Metropolitan plans have been prepared to meet the challenges of sustainable growth and development in major urban areas across Australia over recent years. Each of the plans includes directions, at varying levels, to accommodate dwelling and job growth in established urban areas. This aspiration is closely related to the need for new forms of housing located closer to public transport and services. With many of the obvious old industrial and redundant sites already redeveloped, this represents an ambitious objective, given the policy and planning constraints to redevelopment. Community stress and conflicts are likely unless the redevelopment potential and process is better understood managed effectively. Urban capacity modelling, including accessibility, can assist in understanding the opportunities for redevelopment in established areas. If regional planning objectives are to be achieved, techniques such as this will be an increasingly important in established areas to plan for future housing, jobs and transport access. Lessons from the application of this process in an inner city area in Sydney will be presented in the context of approaches in South East Queensland and Melbourne. Other opportunities to extend the techniques as community engagement and decision making tools will be explored. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E216297.
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