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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyndham Housing and Neighbourhood Character Strategy | Informal streets with coastal landscaping and vegetation surrounding buildings. Streets have views of the nearby coastal foreshore and market gardens. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Housing and Neighbourhood Character Strategy | Interfaces with agricultural land will continue to create a hard edge that will result in Limited Change to the area. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Equitable access to water: Ensure drinking fountains and toilets are available in adequate numbers in appropriate locations and provide free access (where possible) to recreational assets that support community connection to water. Engage with residents to identify and resolve any issues about equity in access and affordability related to water servicing and integrated infrastructure. Understand and meet the needs of all the community (gender, age, culture, language, location) in providing water services and broader benefits from IWCM, using the Wyndham 2040 District Plans. Represent the community appropriately in consultation with water utilities to ensure the views of the community are understood. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Advocate for improved weed control and improved land management in rural / agricultural areas (e.g. minimise spray drift and reduced polluted runoff with fertilizers and recycled water entering waterways). | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Council to keep being updated on what's happening in Werribee South through organising yearly catch up with Southern Rural Water. – Work with Southern Rural Water on managing runoff from rural areas & treating it before discharge to waterways or the coastline – Advocate for the provision of training to Werribee farmers on the efficient use of water. – Work with SRW to advocate for funding to complete the upgrade of all water supply infrastructure to the district to improve water efficiency – Advocate for the long term economic and environmental benefits of existing agricultural be considered in detail prior to any rezoning of the Werribee South Irrigation District. These results should be compared with the long term economic and environmental benefits of any alternatively zoned land. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Green Aspirations – Food production is viable and sustainable | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Reusing nutrients in recycled water / stormwater by using these alternative water supplies to irrigate Council open space or productive landscapes (e.g. fruit trees or community gardens). | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | An analysis of recent trends in water usage from a Council, community and agricultural perspective. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable water management in food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Council to keep being updated on what's happening in Werribee South through organising yearly catch up with Southern Rural Water. – Work with Southern Rural Water on managing runoff from rural areas & treating it before discharge to waterways or the coastline – Advocate for the provision of training to Werribee farmers on the efficient use of water. – Work with SRW to advocate for funding to complete the upgrade of all water supply infrastructure to the district to improve water efficiency | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable water management in food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Reusing nutrients in recycled water / stormwater by using these alternative water supplies to irrigate Council open space or productive landscapes (e.g. fruit trees or community gardens). | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable water management in food production | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Reusing nutrients in recycled water / stormwater by using these alternative water supplies to irrigate Council open space or productive landscapes (e.g. fruit trees or community gardens). | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Supporting community green waste collection and consider initiatives to encourage composting of food scraps. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan | Advocate for the provision of training to Werribee farmers on the efficient use of water. | Economic Development | Local food producers | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Open Space Strategy 2045 | Encouraging community horticulture through community gardens for sustainable food supply, education and social interactions is becoming increasingly important, particularly as housing densities increase and the size of backyards decreases. Community gardens are best suited to land where passive surveillance and associated facilities (water supply, irrigation, storage sheds) are present such as community centres, civic centre and schools. Council is currently forming a position on how best to deliver community garden opportunities. | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Open Space Strategy 2045 | Encouraging community horticulture through community gardens for sustainable food supply, education and social interactions is becoming increasingly important, particularly as housing densities increase and the size of backyards decreases. Community gardens are best suited to land where passive surveillance and associated facilities (water supply, irrigation, storage sheds) are present such as community centres, civic centre and schools. Council is currently forming a position on how best to deliver community garden opportunities. | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Open Space Strategy 2045 | Wyndham’s passive open spaces are also used by the community for a variety of formal and informal events that include local events and expos, farmers markets, school sports days, birthdays, weddings, cultural celebrations and municipal events run by Council. | Economic Development | Public food markets and distributors | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Play Space Strategy will | Where there are multiple play spaces in the same planning district, they should be located in parks with different landscape settings: i.e. open grass areas, bushland/forest, cultivated garden, hard surfaces/plaza, waterway and beach foreshore’s, etc | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Play Space Strategy will | Where there are multiple play spaces in the same planning district, they should be located in parks with different landscape settings: i.e. open grass areas, bushland/forest, cultivated garden, hard surfaces/plaza, waterway and beach foreshore’s, etc | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Refuse Disposal Facility (RDF) Strategic Plan 2019 -2025 | A high organic fraction (essentially food waste) would also be recovered and used in an associated anaerobic digestion process. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Refuse Disposal Facility (RDF) Strategic Plan 2019 -2025 | Action 4.1 Introduce kerbside food waste collection 4.2 Processing kerbside recyclables at the RDF 4.3 Development of a new transfer station facility 30 Wyndham RDF Strategic Plan 2019-2025 Timing June 2023 June 2023 Dependencies Operation of an anaerobic digestion facility at the RDF Operation of a per-sort facility at the RDF December 2021 Construction of waste baling facility | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Refuse Disposal Facility (RDF) Strategic Plan 2019 -2025 | The types of initiatives that will be explored to integrate the waste collection system with RDF operations include: • Introduction of a kerbside food and garden organics service in conjunction with the development of an anaerobic processing facility at the RDF. The resulting compost product would be kept separate from the output from digestion of organics from the residual waste thereby providing a range of reuse opportunities for this material. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | An active public sporting facility such as a skatepark should have appropriate ancillary amenities. This includes shade for viewing and resting, water bubblers and nearby toilets given users can spend many hours using a skatepark in a single session. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | Drinking Fountain A robust drinking fountain should be provided in a central refuge area at each of the Wyndham parks for the comfort of users. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | Drinking fountain/s | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | Investigate providing further nodes along bike trails e.g. toilets, seats, drink fountains, shade/shelter | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | Newport Skatepark, Newport Park, Corner Douglas Parade and North Road, Newport – regional major facility – developed in 2005 comprising a large bowl and support facilities, shelter drink taps. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | Other preferable requirements include; Construction by an experienced skatepark contractor if the park has complex transitions and ramps. Public transport access available Emergency vehicle access available Shelter/shade Designated seating and viewing areas Rubbish bin/s Drinking fountain/s | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | plan will outline broad maintenance requirements for the varying elements contained within Wyndham’s Skateparks. These include: Concrete (skate-able surfaces and elements such as blocks, stairs and ledges as well as refuge spaces) Steel (coping, rails) Drainage Landscaping (turf, trees, planting) Adjoining Pathways Signs Litter bins Drinking Fountains | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | Robust and appropriately designed drinking fountains, rubbish and recycling bins, seating, toilets and shelters are essential amenities for a skate facility. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |
| Wyndham Skate, BMX & Bike Strategy May 2013 | Drinking fountain/s | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Wyndham | Metropolitan |