Victoria’s infrastructure strategy 2025–2055
About the strategy
Victoria's 30-year infrastructure strategy provides a practical roadmap for action over the next 30 years across a broad range of public policy areas including housing, energy, transport and social infrastructure.
Preparing a 30-year infrastructure strategy for the state is one of our 3 key functions as an independent advisory body. It is refreshed every 3 to 5 years.
Objectives
We asked Victorians to help us shape the objectives of this updated infrastructure strategy. The consultation feedback informed the following objectives:
Challenges
Victoria faces challenges in achieving the strategy objectives. Click the icons to learn more:
Recommendations
Explore allPublic consultation
We heard from Victorians and spoke with stakeholders to develop cost-effective recommendations that address infrastructure priorities for the next 30 years. Public consultation on the draft strategy ran for 8 weeks and resulted in:
Timeline
2016
Victoria's first ever statewide, cross-sector 30-year infrastructure strategy released
2021
First strategy update published
March 2025
Draft 2025–2055 strategy released
March to April 2025
Public consultation on draft strategy
November 2025
Final 2025–2055 strategy tabled in Parliament
Next steps
The Infrastructure Victoria Act 2015 requires the Victorian Government to respond within 12 months of the strategy being tabled in Parliament.
Costs and benefits
Our ideas are cost effective and have many economic, social and environmental benefits. We used available cost data for similar earlier projects to estimate the benefits and cost of each recommendation. Click the icons to learn more: