Within 30 years, Melbourne will have to house 8 million people. Every Victorian should know that number now, when we need to start planning for it.
In 1957, my parents paid a few hundred pounds for a block of uncleared land on the southernmost edge of suburban Melbourne, on which they built a home. This rectangle of scrub on a corner of two unmade roads was about 2.5 kilometres north of Frankston railway station.
But its low-key character looks likely to change. The state government has big plans for this humble street of my early years, with its weekend sounds of lawnmowers and cricket or football or the races on the radio.in the activity centres of Broadmeadows, Camberwell Junction, Chadstone, Epping, Frankston, Moorabbin, Niddrie, North Essendon, Preston and Ringwood by the middle of the century.
In 2001, Melbourne’s population was 3.3 million. Last year, it was 5.2 million and Sydney’s was 5.4 million. Melbourne’s population growth rate was 3.3 per cent, while Sydney’s was 2.8 per cent. Whoopee, MelbourneIn all likelihood, that “win” will deliver a burden rather than a prize. As our full-blown housing crisis demonstrates, one area of policy where we really stumble is reaching a consensus on how to make our cities work better.
But maps and plans and consultation periods can only take things so far. They’re valuable and essential, for sure. However, what we never get in a sustained way is a persuasive explanation for why we need to reimagine our city and our suburbs.
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