What's already happening that supports the plan

Housing for all Victorians

We’re delivering on the September 2023 Victoria’s Housing Statement to boost housing supply across the state.

Find out more about Victoria’s Housing Statement

We’re giving more Victorians better access to social and affordable housing with a $6.3 billion investment to the Big Housing Build and Regional Housing Fund. Ten percent of all dwellings will support Aboriginal housing needs.

Find out more about the Big Housing Build

We’ve introduced new deemed-to-comply standards for developments in residential areas and Activity Centres and streamlined the planning system so you can add a second home to your block, build two new homes on it or subdivide it into two lots.

Find out more about cutting planning red tape initiatives.

Accessible jobs and services

We’ve established Economic Growth Victoria, a new agency to identify opportunities to boost economic growth across the state.

Find out more about Economic Growth Victoria

We’re establishing a clear plan for Victorian industry to undertake business for the next three years to drive economic growth in the state.

Find more about the Victorian Industry Policy

We’ve developed the Melbourne Industrial and Commercial Land Use Plan to identify the capital’s current and future needs for industrial and commercial land.

Find out more about the Melbourne Commercial and Industrial Land Use Plan

We’ve developed Regional Economic Development Strategies for each of Victoria’s nine Regional Partnership regions.

Find out more about the Regional Economic Development Strategies

We’re updating the 2018 Victorian Freight Plan: Delivering the goods, to be released in 2025 to support businesses to get things delivered to you quickly and economically.

Find out more about the Victorian Freight Plan update

We’re delivering the 2022 Victorian Commercial Ports Strategy for the port system to handle the state’s rapidly growing freight task.

Find out more about the Victorian Commercial Ports Strategy

We’re removing 110 dangerous and congested level crossings across Melbourne by 2030.

Find out more about the Level Crossing Removal Project

We’re planning a higher-frequency, more connected bus network to give you more freedom and choices for where you want to go.

Find out more about Victoria’s Bus Network Reform

The Transport Accessibility Strategic Framework outlines a coordinated approach to improving accessibility by prioritises universal design, community engagement and continuous improvement so the transport system.

Find out more about the Transport Accessibility Strategic Framework

We’re planning to cut transport emissions by encouraging you to use a zero- emissions vehicle and investing to accelerate the rollout of public and fleet electric vehicle charging infrastructure across Victoria.

Find out more about the Transport sector emissions reduction pledge

Great places, suburbs and towns

We’re designing, building and modernising education facilities on a scale not seen since Victoria first had free education in the 1870s.

Find out more about the Victorian School Building Authority

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Sustainable environments

We’re planning the electricity grid we need to deliver reliable, lower-cost, low-emissions electricity to you through the Cheaper, Cleaner, Renewable: A Plan for Victoria’s Electricity Future and the Victorian Transmission Plan.

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The Gas Substitution Roadmap is helping us navigate the path to net zero emissions. It will support you to embrace alternatives to fossil gas.

Find out more about Victoria’s Gas Substitution Roadmap

The Victorian Recycling Infrastructure Plan looks at how we can provide waste and recycling services for our growing population while protecting the environment and your wellbeing and encouraging innovation and investment.

Find out more about the Victorian Recycling Infrastructure Plan

We’re safeguarding the supply of quarry resources (such as rock, sand and gravel) which is essential for building our state by expanding the Strategic Extractive Resource Areas network to include areas near Lang Lang, Oaklands Junction and Trafalgar. We are consulting with Traditional Owners as part of this work.

Find out more about Strategic Extractive Resource Areas

Planning controls are being strengthened to better identify quarry boundaries and buffers to better protect neighbours from quarrying impacts. Extractive Industry Interest Areas are also being updated and mapped in the planning system to ensure locations are visible to the community.

Find out more about Extractive industries planning

The Central Gippsland Region Sustainable Water Strategy (CGRSWS) covers around 80% of Victoria’s population (from Barwon to East Gippsland) and will ensure safe, secure water supplies for the region.

Find out more about the Central Gippsland Region Sustainable Water Strategy

Page last updated: 28/02/25