Housing and Activity Centres
Higher density housing in and around activity centres is a core focus of Melbourne’s planning community, since the 2002 Melbourne 2030 plan. However the success of Melbourne’s activity centres in accommodating higher density housing is not universally agreed. The affordability of higher density housing is of great importance to success in housing planning in Melbourne 2030. However an analysis by Birrell et al. (2005) suggests that; “The housing side of the activity centre strategy has been developed with little real regard to the reality of land availability and cost of construction and development in suburban centres”
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