Project Status Updates

Project Status Update – February 2024

On 7 December, we released our Victorian Planning Authority Business Plan 2023-24. This plan outlines the projects and activities the VPA will undertake this financial year to deliver on the Victorian Government’s commitments and the priorities in Victoria’s Housing Statement – the decade ahead 2024-2034, which will deliver opportunities to increase housing supply and improve affordability outcomes for Victorians.

Werribee Junction and Mambourin East are two of the 21 projects that the VPA will be progressing in 2023/24 as a combined due diligence project.

The due diligence process tests and proves if a project is viable for consideration for the VPA work program. We are seeking to ensure that any issues that require resolution are able to be dealt with in a timely way in a standard PSP process. The purpose is to identify and if possible resolve any issues that could derail, delay or frustrate the outcome of the plan preparation process (should the Government choose to progress to this stage).

As Werribee Junction and Mambourin East is in the due diligence phase, we are working to identify specific threshold issues that need to be resolved to determine whether it can progress or not to a PSP planning process. Once that work is done, we will prepare a report for consideration by the VPA Board and in turn to the Minister for Planning to determine next steps.

The key issues we are seeking to clarify and/or resolve if possible in relation to the Werribee Junction and Mambourin East project are:

• Developing a forward funding strategy
• Transport infrastructure issues

As of February 2024, we have prepared the threshold assessment report and completed the following technical studies for:

• Biodiversity
• Aboriginal cultural values
• Sodic and dispersive soils
• Flooding and drainage assessment – completed by Melbourne Water.

There are no further technical studies to be completed at this stage of the project.

At this stage we are aiming to submit a report to our Board by June 2024.

We review our work program regularly, including our ability to speed up the progress of projects. We will update you as soon as possible when there are significant status changes for our planning for Werribee Junction and Mambourin East.

Previous Project Status Updates

• Project Status Update – November 2023
• Project Status Update – July 2023
• Project Status Update – November 2022
• Werribee Junction & Mambourin East PSPs – Stakeholder Update – July 2022 (PDF)
• Werribee Junction & Mambourin East PSPs – Stakeholder Update – May 2022 (PDF)
• Werribee Junction PSP – Stakeholder Update – February 2022 (PDF)