WYNDHAM Council has urged the state government to align its planning vision with its budget to ensure the municipality gets the infrastructure it needs.
Releasing a discussion paper on the government’s metropolitan planning strategy late last year, Planning Minister Matthew Guy said it wanted to create suburbs which had access to jobs and education.
Mr Guy said all suburbs should be no more than 20 minutes to get to work, shops and education facilities.
The discussion paper flagged the Werribee Employment Precinct as a necessary development to ensure Wyndham had access to local jobs.
While the council welcomed the government’s commitment in promoting local jobs, it used a submission on the strategy to ask for future development to be aligned with the state budget so growth areas did not get left behind.
The council wants the government to create a funding plan to clear Wyndham’s existing infrastructure backlog.
“The current ‘build now, civilise later’ approach to developing new communities must be addressed by the metropolitan strategy if it is to successfully develop . . . a 20-minute city,” the council’s submission read.
It added that: “Further alignment with state budgets are required to ensure that funding of the planned infrastructure is available.”
