Laverton

Making Better Places

It begins with a vision.

Laverton

Vision Statement

Laverton is a vibrant community that is loved for its connection to natural opens spaces, its village atmosphere and as a place where all the needs of daily life are within easy reach. Residents choose to live in Laverton for its convenient access to public transport, variety of housing and people, well serviced local shopping precincts and extensive parks and open spaces. 

Local residents value the area’s unique character and history and that it is a diverse and creative community - and want to continue to protect and enhance these things into the future and keep working towards making it a great place to live and a place that we are proud to call home. 

The vision for Laverton is broken down into 4 key themes. These themes are intended to describe what the Laverton community values most as well as the elements that they want to see protected and improved into the future. 

THEME 1

Cleaner + Greener

The Laverton community want their local area to look cleaner and greener to lift the overall appearance and strengthen the green ‘leafy’ character 

THEME 2

A More Vibrant Place

Helping to strengthen the vibrant village lifestyle of Laverton into the future  

THEME 3

Connected
Community

Making Laverton more walkable and bike-friendly, enhancing the linkages & places that promote interaction and help connect the community together 

THEME 4

Celebrate Character

Continuing to celebrate and strengthen the diversity of the area’s history and people into the future  

The Place Projects represent an important step towards realising the vision for Laverton. 

Some of the Place Projects will be able to be implemented almost immediately as part of fast-tracked initiatives, and others will evolve as part of a longer-term design process. As the Place Projects are undertaken there will be opportunities for ongoing community input and ideas, and this may lead to other ideas and projects emerging. In this way, the community will continue to play an important role in shaping the place they live in - and bringing the vision for Laverton to life. 

Bringing the vision to life…

THEME 1: CLEANER + GREENER

Projects

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Looking Good Laverton
Looking Good Laverton

Develop and deliver a new program and community grants scheme to provide funding, education and resources for projects that will help ‘clean-up’ Laverton and make it a tidier and better maintained place. Looking Good Laverton will include Council led clean-up works, but will also focus on providing support for hands-on, community led initiatives.

Green Streets Laverton
Green Streets Laverton

Develop a greening project similar to Cool Streets or “beautify your neighbourhood” that will increase the amount of tree planting and landscaping within Laverton’s streets. The focus of the project will be to establish a network of green leafy streets that will provide shade, amenity and habitat protection and will enhance the green leafy character of Laverton.

Love Laverton Parks
Love Laverton Parks

Upgrade 8 local parks within Laverton as a single co-ordinated project that: creates a complementary suite of parks that offer choice and a variety of functions and activities for people of all ages; applies the principles of achieving a ‘cleaner and greener’ Laverton; incorporates art / educational elements that celebrate Laverton’s history + culture; and explore opportunities for art trails, wayfinding and green linkages that tie the parks together.

THEME 2: A MORE VIBRANT PLACE

Projects

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Better Villages Project
Better Villages Project

Develop a Master Plan for the Aviation Road Village precinct as the main activity centre for Laverton. The Master Plan will be developed at a precinct wide level with input from local traders and the community. Running in parallel, designs for the Woods Street and Bladin Street precincts will also be undertaken to deliver improvements for all three centres to make them more vibrant, attractive and functional and support their future viability

Safer Places Project
Safer Places Project

Creating spaces that feel safer and more accessible and usable for all residents and for different times of the day.

Housing Choice
Housing Choice

To ensure that Laverton continues to be a diverse community into the future, and a place where all types of people - from young families and couples through to singles and elderly residents - can continue to live, it will be necessary to provide a more diverse range of housing options throughout the local area. Key initiatives to be undertaken to ensure diverse and high-quality affordable housing is provided in the future.

THEME 3: A MORE CONNECTED COMMUNITY

Projects

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Missing Links Project
Missing Links Project

Walking and cycling are key components of healthy and socially connected communities. To make Laverton a more walkable and bike-friendly place there is a need to construct a range of missing pathway links and upgrade some existing roads, streetscapes and pathways to improve the connectivity, safety and function of the pedestrian and cyclist network. This project seeks to fast-track all these combined works into a single coordinated project.

Better Places + Spaces Project
Better Places + Spaces Project

Developing Master Plans for the upgrade of McCormack Park and the design and delivery of Railway Avenue as a key recreational, pedestrian and cyclist movement corridor within Laverton. The improvement of these spaces will have a significant impact on enhancing local open space and amenity, improving safety and attractiveness walking and cycling as well as providing new spaces and recreational activities that will help bring the community together.

Way Finding and Signage Project
Way Finding and Signage Project

Building on Council’s existing developed suite, establish a wayfinding and signage system that improves how people navigate and move around the local area and helps to create an integrated overall identity for Laverton. The focus will be on creating a wayfinding and signage system that provides a clear and easyto- use guide to key locations, routes and destinations throughout Laverton and to adjoining areas.

THEME 4: CELEBRATE OUR CHARACTER

Projects

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Gateways + Art Trails Project
Gateways + Art Trails Project

Develop a program to explore ideas and opportunities to create key gateway entrance statements and additional public art installations (such as murals, sculpture / art trails, art infrastructure) at key sites within Laverton, that build on and compliment existing public art and respond to Council’s public art policy and strategy.

Love Laverton Focus Group
Love Laverton Focus Group

The key responsibility for this forum will be to contribute local wisdom, stories and community leadership from across Laverton that helps inform decision making processes for major public art, cultural events and local heritage expression. The group will aim to bring together longer term residents, local historians, cultural leaders and representatives, young people, artists and creatives.