UDF (Urban Design Framework)

What is an Urban Design Framework?

As stated in Connell Wagner's - Planning to Meet Our Needs Newsletter...

'An Urban Design Framework (UDF) is a strategic planning document, prepared with input from the local community that presents a vision and future framework for the development of a town. The UDFs for the coastal towns in South Gippsland will:

: Identify the capacity of each town in relation to its environment and capacity to sustain growth;

: Direct and mange development and infrastructure pressures into defined settlement areas;

: Develop broad planning principles for areas between defined settlements: and

: Implement a coordinated planning and design approach across the region'

Draft UDF

The public were finally granted access to Version 7 of the Draft UDF in January 2006. The response best described by the newspaper headlines of the day.

'Coastal draft a shambles'		'Coastal plans miss the mark'
The Star		The South Gippsland Sentinel Times
Tuesday 7th February 2006		Tuesday 7th February 2006

Response

The most detailed of the numerous written submissions expressing concern with the draft document was that prepared by Beverley and Ken Walker who have given permission for it to be published on this site.

The submission comprised of a synopsis, forty-seven pages of detail accompanied by a number of appendices. The submission has been divided into a number of PDF files which can be accessed below.

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Content

File

Cover

Contents page

Synopsis

Introduction

Article I - Extension of the Borders

Article II - Indigenous Heritage

Article III - Design and Development

Article IV - The Venus Bay Wetlands Project

UDF Response - Part 1