It is important to consider environmental sensitivities and recognise limits with respect to future housing planning and provision for the City of Maroondah.
We need to find a balance between protecting the environment, using
Maroondah’s natural assets to our advantage and providing housing.
Perceived constraints can be opportunities for sustainable and innovative planning outcomes. For example, ‘The Range’ in Croydon provides a fully master-planned housing layout with the benefit of ‘landscaped open spaces, natural wetlands and trails woven into the design’. Others include:
Neighbourhood Character - significant or dominant urban and environmental elements
Ridgelines - top parts of a mountain range, providing topographical interest
Views (to and from) - sense of range, space and depth
Flooding - passage, storage and mitigation and management of water
Water Quality - quality, effluent, septic maintenance, vegetated corridors
Trees and Natural Habitat (flora and fauna) - Flora is plant life. Fauna is animal life
Heritage - historic places of aesthetic, scientific, social, spiritual and historical value
Cultural Sensitivity - culturally significant archaeological artefacts
Contaminated Land - industry, mining, chemicals, gas, wastes or liquid fuel
Climate Proofing - mitigating and adapting the effects of climate change.
Council’s corporate and strategic policies, including ‘Maroondah 2040’,
Council Plans and the Maroondah Planning Scheme help address environmental sensitivities via strategic policy making and the statutory planning framework.
‘In 2040, Maroondah will be a green leafy community with high levels of waste diversion and sustainable approaches to infrastructure development, urban design and management of natural resources. Our community will be resilient and have the knowledge, capacity and resources to make sustainable lifestyle choices.’
Factsheet #2
October 2015
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Our ridgelines are valued
Planning controls are in place to ensure that appropriate development takes place on the
Wicklow Hills and the Loughnan-Warranwood ridgelines
Source: Maroondah Planning Scheme Review, 2015
Habitat for flora and fauna
Risk of climate change
Opportunity for water sensitive urban design approaches
Almost 12% of
Maroondah is biologically significant.
These areas provide important habitat for our flora and fauna
Source: Maroondah Planning Scheme Review, 2015
Photo: The Paper Boat, Clare Beveridge, 2013
Neighbourhood character
‘The existing and preferred neighbourhood character for the residential areas of Maroondah has been identified and described through the Maroondah Neighbourhood
Character Study, 2004…’
To contact Council
 phone 1300 88 22 33 or (03) 9298 4598
Source: Maroondah Neighbourhood Character Study, 2004
MaroondahCityCouncil visit: www.maroondah.vic.gov.au @CityofMaroondah email: maroondah@maroondah.vic.gov.au
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