Urban infill: extent and implications in the city of Monash
By Thu Phan and Shobhit Chandra
From People and Place, Vol 16 No 4, 2008
"The Urban Development Program (UDP), a major initiative of the Victorian Government to support the implementation of Melbourne 2030, was established in 2002. It is currently monitoring the development of the green-field subdivisions and major project residential infill developments, but not dispersed infill. Thus there is little official information on the level of dispersed infill. The Melbourne 2030 planning documents have nothing to say about possible infill in established suburbs outside the boundaries of activity centres. One study suggests that some 35 per cent of new dwellings in Melbourne take the form of infill. This paper explores the extent and location of infill between 2000 and 2006 in one of the thirty-one local government areas in the Melbourne Metropolitan Area (MMA): the City of Monash. "