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Land use strategies
Today’s Melbourne Airport land use planning policies are the result of a long history of initiatives and decisions by various levels of government and other parties over a period of some 40 years. This started with the decision in 1958 to construct Melbourne Airport in its current location and progressed through a series of studies, inquiries, hearings, policy announcements, legislative decisions and other events, leading to the regime of policies and controls which protect the ongoing operation of Melbourne Airport today.
The history behind the development of land use strategies is complex and often not well understood by those who administer, or have an interest in, land use and development planning around the Airport. However, an understanding of that history is important, at least in order to understand the origins of the current planning framework. To this end, the attached document provides a summary of the chronology of events that has lead to the development of Melbourne Airport’s land use planning.