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 |
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| Bayside Community Plan 2025 Building a better Bayside | Bayside City Council Regulator Partner Advocate • Encourage the inclusion of affordable housing in large residential developments. • Promote the innovative redevelopment and renewal of older public housing stock in Bayside. • Monitor the changing demographic trends and associated demand for housing. • Monitor the current and future supply of housing. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025 Building a better Bayside | It is possible for older people to continue to live in Bayside, retire and maintain their interdependence. There are affordable retirement options for older people. • I will be able to subdivide my property. • I will be able to get the support and care I need. It is affordable for me to buy a home in Bayside. Bayside City Indicators • Housing mix (single dwellings, town houses and apartments). Community Indicators Victoria Markers of Liveability • Average distance to nearest medical clinic. • Density of access to services for older people by area (per square kilometre). • Average distance to nearest public transport (bus, train). Bayside City Indicators • Ratio of housing cost to household income. • Housing sales. • Price segment (Census). • Housing mix (single dwellings, town houses and apartments). Community Indicators Victoria • Median house or unit/flat price. • Number of households with housing costs of 30% or more of gross income. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025 Building a better Bayside | There are plenty of choices for food and entertainment in the local area. Bayside will be a better place when: • I don’t have to leave Bayside for a night out. • I can buy the basics from my local centre (fruit, meat and groceries). • There are a selection of outlets offering cheap eats. • It is convenient to shop locally at any time of day. | Health and Wellbeing | Accessible healthy food retail | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025 Building a better Bayside | While many Bayside residents value the look and feel offered by larger format houses set on larger tree-lined blocks, growth and development affords property owners the opportunity to subdivide, and enables others entry into an otherwise unaffordable, highly sought after market. Despite community preferences, growth is a part of Bayside’s future. Residential development is largely guided by the State Planning Policy Framework, making it difficult for Council to achieve all the aspirations of all Bayside residents. However, it is Council’s responsibility to determine where housing will be provided within the municipality, taking into account local trends, conditions and community aspirations. Growth and development is being focused around major activity centres and along rail corridors, offering residents the opportunity to live close to transport and shopping centres, perhaps without the need to own a car. | Health and Wellbeing | Accessible healthy food retail | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025. | Delivery on Councils currently identified advocacy campaigns, including Elsternwick Park Nature Reserve, commuter car parking, affordable housing, Integrated Transport, improved netball facilities, basketball facilities and Hydrotherapy pool. ✔ ✔ | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025. | Strategic Indicators • Increase community satisfaction with Council’s advocacy for increasing the supply of social and affordable housing in Bayside Council Plan Strategy 3.5.1 Improve housing affordability (including social housing) and diversity of housing to meet the needs of various life stages through advocacy Actions Implement the advocacy action plan to improve housing affordability and social housing options Target Maintain or improve years 3 and 4 target of 6.62 rating 2019/20 2020/21 ✔ ✔ | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025. | The strategies in this Council Plan seek to make discretionary planning controls stronger and ensure new development responds to preferred neighbourhood character. They also seek to influence housing affordability and provide housing that meets the needs of various life stages through advocacy. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025. | Implement Food Organics & Garden Organics (FOGO) for those properties in receipt of a garden organic’s bin and educate the community and encourage others to opt in to this service prior to 30 June 2020 | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Community Plan 2025. | Implement Food Organics & Garden Organics (FOGO) for those properties in receipt of a garden organic’s bin and educate the community and encourage others to opt in to this service prior to 30 June 2020 | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | 7.16 Social and Affordable Housing Objective 18 To provide adequate affordable and social housing to meet current and future community needs. Strategies • Encourage the inclusion of affordable housing in large residential developments. • Promote the innovative redevelopment and renewal of older public housing stock in Bayside. • Encourage and facilitate private, public and community sector involvement in the provision of housing diversity to ensure a range of housing choices is available. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | Action Social and affordable housing 28. Work with adjacent councils and the State Government to identify appropriate policies and mechanisms to encourage provision of greater amounts of affordable housing. 29. Advocate to the State Government for the redevelopment of current public housing stock in Bayside to ensure the community needs are met, including consideration of: • accessibility and adaptability of housing • ecologically sustainable design • provision of support services for residents and active place management • reducing concentrations of disadvantage through introducing a mix of social and market-based housing. 30. Develop relationships with community housing associations to advocate for and encourage development of appropriate social housing in Bayside. 31. Monitor research into developments in affordable housing including ‘intermediate’ products such as shared equity schemes and, where appropriate, promote their use in Bayside. 32. Consider placing conditions on the sale or transfer of Council land for residential development to require a proportion of new dwellings to be affordable or social housing units. To be considered on a site by site basis. 33. Require illegal rooming / boarding houses that Council becomes aware of to become registered and ensure they are of a suitable quality for habitation and are in full compliance with the Building Act (1993), Building Regulations (2006) and the Public Health and Wellbeing Act (2008). | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | Bayside also has a small number of other social housing dwellings including four registered rooming houses, about fifteen public housing dwellings owned by community organisations and six existing public housing dwellings being redeveloped through the Social Housing Initiative, under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | Council’s Policy position in relation to social and affordable housing In relation to social and affordable housing in Bayside, Council will adopt the following principles: • affordable housing for low and middle income earners contributes to a diverse and sustainable community in Bayside • there should be an adequate supply of social housing dwellings in Bayside, and • the projected increase in housing to accommodate population growth should include a range of affordable options that meet community needs. In support of these principles Council will: • advocate to the State Government for the redevelopment of current public housing stock in Bayside to ensure community needs are met, including consideration of: o accessibility and adaptability of housing o Ecologically Sustainable Design o provision of support services for residents and active place management o reducing concentrations of disadvantage through introducing a mix of social and marketbased housing • develop relationships with Community Housing Associations to advocate for and encourage development of appropriate social housing in Bayside • monitor research into developments in affordable housing including ‘intermediate’ products such as shared equity schemes and where appropriate, promote their use in Bayside • encourage developers of major residential sites to include a proportion of affordable housing options, including through partnerships with Community Housing Associations • consider, where appropriate, placing conditions on the sale or transfer of any Council land for residential purposes to ensure that the principles in this policy are met; and Bayside Housing Strategy | 22 Housing Strategy • work with the community, government and developers through research, advocacy and information provision. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | incorporating a range of suitable accommodation options, including housing for older people, affordable housing and facilitating the renovation and use of shop top dwellings. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | Monitor developments in affordable housing including ‘intermediate’ products such as shared housing options, including partnerships with Community Housing Associations. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | Rooming and Boarding Houses Bayside has four non-private dwellings that are registered as rooming / boarding houses. Often residents of this form of accommodation have in the past or will in the future experience health issues or are subsisting on low incomes and so generally have few resources. This form of housing can easily be lost if it is allowed to be converted to other forms of housing (such as private apartments). | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | The Bayside Health and Wellbeing Plan 2009– 2013 provides a framework for strategic actions to promote community wellbeing, including through promoting access to accessible and affordable housing that meets community needs across the lifespan. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | Identified Large Neighbourhood Activity Centres, including Highett; Martin Street, Gardenvale; Beaumaris Concourse; and Black Rock will assist in accommodating medium density development. Identified Small Neighbourhood Activity Centres will accommodate shop top housing which respects the local built form context. | Health and Wellbeing | Accessible healthy food retail | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | Neighbourhood Activity Centres will accommodate shop top housing which respects the | Health and Wellbeing | Accessible healthy food retail | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Housing Strategy | the renovation and use of shop top dwellings. Other Relevant LPPF | Health and Wellbeing | Accessible healthy food retail | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | Council has entered into lease arrangements with vendors to trade from these sites. Under Bayside‟s Local Law 2, mobile vendors may apply for a „one off‟ permit to use Council land for trade. These are managed by Council‟s Amenity Protection Department. If a mobile vendor doesn‟t have a licence or permit to trade off Council‟s land, then enforcement action is undertaken. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | There is an opportunity to use the open space network to contribute to the access the community has to food by setting aside land for community gardens and planting edible food which is available to the community to harvest, encouraging farmer‚Äüs markets and food swap meets on Council owned land. | Economic Development | Public food markets and distributors | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | Action 3.6 – Development of design standards for open space infrastructure Prepare a suite of standard infrastructure standards and specifications for open spaces in Bayside. This suite should include, but not be limited to: car parking standards, including principles relating to location of car parking, amounts to be provided and surface treatments signage standards for park information and way finding water fountains fencing seating rubbish and recycling bins dog infrastructure lighting toilets showers BBQs sporting infrastructure (such as cricket nets, hard surfaces for ball games). | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | water fountains | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | water fountains | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | Action 4.1 – Community gardens and harvesting Identify suitable locations within the municipality for development of Community Gardens. Investigate planting of edible plants in Council owned land which are accessible for harvest by the community (for example fruit trees and herbs). | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | Community gardens and harvesting Identify suitable locations within the municipality for development of Community Gardens. Investigate planting of edible plants in Council owned land which are accessible for harvest by the community (for example fruit trees and herbs). ESOS AMS $ Medium | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | There is an opportunity to use the open space network to contribute to the access the community has to food by setting aside land for community gardens and planting edible food which is available to the community to harvest, encouraging farmer‟s markets and food swap meets on Council owned land. | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | Action 4.1 – Community gardens and harvesting Identify suitable locations within the municipality for development of Community Gardens. Investigate planting of edible plants in Council owned land which are accessible for harvest by the community (for example fruit trees and herbs). | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |
| Bayside Open Space Strategy | Community gardens and harvesting Identify suitable locations within the municipality for development of Community Gardens. Investigate planting of edible plants in Council owned land which are accessible for harvest by the community (for example fruit trees and herbs). ESOS AMS $ Medium | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Bayside | Metropolitan |