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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| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | We will facilitate promotion of environmental sustainability by linking businesses to new initiatives and key sustainability projects, including sustainable food practices. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | Ongoing education and promotion regarding urban agriculture and access to healthy food.* | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | The proportion of residents who produce and consume their own food. | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | We will facilitate ongoing education and promotion regarding urban agriculture and access to healthy food. | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | 6.4 Implement innovative and effective urban freight solutions | Sustainability and Environment | Strengthen food chain connections/distribution | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | The flow of people and goods by enhancing the inner Melbourne transport network, including last-kilometre freight. | Sustainability and Environment | Strengthen food chain connections/distribution | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | Queen Victoria Market Renewal projects. | Economic Development | Public food markets and distributors | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | We will provide renewal of the Queen Victoria Market precinct. | Economic Development | Public food markets and distributors | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL PLAN 2017–2021 | WE WILL PROVIDE Renewal of the Queen Victoria Market precinct.* RELATED FM 2026 PRIORITIES 8.1 Manage for increased density 2.5 Quality public spaces | Economic Development | Public food markets and distributors | Victoria | Melbourne | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | More than 35,000 people turned out for the 2018 Djerriwarrh Festival on 10 November at Melton Recreation Reserve. This much-loved annual event featured a street parade down High Street, main stage entertainment, a market stall village and pet expo. Festival-goers enjoyed food from around the world and a bonfire. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | Summersault was held on 9 February in Caroline Springs. The event featured music, food, artisan shopping, rides and amusements. More than 100 specialty stalls came together to create the Twilight Market Village, and food vendors from around Melbourne fed the crowd. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | encourage healthy eating | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | Council hosted a community event at Morton Homestead on Saturday 16 March, featuring food and performances from around the world | Health and Wellbeing | Traditional food cultures | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | More than 35,000 people turned out for the 2018 Djerriwarrh Festival on 10 November at Melton Recreation Reserve. This much-loved annual event featured a street parade down High Street, main stage entertainment, a market stall village and pet expo. Festival-goers enjoyed food from around the world and a bonfire. | Health and Wellbeing | Traditional food cultures | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | $199,793,677 $269,107,085 Investment comprised a mix of small-scale commercial and industrial developments, changes of land use, larger-scale warehouse and distribution uses and neighbourhood activity centre developments consisting of supermarkets, shops and retail premises. | Health and Wellbeing | Accessible healthy food retail | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | Food safety Health and safety Critical and major noncompliance notifications [Number of critical non-compliance notifications and major non-compliance notifications about a food premises followed up/number of critical non-compliance notifications and major non-compliance notifications about food premises] x100 | Food Quality and Safety | Education on/enforce food safety regulations | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | Food Safety Timeliness Time taken to action food complaints [Number of days between receipt and first response action for all food complaints/number of food complaints] Result 2017 Result 2018 Result 2019 Material variations 2.47 days 2.38 days 1.92 days Better processes have resulted in improved response times to animal complaints. 2.73 days 2.46 days 1.25 days Improvements made to internal processes resulted in faster response times for complaints. | Food Quality and Safety | Education on/enforce food safety regulations | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | Service / indicator/ measure Service standard Food safety assessments [Number of registered Class 1 food premises and Class 2 food premises that receive an annual food safety assessment in accordance with the Food Act 1984/number of registered Class 1 food premises and Class 2 food premises that require an annual food safety assessment in accordance with the Food Act 1984] x 100 Service cost Cost of food safety service [Direct cost of the food safety service/number of food premises registered or notified in accordance with the Food Act 1984] Health and safety Critical and major non-compliance outcome notifications [Number of critical non-compliance outcome notifications and major non-compliance notifications about a food premises followed up/number of critical non-compliance outcome notifications and major non-compliance notifications about a food premises] x 100 | Food Quality and Safety | Education on/enforce food safety regulations | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| MELTON CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 | Service Compliance Description Administers general local law enforcement, planning enforcement, building services, environmental health (Food Safety and Immunisation programs), animal management, parking enforcement and school crossings. | Food Quality and Safety | Education on/enforce food safety regulations | Victoria | Melton | Metropolitan |
| Mid-Western Region Towards 2030 Community Plan | 2.3 Make available diverse, sustainable, adaptable and affordable housing options through effective land use planning | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Region Towards 2030 Community Plan | MEASURES > An increase in the proportion of new housing stock that is affordable housing | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Region Towards 2030 Community Plan | Meet Best Practice Management Guidelines for Water Supply | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | • • Bylong should be retained as agriculture • There should be no rural lifestyle development surrounding Bylong in the short term. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | 1.4 Objectives A series of objectives for the economy, the environment and for social equity have been identified for the Mid-Western Regional local government area. These are based on the objectives of previous strategies including; the Mudgee Shire Sustainable Development Strategy 2005 (MSSDS), the Rural Residential, Industrial and Residential Strategy 2003 (RR/RS), the Mudgee Shire Rural Strategy 2003 and the Draft Economic Development Strategy. These objectives include: 1.4.1 Economic prosperity • ensure that the economic sustainability of the rural land is maintained and provide for a mixture of agricultural uses • • to reduce the potential for land use conflict and encourage sustainable land use management practices to promote the conservation of agricultural land for primary production purposes | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | 4. Rural Areas 4.1 Introduction Extensive and intensive agriculture, mining, tourism and rural living will continue to be the key land uses across Mid-Western Regional Council local government area. This Strategy aims to protect areas suitable for continuing agricultural land uses and to minimise potential for land use conflicts, unnecessary fragmentation of agricultural land and reduce the potential to alienate existing land uses. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | 4.8.2 Development on marginal Class Ill land (Mudgee and Gulgong) Each of the identified opportunity areas surrounding Mudgee and Gulgong contain land that is marginal Class Ill & IV land. These marginal areas are otherwise unconstrained. Nonetheless, future development should recognise agricultural value and proceed in a sustainable manner. A recommended approach to achieve this would be to dedicate a significant portion of the landholding to agricultural uses and investigate alternative options | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | Cooyal will retain its rural use • There should be no rural lifestyle development surrounding Cooyal in the short term. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | Council continues to support maintenance and protection of these areas and associated uses by; ■ Encourage intensive agricultural landuse activities in appropriate areas based on land capability and having regard to landuse conflict considerations. ■ Ensuring that inappropriate land use is prohibited on intensive plant agricultural lands ( eg feedlots). ■ Minimising fragmentation of agricultural land through specific local provisions in the planning instrument ■ Mantaining a minimum lot size in these areas that reflects the ongoing viability of these areas to support intensive agricultural enterprises such as irrigated lucerne and horticulture crops. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | for meeting rural lifestyle objectives such as clustering dwellings on less productive parts of he site. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |
| Mid-Western Regional Comprehensive Land Use Strategy Part C –Strategy | Future tourism development should not adversely impact the environmental, economic or social structure of the area it is located in and should not introduce land use conflicts with nearby agricultural or rural-lifestyle areas and should have regard to: • the site should have formed and sealed road and electricity and telecommunications facilities, • • • the site should have access to a secure water supply the site should avoid flood prone land, saline soils, and medium or high risk bush fire lands the proposed development should not be located within 500 metres of the boundary of any land currently being used or potentially used for an intensive agricultural activity, mine or quarry | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Mid-Western Regional | Regional |