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What shared vision should Australia's model planning framework espouse?
The BEMP partners believe urban planning frameworks should be guided by a shared community vision.
Our draft vision is: "Strategic planning should shape prosperous, liveable and sustainable urban communities fostered by governments and their partners working in collaboration."
Do you agree that it makes sense to define a shared vision? How do you rate the vision outlined above?
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Principles for planning sustainable communities - consultation draft (Allen consulting Group - July 2009) (856.882 KB)
Comment 1 1 Sep 2009, 5:04 PM
I agree with the need for vision and thanks for trying but really that vision is completely meaningless to me.
Prosperous, liveable, sustainable all are words that mean different things to different people.
Visions need to be set at a local level with community input and should reflect real things in our lives. Anyone trying to come up with a one size fits all vision is doomed to spewing jargon which means little to the non planning community.
Here's a meaningful vision as an example - by 2020 I want to be able to travel from Golburn to Sydney without sitting in a traffic jam for an hour. BUT I won't have to make the trip because the improved services and facilities in Golburn will mean I no longer need to go.
Comment 1.1 28 Sep 2009, 12:03 AM
No vision is contained in Government legalese ie planning documentation. People of vision in my view go out to where they have a vision and do what is needed to be done. Action speak louder than nonsensical words and I agree wholeheartedly with James. We need decentralisation not urban sprawl. Our countryside needs improvement not our cities. If we are serious in combatting climate change and protecting the environment we need better public transport systems rather than roadways and we need to encourage people to grow trees and vegetation whether for food or for the environment and to use and facilitate public transport both in the city and in the country.
Growing trees is the treasure and wealth of this nation.
Comment 2 29 Oct 2009, 10:00 AM
The shared vision needs to include a statement that addresses disfunction in urban planning vision centred on access to automobiles, which creates enourmous cost to the community from injury, death, pollution and infrastructure investment. I suggest the vision includes excluding automobiles from all urban residential areas by design.
The shared vision needs to include a statment that addresses the lack of sustainability in urban planning evident in the resources that urban areas consume and turn to waste - relying on the capacity of the surrounding receiving environment (atmoshphere, soil, rivers and oceans) for treatment. I suggest the vision refers to the geographic as well as socio-political context in designing urban areas to achieve sustainable resource use.
Comment 3 27 Nov 2009, 5:09 PM
The principles for planning sustainable urban communities must include an analysis of its impact on the un-built environment at its boundaries. This effects natural habitat, water availability, and most of all, the protection of arable land, as that is where the food comes from that SUSTAINS the sustainable community. Of this planet’s 148 million square kilometres of land, approximately 31 million are arable; however, arable land is being lost at the rate of over 100,000 km² per year as a result of urban sprawl and drought. If this is seen against a growing population, it becomes clear that arable land more…