for driving improved outcomes for the • $400,000 to assess wastewater treatment options
region and its suburbs. This has included hosting for the region led by South East Water, including
two annual assemblies with regional community and the future role of the Pakenham Sewage Treatment
business members to assist in developing its 2017 and Plant.
2018 advice to government (Appendix 1).
Full details of the Partnership’s 2017 advice and the
In communicating its priorities to government, the response from the Government are at Appendix 2.
Southern Metropolitan Partnership outlined its vision The Southern Partnership has also submitted its
for communities to have ‘increased access and 2018 advice to the Government. The Government has
equity to enable a fairer, safer and more prosperous already commenced considering this advice and will
region; committed to working together to leverage be providing a detailed response through the 2019
opportunities and overcome challenges to enable Southern Metropolitan Five Year Plan.
well-planned, efficient and connected services and
infrastructure for current and future generations, with
a focus on our most vulnerable community members’.
The Partnership’s 2017 priority outcomes covered
four principal themes, with specific actions that
the Partnership believed should be progressed by
government:
• Housing – Provide greater access to affordable
housing options across the southern region
• Transport – Improve access to employment,
education, services and recreation across the
region, with higher frequency public transport and
greater connectivity and integration of services
• Education and youth engagement – Increase
engagement and retention in education for
pre-school-aged children and at-risk youth in
the middle years age group to break the cycle of
disadvantage
• Water – Support broad-scale uptake of fit-for-
purpose recycled water, providing a climate-
resilient water resource for long-term economic
growth and environmental benefit.
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Putting the Community at the Center
The Victorian Government is focused on putting communities at the
centre of what we do, including making sure local residents have a
greater say in determining local priorities.
Building on its establishment of Metropolitan MDAP will play a key role in keeping the government
Partnerships as a way to involve communities in informed about the impact of planning policies and
determining local priorities, the Government has population growth on regional communities. The
launched additional initiatives in the Suburban panel will help the government identify practical
Development portfolio that will strengthen the solutions to managing Melbourne’s growth and
government’s focus on supporting the southern maintaining the city’s liveability. It will also ensure
region and engaging with its communities to identify that Metropolitan Partnerships are supported to
and deliver innovative local infrastructure, services engage and play an active role in shaping the
and programs. delivery of policies critical to Melbourne’s future
growth and development.
Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel
Metropolitan Partnership Development
In late 2017, the Minister for Suburban Development
and Minister for Planning jointly established the Fund
Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel (MDAP). As part of the Victorian Budget 2018/19, the
The role of MDAP is to provide expert advice to the government has established a new $2 million
Ministers on metropolitan development, including Metropolitan Partnerships Development Fund.
the implementation of Plan Melbourne 2017–2050,
Metropolitan Partnership priorities and advice on This fund will be used to support the implementation
enhancing Melbourne’s liveability, sustainability and of responses to the advice provided by Metropolitan
international competitiveness at the whole-of city- Partnerships. It will provide seed funding for
level. program pilots, feasibility studies and business
cases to support the development of responses to
The panel includes the six chairpersons of the Metropolitan Partnership priority actions.
Metropolitan Partnerships and four members
with broad skills and expertise in planning and Administered by the Office for Suburban
related fields such as economic and community Development, funding will be allocated annually
development. across Melbourne’s six partnership regions over the
next two years. Funding allocations for 2018–19 will
be developed as part of the government’s response
to priorities identified by the Southern Metropolitan
Partnership.
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The Southern Metro Region – Land Use
Framework Plan
Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 recognises the importance of a regional
approach to planning for our city and suburbs.
Action 1 in the Plan Melbourne Implementation Plan The population of the Southern Metro Region is
requires the development of a Land Use Framework projected to grow from 1,059,000 in 2017 to a total
Plan (LUFP) for each of the six metropolitan regions. of 1.8 million people in 2050. This growth will need
The LUFPs will be forward-focused to ensure that to be accommodated in both established and
each region has a plan to provide for the population growth areas and be supported by an expansion of
growth and change that is projected to occur over local jobs, the provision of infrastructure, access to
the next 30 years. It will mean that state and local services and a quality environment.
government, working together, can be clear about
Driven by the Economy and Planning Working
how best to develop land and what supporting
Groups (EPWGs) that have been established for each
networks and infrastructure will be needed when and
region, state and local government officers have
where.
collated existing planning strategies and policies to
The LUFPs will provide a means to ensure that our understand what is important to the Southern Metro
suburbs are planned holistically, that we provide Region, its strengths and opportunities. Strengths of
not only enough suitable housing, but also set the Southern Metro Region identified include:
aside land for employment, community spaces and
• Enviable landscapes including coastal
parks, while protecting our natural environment. The
towns, hinterland and agricultural plains, and
LUFPs, developed in consultation with Metropolitan
cosmopolitan urban centres provide a high
Partnerships, will inform the strategies and initiatives
amenity lifestyle and a real prospect for residents
in future releases of the Five Year Plans for Jobs,
to age in place.
Services and Infrastructure.
• The country’s most dynamic manufacturing
The benefits of planning at a regional scale across
precinct employs 66,300 workers, produces almost
metropolitan Melbourne include:
half of Victoria’s manufacturing output and is
• bridging the gap between metropolitan and local positioned to be the manufacturing heartland of
government strategic plans by delivering a single Australia.
regional view
• The Dandenong NEIC is essential to the growing
• providing the strategic planning basis for manufacturing, education and health sectors in
identifying future infrastructure, service and surrounding activity centres, including the newly
funding priorities emerging Major Activity Centre in Clyde.
• clearly defining a land-use framework within • The Frankston Metropolitan Activity Centre and
which each council can prepare their municipal its unique location on Port Phillip Bay provides
strategies and policies lifestyle, education and economic opportunities.
• ongoing partnership and collaboration between • High value agricultural production connects
state and local government. with the food industry sector in Dandenong and
regional logistics networks.
The LUFPs build upon existing strategic work
undertaken by state and local government to deliver • Natural landscapes that are iconic to the region
a regional picture through an integrated partnership and a valuable community asset support the
approach. liveability of Melbourne. These landscapes include
areas of international, state and local conservation
significance and are critical to the achieving the
state’s biodiversity goals.
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Feedback received to date indicate there are • planning and managing tourism and leisure in the
opportunities in the region for: green wedge to be consistent with environmental
values, rural character and agricultural activity
• valuing state and regionally significant industrial
land and assets for their role in generating local • championing renewable energy opportunities and
jobs and providing high-skilled industry expertise being a leader in climate change mitigation for
unique to the region the region’s ongoing security, sustainability and
liveability.
• strengthening the connections between education
and high-skilled jobs in Frankston and Dandenong
to deliver centres of excellence, where education Next steps
grows employment opportunities and expands The implementation partners for the LUFP project
future industries include: the Department of Environment, Land,
• leading new transport technologies to maximise Water and Planning (DELWP); the Department of
efficiency, productivity and sustainability in future Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR); the Department
land use and transport planning integration of Transport (DoT); the Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS); the Department of
• growing the significance of regional transport Education and Training (DET); the Victorian Planning
infrastructure, including the Moorabbin Airport Authority (VPA); and the councils of the region.
and a possible South-East Airport; developing Working together, they will expand on the scoping
the Port of Hastings as world-class in its design work undertaken to date to prepare a draft LUFP that
and operation, best practice in its environmental delivers a regional picture of the issues, opportunities
standards, and supported by effective freight and aspirations of the region. The Government will
infrastructure continue working with local and regional partners to
• providing bicycle and walking connections that develop draft plans for consultation.
encourage sustainable, active transport and
recreation connections between activity centres
• delivering affordable and social housing through
planning mechanisms and housing initiatives
• strengthening tourism infrastructure to support
an increasing demand on the region’s unique
leisure and recreation destinations, and expanding
cultural tourism opportunities
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Investment overview
The Victorian Government is responding to the growing needs of
Melbourne’s Southern Metro Region by investing in local services and
infrastructure.
These investments are based on the Government’s long-term strategic plans for strengthening the economy
and liveability of Victoria and managing Melbourne’s continued growth and development as a globally
connected city.
This section provides an overview of:
• Major investments in services and infrastructure in the southern region contained in the Victorian Budget
2018/19;
• Pick My Project grants to strengthen the liveability of local areas announced for the Southern Metro Region;
• Growing Suburbs Fund grants for community infrastructure in the southern region LGAs of Cardina, Casey
and Morning Peninsula; and
• Election commitments made in the November 2018 state election to improve outcomes for people in the
Southern Metro Region.
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Victorian Budget 2018/19 - Southern Metropolitan Region Outcomes
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JOBS
The Victorian Government is focused on supporting and driving economic development, investment and job creation
across the state, and is committed to projects, industries and ideas that will encourage small businesses to grow and
big businesses to invest. The Southern Metro Region will benefit from funding provided in the Victorian Budget 2018/19
including a $21 million boost for Jobs Victoria.
$10 million to extend the Premier’s Jobs and Investment Fund to
support the Government’s economic development priorities to build
a strong economy, improve economic growth and create more jobs.
$6 million statewide to increase employment inclusion on Victoria’s
major projects through new dedicated services to connect young
people from Aboriginal and migrant communities and women into
jobs on Victoria’s major projects, including roles generated by the
Major Projects Skills Guarantee.
$5 million statewide for a new specialised employment support
program for long-term unemployed youth and young people facing
significant barriers to employment.Office for Suburban Development
Victorian Budget 2018/19 - Southern Metropolitan Region Outcomes
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TRANSPORT
The Victorian Government is delivering a massive pipeline of transport infrastructure projects, including removing level
crossings, building the Metro Tunnel, building the West Gate Tunnel, widening City Link and the Tullamarine Freeway,
streamlining Hoddle Street, upgrading the M80 Ring Road, delivering Stage 1 of the Monash Freeway Upgrade, and
completion of the Mernda Rail Extension.
$2.2 billion for two packages of arterial road upgrades in the
northern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne to deliver high-
priority road upgrades and maintenance for these outer suburban
communities. These two major projects will be procured as public
private partnerships, which will ensure motorists benefit from new
high-quality roads while the existing network is maintained to a high
standard for years to come.
The South-Eastern Roads Upgrade will include a combination of
duplication and upgrade works to arterial roads including:
• Golf Links Road, from Peninsula Link to Baxter-Tooradin Road
• Grant Road, from Baxter-Tooradin Road to Frankston-Flinders
Road, Langwarrin South
• Healesville-Koo Wee Rup Road, from Princes Freeway to Manks
Road, Pakenham
• Hallam North Road, from Heatherton Road to James Cook Drive,
Endeavour Hills
• Lathams Road, from Oliphant Way to Frankston-Dandenong Road,
Carrum Downs
• Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road, from Thompsons Road to South
Gippsland Highway, Cranbourne
• Thompsons Road, Cranbourne and Carrum
• Pound Road West/Remington Drive will be widened from two to
four lanes between Abbott’s Road and South Gippsland Highway,
including a new bridge over the Cranbourne line.
$711 million for the second stage of the Monash Freeway upgrade
project to expand the freeway, with additional lanes between
Warrigal Road and EastLink, and between Clyde Road and Cardinia
Road, reducing congestion and improving travel times for more
drivers in Melbourne’s south-east. The upgrade also includes
installing smart on-road technology from the South Gippsland
Freeway to the Beaconsfield interchange and links to a new,
duplicated O’Shea Road.
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Victorian Budget 2018/19 - Southern Metropolitan Region Outcomes
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$572 million for further upgrades to Melbourne’s busiest rail corridor,
delivering power upgrades and modern signalling from the city to
Cranbourne and Pakenham, paving the way for the Cranbourne line
duplication; and undertaking detailed design work to enable new
high-capacity metro trains to run to Sunbury.
$375 million for the Mordialloc Freeway upgrade to the proposed
bypass from an arterial road to a freeway connection between the
Mornington Peninsula Freeway at Springvale Road and the Dingley
Bypass. This significant upgrade will reduce average travel time and
congestion along the route and other arterial roads in the south.
$60 million for more than 2,000 car parks to be upgraded and built
at key train stations, including Sandown Park. This will improve
amenity and provide more options to access train stations and
encourage the increased uptake of public transport.
$50 million for the Carrum Promenade revitalisation including new
community spaces, improved beach connections, a new promenade,
additional car parking and public amenities provided at Carrum as
part of the level crossing removal works on the Frankston train line.
EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD
The Government is responding to the growing demand for student places in the Southern Metro Region by investing
more than $160 million to build new schools and to modernise and upgrade existing secondary and primary schools
across the southern region.
$86.2 million for new schools and additional stages of school
buildings to meet growing demand from Victoria’s strong population
growth. This includes new schools at:
• Botanic Ridge Primary School
• Casey Fields (Five Ways) Primary School
• Clyde North East Primary School
• Keysborough South Primary School.
Additional school buildings:
• Pakenham Primary School.
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$76.7 million to upgrade 24 schools in the southern region. This
will improve educational outcomes through providing high-quality
classrooms and facilities for learning and community use.
• Ballam Park Primary School
• Belvedere Park Primary School
• Berwick Secondary College
• Bonbeach Primary School
• Carrum Primary School
• Chelsea Heights Primary School
• Dandenong West Primary School
• Edithvale Primary School upgrades
• Hampton Park Secondary College
• Karingal Primary School
• Kingsley Park Primary School
• Koo Wee Rup Secondary College
• Lyndale Secondary College
• Mount Erin Secondary College
• Narre Warren South P-12 College
• Patterson Lakes Primary School
• Rowellyn Park Primary School
• Seaford Primary School
• Springvale Rise Primary School
• Westall Schools Regeneration
• Frankston Special Developmental School
• Nepean Special School
• Yarrabah School
• Frankston North Education Precinct.
$271.7 million for land to be acquired for new schools across Victoria
including for Cardinia and Casey.
$17.2 million for master planning, detailed design and early works at
14 current and future sites including:
• Emerson School
• Education Plan – Carnegie, Hughesdale, Murrumbeena, Oakleigh
and surrounding region for secondary provision and excellence
• Mentone Park Primary School
• Southern Autistic School, including Endeavour Hills Special School
new school planning.
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Victorian Budget 2018/19 - Southern Metropolitan Region Outcomes
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$3 million to construct a new early childhood development facility
co-located at Botanic Ridge Primary School. The funding will enable
a stable transition from early learning services into primary school
and contribute to improved educational and health outcomes for
students.
Mental Health in Schools. Every Victorian Government Secondary
School will have access to a mental health professional with $51.2
million to allow schools across the state to employ over 190 qualified
mental health professionals.
COMMUNITY SAFETY
Since 2015, the Victorian Government has made record investments to reduce crime and make communities safer by
recruiting police, addressing family violence and strengthening our emergency services. This year’s Budget includes
new investments that strengthen the justice system and prevent crime.
$390.7 million statewide to better support children who need to go
into out of home care with more home-based care placements and
better support for carers.
$282.6 million statewide to support vulnerable children and their
families. This includes:
• $225.5 million to better assist children in the statutory child
protection system through an extra 450 child protection
practitioners
• $7.7 million in 2018–19 to cover civil claims costs for historical
institutional child abuse
• $49.9 million for family violence therapeutic and flexible support,
including approximately 6,500 flexible support packages to enable
victim survivors of family violence to access counselling and
therapeutic supports to aid recovery.
$96.9 million for Victoria Police prosecutors and $21.8 million to
equip the Office of Public Prosecutions to prosecute serious crimes
and hold offenders to account.
$27.7 million for twenty-four hour, seven days a week refuge
responses for victims of family violence to provide secure, after-
hours crisis accommodation for women and children seeking
immediate support.
$25 million statewide for local crime prevention initiatives including
youth crime prevention projects, the Public Safety Infrastructure and
Community Safety funds, and crime prevention agencies such as
Crime Stoppers and Neighbourhood Watch.
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HEALTH, HOUSING AND WELLBEING
The Victorian Government is continuing to build a high-quality, proactive health and human service system. Building
on the Government’s major investments in hospitals, we are making further investments in our health workforce,
boosting access to mental health services, expanding alcohol and drug treatment and early intervention services, and
improving ambulance response times. The Victorian Government also continues to have a strong focus on affordable
housing and addressing homelessness, with record investment in housing and homelessness support, as well as
financial backing for new forms of social housing investment across the state.
$2 million for additional Empower Youth projects in areas
experiencing social and economic disadvantage including in
Dandenong, Casey and Frankston to strengthen the health and
wellbeing of young people at risk of disengagement, enable their
participation in community, engage them in education and training,
and enhance their pathways to employment.
Victorian Budget 2018/19 will provide $2.1 billion, supporting the 1.96
million patients expected to be admitted to our hospitals, and the 1.84
million patients to be seen in our emergency departments, this year.
More than 207,000 Victorians will get the surgery they need sooner,
with a $217.6 million elective surgery blitz to cut down waiting times
and lists. This is equivalent to nearly 14,370 hip replacements or more
than 76,000 eye surgeries.
Budget funding will also help meet the growing demand on our
health and ambulance services, giving patients the emergency care
they need, when they need it.
• $25 million for a Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund to help the
sector identify, scale and embed innovation effectively
• $6.7 million to deliver immunisation programs that tackle
meningococcal and influenza
• $217.6 million elective surgery blitz to cut down waiting times and
lists
• $2.1 million for more rural and regional patients to access support
through the Victorian Patient Transport Assistance Scheme
• $6.5 million to respond to people’s end-of-life care choices.
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Victorian Budget 2018/19 - Southern Metropolitan Region Outcomes
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$705 million for more mental health support, extra regional
rehabilitation facilities and new emergency department crisis hubs
to help Victorians struggling with mental illness:
• $232.4 million to support 89 new and existing acute inpatient beds
and boost the number of treatment hours in community-based
services, giving around 12,800 more Victorians the care they
require
• $100.5 million in six emergency department crisis hubs across
the state, including Sunshine Hospital to help people with urgent
mental health, alcohol and drug issues
• $18.7 million to support the development of six new Hospital
Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement sites
• $153.8 million to provide intensive community mental health
services and support for current high-need mental health clients.
$32.6 million for caring for the ageing including $6 million for an
elder abuse family counselling and mediation service.
$45 million for the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action
Plan. The Action Plan initiatives include 20 one-bedroom
modular units with intensive onsite support, multidisciplinary
housing teams to support complex clients to maintain stable
housing, eight additional assertive outreach teams in locations
of highest need, and funding therapeutic services in major inner
city crisis accommodation centres to improve health, wellbeing
and housing outcomes.
CULTURE AND RECREATION
The Southern Metro Region offers a variety of cultural, sport and recreation infrastructure and programs with a
network of regional and local tracks and trails, parks and aquatic and leisure facilities. The Victorian Government is
ensuring that new and existing sport and recreation facilities meet the demand generated by population growth in the
established inner south, as well as new communities across the southern region’s growth areas.
$67 million for a professional women’s sports fund that will be used
to develop or upgrade a number of facilities for professional women’s
sport across Melbourne, including:
• $5 million for Casey Fields
• $13 million for Moorabbin Oval to deliver new and improved
infrastructure and better accommodate women’s sport.
$60 million statewide for the Community Sports Infrastructure
Fund to provide grants to local government to build new or improve
existing infrastructure, increase access and participation, deliver new
infrastructure to meet current and future demand in growth areas,
and provide financial assistance to applicants to meet the costs of
project delivery.
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$50 million for the Growing Suburbs Fund to boost the number
of community infrastructure projects delivered in Melbourne’s
interface councils including Cardinia, Casey and Mornington
Peninsula. Infrastructure such as parks, community centres, town
centres, swimming pools and cultural facilities will be built or
upgraded.
$3 million to upgrade The National Water Sports Centre on the
Patterson River to improve facilities at the site, including the access
road, car park and shedding. The site is used for water-based
activities including rowing, water skiing, canoeing, kayaking, jet
skiing, boat shows and training sessions.
LIVEABLE AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
The health of Melbourne’s natural environment contributes to the liveability of our suburbs. The Victorian Government
is working on innovative integrated planning approaches to protect open space and enhance environmental
sustainability across the Southern Metro Region.
$48 million statewide to help Victorians bust their energy bills.
Through the Power Saving Bonus, all Victorian households will be
eligible to receive a $50 bonus if they seek out a better electricity
deal on the Government’s Victorian Energy Compare website.
$8.3 million to protect Port Phillip Bay and its beaches, including
beach renourishment and developing a Port Phillip Bay Improvement
Plan to improve stewardship of the bay, water quality and marine
biodiversity.
$1.2 million statewide to develop an air quality strategy. This strategy
will provide a consistent and coordinated approach to ensuring
good-quality air in Victoria into the future.
$0.4 million to develop a business case to upgrade the Pakenham
sewerage treatment plant.
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Pick My Project
To further support communities to develop and deliver initiatives that strengthen the liveability of their local
areas, the Victorian Budget 2018/19 set aside $30 million for a community grants initiative, Pick My Project.
With this innovative grassroots democratic program, local residents had the opportunity to nominate local
community-building projects, which were then put forward for the community to vote on.
Pick My Project backs ideas to improve local communities, such as new or improved sport and recreation
activities, or programs supporting health and wellbeing, innovation and arts and culture.
Residents were encouraged to come up with a great idea to make life in their community even better and
to identify an eligible local organisation to sponsor their idea, such as a community group, school or local
council. Eligible ideas were put forward for community voting. In the southern region a total of $3.65 million of
funding was allocated across 31 successful projects, including:
Budget 2018-19
“help Us Finish our Mobile Shower for the Homeless
Creating bridges: Free Sikh community kitchen, Officer
Truck”, Frankston
Growing The Future: Pakenham Community School Farm
Essentials for fleeing families, Frankston
and Food Project, Pakenham
Bee Experience Educational Program, Officer The Women’s Spirit Project, Frankston South
Joint Use Community Function Room, Officer We Care Community Shed, Dandenong North
Creating awareness about our unique salad-bowl status,
Pet Food Bank, Carrum
Officer
Sikh community centre, Pakenham Getting girls on track, Mentone
Landscaping and Construction of Car Parks at Buddhist
impactFUL, Cheltenham
Vihara Victoria Premises, Berwick
Spirit of the Great Lake - Kadawara Yaagaya – Expansion of mountain bike trails at Arthurs Seat State
Production, Narre Warren Park, Dromana
Narre Warren North Fire Brigade Realistic Training For Women in Recovery From Domestic and Family
Equipment Grant, Narre Warren North Violence, Mount Martha
SIKH Volunteers Casey Food Van, Cranbourne Mt Martha Farmers’ Market, Mount Martha
Powering Ahead - Cranbourne Public Hall Solar Energy
Alexandra Park Sports Lighting Upgrade, Mornington
Project, Cranbourne
Community Safety and Education Project, Cranbourne MSC wet weather viewing and verandah, Mornington
Alexandra Park Cricket Nets Upgrade to multiuse facility,
Cranbourne Bowls Outdoor Area Project, Cranbourne
Mornington
Casey Community Gardens & Community Centre Food
Sunday Sessions at the Briars, Mount Martha
Share, Berwick
Free Casey Community Cinema Under the Stars Events,
Coolart Homestead Renovation Project, Somers
Narre Warren South
Hampton Park Night Market and Multicultural Festival,
Hampton Park
More information about the 11 successful projects in the Southern Metro Region can be found at https://
pickmyproject.vic.gov.au/successful-projects
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Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution
The Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution (GAIC) is a fund for essential infrastructure development in
Melbourne’s growth areas of Melton, Wyndham, Hume, Mitchell, Whittlesea and the southern region LGAs of
Cardinia and Casey. GAIC delivers state and regionally significant infrastructure projects that support the needs
of these growing communities.
GAIC is funding facilities such as construction of new railway stations, land acquisition for ambulance stations
and schools, and the development of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. GAIC funding committed for 2018-19
in the southern region was $145.52 million.
Table 1: GAIC funding provided in the Southern Metro Region in 2017–18
Southern
GAIC funding
Growth Area Projects 2017–18
contribution
Councils
Casey
School building project $112.10 million
Metro Bus Service Improvements $3.3 million
Berwick-Cranbourne Road intersection land acquisition $3.8 million
Clyde North Fire Station construction $8.52 million
Casey Fields Regional Soccer Centre construction $5.0 million
Cranbourne Railway Station parking and amenity improvements $4.8 million
Clyde North - Berwick bus route $4.3 million
Clyde - Berwick bus route $3.7 million
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Growing Suburbs Fund
The Growing Suburbs Fund (GSF) is a $200 million fund provided to deliver critical local infrastructure for communities in
Melbourne’s fastest-growing outer suburbs.
The GSF is designed to bring forward critical community infrastructure priorities, delivering projects that improve the
amenity, liveability and resilience of interface communities, support connections, enhance services and provide local jobs.
These include family and community centres, town centre and civic revitalisation projects and open space and amenity
improvements.
The GSF is available to 10 interface councils: Melton, Wyndham, Yarra Ranges, Whittlesea, Hume, Mitchell and Nillumbik,
and the southern region LGAs of Cardinia, Casey and Mornington Peninsula. The following table highlights GSF funding
provided in the Southern Metro Region in 2017–18.
Table 2: GSF funding provided in the Southern Metro Region in 2017–18
Southern
GSF funding
Interface Projects 2017–18
contribution
Councils
Cardinia Comely Banks Recreation Reserve Pavilion $3,500,000
Gembrook Leisure Park Playspace and Skatepark Upgrade $500,000
Casey Hallam Recreation Reserve Hall Renewal and Refurbishment $885,000
Endeavour Hills Community Precinct Stage 2 (EH2) $1,682,000
Cranbourne West Community Hub and Urban Heart $2,533,000
Mornington
Mornington Community Hub $2,050,000
Peninsula
Sports Growth Lighting Package $1,052,250
Hastings Seniors Learning Hub $546,000
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Victorian Government election commitments
The Victorian Government is continuing to respond to the
growth and change in Melbourne’s Southern Metro Region
through the following election commitments
Jobs
Election Commitment Investment area
The Suburban Rail Loop will create around 20,000 jobs during construction – with up
to 2,000 apprentices, trainees and cadets employed through the Major Projects Skills Statewide
Guarantee.
Protecting Victorians at work - new criminal offence of workplace manslaughter in the
Statewide
Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004.
Protect public holiday penalty rates of Victorian workers, introducing legislation in the first
Statewide
year.
Transport
Election Commitment Investment area
$38.3 million to widen the road from Fox Road to Belgrave-Hallam Road, doubling the
existing two lanes to four. Intersections will be upgraded at Heatherton Road and Ernst
City of Casey
Wanke Road, and traffic lights will be installed at the Memorial Drive and Crawley Road
intersection, helping traffic flow more smoothly.
New traffic lights at the intersection of Ballarto Road and Lyrebird Drive in Carrum Downs,
City of Frankston
making it safer and easier for drivers turning out of Lyrebird Drive.
$150 million for the Car Parks for Commuters Fund, with stations to benefit including:
• 400 new car parks at Cranbourne Station, bringing the total number of spaces to over
1000 City of Casey
• 135 new car parks at Lynbrook Station City of Greater
Dandenong
• 150 new car parks at Dandenong Station
Shire of Cardinia
• 450 new car parks Pakenham Station
City of Frankston
• 500 new car parks at Frankston Station
• more car parking and a second entrance at Seaford Station.
Deliver a Superstation at Pakenham which will include a dedicated V/Line track and third
Shire of Cardinia
platform to separate the regional and metropolitan trains at the new station.
Remove the last of the 15 level crossings on the Cranbourne line – making it Victoria’s first Multiple Local
level crossing-free rail line. Government Areas
$750 million to duplicate eight kilometres of single track on the Cranbourne line from
Dandenong to Cranbourne. This will remove the bottlenecks that cause delays and allow
Multiple Local
the number of train services to be doubled during peak times, delivering trains every ten
Government Areas
minutes along the whole Cranbourne line. Tracks will be updated around Dandenong
station where the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines separate.
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On top of the $750 million Cranbourne Duplication Project, the Government will deliver a
properly costed plan for a rail link to Clyde, with an additional $7 million for vital planning Region
work.
Remove an additional 25 level crossings by 2025
FRANKSTON LINE: Five additional crossings on the Frankston line – in addition to the 11
completed or underway – will be removed, including three crossings in Chelsea –removed
by lowering the rail under the road
PAKENHAM LINE: All four dangerous and congested level crossings in Pakenham will be Region
removed by elevating the rail line and Pakenham Station will become a Superstation
CRANBOURNE LINE: Remove the last of the 15 level crossings on the Cranbourne line –
making it Victoria’s first level crossing-free rail line (as part of the $750 million Cranbourne
Duplication).
The Suburban Rail Loop will connect every major train line from the Frankston line all
the way to the Werribee line through Melbourne Airport, with up to 12 new underground
stations. The Government will invest $300 million in a full business case, design, and
pre-construction works, with work on the first section in Melbourne’s south east expected Statewide
to begin by the end of 2022. The south east section will run underground between
Cheltenham and Box Hill – with new rail tunnels linking the Frankston, Cranbourne-
Pakenham, Glen Waverley and Belgrave-Lilydale lines.
$5 billion towards the construction of Melbourne Airport Rail Link, which will run from the
CBD to the airport via Sunshine. The full business case is now underway, with the project
set to begin construction by 2022. Statewide
Education and early childhood
Election Commitment Investment area
New schools, including:
• Pakenham Henry Road Secondary
City of Casey
• Cranbourne West Secondary & Special School
Shire of Cardinia
• Clyde North Primary School
Greater Dandenong
• Clyde North Secondary College
• Endeavour Hills Special School.
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Nineteen school upgrades including:
• $22.8 million to upgrade Clyde Primary School
• $6.6 million to upgrade Cranbourne Secondary College
• $5.9 million to upgrade Cranbourne South Primary School
• $700,000 to upgrade Cranbourne West Primary School
• $8.4 million to upgrade Dandenong High School
• $4.8 million to upgrade Derinya Primary School
• $11.26 million for the next stage of the Frankston North Education Precinct
• $3.9 million to upgrade Hampton Park Secondary College
• $2.5 million to upgrade Koo Wee Rup Primary School
Statewide
• $1.5 million to upgrade Lang Lang Primary School
• $8.5 million to upgrade Mordialloc College
• $4.5 million to upgrade Narre Warren North Primary School
• $9.6 million to upgrade Parkdale Secondary College
• $8 million to upgrade Patterson River Secondary College
• $7.8 million to upgrade Skye Primary School
• $2.9 million to upgrade Timbarra P-9 College
• $1 million to upgrade St Anne’s School (City of Frankston)
• $1 million to upgrade St Joseph’s School (City of Kingston)
• $4 million to upgrade St Peter’s College (City of Casey).
Kinder for every three-year-old
Labor will invest almost $5 billion over the next decade to deliver a full 15 hours of three- Statewide
year-old kinder, with the rollout beginning in 2020.
Kinder infrastructure build ahead of kinder investment
1,000 new and upgraded kinders across the state, including a new kindergarten next to a Statewide
primary school opening in Clyde North in 2022.
Free of charge pads and tampons in every Government school
Labor will provide free sanitary items in all female, unisex and accessible bathrooms at all Statewide
government schools from term three, 2019.
$220 million to build better TAFEs. Statewide
Health, housing and wellbeing
Election Commitment Investment area
Frankston Hospital Redevelopment, including 120 new hospital beds, two new operating
City of Frankston
theatres, 13 new emergency department beds and two floors dedicated to mental health.
Training Victorian Surfers to Save Lives at our Beaches
Surfers Rescue 24/7 program at all Victorian boardriders clubs over the next four years and
Shire of Mornington
introduce a modified program into secondary schools aimed at 12-17 year old students who
Peninsula
surf.
Schools in the Mornington Peninsula will be offered the program.
$395.8 million to provide free dental care at all public primary and secondary schools. Statewide
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Young Families Package
Statewide with new
$232 million in a comprehensive package of new parent and early childhood supports to centres in City of Casey
help every Victorian parent. Seven new Early Parenting Centres will be built, and two will be and City of Frankston
refurbished and it will also deliver a range of critical services, including:
• A new Early Parenting Centre in Casey, the centre will support around 690 families a
year
• A new Early Parenting Centre in Frankston, the centre will support around 690 families a
year
• A revamped 24-hour phone line with specialists in sleep and settling issues
• Boosting the number of home visits for vulnerable families, so 7,000 families get more
support
• First aid training to around 26,000 parents per year.
New parents and early childhood investment including:
• $21.8 million over four years to give new parents a Baby Bundle, which will include a Statewide
nappy bag to hold essential baby products, a teething ring or toy with information on
teething, key advice on child safety, feeding, sleeping and an emergency contacts list
• The bundle will also include a safe sleeping bag and muslin wrap with advice from the
Royal Children’s Hospital about how to safely wrap babies, and four picture books by
Victorian authors for different stages of development.
Funding for nurses and midwives to:
Statewide
• Undertake further nurse and midwife to patient ratio improvements to better support
nurses and midwives to provide quality care to Victorian patients
• Recruit more than 1,100 new nurses and midwives to rollout these improvements.
Royal Commission into Mental Health. Statewide
Emergency services
Statewide
• $109 million for 90 new paramedics to be recruited, including $25 million to upgrade and
build new ambulance stations and deliver 23 new vehicles on the road.
Culture and recreation
Election Commitment Investment area
Upgrade of Jubilee Park, Frankston
$10m towards Jubliee Park Masterplan, which includes a multi-purpose stadium with City of Frankston
courts for netball and an indoor cricket training hub.
$100,000 Facility Upgrade to the AUMSAI Sansthan Temple in Mordialloc, as part of a
City of Kingston
pledge to establish Victoria’s first $3 million Indian Community Infrastructure Fund.
City of Greater
Gurdwara Sahib temple in Keysborough will receive $100,000 to upgrade their facilities.
Dandenong
$3.4 million in a historic boost to multicultural senior citizen organisations
• $52,000 flowing directly to 13 Jewish organisations across Victoria Statewide
• $96,000 flowing directly to 24 Vietnamese organisations across Victoria.
$3 million to a dedicated Indian Cinema and Bollywood Attraction Fund. Statewide
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Liveable and sustainable communities
Election Commitment Investment area
More green open space:
City of Frankston
• Planning work to connect 1,881 hectares of parks and reserves for locals to enjoy between
Shire of Mornington
the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands and Mornington
Peninsula
• Seaford wetlands will get a $5 million package of landscaping and environmental works,
City of Kingston
with upgrades to walking paths and facilities
City of Casey
• 355 hectare chain of parks from Warrigal Road in Moorabbin to Braeside Park in Dingley
Village, with walking and bike trails and adventure play areas for local kids
• Establish Cardinia Creek South Parkland near Officer
• Complete Clyde Regional Park.
Half price solar panels at no up-front cost for 650,000 homes. Statewide
$82 million over ten years to provide an additional 50,000 rebates on solar panels for
Statewide
Victorian renters.
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Appendix 1: Southern Metro Region Metropolitan
Partnership – Membership
Name Description Position
Elizabeth Elizabeth is CEO of the South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network. Chair
Deveny She was formerly the CEO of Bayside Medicare Local and has worked at the
University of Melbourne building and coordinating activities of the general
practice practice-based research network.
Andrew Andrew is CEO of South East Local Learning and Employment Network, Deputy Chair
Simmons where he works to improve outcomes for young people in the education,
training and employment sectors through the development of strategic
sustainable partnerships. He also sits on a broad range of committees, task
forces, networks and boards.
Andrew Andrew is Managing Director of Ventura Bus Company, Melbourne’s largest Member
Cornwall bus provider, with over 1,500 employees and delivery of 32 million passenger
trips across the southern region. Andrew is the third generation of the
Cornwall family to have led Ventura and is currently on the board of Bus
Association Victoria.
Vicki Vicki is Executive Director and Partner at Pitcher Partners where she delivers Member
MacDermid business advisory solutions to a broad portfolio of clients. Vicki is also Chair
of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee and author of a research paper
“What Horses Teach us about Leadership”.
Shabnam Shabnam co-founded Noor Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, to help Member
Safa newly arrived refugees and migrants with their settlement in Australia and to
foster a positive connection between young people and their community. She
has represented Australia at the UN and other international summits and has
also earned her black-belt in karate.
Jill Walsh Jill is a Partner with Actco Pickering Metal Industries. Jill is an accountant Member
by profession and has spent more than a decade working in Dandenong
where she is well known for her passionate advocacy for local content in
government procurement, together with support for local and Victorian
manufacturing across all sectors.
Andrew Andrew is the CEO of Dandenong and District Aborigines Co-operative Ltd. Member
Gardiner (DDACL). He has more than 30 years’ experience working in the Indigenous
sector in Victoria and Far North Queensland, including seven years with the
Office of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria and the past eight years with DDACL.
Jackie Jackie is CEO of Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PCLC), an independent Member
Galloway not-for-profit organisation that provides free legal services to Melbourne’s
south-eastern communities. Jackie has worked at the Centre since 1998
holding various roles including caseworker, program management and
executive positions, prior to her role at PCLC she has worked in the welfare
sector.
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