Melbourne Open Space Investment Framework Measures for Health and Wellbeing

A planning and investment framework developed by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action to guide funding for Melbourne's metropolitan open space system. The framework provides qualitative and quantitative measures for four strategic goals, including improved community health and wellbeing. It was last updated on 2026-06-15.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing funding for open space projects based on the framework's qualitative and quantitative decision-making criteria.
• Identifying and addressing inequities in access to open space provision across metropolitan Melbourne.
• Supporting integrated, metropolitan-wide investment planning that crosses municipal boundaries.
• Evaluating open space projects for their impact on climate change resilience and healthier biodiversity.

Strengths

• Framework is designed to address specific, documented issues of inequity and data gaps in open space provision.
• Provides both qualitative and quantitative measures for four distinct strategic goals.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-06-15).

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-15 01:04:49.701839

Geography

Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia