still talking about the potential of golf course development.
I'll repeat my statement: “Golf courses represent an incredible opportunity in the midst of a housing crisis to develop #affordable #housing in typically quite established parts of Melbourne, where you’ve got infrastructure and amenities.”
Rezoning and redeveloping these sites is smart 🧠 because: ✅it maximises utilisation of existing #infrastructure in and around established urban areas ✅can deliver #affordable homes, quickly, due to scale and typologies ✅increases public open space in the conversion from privately owned land (~20% of site area)
Again, this should only apply to financially struggling, private courses in the inner-middle ring of our major cities, adjacent to existing urban areas. Not public golf courses, parkland etc. or courses in the middle of nowhere.
It is also true that in almost every case, proceeds from the land sale are reinvested by the golf club back into the sport or the community.
This is a one of a myriad of things that need to be enabled to have a hope of tackling what is becoming the biggest challenge of a generation – the housing crisis.
If there are better ideas to unlock truly attainable housing in established areas quicker and at this scale I want to see them in the comments.