Glossary

Activity centres are vibrant places where people shop, work, connect with family and friends as well as live. They range in size, from local neighbourhood shopping strips to centres that include major regional shopping malls.

Affordable housing refers to housing that is appropriate for the needs of a range of very low to moderate income households. It is priced (whether mortgage repayments or rent) so these households are able to meet their other essential basic living costs.

Housing affordability typically refers to the relationship between expenditure on housing (prices, mortgage payments or rents) and household incomes (Thomas and Hall, 2016).

The number of dwellings on an area of land.

Separate houses that are structurally independent of surrounding dwellings.

Units, townhouses and low-rise apartments (generally between two to five storeys).

Apartment buildings of five storeys or more.

The municipality of Manningham, including all of its suburbs.

The total number of potential new dwellings that can be accommodated within Manningham, informed by planning scheme controls, land availability and other constraints.

Housing that is suitable for people of varying ages, abilities and life stages.

A high-level strategic document that seeks to facilitate and guide housing growth across a municipality for a specified period (10 plus years).

Housing typology refers to a specific type of dwelling. Examples of different housing typologies include single houses, townhouses, units or apartments.

Neighbourhood character refers to the visual characteristics of a residential area, consisting of key attributes from both the public and private realms.

Preferred neighbourhood character is either:

• the existing character of an area; or
• an identified future neighbourhood character different from the existing character of an area.

The Victorian Government’s overarching strategic document, which guides the growth of metropolitan Melbourne up to 2050. It sets the strategy for supporting jobs, housing and transport, while building on Melbourne’s legacy of distinctiveness, liveability and sustainability.

The Principal Public Transport Network (PPTN) reflects the routes where high-quality public transport services are or will be provided. The PPTN includes trains, trams and buses across metropolitan Melbourne.

Housing stress is experienced when an individual must forgo basic goods and services in order to pay for housing related costs.

The Manningham Planning Scheme contains the policies and provisions that control land use and development across all private and public land in the municipality.

A small second dwelling is a building with a gross floor area of 60 square metres or less, on the same lot as an existing dwelling and used as a self-contained residence. Small second dwellings are often referred to as ‘granny flats’ and include living, eating, sleeping and cooking areas that allow for independent living.

A Residential Framework Plan identifies housing change areas. It broadly provides for three levels of change to allow for different types of housing to occur in the most sustainable locations. This provides certainty for the community and the development sector about where to expect residential change in Manningham.

It also provides the basis for the application of requirements through zones and overlays to give effect to desired planning outcomes.

Minimal change areas have characteristics that are unique to a municipality, metropolitan Melbourne or Victoria. They should be protected because of their special neighbourhood, heritage, environmental or landscape characteristics. Minimal change areas can also be areas that are constrained by planning considerations such as the physical capability of the land to safely accommodate more residential development.

Incremental change areas are where housing growth occurs within the context of existing or preferred neighbourhood character. The built form context of incremental change areas can vary widely. For example, incremental change in an inner urban area can represent a very different scale of development from an incremental change area in an outer suburban area, or a regional town or city.

Substantial change areas are where housing intensification will occur that results in a substantially different scale and intensity of housing compared to other areas of a municipality. This may include areas in and around activity centres, along public transport corridors and strategic development sites.