Consultation now open: Have your say on our draft plans for Ringwood
Earlier this year, we asked what you love about Ringwood. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback, submitted photos, and participated in our Community Reference Group.
We heard that you love the trees and green spaces that give Ringwood its character, the shops and services at Eastland Shopping Centre, and walking and cycling along the Mullum Mullum Creek. Your feedback has helped shape our draft plans for Ringwood.
Your feedback is important, and now you have a final chance to have your say. Find out more about our draft plan for Ringwood and complete our survey.
Ringwood Activity Centre
Ringwood is a great place to live and has the potential to be even greater.
People come from across the eastern suburbs to enjoy its shops, cafes, restaurants and community services. Its leafy green parks, family-friendly streets and the Mullum Mullum Creek have been places for the community to come together for generations.
But right across Victoria, not enough people have the chance to afford a home close to the kinds of things Ringwood has to offer. The status quo isn’t an option, we need to act now to make sure we build a future where every Victorian can afford a home in a place where they can thrive.
That’s why we want more Victorians to have the choice to call Ringwood home.
We’ve created the Draft Ringwood Activity Centre Plan (PDF), to complement plans by your local council, to make sure we build more of the right types of homes in the right places, connected to the people and places we love.
Our plan will guide how Ringwood will slowly change over the next few decades, between now and 2051. And as Ringwood grows, we’ll make sure it continues to thrive by working with your local council to guide investment in the things that matter to you like improved streets, parks and community infrastructure.
It’s part of Victoria’s Housing Statement, our plan to deliver more homes for more Victorians, in the places people want to live.
Your council’s plans for Ringwood
In 2018, Maroondah City Council developed a plan for the Ringwood Activity Centre, called the Ringwood Metropolitan Activity Centre Masterplan. We’re now working with your local council to review this masterplan.
Together, we’re proposing specific new rules for strategic development sites in Ringwood to make sure the activity centre will deliver enough of the right types of homes in the right places, and to ensure good-quality urban design outcomes.
We know the Ringwood community has provided a lot of feedback over the past few years about the future of Ringwood, and we are using your feedback to help with our review.
If you would like to provide feedback on our review of the Ringwood Metropolitan Activity Centre Masterplan and our proposed new rules for strategic development sites in Ringwood, you can find out more in the ‘Get Involved’ tab above.
About the Activity Centres Program
Right across Victoria, not enough people have the chance to afford a home close to their daily needs. The status quo isn’t an option, we need to act now to make sure we build a future where every Victorian can afford a home that’s right for them.
We will need 1.8 million new homes in metropolitan Melbourne by 2051. Making sure that new homes are well-located will allow us to maximise use of existing infrastructure and transport. The starting point is to look for places where more homes can be built, and the types of homes we need to suit all kinds of Victorians in all kinds of places.
As part of Victoria’s Housing Statement, we’re working with the Department of Transport and Planning to deliver 60,000 new homes close to services, jobs, and public transport in an initial 10 activity centres across Melbourne: Broadmeadows, Camberwell Junction, Chadstone, Epping, Frankston, Moorabbin, Niddrie (Keilor Road), North Essendon, Preston (High Street), and Ringwood.
It’s part of Victoria’s plan to deliver more homes for more Victorians, in the places people want to live.
Are you a local government or industry stakeholder, or just interested in learning more about our Activity Centres Program? Find out more about how we’re delivering more housing choice in activity centres across Melbourne and have your say.
Get Involved
We’re reviewing the Ringwood Metropolitan Activity Centre Masterplan (2018) (PDF) in partnership with Maroondah City Council and the Department of Transport and Planning.
We’re proposing specific new rules for strategic development sites in Ringwood to make sure the activity centre will deliver enough of the right types of homes in the right places, and to ensure good-quality urban design outcomes.
You can see our proposed new rules in the Draft Revised (2) – Ringwood Metropolitan Activity Centre Masterplan – August 2024 (PDF).
Make a submission
We are accepting written submissions on the revisions to the Ringwood Metropolitan Activity Centre Masterplan.
We are only accepting submissions about the revisions, which are highlighted in the document and can be found in sections 1, 2, 6, and 7, relating to strategic development sites. In your submission, please tell us your relationship to the proposed strategic development sites, (e.g. owner, tenant, neighbour).
Submissions must be made in writing and submitted to the VPA by 11:59pm Sunday 29 September.
You can make a submission by:
- Email: ringwood@vpa.vic.gov.au
- Post:
Attn: Ringwood Activity Centre
Victorian Planning Authority
Level 25, 35 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
If submitting via email, your submission must be less than 19.9MB.
How we will use your feedback
The feedback we collect will inform the preparation of a final update to the Revised Draft – Ringwood Metropolitan Activity Centre Masterplan, final Activity Centre Plan and implementation through a planning scheme amendment. The Minister for Planning (or relevant delegate) may refer certain matters or consultation findings to the Activity Centres Standing Advisory Committee (AC SAC) for advice.
What happens next
To address the urgent need for new homes in Victoria, we anticipate the AC SAC will not hold public hearings, which will fast-track the implementation of new planning controls. The Minister for Planning may consider whether a draft planning scheme amendment implementing the Revised Draft – Ringwood Metropolitan Activity Centre Masterplan or Activity Centre Plan should be expedited using her powers under section 20(4) of the Planning and Environment Act (1987). If she uses these powers, this consultation will be the final opportunity to provide public comment on the proposed changes set out in the draft Activity Centre Plan.