Stage 1 - Frankston City Centre is changing | It’s our time...Frankston City Centre is changing!

Thank you for your feedback on our Emerging Ideas Paper

We sought your feedback in April-May 2022 on:

What issues and opportunities do you see in the Frankston City Centre?
How you want the city centre to look and feel 20 years from now?
What do you think of the 13 key directions and ideas?

Thank you for the feedback you provided on our Emerging Ideas Paper by completing our Key Direction Activity and/or Survey.

It was great to see you at our Community Pop Ups and Walking Tour too!

Your responses have informed what Council needs to focus on and prioritise in developing the Structure Plan.

For more information, you can speak with our Strategic Planning teamby:

Phone: 1300 322 322

Email: info@frankston.vic.gov.au

What are our Emerging Ideas?

The Emerging Ideas Paper outlines our preliminary thoughts and ideas for how the city centre could be planned into the future. We have summarised these below under our 4 'themes' and 13 'key direction' headings.

The ideas have been informed by:

Technical analysis undertaken by the project team.
Initial community and stakeholder consultation.
Council feedback.
Site visits.

Learn more about the ideas under our four themes

Activities and Land Use

Key Direction 1: Encourage Economic Investment
Key Direction 2: Provide a diversity of housing to support evolving population needs
Key Direction 3: Strengthen Arts, Entertainment and Culture

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Built Form

Key Direction 4: Strengthen the built form character

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Public Realm

Key Direction 5: Provide more parks, plazas and gathering spaces
Key Direction 6: Provide people focused streets
Key Direction 7: Create a thriving Kananook Creek promenade
Key Direction 8: Transform the Nepean Highway into an Iconic Boulevard

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Movement and Access

Key Direction 9: Prioritise pedestrian movement
Key Direction 10: Create a safe and convenient cycling network
Key Direction 11: Increase the use of the Ring Road and reduce traffic
Key Direction 12: Provide car parking that is easy to locate and access
Key Direction 13: Enhance public transport to make it an attractive and logical choice

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Map of City Centre

Frankston Metropolitan Activity Centre Boundary

Have you noticed other exciting changes in the City Centre?

We have! Significant investment from the Victorian Government has kickstarted improvements to traffic, streetscapes, and community safety in Frankston City Centre.

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FAQs

A structure plan is a long-term plan for an Activity Centre to guide Council decisions about future development on both private and public property.

The structure plan will be designed to implement key policies and objectives for Frankston Metropolitan Activity Centre in State and Local Planning Policy. It also guides the assessment of planning permit applications and amendments to the Frankston Planning Scheme.

The Frankston Metropolitan Activity Centre (FMAC) is a higher-order centre intended to provide a diverse range of jobs, activities and housing for regional catchments that are well served by public transport. The FMAC will play a major service delivery role, including government, health, justice and education services, as well as retail and commercial opportunities.

Melbourne’s population is expected to grow from current population levels of 4.6 million to almost 10 million by 2051. To ensure this growth is sustainable, the majority of this population is to be housed in Melbourne’s established suburbs, in ‘activity centres’ with good access to jobs, services and public transport.

For Frankston, this means the municipality’s population will grow by an estimated 17,600 from 2021 to 2041. This translates to approximately 3000 new residents and an additional 2,800 jobs in the FMAC during that time.

As development is expected to occur in this precinct, implementing a Structure Plan will enable Council to introduce planning controls that better reflect the local context of the area and to identify what infrastructure is required to support the population. Without a Structure Plan residents will have limited ability to influence or challenge how development occurs in the future.

The Structure Plan is your opportunity to influence what type of development is allowed in the area and also what changes and improvements are needed to ensure Frankston continues to be a great place to live, work and play.

These are higher-order centres intended to provide a diverse range of jobs, activities and housing for regional catchments that are well served by public transport. These centres are expected to play a major service delivery role, including government, health, justice and education services, as well as retail and commercial opportunities. Frankston is designated as a Metropolitan Activity Centre along with Box Hill, Broadmeadows, Dandenong, Epping, Footscray, Fountain Gate-Narre Warren, Ringwood and Sunshine.

The purpose of this community engagement is to seek community views and input into the future planning of the Frankston Metropolitan Activity Centre. Your feedback and input will be used to inform the development of the draft and final Structure Plan.

This is only the initial phase of community engagement. The emerging ideas and the resulting feedback will help inform the draft FMAC Structure Plan that will be released for consultation later in the year.

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Stage 1 - Frankston City Centre is changing

Thank you for your feedback on our Emerging Ideas Paper

We sought your feedback in April-May 2022 on:

What are our Emerging Ideas?

Learn more about the ideas under our four themes

Activities and Land Use

Built Form

Public Realm

Movement and Access

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Translation and accessibility

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