Council last night adopted the Monbulk Urban Design Framework, which will help guide Council’s decision making and project priorities for Monbulk in the coming years.
The draft document received more than 2,300 pieces of feedback during the community consultation phase, and from that, more than 20 changes and recommendations were made to create the final document.
While the UDF was adopted, an alternate motion was made which was to update the final document with a removal of the annotation referring to “Potential future residential development” at the north-west corner of the proposed Village Green, following community feedback.
Chandler Ward Councillor, David Eastham, thanked the community for their input into the document.
“Given the substantial amount of interest and feedback into the UDF, there’s been a lot to collate, but I can’t thank the community enough for getting involved and sharing their thoughts, ideas and concerns with us,” Cr Eastham said.
“The feedback was broad and wide-ranging, so much so that you can see in the consultation report there are 20 different themes that this feedback filtered into.
Some of the changes resulting from the community feedback include:
- Consolidating and improving pedestrian crossings in Main Road
- Introducing an improved intersection treatment at the east end of Main Road
- Provision of additional car park locations
- Identifying a location for a new pump track opposite McAllister Road
A number of the key actions identified in the UDF would also be subject to future community engagement in the future.
“Now it’s adopted, the UDF will be used as a tool to advocate to different levels of government as we look to have these projects funded,” Cr Eastham said.
“I’d really encourage everyone to take a look at the UDF now it’s complete, including the comprehensive engagement report, and would like to again thank everyone who provided feedback and input into the final document.”
The final adopted Monbulk Urban Design Framework will be available on Council’s website in the coming days.
