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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| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Vision In 2030 the Brimbank Green Wedge will be valued and enjoyed by the community for its rural atmosphere, rich biodiversity, cultural heritage and scenic landscape. Land owners will be supported to adjust to change and pursue sustainable land management practices, including innovative farming schemes that take advantage of emerging opportunities and local markets. | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Work with education institutions to research viable farming and alternative land use opportunities for the area | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | • Encourage farmers to improve soil and vegetation management and support them to improve farm productivity and adapt to change | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | • Support and promote new and innovative agricultural land uses and alternative crops – e.g. Native seed production | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | 3.2 Planning and management objectives Maintain opportunities for extensive and intensive agriculture and protect productive agricultural land from incompatible uses and inappropriate development (including non-soil based farming on land with high soil quality) and subdivision. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Advocate for State and Commonwealth funding and policy initiatives that support local and peri-urban food production F | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Application of planning scheme provisions aimed at protecting significant views and ensuring development is consistent with green wedge values. • | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan 2010 Rural lifestyle opportunities A sustainable, rural lifestyle is a major benefit of living in the green wedge. Lifestyle values include access to open space and clean air, opportunities for farming and hobby farming, and proximity to parks, reserves and areas of high environmental value. The rural values of the green wedge provide a sense of peace, tranquillity and separation from the urban environment. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Continue to administer the Sustainable Land Management Incentive Scheme which provides financial assistance for environmental works on private land. Coordinate the scheme with Melbourne Water’s River Health Incentives Programs and target specific, high priority environmental problems as they arise. A18 Support private land owners to prepare 5 year Land Management Plans. A1 | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Directions (20 years) • Continue to support Clause 57 of the State planning provisions that limit residential development to single dwellings on existing lots in green wedge areas • Support development of new single dwellings on existing allotments that are associated with lifestyle farming activities • Only consider expansion of the Oakwood Road rural living precinct under the following circumstances: the Kings Road interchange is constructed; the riparian and escarpment land is transferred to a public authority; adequate financial contributions are made for local services and conservation and management activities; and the proposal achieves a positive outcome for the whole of the Sunbury Green Wedge. It is noted that any proposal to increase residential densities in the green wedge would require authorisation and approval by the Minister for Planning as well as ratification by both houses of Parliament. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Directions (20 years) • Support horticulture production in the Keilor Market Gardens, including lifestyle farming, and discourage alternative, conflicting uses in this area | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Establishing sustainable use of the Brimbank Green Wedge area, especially the Keilor Market Gardens | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | G. Rural living – Controlled residential development within the limits of the area’s existing capacity and constraints that provides a high amenity rural lifestyle and which protects the environmental qualities of the Maribyrnong valley. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Green Wedge Management Plans provide an opportunity for a whole of government approach in partnership with Councils and landholders to prepare and implement a plan which fully embraces and Page 3 of 53 Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan 2010 reflects the wider context of land use and natural resource planning and management objectives for the region | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | In 2030 the Brimbank Green Wedge will be valued and enjoyed by the community for its rural atmosphere, rich biodiversity, cultural heritage and scenic landscape. Land owners will be supported to adjust to change and pursue sustainable land management practices, including innovative farming schemes that take advantage of emerging opportunities and local markets. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Include a local policy in the revised MSS requiring approval of a Land Management Plan by Council as a condition of approval for new development in the green wedge A | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Include local policies in the revised MSS discouraging further residential subdivision in the green wedge and encouraging the appropriate siting and design of buildings G | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Melbourne’s green wedges make a major contribution to the liveability, economic strength and environmental health of Melbourne and fulfil a range of roles including: • agricultural production • conservation and biodiversity areas close to the city • natural ecosystem services such as water catchments • providing and safeguarding sites for infrastructure that supports urban areas (such as airports and sewage treatment plants) • allowing industries such as sand and stone extraction to operate close to major markets • rural and scenic landscapes • enabling the development of networks of open space • providing opportunities for diverse tourism and recreation | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Objective (20 years) Controlled residential development within the limits of the area’s existing capacity and constraints that provides a high amenity rural lifestyle and which protects the environmental qualities of the Maribyrnong Valley. F | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Percentage of market gardens used for agriculture | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Protect rural lifestyle values such as open space and landscapes, hobby farms and sustainable living, and proximity to parks, reserves and areas of high environmental value. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Recognise and appropriately provide for villages and townships in the green wedge to support the agricultural, tourism and other non-urban functions of the green wedge. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Re-enforcement of the agricultural role of the Keilor Market Gardens with an emphasis on facilitating lifestyle farming and supporting local farmers to adjust to change. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Rezone the Keilor Market Gardens to Green Wedge to reflect the existing land use (see Appendix 2) F | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Rural living in the Brimbank Green Wedge is currently limited to the construction of single dwellings on the existing allotments. Any change to current planning provisions that enables additional subdivision requires ratification by both houses of Parliament. Keilor Market Gardens Sustaining agricultural production in the region, especially in the Keilor Market Gardens, is likely to require support for lifestyle farming whereby any farm income is secondary to the income from other employment. The Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan provides for lifestyle farming by supporting development of single dwellings on the existing vacant allotments on the condition that new housing does not compromise the health of the catchment. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Support for a local tourist industry based around local produce and eco-tourism experiences. • Limitation of non-green wedge uses to the existing sites and facilities (in accordance with existing masterplans and approvals) | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | Support land owners access financial support for environmental works, including native vegetation offsets | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | The Brimbank component of the Sunbury Green Wedge (the Brimbank Green Wedge) includes the land known as the “North of the Calder Non-Urban Area”. While relatively small, the Brimbank Green Wedge contains a number of environmental assets as well as areas used for horticulture, recreation and low density housing. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | The key directions contained in the Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan include: • Re-enforcement of current State Government planning provisions that limit residential development to single dwellings on allotments. • Investigate expansion of the Oakbank Road rural living precinct under specified conditions. • Re | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |
| Brimbank Green Wedge Management Plan | The North of the Calder Non-Urban Land Review was completed in 2006 and consists of five (5) reports: i. North of the Calder Non-urban Land Review, Part 1: Background Report (2005) ii. North of the Calder Non-urban Land Review, Part 2: Options and Evaluation Report (2006) iii. Horticultural Characteristics of the Keilor District (2005) iv. Social & Economic Impact Assessment: North of Calder Non Urban Land (2006) v. Independent Review of the Horticultural Characteristics of the Keilor District (2005) The Review assessed a number of options for the area, including recommending the following: Precinct One (Calder Park Raceway, Organ Pipes National Park, Sydenham Park, Keilor Golf Course): No increase in housing, potential for non-soil based agricultural, open space retention Precinct Two (Oakbank Road rural living precinct): Some scope for non-urban housing expansion, recognition of landscape features, potential for open space linkages, transport/infrastructure constraints. Precinct Three (Keilor Market Gardens, Overnewton Road precinct): Continued horticulture, avoidance of land use conflict associated with increased housing development, resolution of existing planning inconsistencies on the school sites. Following completion of the Review, Council resolved to prepare a Green Wedge Management Plan for the area based on the findings of the Review Part 1 and Part 2 reports (i & ii) and the Social and Economic Impact Assessment (iv). Council also resolved to prepare an amendment to the Brimbank Planning Scheme to change the zoning of Sydenham Park from Green Wedge and Rural Conservation to Public Park and Recreation to reflect the park’s public land ownership and future public use. Council also resolved to investigate whether an environmental significance overlay should be applied to any part of the Park to ensure that future development preserves and enhances the Park’s environmental values. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Brimbank | Metropolitan |