Waratah Gardens and the Cotters in Epping (figure 3). These complexes reflect high density apartment style living, complete with cafés and gymnasiums. Figure 3: The Cotters: Apartments Epping – medium density housing on greenfield land in the urban fringe Source: Style Craft Builder 2016 The demographic profile of Melburnians has changed in more recent years, with more single parent households and first homebuyers entering the market, as well as retirees requiring less space close to their families; and it appears that the industry has effectively ‘listened’ to the market, and adapted accordingly (figure 4). The provision of this much more diverse housing on our fringe areas not only provides choice of product according to the markets’ requirements, but it has assisted in maintaining an affordable product to a broad range of Melbourne’s residents. Figure 4: Example of home and land packages in relation to lot size in Caroline Springs (Delfin Lend Lease) Source: Lendlease 2016 References Style Craft Builder 2016, ‘The Cotters: Apartments, Epping’, accessed 21/3/16. Victorian Places, ‘Household Sullage from Properties in Unsewered Areas, Melbourne, 1957,’ Quarterly Journal of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, accessed 21/3/16. Lendlease 2016, ‘Caroline Springs’, accessed 21/3/16. . Helpful Websites The in the Forward Policy and Research team spend a lot of time using various Internet resources. Some of their favourite sites are listed below. Demography ABS – Australian Bureau of Statistics Australia’s national statistical agency which provides official statistics on economic, social, population and environmental issues. .id The Population Experts Provides demographic resources through in-depth profiles of local government areas and suburbs across Australia and New Zealand Housing Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute A national independent research network which provides high quality research which influences policy development to improve housing and urban environments in Australia. Urban Development Institute of Australia (Victoria)
Represents the interests of the residential property development industry in Victoria and provides information for those associated with the property development industry. Urban Melbourne Independent source of medium and high density urban projects in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victorian cities through providing a public and open database of projects. Transport Charting Transport Transport data for Melbourne, Victoria and Australia which provides views on public domain transport data through charts and maps. Cities Crikey/The Urbanist A blog for discussion about cities, including transport, planning, development and social issues. Suburb Profile : A Chinese website that generates profile data on Australian suburbs. Public Policy The Brookings Institution Public policy organisation that conducts in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Independent organisation that informs public dialogue and decisions about land policy through planning and urban form, valuation and taxation and international studies both in the United States and internationally. Economics SGS Economics & Planning Independent research into economics and planning related Issues.