LAND VICTORIA Seminars
27 October 1999
Seminars and Tours
About Land
Victoria:
Land Victoria is the government organisation
responsible for land in our state. Our mission is to help
Victorians maximise value from land. Our functions are:
- Providing geospatial (land related) information
- Recording and maintaining information about the
location, definition and boundaries of land
- Providing Victoria's survey and mapping framework
- Registering, recording and supplying details of
interests in public and private land and
supplying valuation information
- Overseeing integrated and co-ordinated management
of Crown Land
- Ensuring balance development and protection of
natural and cultural assets
Since its formation in 1996, Land Victoria has
introduced improvements to land management and also
developed more comprehensive and effective methods of
collecting, analysing and providing land information
services.
Land Victoria is a program within the Department of
Natural Resources and Environment that also formed in
1996 and is charged with managing Victorias public
lands, natural resources and assisting primary industries
maximise sustainable production of value added products
and services for Australian and international markets.
Seminar and Tour Details:
Seminars and associated tours will run for half a day.
There will be both morning and afternoon events and
delegates will be asked to nominate preferences for
events as numbers on each event will be limited. There
will be a number of speakers from Land Victoria talking
on their particular area of expertise and some tours will
include speakers from service providers with a connection
to Land Victoria.
Seminar and Tour 1. Land Management
The Crown Land Management (CLM) Business Unit manages
Government Land within Victoria. They manage land
purchases, compulsory acquisition, disposal, rental and
exchange of land and property. All policies, strategies,
guidelines and plans associated with all use of
government land are developed by CLM and it maintains the
Crown Land tenure database, covering 70,000 allotments
(totaling 8 million hectares). The tour involves visiting
various sites around the metropolitan area that show
various uses of government owned land where Land Victoria
is the landlord. Sites that will be visited include the
Zoological Gardens, City Link (a newly developed private
sector funded toll road system), Docklands (a
rejuvenation of old port facilities to sporting,
residential and community uses).
Seminar and Tour 2. Automated Land Titles
This will demonstrate the automated Land Titles system
and compare it with the old paper title and deeds system.
Participants will be shown through the older records
storage system illustrating the older paper based system
and viewing the newly developed automated system. This
will include a demonstration of on line access to titles
searching. It will show the connection between the
Valuer-Generals sales data base and ownership
information for Land Titles purposes. The tour will
review the historic Land Titles Office building and
original purpose title document storage facilities and
contrast this with the new computer based automated Land
Titles system.
Seminar and Tour 3. Geospatial Infrastructure
This tour will demonstrate the role of the Geospatial
Information Group that co-ordinates the development of
policies to increase the use of Geospatial Information
(GI) through the integration of core data sets, making GI
more affordable and accessible. It works with other
Government agencies to implement a statewide strategy
covering the introduction of GI systems both inside and
outside the public sector. In addition, it also manages
the development, maintenance and distribution of Vicmap
Digital, Victorias principal digital mapping
information, which includes the states, land and
property details, the road network and its topographic
features. It will include on line demonstrations of
mapping and geodetic products and services.
Seminar and Tour 4. Changes to the way
Government delivers its services
Corporatisation/Privatisation/Outsourcing
The way Government does business had changed markedly
in Victoria. The options for delivering services has
widened with the use of corporatisation, privatisation
and outsourcing as ways to make changes. Examples will be
given of how different Government Departments have
changed their way of doing business. This will include
the development of purchaser functions that are separate
from the provider of services. Changes to service
delivery has moved a lot of previously government
undertaken activity to the private sector. Case studies
will be given of some changes including within the
valuation and survey and mapping areas.
Created: June 2 1998
Last Modified: March 17, 1999.
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