Welcome to the Australian Local Food System Policy Database. This is a collection of policies from New South Wales (NSW) and Victorian local governments that relate to healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems.
For further information about using the database and how it was created see How to use the database. You can search the database by using the fields below. Domain refers to eight broad categories under which various topics are situated. The domains and topics are based on a framework of recommendations for local government action on creating a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system (also located on the ‘How to use the database’ page linked above).
To cite the database: Reeve B, Carrad A, Rose N, Charlton K & Aguirre-Bielschowsky I (2021) Australian Local Food System Policy Database. Available at: https://law-food-systems.sydney.edu.au/policy-database (access date).
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| Document title | Relevant text in the policy | Domain | Topic | State | Local Government name | Council type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Warrnambool | Provide a strategic framework for agricultural and rural land use | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Warrnambool | Regional |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Ensure new uses do not adversely impact on existing land uses or compromise the establishment of future preferred land uses. C4.1 Include policy statement in the Greater Dandenong Planning Scheme to guide appropriate land use and minimise potential for land use conflict in the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge. C4.2 Continue to engage with Cornish College and Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (operator of Bunurong Memorial Park) regarding expansion plans so any potential impacts on the operations of the Eastern Treatment Plant and the future of other parts of the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge are minimised. C4.3 Include policy statement in the Greater Dandenong Planning Scheme to ensure that new uses are adequately protected from potential off-site impacts from the legitimate operation of the Eastern Treatment Plant and the Industrial 2 Zoned area. C4.4 Include policy statement in the Greater Dandenong Planning Scheme to ensure that new residential uses provide adequate protection from the legitimate operations of nearby and future potential activities such as agriculture, recreation, equestrial and sporting activities. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Facilitate better land management. C6 Assist with the appropriate use of unused and poorly maintained land by establishing and sustaining a database of land owners and interested agricultural, education, recreational, sporting and cultural operators (refer to C2.5 and C6.2). C5.2 Provide advice and assistance to land owners (refer to B3) regarding: – methods to maintain and improve land management practices including weed management, appropriate revegetation and options for food production and animal agistment that may compliment residential activities; and – regulations about land fill and the consequences of poor quality fill. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Land uses are carefully located and managed to be consistent with the values and functions of the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Land uses are carefully located and managed to be consistent with the values and functions of the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Open space, recreation, rural living & less intensive agricultural uses (e.g. market garden) | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Provide greater certainty to Green Wedge owners regarding the preferred land uses (C1) | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Provide greater certainty to Green Wedge owners regarding the preferred land uses (Priority objective). C1.1 Rezone the Hutton Road North Precinct to Green Wedge A Zone, maintaining the existing 4ha minimum lot sizes. Further investigation to determine whether the land should transition to an urban residential use. C1.2 Rezone the Keys Road Precinct to Green Wedge A Zone maintaining the existing 6ha minimum lot size. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Provide greater certainty to Green Wedge owners regarding the preferred land uses. Support the expansion and diversification of agricultural activity. Protect the ongoing viability of regionally significant assets. Ensure new uses do not adversely impact on existing land uses or compromise the establishment of future preferred land uses. Facilitate better land management. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Support the expansion and diversification of agricultural activity. C2.1 Maintain the 40ha minimum subdivision lot size in the Bangholme Lowlands, Bangholme East and Lyndhurst Precincts. C2.2 Investigate specific agricultural opportunities for the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge (e.g. considering market assessment, access, soil and water quality and water availability including recycled water from the Eastern Treatment Plant). C2.3 Actively encourage the establishment of niche and specialised agricultural activities in the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge, particularly those supporting food security. C2.4 Support the Greater Dandenong Regional Food Strategy initiatives in the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge. C2.5 Facilitate land aggregation and leasing in the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge to assist operations needing more land for agricultural viability. C2.6 Investigate options for assistance and advice to agricultural operators (to work in conjunction with information pack distribution) (refer to A1.8, B3.4, C5.2, E1.3 and E2.6). C2.7 Include policy statement in the Greater Dandenong Planning Scheme to discourage further subdivision of lots in areas where | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | The Greater Dandenong Green Wedge provides a unique opportunity for agricultural activities to take place with easy access to consumers and suppliers in the metropolitan region. Agriculture, a key purpose of Green Wedge Zoned land, could be expanded and diversified as well as increase food production, thus improving the region’s food security. Measures should be undertaken to support existing and new agricultural uses in the area | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | The Greater Dandenong Green Wedge will provide a green, spacious relief from surrounding urban development. It will support a range of activities– agriculture, water treatment, recreation, education, and rural living – that are carefully located and designed to respect the important environmental, cultural heritage, water management, landscape, and amenity values and functions of the region. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | The Greater Dandenong Green Wedge will provide a green, spacious relief from surrounding urban development. It will support a range of activities– agriculture, water treatment, recreation, education, and rural living – that are carefully located and designed to respect the important environmental, cultural heritage, water management, landscape, and amenity values and functions of the region. WA | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | There is the opportunity for the educational, recreational and cultural role of the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge to be promoted and strengthened. This could be improved through upgrades to Spring Valley Reserve, increased public trails along waterways throughout the Green Wedge, new public open spaces and establishing an environmental and agricultural centre in the same vein as CERES, Brunswick East or Edendale Farm, Eltham. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | This Plan will provide certainty regarding the types of activities and associated development that can occur in the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge: agriculture and other rural uses | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Waste water treatment & provision of recycled water | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | There is the opportunity for the educational, recreational and cultural role of the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge to be promoted and strengthened. This could be improved through upgrades to Spring Valley Reserve, increased public trails along waterways throughout the Green Wedge, new public open spaces and establishing an environmental and agricultural centre in the same vein as CERES, Brunswick East or Edendale Farm, Eltham. | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Investigate specific agricultural opportunities for the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge (e.g. considering market assessment, access, soil and water quality and water availability including recycled water from the Eastern Treatment Plant). | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable water management in food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | The Greater Dandenong Green Wedge provides a unique opportunity for agricultural activities to take place with easy access to consumers and suppliers in the metropolitan region. Agriculture, a key purpose of Green Wedge Zoned land, could be expanded and diversified as well as increase food production, thus improving the region’s food security. Measures should be undertaken to support existing and new agricultural uses in the area | Sustainability and Environment | Strengthen food chain connections/distribution | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Actively encourage the establishment of niche and specialised agricultural activities in the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge, particularly those supporting food security. | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Facilitate land aggregation and leasing in the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge to assist operations needing more land for agricultural viability. | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Investigate options for assistance and advice to agricultural operators (to work in conjunction with information pack distribution) (refer to A1.8, B3.4, C5.2, E1.3 and E2.6). | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Support the expansion and diversification of agricultural activity. | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Support the expansion and diversification of agricultural activity. Pr | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | The Greater Dandenong Green Wedge’s existing values and assets, such as the regionally significant ETP, must be safeguarded into the future. Better management of existing land uses needs to occur to protect these values and assets. This also needs to be considered in the assessment of proposals. Change will also need to be managed to minimise the risks associated with former land uses, soil conditions, sensitive land uses and landscape features. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Agriculture & other rural uses, open space, recreation uses | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Bangholme East ETP buffer IN2Z buffer Flooding Willow Lodge To ensure that new uses are compatible with the operations of the ETP and nearby industrial areas, and encourage agricultural and other rural uses. Agriculture & other rural uses, open space & recreation 7. Lyndhurst Remnant vegetation Heritage places To encourage agricultural and other rural uses, and to allow for appropriate low-scale community, institutional, recreational and tourism-related activities. Agriculture & other rural uses, open space & low scale community, institutional, recreational and tourism related uses | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| GREEN WEDG E MANAGEMENT PLAN | Broadly speaking, current management of the land (scenario 1) with elements of an ecological focus (scenario 2) is the preferred scenario for the main portion of the Greater Dandenong Green Wedge. This will ensure the area continues to provide relief from continuous development and, with investment for additional improvements, will also safeguard the values of the area including the protection of agricultural land and production, environmental and heritage assets, the Eastern Treatment Plant and the open landscape. A | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Greater Dandenong | Metropolitan |
| Green Wedge Action Plan 2020 | • Review Planning controls to ensure; land holders right to farm | Economic Development | Food related job creation | Victoria | Manningham | Metropolitan |
| Green Wedge Action Plan 2020 | Identify the niche markets and business opportunities with the most economic potential for development in the Green Wedge including: ecotourism; health tourism; Bed and Breakfast accommodation; home based businesses; locally grown produce; and farmers markets. • Support the existing | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | Victoria | Manningham | Metropolitan |