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Local Area Planning Support Program

The Local Area Planning Support Program is a key initiative of A Fairer Victoria, the Victorian Governments social policy action plan. The $3.1 million grant program has been specifically developed to encourage local councils to develop new skills, resources and processes to enhance evidence based decision-making for local area planning. For further information about the Local Area Planning Support Program and guidelines visit Grants@DPCD.

Local Area Planning Support Funded Guidelines

The guidelines, Embedding Community Priorities into Council Planning: Guidelines for the Integration of Community and Council Planning - May 2008 (PDF 1352 kb) or (Word 751 kb) have the following objectives:

Support the Victorian Local Government Sector in the effective integration of community and council planning.
Integrate the extensive activities and expertise from across the State in the areas of community and council planning into one set of guidelines, sharing learning from good practice and bringing the sector together around a common framework.
Provide a broad framework and guidance for State Government Departments and other agencies working closely with local councils to engage and plan for local communities.

Local Area Planning Support Program – Projects

In 2006 the Minister for Local Government announced the 26 projects of up to $150,000 that will receive the $3.08 million Local Area Planning Support Program grants. The 26 grants will be distributed amongst 61 councils.

The successful projects will assist councils develop better data collection and management systems to identify community need, develop good practice guides for local area planning and plan for infrastructure in growth areas of the state.

Project Name	Lead Council	Partner Councils
Local Government - Good Practice Guides for Local Area Planning (PDF 54 kb) and Guidelines (PDF 912 kb)	Banyule	Hobsons Bay, Maroondah, Stonningt on & LGPro Community Planning Network
Planning Together (PDF 75 kb)	Banyule	Nillumbik
Integrated Planning for our Communities (PDF 238 kb) and evaluation (PDF 29 kb)	Bass Coast	Casey
Integrated information modelling project (PDF 244 kb)	Baw Baw	Latrobe
Local Area Planning Integration (PDF 267 kb)	Buloke	Casey
Informed Decision-making: Strengthening access to data and skills for the interpretation for loca area planning in the South East Metropolitan region (PDF 485 kb)	Cardinia	Casey, Greater Dandenong
Planning for inclusive and effective communities (PDF 983 kb)	Central Goldfields	Pyrenees
Darebin and Yarra Ranges Planning Partnership (PDF 67 kb) and supplementary (PDF 285 kb)	Darebin	Yarra Ranges
Southern Region Health and Social Data Project (PDF 124 kb) and project brief (PDF 35 kb)	Frankston	Casey, Glen Eira, Cardinia, Bayside, Mornington Peninsula, Stonington, Kingston
G21 Region Demographic Profile and Forecast (PDF 1554 kb) and evaluation (PDF 45 kb)	Greater Geelong	Surf Coast, Colac Otway, Queenscliffe, Golden Plains
Creating Planning Data for our communities of interest (PDF 186 kb) and evaluation (PDF 61 kb)	Greater Shepparton	Moira
Supporting Local Area Planning (PDF 522 kb)	Horsham	Cardinia
Regional Integrated Planning Capacity Building (PDF 932 kb)	Latrobe	East Gippsland
Western Region Integrated Health and Wellbeing Planning (PDF 702 kb) and background paper (PDF 702 kb)	Maribyrnong	Moonee Valley, Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Melton
Regional Learning to Local Action - Getting to Know, Engaging and Mobilising our Community (PDF 247 kb)	Maroondah	Yarra Ranges, Knox
Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) for Local Government (PDF 248 kb)	Melbourne	Moreland, Greater Dandenong, Port Phillip, Colac Otway, Darebin
Coummunity Sustainability through Local Area Planning (PDF 329 kb) and presentation (PowerPoint 156 kb)	Moira	Boroondara
Community and Corporate Planning Capacity Building (PDF 63 kb)	Mount Alexander	Greater Bendigo
Profiling the South West (PDF 212 kb)	Moyne	Glenelg, Warrnambool, Corangamite, Southern Grampians
Murrindindi Inclusiveness Planning (PDF 562 kb)	Murrindindi	Mitchell
Customer Data Community Cohesion (PDF 787 kb)	Northern Grampians	Pyrenees, Buloke, Ararat
Housing Needs Website (PDF 235 kb)	Port Phillip	Yarra, Stonington, Melbourne (and Docklands)
Swan Hill Mildura GIS Planning (PDF 58 kb)	Swan Hill	Mildura
Integrated Planning System (PDF 30 kb) and evaluation (PDF 30 kb)	Wangaratta	Benalla
Integrated Planning Equals Stronger Communities (PDF 32 kb) and evaluation (PDF 32 kb)	Wodonga	Towong
Planning for Social Infrastructure in Growth Area Communities (PDF 575 kb)	Wyndham	Casey, Melton, Hume, Whittlesea

The

Department of Sustainability and Environment – Urban and Regional Research, Demographics is also a useful resource for Local Area Planning.

For further on the Local Area Planning Support Program please contact us.

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