The Liveable City Strategy 2040 (LCS) is Manningham’s 20-year plan to improve the liveability of our municipality, from our urban/suburban neighbourhoods to our rural areas.
The LCS will help shape the future of the municipality over the next 20 years and ensure Manningham will continue to evolve as a liveable, resilient, and desirable place to be.
Strategic direction
The strategy covers the following key directions:
- vibrant activity centres
- thriving employment
- housing choice and distinct communities
- greening our city
- sustainable transport and travel mode choice
- building social and cultural connections.
The LCS focuses on:
- creating vibrant activity centres and community places
- encouraging jobs growth in the suburbs
- providing housing and transport choice
- protecting Manningham’s valued landscape character.
Importantly, the LCS provides a plan for every neighbourhood as well as our activity centres.
Key concept
A key concept in the strategy is ‘Living locally - 20 minute neighbourhoods’ which is a core principle of Metropolitan Melbourne’s Plan Melbourne 2050.
The aim of a '20-minute neighbourhood’ is to create a place where people can meet most of their daily needs within a 20-minute walk from home, with safe cycling and local transport options.
Community engagement
The LCS was created following feedback from Imagine Manningham 2040 (IM2040) – an extensive community engagement project undertaken in 2019 that captured the views of a wide cross-section of Manningham’s diverse and varied community.
