Ballarat Interim Activity Centres Strategy (2010)

The Ballarat Interim Activity Centres Strategy represents an important step in policy development for Council from a retail focussed centre hierarchy to a broad based activity centre system.   

• The Interim Strategy has provided:
• a detailed policy framework for Ballarat in the context of state and local policy;
• an assessment of the existing retail-commercial system and projections of retail and office floorspace requirements;
• an analysis of the economic significance and impact of retailing in Ballarat;
• the role of Ballarat as a regional services city;
• a framework for vision development;
• strategic principles for activity centres;
• a net community benefit framework to assess future development.

Key Themes

• the policy, geographic, economic and demographic circumstances of Ballarat and its regional catchment area;
• challenges and opportunities that need to be addressed for Ballarat’s existing and future activity centre network;
• policy framework and strategic principles for the activity centre hierarchy;
• land use assessments of activity centre precincts identifying key development issues and potentials for change;
• development of a broad based assessment framework to provide a triple bottom line overview of potential impacts on existing and future activity centres.

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