Our Role

The Growth Areas Authority's role is to improve planning and infrastructure coordination in five growth areas: Casey-Cardinia, Hume, Melton-Caroline Springs, Whittlesea and Wyndham.

The GAA's aim is to have Australia's best land development system to create well-designed neighbourhoods that provide more lifestyle, housing and employment choices.

The key is improving the planning processes around the release of land and providing the Government with in-depth and long-term advice on infrastructure needs.

The GAA's objectives are to:

• ensure development and infrastructure occurs in a coordinated and timely manner
•  promote sustainable development, housing diversity and affordability and jobs in growth areas
• ensure employment land is provided for commercial and industrial purposes in a coordinated and timely manner
• deliver communities that are socially, environmentally and economically sustainable
•  improve the operation of the regulatory environment and administrative processes to reduce costs and inefficiencies for developers and local government.