Glen Waverley is growing, and we need to plan now to cater for this growth in the decades ahead, actively delivering more homes and jobs where people want to live. As Australia’s largest housing project, Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) will not only connect our suburbs and slash travel times, it will ensure our city grows in the right places, supporting the delivery of more housing choice on the doorstep of world-class public transport, services, jobs, schools, parks and cafés.

The Vision for Glen Waverley sets out the long-term aspiration for the precinct to cater for anticipated growth. It sets the strategic direction for future planning and will inform the Glen Waverley Structure Plan. Together, these will guide planning, investment and development initiatives in the precinct.

Keep an eye out for the Draft Structure Plan in early 2025 – this will detail proposed land use and building height changes for further consultation.

The Vision for Glen Waverley includes a vision statement and a Conceptual Precinct Plan.

The Vision for Glen Waverley

A genuinely walkable neighbourhood, with everything needed for a great quality of life nearby.

Glen Waverley will be home to a thriving multicultural community with job and lifestyle opportunities to support its growing population.

A diverse range of housing options will mean people can stay in the community they love, whatever their life stage. New homes will be complemented by high quality landscape and open spaces that strengthen the green, leafy character of the area and support its active and healthy way of life.

SRL will mean Glen Waverley residents will have everything they need closer to home – and will continue to benefit from existing state-of-the art schools and diverse lifestyle options. Greener streets and improved walking and cycling connections will encourage more people to leave the car at home as the suburb grows

New connections will create more job opportunities for Glen Waverley. Just as residents will travel to universities or workplaces in Clayton, Monash or Box Hill, people from neighbourhoods along the SRL East rail line will come to work, study and play in Glen Waverley. The southern end of the precinct will become a sought-after commercial destination with a thriving business community

The centre will remain at the heart of community life, coming alive in the evenings with restaurants, cafés and bars. As a place for celebrations, cultural events and community gatherings, a lively and people focused Kingsway will be the centrepiece of Glen Waverley SRL will unlock opportunities in Glen Waverley, delivering a vibrant and diverse precinct with more housing choice and greater affordability

SRL will unlock opportunities in Glen Waverley, delivering a vibrant and diverse precinct with more housing choice and greater affordability

Conceptual Precinct Plan

The Conceptual Precinct Plan for Glen Waverley is a spatial representation of the Vision.

The plan identifies where longer-term change is expected to occur into the 2050s as Glen Waverley grows.

From time to time the plan may be refined by SRLA, in response to community needs and the detailed technical studies that will support the planning implementation through structure plans and planning scheme amendments.

How your feedback has directly shaped the Vision for Glen Waverley

Ideas, issues and opportunities from several years of community and stakeholder consultation have been essential to forming a long-term vision for Glen Waverley that reflects the community’s needs and expectations, as well as addressing the requirements of a growing population.

Feedback from community and stakeholders has shaped the Vision for Glen Waverley, with the following updates made since we consulted on the Draft Precinct Vision in 2023/24:

Enriching Community

• Prioritises higher density development along key movement corridors with good access to public transport and services, while identifying even more locations for diverse housing options to meet various household needs and lifestyle
• Better reflects the importance of community connectedness and strong support for new and upgraded community facilities, including an improved civic precinct and revitalised Kingsway with high amenity public and open spaces that promote social wellbeing and liveability

Boosting the Economy

• Celebrates Kingsway, promoting the retention and ongoing importance of the retail and entertainment strip
• Encourages a diversity of uses in existing employment areas, including supporting the integration of new manufacturing and creative industry spaces within the Aristoc Road Employment Area to create the dynamic and multifunctional spaces valued by the community

Enhancing Place

• Maintains higher change along main roads, including Springvale, Waverley and High Street roads, to preserve the character of surrounding residential neighbourhoods and encourage more activity at street level
• Further emphasises an enhanced public space within and around the Monash Civic Precinct that encourages people to gather and supports community engagement

Better Connections

• More clearly prioritises pedestrians within dense areas of activity in central Glen Waverley and captures the intent to expand the laneway network to reduce car dependency around the SRL East station
• Includes additional links connecting key local destinations to encourage an enhanced cross-precinct network of open space that connects Scotchmans Creek, Bogong Reserve and Central Reserve

Delivering the Vision for Glen Waverley

SRLA is responsible for preparing and applying the required planning controls that will help to realise the Vision, commencing with the preparation of the Glen Waverley Structure Plan.

The draft structure plans for each SRL precinct and associated technical studies, along with draft planning scheme amendments, will be publicly released for consultation in early 2025. During this time people will have the opportunity to provide further feedback via a formal submission

Following exhibition, the Minister for Planning may refer public submissions to an independent Advisory Committee which will consider the draft planning scheme amendments. If approved, the planning scheme amendments will be gazetted in 2026, meaning they will come into effect.

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The engagement timeline for the SRL East structure plans and planning scheme amendments: