A $40 000 state government grant will be used to enhance our region's 3D model with the aim of improving the digital planning experience for the City’s planners architects developers and the broader community.
3D models allow users to better visualise understand and plan for proposed urban development population growth and environmental challenges in a more holistic in-depth way.
The grant will be used to add to key parts of the built environment across selected sites across Greater Geelong and will assist with how public spaces are designed and planned.
The higher quality digital models are critical for many parts of the planning process and help identify potential challenges and opportunities for development leading to more efficient and sustainable urban environments.
The new data will be available for the public to utilise on both the Geelong Data Exchange and through various Victorian Government data portals including DataVic.
The City was also successful in securing a $30 000 grant to improve online lodgement and tracking of planning permit applications and online engagement during public notification.
This 3D enhancement project is supported by the Victorian Government through a Digital Planning grant.
Mayor Trent Sullivan
The evolution from analog to digital planning is providing significant benefit to the City and the community through improved efficiency enhanced data insights and more informed decision-making processes.
The 3D data will enable Council the City’s planners and the community to gain a deeper understanding of urban planning outcomes and make more informed decisions.
Not only will it help with planning land use and infrastructure decisions it can also assist with traffic management tourism service decisions disaster management and more – the possibilities are endless.
Councillor Jim Mason
A digital model of our region will enhance collaboration and innovation.
We are dedicated to making sure that this new dataset is open for the public to use including industry other levels of government and students.
Council is grateful to the Victorian Government for the support through the Digital Planning Grant Program to deliver these much needed to enhancements to our digital planning data.