What is a Master Plan?
A master plan provides an appropriate and considered physical planning framework or blue-print to guide the future development of campuses. Master plans seek to:
- develop a structure plan for the campus,
- confirm a core academic footprint and land for alternative and related use,
- identify campus zones and the student precincts,
- establish a series of development envelopes for the location of new campus buildings,
- provide a staging strategy for sequencing development over the short, medium and long term,
- establish principles for building form, density and style in the context of the existing built environment,
- establish ecologically sustainable development principles,
- establish principles for integration of new learning environments,
- identify open space networks for active and passive recreation, existing significant vegetation and other natural features,
- articulate high level transport and traffic strategies,
- take into consideration public use and access to campus facilities with a view to increasing connectivity with the local community,
- consider campus safety and access, and
- identify and respond to heritage conservation areas and buildings.
