Mirani and Marian – First Options Towards a Local Area Plan
Transcript of Mirani and Marian – First Options Towards a Local Area Plan
Mirani and Marian – First Options
Towards a Local Area Plan
Jaco AckermanManager, Strategic Planning
1 June 2010
OVERVIEW
• Local Area Planning
• Enquiry by Design Workshops
• Mirani and Marian Local Area Plan
- Background
- Enquiry by Design Workshop outcomes
~ Regional appreciation
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~ Regional appreciation
~ Articulating a vision
~ Constraints, opportunities and potential future
development outcomes – Mirani
~ Constraints, opportunities and potential future
development outcomes – Marian
- Public Consultation
- Way Forward
LOCAL AREA PLANNING
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• Local Area Plans (LAPs) are developed to provide
locally focused planning guidance for local areas
• LAPs aim to:
- Establish a shared vision
- Address local issues, identify local opportunities
- Establish an integrated approach to planning
- Manage future growth and development outcomes- Manage future growth and development outcomes
• Contributors to the process:
- Local and wider community
- Community groups, local organisations, relevant
industries
- Elected representatives
- Representatives of relevant government agencies
LOCAL AREA PLANNING
• Standard process for developing a LAP
Phase 1 Site
appreciation
and technical
analysis Phase 2 Strategy and
vision
Phase 3 Broader
community
consultation
Phase 4 Preparing a
Draft Local
Area Plan
• Preliminary
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• Draft planning
instruments
• Display of draft
instruments
• Incorporation
into planning
scheme
• Public display
of Concept Plan
• Consultation
events
• Collation of
feedback
• Preliminary
visioning
• Stakeholder
consultation
• Enquiry by
Design (EbD)
workshop
• Concept Plan
• Investigations
• Stakeholder
consultation
• Context and
Appraisal
Report
ENQUIRY BY DESIGN WORKSHOPS
• Enquiry by Design (EbD) workshops:
- multi-day and multi-discipline forums to discuss
future development outcomes in a local area
- acknowledge local issues, opportunities and
constraints
- formulate and test ideas, options and principles
• Invited participants:• Invited participants:
- key land owners
- key organisations
- elected representatives
- representatives of government agencies
ENQUIRY BY DESIGN WORKSHOPS
• Enquiry by Design (EbD) workshops generally cover:
- Land use type, intensity and mix and development
yields
- Access and mobility
- Built environment principles
- Public domain principles
- Trunk infrastructure requirements (including
sewerage, water, stormwater, access (roads,
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sewerage, water, stormwater, access (roads,
carparking, public transport, bicycle, pedestrian,
disabled), open space/recreation and
community/social)
- Environmental issues
- Development sequencing
- Opportunities for cutting edge, best practice
demonstration projects
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Background
• Council resolve to commence process – September
2009
• Enquiry by Design Workshop held in Mirani on the 12
and 13 November 2009, led by Deicke Richards
• Issues discussed at the EbD workshop:
- Should Mirani and / or Marian grow? If so, how
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much and in which direction?
- Provision of necessary trunk infrastructure in an
economically sustainable way
- Residential–industry, residential–agriculture and
town–river interfaces
• EbD Workshop Participants: Councillors, Council staff
and representatives of Mackay Sugar, REDC, DTMR,
DERM, DIP, DCom and DEEDI
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Regional appreciation:
- Pioneer Valley provides a distinctive and beautiful
setting for a string of communities which each have
a unique character and sense of identity
- Marian (Melba House) is seen as the gateway to the
valley
- Mirani acknowledged as former administrative
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- Mirani acknowledged as former administrative
centre and ongoing community facilities hub
- Marian has a higher resident population but lacks
commercial services and community facilities
- Both towns are situated at hubs in the regional road
network
- WHAM Regional Plan identifies Mirani and Marian
as “District Regional Activity Centres”
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
- Pioneer Valley
limits
- Township
location and
character
• Regional appreciation
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character
- Access network
- Water courses
and bodies
- Protected natural
areas
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Articulating a vision:
- Combined: Mirani and Marian combined form a
district service centre serving many of the needs of
the Pioneer Valley’s residents.
- Mirani: is a compact, walkable urban neighbourhood
with a town centre oriented toward community
facilities (entertainment, administration, cultural and
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facilities (entertainment, administration, cultural and
education) and tourism.
- Marian: is the largest population and employment
hub in the Pioneer Valley with a centrally located
town centre oriented toward commercial services.
Residential development comprises a variety of
densities and housing typologies. The Mill, adjoining
industrial precinct and commercial development
provide employment.
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Mirani – constraints
- Distance from
major
employment
hubs
- Good quality
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- Good quality
agricultural land
surrounds the
town
- 500 metre buffer
around the
sewerage
treatment plant
- Dams near
township
- Infrastructure
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Mirani – opportunities
- Contained, grid
based urban form
and town core
open space spine
- Existing
community
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community
facilities
- Underutilized
relationship with
river
- Strong western
gateway
- Flat land form
- Large blocks
- Development
interest
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Mirani – potential future development outcomes
- Consolidate the
urban form
- Housing diversity
(densities and
typologies)
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typologies)
- Rejuvenation in
the core
- Connect with the
river
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Mirani – potential future development outcomes
- Consolidation /
rejuventation zones:
~ expanded
centre zone
~ Low-medium
residential
zone
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zone
- Greenfield
development
opportunities
- Densities and yields:
~ Low density:
500m2 –
800m2 (2130
people)
~ Low-medium
density (1316 -
1579 people)
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Marian – constraints
- Amenity issues
generated by the
mill
- Good quality
agricultural land
surrounds the
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surrounds the
town
- Traffic on State
controlled roads
- Uncertainty -
potential
deviation road
- Low lying land
south of
township
- Infrastructure
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Marian – opportunities
- Established
employment
precinct - mill
- Underutilized
relationship with
river
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river
- Undeveloped
land in
geographic
centre of town
- Strong gateways
- Flat land form
- Large blocks
- Development
interest
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Marian – potential future development outcomes
- Unite Marian and
Nabilla with cohesive
urban form
- New town centre
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- Housing diversity
(densities and
typologies)
- Connect with the river
- Other green links and
open space
Potential Future Residential
Investigation Area
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Marian – potential future development outcomes
- New commercial and
mixed use zones
- New Low-medium
residential zones
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- Greenfield
development
opportunities
- Densities and yields:
~ Low density:
600m2 –
800m2 (3936
people)
~ Low-medium
density (722 – 865
people)
Potential Future Residential
Investigation Area
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EbD Workshop Outcomes
• Marian Town Centre – potential future development outcomes
- Street oriented centre
(active frontages,
pedestrian shelter,
rear carparking)
- Mixed-use
development and
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development and
public open space on
the river
- Higher density forms
of housing
surrounding town
centre
- Connections across
the railway line
- Green link between
river and playing
fields
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Public consultation
• Public consultation period 12 May 2010 – 25 June 2010
• Materials on display in Council offices and on website
• Community meeting, Mirani Boardroom – 1 June 2010
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• Duty Planner appointments, Mirani Boardroom – 9:30am
– 12:00pm on the 8, 15 and 22 June
• Submissions can be made either by:
- Completing the Feedback Form; and / or
- Lodging a written submission
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Way forward
• Feedback collated and used to refine concept plans
• Infrastructure Master Plan to be prepared
• ‘Housing Diversity’ Amendments made to the Mirani
Shire Plan
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• Concept plans to be refined and translated into planning
instruments for incorporation into the new regional
planning scheme
Questions?
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