1.3 Review and pursue as appropriate, the recommendations of the Suburban/Interface Services and Development Committee Inquiry into Local Economic Development in Outer Suburban Melbourne and the Victorian Government response to its recommendations. EDv 2.1 Complete the Economic Development Strategy (2010). Review the Economic Development Strategy to ensure it aligns with the objectives and actions in the GWMP. EDv 2.3 As part of the Economic Development Strategy, promote home-based business and services to business which are compatible with amenity of Green Wedge areas. EDv 2.4 As part of the Economic Development Strategy, consider opportunities for enterprises that embrace the principles of ‘intelligent communities’. These communities use high speed broadband to support local enterprises that may have national and international impact. EDv 3.1 Complete a sustainable tourism plan for the Green Wedge. EDv 4.1 Prepare a land use framework for tourism to be incorporated into the Nillumbik Planning Scheme. This will include detailed mapping of locations where tourism will be encouraged and discouraged and will include details of permitted and prohibited uses. It will also include the number, type and location. SP 6.1 Investigate the best ways in which to provide an advisory service to farmers on business opportunities and to farmers and major land owners on land use and land management including whole farm and landscape scale management (potential urban fringe pilot with DPI which is already running pilots of this nature). EP 6.2 Explore options to support growth of locally based food production. EDv 7.1 Investigate and implement opportunities to support new, economically viable, agricultural opportunities in the Green Wedge. EDv 7.2 Advocate to the Victorian Government for support for agricultural enterprises. EDv 7.3 Investigate funding for development of a brand and marketing strategy aimed at attracting growers and visitors EDv
11.7 Investigate the viability of a visitor centre which provides information about what to see and do in the area. (See 11.1 interpretation strategy). E&P Number Long Term Action 4.4 Promote the use of traditional construction techniques and styles e.g. mud brick and rammed earth in support of the traditional ‘Nillumbik style’. StP Governance Governance Strategies Manage Nillumbik’s Green Wedge in accordance with the GWMP and its guiding principles. Number High Priority Action Responsibility 1.1 Undertake four-yearly reviews of the GWMP and report on its implementation annually. The first review to take place after publication of the Royal Commission report into the February 2009 bushfires. SP 1.2 Establish an expert committee to advise on Wedge funding and undertake investigations into a new possible governance arrangement. SP 1.3 Communicate the contents of the GWMP. C 1.4 Finalise performance indicators for the Green Wedge Management Plan including investigating use of the Victorian State of the Environment report indicators as a measure of progress in implementing the GWMP. SP 1.6 Advocate to the Victorian Government for research into the community’s awareness of green wedges and the willingness of the wider community to support them financially. CEO 1.7 Advocate that the Victorian Government promotes the existence and value of Melbourne’s green wedges to the wider community as a metropolitan asset. CEO 1.8 Lobby Victorian Government for an increase in funding for the rural sectors of the Shire. CEO