Stradling land within the City of Greater Geelong and Wyndham City Council, the Avalon Corridor constitutes approximately 30,000 hectares of land located between Geelong and Melbourne.

The Corridor has significant strategic importance given its location and inclusion of significant assets and infrastructure such as the Avalon Airport, Princes Freeway, Melbourne to Geelong rail-line, the Melbourne Water Western Treatment Plant and Strategic Extractive Resource Areas/Extractive Industries Interest Areas.

The Avalon Corridor Strategy functions to document a clear long-term strategic vision and land use framework to guide land use and development decision making through to 2050.
The Strategy seeks to manage the balance between significant development and economic opportunities associated with the expansion of Avalon Airport as Melbourne’s second international airport. It also acknowledges and appropriately addresses the wealth of biodiversity values and landscapes of environmental and cultural importance of the Avalon Corridor. Functionally, it reinforces the role of the non-urban break between Metropolitan Melbourne and Geelong, maintains green wedge land, protects significant environmental coastal Ramsar Wetlands, and supports the cultural and economic value of the area and for the State more broadly.

Led by Hansen Partnership, the Strategy was developed jointly by the City of Greater Geelong, Wyndham City Council, and the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (now Department of Transport and Planning). It incorporated feedback and engagement from Wadawurrung Traditional Owners, Melbourne Water and other major stakeholders/landowners.

The final Strategy was adopted by the City of Greater Geelong and Wyndham City Council in December 2022.