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FrankstonPLANNING SCHEME

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PURPOSE AND VISIONThis section sets out the purpose of this planning scheme, and the vision and strategic directionfor the municipality.

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PURPOSES OF THIS PLANNING SCHEMETo provide a clear and consistent framework within which decisions about the use anddevelopment of land can be made.

To express state, regional, local and community expectations for areas and land uses.

To provide for the implementation of State, regional and local policies affecting land use anddevelopment.

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PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK

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SETTLEMENTPlanning is to anticipate and respond to the needs of existing and future communities throughprovision of zoned and serviced land for housing, employment, recreation and open space,commercial and community facilities and infrastructure.

Planning is to recognise the need for, and as far as practicable contribute towards:

Health, wellbeing and safety.

Diversity of choice.

Adaptation in response to changing technology.

Economic viability.

A high standard of urban design and amenity.

Energy efficiency.

Prevention of pollution to land, water and air.

Protection of environmentally sensitive areas and natural resources.

Accessibility.

Land use and transport integration.

Planning is to prevent environmental and amenity problems created by siting incompatible landuses close together.

Planning is to facilitate sustainable development that takes full advantage of existing settlementpatterns and investment in transport, utility, social, community and commercial infrastructure andservices.

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VICTORIA

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Settlement

Objective

To promote the sustainable growth and development of Victoria and deliver choice and opportunityfor all Victorians through a network of settlements.

Strategies

Develop sustainable communities through a settlement framework offering convenient access tojobs, services, infrastructure and community facilities.

Focus investment and growth in places of state significance in Metropolitan Melbourne and themajor regional cities of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Horsham, Latrobe City, Mildura, Shepparton,Wangaratta, Warrnambool and Wodonga.

Support sustainable development of the regional centres of Ararat, Bacchus Marsh, Bairnsdale,Benalla, Castlemaine, Colac, Echuca, Gisborne, Hamilton, Kyneton, Leongatha, Maryborough,Portland, Sale, Swan Hill, Warragul/Drouin and Wonthaggi.

Ensure regions and their settlements are planned in accordance with their relevant regional growthplan.

Guide the structure, functioning and character of each settlement taking into account municipaland regional contexts and frameworks.

Create and reinforce settlement boundaries.

Provide for growth in population and development of facilities and services across a regional orsub-regional network.

Plan for development and investment opportunities along existing and planned transportinfrastructure.

Promote transport, communications and economic linkages between settlements through theidentification of servicing priorities in regional land use plans.

Strengthen transport links on national networks for the movement of commodities.

Deliver networks of high-quality integrated settlements that have a strong identity and sense ofplace, are prosperous and are sustainable by:

Building on strengths and capabilities of each region across Victoria to respond sustainably topopulation growth and changing environments.

Developing settlements that will support resilient communities and their ability to adapt andchange.

Balancing strategic objectives to achieve improved land use and development outcomes at aregional, catchment and local level.

Preserving and protecting features of rural land and natural resources and features to enhancetheir contribution to settlements and landscapes.

Encouraging an integrated planning response between settlements in regions and in adjoiningregions and states in accordance with the relevant regional growth plan.

Providing for appropriately located supplies of residential, commercial, and industrial landacross a region, sufficient to meet community needs in accordance with the relevant regionalgrowth plan.

Improving transport network connections in and between regional cities, towns andMelbourne.

Encourage a form and density of settlements that supports sustainable transport to reduce greenhousegas emissions.

Limit urban sprawl and direct growth into existing settlements.

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VICTORIA PLANNING PROVISIONS

Promote and capitalise on opportunities for urban renewal and infill redevelopment.

Develop compact urban areas that are based around existing or planned activity centres to maximiseaccessibility to facilities and services.

Ensure retail, office-based employment, community facilities and services are concentrated incentral locations.

Ensure land that may be required for future urban expansion is not compromised.

Policy documents

Consider as relevant:

Central Highlands Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

G21 Regional Growth Plan (Geelong Region Alliance, 2013)

Gippsland Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

Great South Coast Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

Hume Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

Loddon Mallee North Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

Loddon Mallee South Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

Wimmera Southern Mallee Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

Plan Melbourne 2017-2050: Metropolitan Planning Strategy (Department of Environment,Land, Water and Planning, 2017)

Plan Melbourne 2017-2050: Addendum 2019 (Department of Environment, Land, Water andPlanning, 2019)

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Victoria Settlement Framework

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Settlement - Metropolitan Melbourne

Strategies

Maintain a permanent urban growth boundary around Melbourne to create a more consolidated,sustainable city and protect the values of non-urban land.

Focus investment and growth in places of state significance, including:

Metropolitan Melbourne Central City.

National Employment and Innovation Clusters.

Metropolitan Activity Centres.

State-Significant Industrial Precincts.

Transport Gateways.

Health and Education Precincts.

Major Urban-Renewal Precincts.

Develop the Suburban Rail Loop through Melbourne's middle suburbs to facilitate substantialgrowth and change in major employment, health and education precincts and activity centresbeyond the central city at an appropriate scale to address the needs ofMelbourne's rapidly growingpopulation.

Develop a network of activity centres linked by transport; consisting of Metropolitan ActivityCentres supported by a network of vibrant major and neighbourhood activity centres of varyingsize, role and function.

Create mixed-use neighbourhoods at varying densities, including through the development ofurban-renewal precincts, that offer more choice in housing, create jobs and opportunities for localbusinesses and deliver better access to services and facilities.

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Melbourne 2050 spatial framework

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Green wedges - Metropolitan Melbourne

Objective

To protect the green wedges of Metropolitan Melbourne from inappropriate development.

Strategies

Promote and encourage the key features and related values of each green wedge area.

Support development in the green wedge that provides for environmental, economic and socialbenefits.

Consolidate new residential development in existing settlements and in locations where plannedservices are available and green wedge values are protected.

Plan and protect major state infrastructure and resource assets, such as airports and ports with theirassociated access corridors, water supply dams, water catchments and waste management andrecycling facilities.

Protect important productive agricultural areas such as Werribee South, the Maribyrnong Riverflats, the Yarra Valley, Westernport and the Mornington Peninsula.

Support existing and potential agribusiness activities, forestry, food production and tourism.

Protect areas of environmental, landscape and scenic value such as biodiversity assets, nationaland state parks, Ramsar wetlands and coastal areas.

Protect significant resources of stone, sand and other mineral resources for extraction purposes.

Provide opportunities for renewable energy generation.

Policy documents


Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Region - Regional Strategy Plan (1996)

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MANAGING GROWTH

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Supply of urban land

Objective

To ensure a sufficient supply of land is available for residential, commercial, retail, industrial,recreational, institutional and other community uses.

Strategies

Ensure the ongoing provision of land and supporting infrastructure to support sustainable urbandevelopment.

Ensure that sufficient land is available to meet forecast demand.

Plan to accommodate projected population growth over at least a 15 year period and provide cleardirection on locations where growth should occur. Residential land supply will be considered ona municipal basis, rather than a town-by-town basis.

Planning for urban growth should consider:

Opportunities for the consolidation, redevelopment and intensification of existing urban areas.

Neighbourhood character and landscape considerations.

The limits of land capability and natural hazards and environmental quality.

Service limitations and the costs of providing infrastructure.

Monitor development trends and land supply and demand for housing and industry.

Maintain access to productive natural resources and an adequate supply of well-located land forenergy generation, infrastructure and industry.

Restrict rural residential development that would compromise future development at higherdensities.

Policy guidelines


Victorian Government population projections and land supply estimates.

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Structure planning

Objective

To facilitate the orderly development of urban areas.

Strategies

Ensure effective planning and management of the land use and development of an area throughthe preparation of relevant plans.

Undertake comprehensive planning for new areas as sustainable communities that offer high-quality,frequent and safe local and regional public transport and a range of local activities for living,working and recreation.

Facilitate the preparation of a hierarchy of structure plans or precinct structure plans that:

Take into account the strategic and physical context of the location.

Provide the broad planning framework for an area as well as the more detailed planningrequirements for neighbourhoods and precincts, where appropriate.

Provide for the development of sustainable and liveable urban areas in an integrated manner.

Assist the development of walkable neighbourhoods.

Facilitate the logical and efficient provision of infrastructure.

Facilitate the use of existing infrastructure and services.

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Sequencing of development

Objective

To manage the sequence of development in areas of growth so that services are available fromearly in the life of new communities.

Strategies

Define preferred development sequences in areas of growth to better coordinate infrastructureplanning and funding.

Ensure that new land is released in areas of growth in a timely fashion to facilitate coordinatedand cost-efficient provision of local and regional infrastructure.

Require new development to make a financial contribution to the provision of infrastructure suchas community facilities, public transport and roads.

Improve the coordination and timing of infrastructure and service delivery in areas of growth.

Support opportunities to co-locate facilities.

Ensure that planning for water supply, sewerage and drainage works receives high priority in earlyplanning for areas of growth.

Policy documents


Any applicable Growth Area Framework Plans (Department of Sustainability and Environment,2006)

Precinct Structure Planning Guidelines (Growth Areas Authority, 2009)

Ministerial Direction No. 12 – Urban Growth Areas

The Victorian Transport Plan (Victorian Government, 2008)

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PLANNING FOR PLACES

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Activity centres

Objective

To encourage the concentration of major retail, residential, commercial, administrative,entertainment and cultural developments into activity centres that are highly accessible to thecommunity.

Strategies

Build up activity centres as a focus for high-quality development, activity and living by developinga network of activity centres that:

Comprises a range of centres that differ in size and function.

Is a focus for business, shopping, working, leisure and community facilities.

Provides different types of housing, including forms of higher density housing.

Is connected by transport.

Maximises choices in services, employment and social interaction.

Support the role and function of each centre in the context of its classification, the policies forhousing intensification, and development of the public transport network.

Undertake strategic planning for the use and development of land in and around activity centres.

Give clear direction on preferred locations for investment.

Encourage a diversity of housing types at higher densities in and around activity centres.

Reduce the number of private motorised trips by concentrating activities that generate high numbersof (non-freight) trips in highly accessible activity centres.

Improve access by walking, cycling and public transport to services and facilities.

Support the continued growth and diversification of activity centres to give communities accessto a wide range of goods and services, provide local employment and support local economies.

Encourage economic activity and business synergies.

Improve the social, economic and environmental performance and amenity of activity centres.

Policy documents


Urban Design Guidelines for Victoria (Department of Environment, Land,Water and Planning,2017)

Apartment Design Guidelines for Victoria (Department of Environment, Land, Water andPlanning, 2017)


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Activity centres - Metropolitan Melbourne

Strategies

Support the development and growth of Metropolitan Activity Centres by ensuring they:

Are able to accommodate significant growth for a broad range of land uses.

Are supported with appropriate infrastructure.

Are hubs for public transport services.

Offer good connectivity for a regional catchment.

Provide high levels of amenity.

Locate significant new education, justice, community, administrative and health facilities thatattract users from large geographic areas in or on the edge of Metropolitan Activity Centres orMajor Activity Centres with good public transport.

Locate new small scale education, health and community facilities that meet local needs in oraround Neighbourhood Activity Centres.

Ensure Neighbourhood Activity Centres are located within convenient walking distance in thedesign of new subdivisions.

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Growth areas

Objective

To locate urban growth close to transport corridors and services and provide efficient and effectiveinfrastructure to create sustainability benefits while protecting primary production, major sourcesof raw materials and valued environmental areas.

Strategies

Concentrate urban expansion into growth areas that are served by high-capacity public transport.

Implement the strategic directions in the Growth Area Framework Plans.

Encourage average overall residential densities in the growth areas of a minimum of 15 dwellingsper net developable hectare, and over time, seek an overall increase in residential densities to morethan 20 dwellings per net developable hectare.

Deliver timely and adequate provision of public transport and local and regional infrastructure andservices, in line with a preferred sequence of land release.

Provide for significant amounts of local employment opportunities and in some areas, providelarge scale industrial or other more regional employment generators.

Create a network of mixed-use activity centres that are high quality, well designed and create asense of place.

Provide a diversity of housing type and distribution.

Retain unique characteristics of established areas impacted by growth.

Protect andmanage natural resources and areas of heritage, cultural and environmental significance.

Create well planned, easy to maintain and safe streets and neighbourhoods that reduce opportunitiesfor crime, improve perceptions of safety and increase levels of community participation.

Develop Growth Area Framework Plans that will:

Include objectives for each growth area.

Identify the long term pattern of urban growth.

Identify the location of broad urban development types, for example activity centre, residential,employment, freight centres and mixed use employment.

Identify the boundaries of individual communities, landscape values and, as appropriate, theneed for discrete urban breaks and how land uses in these breaks will be managed.

Identify transport networks and options for investigation, such as future railway lines andstations, freight activity centres, freeways and arterial roads.

Identify the location of open space to be retained for recreation, and/or biodiversity protectionand/or flood risk reduction purposes guided and directed by regional biodiversity conservationstrategies.

Show significant waterways as opportunities for creating linear trails, along with areas requiredto be retained for biodiversity protection and/or flood risk reduction purposes.

Identify appropriate uses for constrained areas, including quarry buffers.

Develop precinct structure plans consistent with the Precinct Structure Planning Guidelines(Growth Areas Authority, 2009) approved by the Minister for Planning to:

Establish a sense of place and community.

Create greater housing choice, diversity and affordable places to live.

Create highly accessible and vibrant activity centres.

Provide for local employment and business activity.

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Provide better transport choices.

Respond to climate change and increase environmental sustainability.

Deliver accessible, integrated and adaptable community infrastructure.

Policy documents


The Victorian Transport Plan (Victorian Government, 2008)

Any applicable Growth Area Framework Plans (Department of Sustainability and Environment,2006)


Ministerial Direction No. 12 – Urban Growth Areas

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Peri-urban areas

Objective

To manage growth in peri-urban areas to protect and enhance their identified valued attributes.

Strategies

Identify and protect areas that are strategically important for the environment, biodiversity,landscape, open space, water, agriculture, energy, recreation, tourism, environment, culturalheritage, infrastructure, extractive and other natural resources.

Provide for development in established settlements that have capacity for growth having regardto complex ecosystems, landscapes, agricultural and recreational activities including inWarragul-Drouin, Bacchus Marsh, Torquay-Jan Juc, Gisborne, Kyneton, Wonthaggi, Kilmore,Broadford, Seymour and Ballan and other towns identified by Regional Growth Plans as havingpotential for growth.

Establish growth boundaries for peri-urban towns to avoid urban sprawl and protect agriculturalland and environmental assets.

Enhance the character, identity, attractiveness and amenity of peri-urban towns.

Prevent dispersed settlement and provide for non-urban breaks between urban areas.

Ensure development is linked to the timely and viable provision of physical and social infrastructure.

Improve connections to regional and metropolitan transport services.

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Coastal settlement

Objective

To plan for sustainable coastal development.

Strategies

Plan and manage coastal population growth and increased visitation so that impacts do not causeunsustainable use of coastal resources.

Support a network of diverse coastal settlements that provide for a broad range of housing types,economic opportunities and services.

Encourage urban renewal and redevelopment opportunities in existing settlements to reduce thedemand for urban sprawl.

Identify a clear settlement boundary around coastal settlements to ensure that growth in coastalareas is planned and coastal values are protected. Where no settlement boundary is identified, theextent of a settlement is defined by the extent of existing urban zoned land and any land identifiedon a plan in the planning scheme for future urban settlement.

Direct new residential and other urban development and infrastructure to locations within definedsettlement boundaries of existing settlements that are capable of accommodating growth.

Support the sustainable management of growth around coastal, estuary and marine assets to protectenvironmental values, and to achieve regional economic and community benefits.

Avoid linear urban sprawl along the coastal edge and ribbon development in rural landscapes.

Protect areas between settlements for non-urban use.

Avoid development on ridgelines, primary coastal dune systems and low lying coastal areas.

Encourage the restructure of old and inappropriate subdivisions to reduce development impactson the environment.

Ensure a sustainable water supply, stormwater and sewerage treatment for all development.

Minimise the quantity and enhance the quality of stormwater discharge from new developmentinto the ocean, bays and estuaries.

Policy documents


Victorian Coastal Strategy (Victorian Coastal Council, 2014)

G21 Regional Growth Plan (Geelong Region Alliance, 2013)

Gippsland Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

Great South Coast Regional Growth Plan (Victorian Government, 2014)

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Distinctive areas and landscapes

Objective

To protect and enhance the valued attributes of identified distinctive areas and landscapes.

Strategies

Recognise the significant geographic and physical features of these areas.

Recognise the important role these areas play in the state as tourist destinations.

Protect the identified key values and activities of these areas.

Support use and development where it enhances the valued characteristics of these areas.

Avoid use and development that could undermine the long-term natural or non-urban use of landin these areas.

Protect areas that are important for food production.

Develop Localised Planning Statements for the Bellarine Peninsula, Macedon Ranges, MorningtonPeninsula and the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges.

Policy documents


Bellarine Peninsula Localised Planning Statement (Victorian Government, 2015)

Mornington Peninsula Localised Planning Statement (Victorian Government, 2014)

Yarra Ranges Localised Planning Statement (Victorian Government, 2017)

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Regional and local places

Objective

To facilitate integrated place-based planning.

Strategies

Integrate relevant planning considerations to provide specific direction for the planning of sites,places, neighbourhoods and towns.

Consider the distinctive characteristics and needs of regional and local places in planning for futureland use and development.

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ENVIRONMENTAL AND LANDSCAPE VALUESPlanning should help to protect the health of ecological systems and the biodiversity they support(including ecosystems, habitats, species and genetic diversity) and conserve areas with identifiedenvironmental and landscape values.

Planning must implement environmental principles for ecologically sustainable development thathave been established by international and national agreements. Foremost amongst the nationalagreements is the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment, which sets out key principlesfor environmental policy in Australia. Other agreements include the National Strategy forEcologically Sustainable Development, National Greenhouse Strategy, the NationalWater QualityManagement Strategy, the National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia’s BiologicalDiversity, the National Forest Policy Statement and National Environment Protection Measures.

Planning should protect, restore and enhance sites and features of nature conservation, biodiversity,geological or landscape value.

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BIODIVERSITY

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Protection of biodiversity

Objective

To assist the protection and conservation of Victoria’s biodiversity.

Strategies

Use biodiversity information to identify important areas of biodiversity, including key habitat forrare or threatened species and communities, and strategically valuable biodiversity sites.

Strategically plan for the protection and conservation of Victoria’s important areas of biodiversity.

Ensure that decision making takes into account the impacts of land use and development onVictoria’s biodiversity, including consideration of:

Cumulative impacts.

Fragmentation of habitat.

The spread of pest plants, animals and pathogens into natural ecosystems.

Avoid impacts of land use and development on important areas of biodiversity.

Consider impacts of any change in land use or development that may affect the biodiversity valueof national parks and conservation reserves or nationally and internationally significant sites;including wetlands and wetland wildlife habitat designated under the Convention on Wetlands ofInternational Importance (the Ramsar Convention) and sites utilised by species listed under theJapan-Australia Migratory Birds Agreement (JAMBA), the China-Australia Migratory BirdsAgreement (CAMBA), or the Republic of Korea-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement(ROKAMBA).

Assist in the identification, protection and management of important areas of biodiversity.

Assist in the establishment, protection and re-establishment of links between important areas ofbiodiversity, including through a network of green spaces and large-scale native vegetation corridorprojects.

Policy guidelines


State biodiversity information maintained by the Department of Environment, Land, Waterand Planning.

Policy documents


Protecting Victoria’s Environment – Biodiversity 2037 (Department of Environment, Land,Water and Planning, 2017)

Guidelines for the removal, destruction or lopping of native vegetation (Department ofEnvironment, Land, Water and Planning, 2017)

Any applicable biodiversity strategies, including the relevant Regional Catchment Strategy(prepared under Part 4 of the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994)

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Native vegetation management

Objective

To ensure that there is no net loss to biodiversity as a result of the removal, destruction or loppingof native vegetation.

Strategies

Ensure decisions that involve, or will lead to, the removal, destruction or lopping of nativevegetation, apply the three-step approach in accordance with the Guidelines for the removal,destruction or lopping of native vegetation (Department of Environment, Land,Water and Planning,2017):

Avoid the removal, destruction or lopping of native vegetation.

Minimise impacts from the removal, destruction or lopping of native vegetation that cannot beavoided.

Provide an offset to compensate for the biodiversity impact from the removal, destruction orlopping of native vegetation.

Policy guidelines


State biodiversity information maintained by the Department of Environment, Land, Waterand Planning.

Policy documents


Guidelines for the removal, destruction or lopping of native vegetation (Department ofEnvironment, Land, Water and Planning, 2017)

Assessor’s handbook – applications to remove, destroy or lop native vegetation (Departmentof Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2017)

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COASTAL AREAS

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Protection of coastal areas

Objective

To recognise the value of coastal areas to the community, conserve and enhance coastal areas andensure sustainable use of natural coastal resources.

Strategies

Coordinate land use and planning with the requirements of the Coastal Management Act 1995 to:

Provide clear direction for the future sustainable use of the coast, including the marineenvironment, for recreation, conservation, tourism, commerce and similar uses in appropriateareas.

Protect and maintain areas of environmental significance.

Identify suitable areas and opportunities for improved facilities.

Apply the hierarchy of principles for coastal planning and management:

Principle 1: Ensure the protection of significant environmental and cultural values.

Principle 2: Undertake integrated planning and provide clear direction for the future.

Principle 3: Ensure the sustainable use of natural coastal resources.

Principle 4: Ensure development on the coast is located in existing modified and resilientenvironments where the demand for development is evident and any impacts can be managedsustainably.

Plan for marine development and infrastructure that is sensitive to marine national parks andenvironmental assets.

Ensure development protects and seeks to enhance coastal biodiversity and ecological values.

Ensure development is sensitively sited and designed and respects the character of coastalsettlements.

Encourage revegetation of cleared land abutting coastal reserves.

Maintain the natural drainage patterns, water quality and biodiversity in and adjacent to coastalestuaries, wetlands and waterways.

Avoid disturbance of coastal acid sulfate soils.

Protect cultural heritage places, including Aboriginal places, archaeological sites and historicshipwrecks.

Policy guidelines


Any applicable coastal action plan ormanagement plan approved under theCoastalManagementAct 1995 or National Parks Act 1975.

Policy documents



Coastal Spaces Landscape Assessment Study (Department of Sustainability and Environment,2006)

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Coastal Crown land

Objective

To achieve coastal crown land development that provides an environmental, social and economicbalance.

Strategies

Ensure that use and development on or adjacent to coastal foreshore Crown land:

Maintains safe, equitable public access and improves public benefit.

Protects local environmental and social values.

Demonstrates need and coastal dependency.

Minimises impact on the coast by locating within a defined activity or recreation node.

Policy guidelines


The purpose for which land is reserved under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978.

Any relevant coastal action plan or management plan approved under theCoastal ManagementAct 1995 or National Parks Act 1975.

Policy documents



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Bays

Objective

To improve the environmental health of Port Phillip Bay and Western Port and their catchments.

Strategies

Reduce major environmental pressures associated with urban growth and development in PortPhillip Bay and Western Port catchments by:

Requiring growth area planning to protect significant natural assets.

Improving the quality of stormwater entering waterways, particularly from construction sitesand road development.

Improve waterway management arrangements for Port Phillip Bay and Western Port catchments.

Protect coastal and foreshore environments and improve public access and recreation facilitiesaround Port Phillip Bay and Western Port by:

Focussing development in areas already developed or in areas that can tolerate more intensiveuse.

Requiring coastal planning andmanagement to be consistent with the Victorian Coastal Strategy(Victorian Coastal Council, 2014).

Managing privately owned foreshore consistently with the adjoining public land.

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WATER BODIES AND WETLANDS

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River corridors, waterways, lakes and wetlands

Objective

To protect and enhance river corridors, waterways, lakes and wetlands.

Strategies

Protect the environmental, cultural and landscape values of all water bodies and wetlands.

Ensure development responds to and respects the significant environmental, conservation, cultural,aesthetic, open space, recreation and tourism assets of water bodies and wetlands.

Ensure development is sensitively designed and sited to maintain and enhance environmentalassets, significant views and landscapes along river corridors and waterways and adjacent to lakesand wetlands.

Ensure development does not compromise bank stability, increase erosion or impact on a waterbody or wetland’s natural capacity to manage flood flow.

Protect the Yarra, Maribyrnong andMurray River corridors as significant economic, environmentaland cultural assets.

Facilitate growth in established settlements where water and wastewater can be managed.

Policy documents


Maribyrnong River – Vision for Recreational and Tourism Development (Melbourne Parksand Waterways, 1996)

Maribyrnong River Valley Design Guideli nes (Department of Planning and CommunityDevelopment, 2010)

Melbourne Water’s Guidelines for Approval of Jetties (Melbourne Water, 2011)

Healthy Waterways Strategy (Melbourne Water, 2013)

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Yarra River protection

Objective

To maintain and enhance the natural landscape character of the Yarra River corridor.

Strategies

Strengthen the Yarra River’s natural environment, heritage and overall health by:

Protecting the river’s riparian vegetation, natural riverbank topography and flood managementcapacity.

Ensuring development does not increase the rate or quantity of stormwater, sediment or otherpollutants entering the river.

Protecting and enhancing both terrestrial and aquatic habitats and their linkages along the rivercorridor.

Promote a sense of place and landscape identity by:

Retaining a dominant and consistent tree canopy along the river corridor and in its broaderlandscape setting.

Ensuring that the appearance of development is subordinate to the local landscape setting, withany views of development being filtered through vegetation.

Retain and enhance people’s enjoyment of the river and its environment by:

Planning for the river and its environs as a recreation and tourism resource.

Ensuring linkages and public access to the river and its parklands are maintained, enhancedand new links created where appropriate.

Avoiding overshadowing of the river, its banks and adjacent public open space to ensure thatthe amenity of the public realm is maintained year-round.

Ensure that development is designed and sited to maintain and enhance the river’s secluded andnatural environment by:

Minimising the visual intrusion of development when viewed frommajor roads, bridge crossings,public open space, recreation trails and the river itself.

Ensuring that the siting and design of buildings avoids conflictingwith the local natural landscapeand environmental character.

Ensuring building height is below the natural tree canopy and all development is set back aminimum of 30 metres from the banks of the river.

Policy documents


Middle Yarra River Corridor Study - Recommendations Report (Department of Environment,Land, Water and Planning, 2016)

Lower Yarra River Corridor Study - Recommendations Report (Department of Environment,Land, Water and Planning, 2016)

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ALPINE AREAS

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Sustainable development in alpine areas

Objective

To facilitate sustainable use and development of Alpine areas for year-round use and activity.

Strategies

Protect and manage significant environmental features and ecosystems, taking into account thesensitive and fragile nature of the alpine environment.

Ensure that the use and development of land is managed to minimise the disturbance of indigenousflora and fauna and sensitive landscapes.

Ensure that there is a mixture of use and development to cater for users of alpine areas in allseasons.

Recognise the distinct environments, infrastructure needs and capabilities to support differentactivities of each alpine resort and other alpine areas.

Provide for the development of consolidated alpine villages, including a diverse range ofemployment, social and economic opportunities.

Promote development for active recreation solely at Falls Creek, Lake Mountain, Mt Buffalo, MtBaw Baw, Mt Buller and Mt Hotham.

Promote intensive residential and commercial development at Falls Creek, Mt BawBaw,Mt Bullerand Mt Hotham.

Maintain Mt Stirling as an all-season nature based tourist, recreational and educational resource.

Ensure that the sustainable long term planning and management of Victoria’s six alpine resorts isconsistent with the strategic directions contained in the Alpine Resorts Strategic Plan (VictorianGovernment, Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council, 2012).

Develop, monitor and regularly review the Alpine Resort Environmental Management Plans andComprehensive Development Plans for each alpine resort, recognising their unique characteristics,constraints and opportunities.

Encourage best practice in design that responds to the alpine character of the area.

Ensure heritage places are protected and conserved, including Aboriginal cultural heritage andpost contact heritage places.

Ensure that increases in skier, pedestrian and vehicular activity in the resorts do not compromisepublic safety or the accessibility and capacity of ski fields, services, commercial activity anddevelopment of trailheads.

Implement approved plans, manage development andworkwith Alpine ResortManagement Boardsto effectively operate alpine resorts and protect alpine resources.

Policy guidelines


Any applicable approved Victorian Environmental Assessment Council recommendations.

Any relevant State Environment Protection Policy.

Any approvedmanagement plan or guideline endorsed by theMinister for Energy, Environmentand Climate Change or Minister for Water.

Policy documents


Alpine Resorts Strategic Plan (Victorian Government, Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council,2012)

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SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTS AND LANDSCAPES

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Environmentally sensitive areas

Objective

To protect and conserve environmentally sensitive areas.

Strategies

Protect environmentally sensitive areas with significant recreational value from development thatwould diminish their environmental conservation or recreational values. These areas include theDandenong and Macedon Ranges, the Upper Yarra Valley, Western Port and Port Phillip Bay andtheir foreshores, the Mornington Peninsula, the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers and the MerriCreek, the Grampians, the Gippsland Lakes and its foreshore, the coastal areas and their foreshores,Alpine areas and nominated urban conservation areas, historic buildings and precincts.

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Landscapes

Objective

To protect and enhance significant landscapes and open spaces that contribute to character, identityand sustainable environments.

Strategies

Ensure significant landscape areas such as forests, the bays and coastlines are protected.

Ensure development does not detract from the natural qualities of significant landscape areas.

Improve the landscape qualities, open space linkages and environmental performance in significantlandscapes and open spaces, including green wedges, conservation areas and non-urban areas.

Recognise the natural landscape for its aesthetic value and as a fully functioning system.

Ensure important natural features are protected and enhanced.

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ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND AMENITYPlanning should strengthen the resilience and safety of communities by adopting a best practiceenvironmental management and risk management approach.

Planning should aim to avoid or minimise natural and human-made environmental hazards,environmental degradation and amenity conflicts.

Planning should identify andmanage the potential for the environment and environmental changesto impact on the economic, environmental or social wellbeing of society.

Planning should ensure development and risk mitigation does not detrimentally interfere withimportant natural processes.

Planning should prepare for and respond to the impacts of climate change.

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Natural hazards and climate change

Objective

To minimise the impacts of natural hazards and adapt to the impacts of climate change throughrisk-based planning.

Strategies

Consider the risks associated with climate change in planning and management decision makingprocesses.

Identify at risk areas using the best available data and climate change science.

Integrate strategic land use planning with emergency management decision making.

Direct population growth and development to low risk locations.

Develop adaptation response strategies for existing settlements in risk areas to accommodatechange over time.

Ensure planning controls allow for risk mitigation or risk adaptation strategies to be implemented.

Site and design development to minimise risk to life, property, the natural environment andcommunity infrastructure from natural hazards.

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Coastal inundation and erosion

Objective

To plan for and manage the potential coastal impacts of climate change.

Strategies

Plan for sea level rise of not less than 0.8 metres by 2100 and allow for the combined effects oftides, storm surges, coastal processes and local conditions such as topography and geology whenassessing risks and coastal impacts associated with climate change.

In planning for sea level rise, an increase of 0.2 metres over current 1 in 100 year flood levels by2040 may be used for new development in close proximity to existing development (urban infill).

Ensure that land subject to coastal hazards is identified and appropriately managed to ensure thatfuture development is not at risk.

Ensure that development or protective works that seek to respond to coastal hazard risks avoiddetrimental impacts on coastal processes.

Avoid development in identified coastal hazard areas susceptible to inundation (both river andcoastal), erosion, landslip/landslide, acid sulfate soils, bushfire and geotechnical risk.

Policy guidelines


Any applicable Land Conservation Council recommendations.

Any applicable coastal action plan ormanagement plan approved under theCoastalManagementAct 1995 or National Parks Act 1975.

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Bushfire planning

Policy application

This policy must be applied to all planning and decision making under the Planning andEnvironment Act 1987 relating to land that is:

Within a designated bushfire prone area;

Subject to a Bushfire Management Overlay; or

Proposed to be used or developed in a way that may create a bushfire hazard.

Objective

To strengthen the resilience of settlements and communities to bushfire through risk-based planningthat prioritises the protection of human life.

Strategies

Protection of human life

Give priority to the protection of human life by:

Prioritising the protection of human life over all other policy considerations.

Directing population growth and development to low risk locations and ensuring the availabilityof, and safe access to, areas where human life can be better protected from the effects of bushfire.

Reducing the vulnerability of communities to bushfire through the consideration of bushfirerisk in decision making at all stages of the planning process.

Bushfire hazard identification and assessment

Identify bushfire hazard and undertake appropriate risk assessment by:

Applying the best available science to identify vegetation, topographic and climatic conditionsthat create a bushfire hazard.

Considering the best available information about bushfire hazard including themap of designatedbushfire prone areas prepared under the Building Act 1993 or regulations made under that Act.

Applying the Bushfire Management Overlay to areas where the extent of vegetation can createan extreme bushfire hazard.

Considering and assessing the bushfire hazard on the basis of:

– Landscape conditions - meaning conditions in the landscape within 20 kilometres (andpotentially up to 75 kilometres) of a site;

– Local conditions - meaning conditions in the area within approximately 1 kilometre of asite;

– Neighbourhood conditions - meaning conditions in the area within 400 metres of a site; and

– The site for the development.

Consulting with emergency management agencies and the relevant fire authority early in theprocess to receive their recommendations and implement appropriate bushfire protectionmeasures.

Ensuring that strategic planning documents, planning scheme amendments, planning permitapplications and development plan approvals properly assess bushfire risk and includeappropriate bushfire protection measures.

Not approving development where a landowner or proponent has not satisfactorily demonstratedthat the relevant policies have been addressed, performance measures satisfied or bushfireprotection measures can be adequately implemented.

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Settlement planning

Plan to strengthen the resilience of settlements and communities and prioritise protection of humanlife by:

Directing population growth and development to low risk locations, being those locationsassessed as having a radiant heat flux of less than 12.5 kilowatts/square metre under AS3959-2009 Construction of Buildings in Bushfire-prone Areas (Standards Australia, 2009).

Ensuring the availability of, and safe access to, areas assessed as a BAL-LOW rating under AS3959-2009 Construction of Buildings in Bushfire-prone Areas (Standards Australia, 2009)where human life can be better protected from the effects of bushfire.

Ensuring the bushfire risk to existing and future residents, property and community infrastructurewill not increase as a result of future land use and development.

Achieving no net increase in risk to existing and future residents, property and communityinfrastructure, through the implementation of bushfire protection measures and where possiblereducing bushfire risk overall.

Assessing and addressing the bushfire hazard posed to the settlement and the likely bushfirebehaviour it will produce at a landscape, settlement, local, neighbourhood and site scale,including the potential for neighbourhood-scale destruction.

Assessing alternative low risk locations for settlement growth on a regional, municipal,settlement, local and neighbourhood basis.

Not approving any strategic planning document, local planning policy, or planning schemeamendment that will result in the introduction or intensification of development in an area thathas, or will on completion have, more than a BAL-12.5 rating under AS 3959-2009 Constructionof Buildings in Bushfire-prone Areas (Standards Australia, 2009).

Areas of biodiversity conservation value

Ensure settlement growth and development approvals can implement bushfire protection measureswithout unacceptable biodiversity impacts by discouraging settlement growth and developmentin bushfire affected areas that are important areas of biodiversity.

Use and development control in a Bushfire Prone Area

In a bushfire prone area designated in accordance with regulations made under the Building Act1993, bushfire risk should be considered when assessing planning applications for the followinguses and development:

Subdivisions of more than 10 lots.

Accommodation.

Child care centre.

Education centre.

Emergency services facility.

Hospital.

Indoor recreation facility.

Major sports and recreation facility.

Place of assembly.

Any application for development that will result in people congregating in large numbers.

When assessing a planning permit application for the above uses and development:

Consider the risk of bushfire to people, property and community infrastructure.

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Require the implementation of appropriate bushfire protectionmeasures to address the identifiedbushfire risk.

Ensure new development can implement bushfire protection measures without unacceptablebiodiversity impacts.

Policy guidelines


Any applicable approved state, regional and municipal fire prevention plan.

Policy documents


AS 3959-2009 Construction of Buildings in Bushfire-prone Areas (Standards Australia, 2009)

Building in bushfire-prone areas - CSIRO & Standards Australia (SAA HB36-1993, 1993)

Any bushfire prone area map prepared under the Building Act 1993 or regulations made underthat Act

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Floodplain management

Objective

To assist the protection of:

Life, property and community infrastructure from flood hazard.

The natural flood carrying capacity of rivers, streams and floodways.

The flood storage function of floodplains and waterways.

Floodplain areas of environmental significance or of importance to river health.

Strategies

Identify land affected by flooding, including land inundated by the 1 in 100 year flood event oras determined by the floodplain management authority in planning schemes.

Avoid intensifying the impact of flooding through inappropriately located use and development.

Locate emergency and community facilities (including hospitals, ambulance stations, policestations, fire stations, residential aged care facilities, communication facilities, transport facilities,community shelters and schools) outside the 1 in 100 year floodplain and, where possible, at levelsabove the height of the probable maximum flood.

Locate use and development that involve the storage or disposal of environmentally hazardousindustrial and agricultural chemicals or wastes and other dangerous goods (including intensiveanimal industries and sewage treatment plants) outside floodplains unless site design andmanagement is such that potential contact between such substances and floodwaters is prevented,without affecting the flood carrying and flood storage functions of the floodplain.

Policy guidelines


Regional catchment strategies and special area plans approved by the Minister for Energy,Environment and Climate Change or Minister for Water.

Any floodplain management manual of policy and practice, or catchment management, riverhealth, wetland or floodplainmanagement strategy adopted by the relevant responsible floodplainmanagement authority.

Any best practice environmental management guidelines for stormwater adopted by theEnvironment Protection Authority.

Policy documents


State Environment Protection Policy (Waters of Victoria)

Victorian Floodplain Management Strategy (Department of Environment, Land, Water andPlanning 2016)

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Contaminated and potentially contaminated land

Objective

To ensure that potentially contaminated land is suitable for its intended future use and development,and that contaminated land is used safely.

Strategies

Require applicants to provide adequate information on the potential for contamination to haveadverse effects on future land use if the subject land is known to have been used for industry,mining or the storage of chemicals, gas, wastes or liquid fuel.

Facilitate the remediation of contaminated land, particularly on sites in developed areas withpotential for residential development.

Policy documents


State Environment Protection Policy (Prevention and Management of Contamination of Land)

Ministerial Direction No. 1 - Potentially Contaminated Land

National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure (NationalEnvironment Protection Council, 1999)

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Erosion and landslip

Objective

To protect areas prone to erosion, landslip or other land degradation processes.

Strategies

Identify areas subject to erosion or instability in planning schemes and when considering the useand development of land.

Prevent inappropriate development in unstable areas or areas prone to erosion.

Promote vegetation retention, planting and rehabilitation in areas prone to erosion and landinstability.

Policy guidelines


Any applicable regional catchment strategy.

Any special area plan approved under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994.

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Salinity

Objective

Tominimise the impact of salinity and rising water tables on land uses, buildings and infrastructurein rural and urban areas and areas of environmental significance and reduce salt load in rivers.

Strategies

Identify areas subject to salinity in the preparation of planning schemes and land use planningdecisions.

Promote vegetation retention and replanting in aquifer recharge areas contributing to groundwatersalinity problems.

Prevent inappropriate development in areas affected by groundwater salinity.

Policy guidelines


Any applicable regional catchment strategy and any associated implementation plan or strategy(particularly salinity management plans and regional vegetation plans).

Any special area plan approved under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994.

Policy documents


Salinity Information Kit: Volume 1 - A Local Government Planning Guide for Dryland Salinity(Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, 1995)

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NOISE

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Noise abatement

Objective

To assist the control of noise effects on sensitive land uses.

Strategy

Ensure that development is not prejudiced and community amenity is not reduced by noiseemissions, using a range of building design, urban design and land use separation techniques asappropriate to the land use functions and character of the area.

Policy documents


State Environment Protection Policy (Control of Music Noise from Public Premises) No. N-2

State Environment Protection Policy (Control of Noise from Commerce, Industry and Trade)No. N-1 in metropolitan Melbourne

Interim Guidelines for Control of Noise from Industry in Country Victoria (EnvironmentProtection Authority, 1989)

A Guide to the Reduction of Traffic Noise (VicRoads 2003)

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AIR QUALITY

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Air quality management

Objective

To assist the protection and improvement of air quality.

Strategies

Ensure that land use planning and transport infrastructure provision contribute to improved airquality by:

Integrating transport and land use planning to improve transport accessibility and connections.

Locating key developments that generate high volumes of trips in the Central City, MetropolitanActivity Centres and Major Activity Centres.

Providing infrastructure for public transport, walking and cycling.

Ensure, wherever possible, that there is suitable separation between land uses that reduce airamenity and sensitive land uses.

Policy documents


State Environment Protection Policy (Air Quality Management)

Recommended Separation distances for industrial residual air emissions (Environment ProtectionAuthority, 2013)

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AMENITY, HUMAN HEALTH AND SAFETY

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Land use compatibility

Objective

To protect community amenity, human health and safety while facilitating appropriate commercial,industrial, infrastructure or other uses with potential adverse off-site impacts.

Strategies

Ensure that use or development of land is compatible with adjoining and nearby land uses.

Avoid locating incompatible uses in areas that may be impacted by adverse off-site impactsfrom commercial, industrial and other uses.

Avoid or otherwise minimise adverse off-site impacts from commercial, industrial and otheruses through land use separation, siting, building design and operational measures.

Protect existing commercial, industrial and other uses from encroachment by use or developmentthat would compromise the ability of those uses to function safely and effectively.

Policy documents


Recommended separation distances for industrial residual air emissions (Environment ProtectionAuthority, 2013).

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Major hazard facilities

Objective

To minimise the potential for human and property exposure to risk from incidents that may occurat a major hazard facility and to ensure the ongoing viability of major hazard facilities.

Strategies

Ensure major hazard facilities are sited, designed and operated to minimise risk to surroundingcommunities and the environment.

Consider the risks associated with increasing the intensity of use and development within thethreshold distance of an existing major hazard facility.

Apply appropriate threshold distances from sensitive land uses for newmajor hazard facilities andbetween major hazard facilities.

Protect registered or licenced major hazard facilities as defined under Regulation 5 of theOccupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 from encroachment of sensitive land uses.

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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENTPlanning is to assist in the conservation and wise use of natural resources including energy, water,land, stone and minerals to support both environmental quality and sustainable development.

Planning should ensure agricultural land is managed sustainably, while acknowledging the economicimportance of agricultural production.

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Protection of agricultural land

Objective

To protect the state’s agricultural base by preserving productive farmland.

Strategies

Identify areas of productive agricultural land, including land for primary production and intensiveagriculture.

Consider state, regional and local, issues and characteristics when assessing agricultural qualityand productivity.

Avoid permanent removal of productive agricultural land from the state's agricultural base withoutconsideration of the economic importance of the land for the agricultural production and processingsectors.

Protect productive farmland that is of strategic significance in the local or regional context.

Protect productive agricultural land from unplanned loss due to permanent changes in land use.

Prevent inappropriately dispersed urban activities in rural areas.

Protect strategically important agricultural and primary production land from incompatible uses.

Limit new housing development in rural areas by:

Directing housing growth into existing settlements.

Discouraging development of isolated small lots in the rural zones from use for dwellings orother incompatible uses.

Encouraging consolidation of existing isolated small lots in rural zones.

Identify areas of productive agricultural land by consulting with the Department of EconomicDevelopment, Jobs, Transport and Resources and using available information.

In considering a proposal to use, subdivide or develop agricultural land, consider the:

Desirability and impacts of removing the land from primary production, given its agriculturalproductivity.

Impacts on the continuation of primary production on adjacent land, with particular regard toland values and the viability of infrastructure for such production.

Compatibility between the proposed or likely development and the existing use of thesurrounding land.

The potential impacts of land use and development on the spread of plant and animal pestsfrom areas of known infestation into agricultural areas.

Land capability.

Avoid the subdivision of productive agricultural land from diminishing the long-term productivecapacity of the land.

Give priority to the re-structure of inappropriate subdivisions where they exist on productiveagricultural land.

Balance the potential off-site effects of a use or development proposal (such as degradation of soilor water quality and land salinisation) against the benefits of the proposal.

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Protection of agricultural land - Metropolitan Melbourne

Strategy

Protect agricultural land in Metropolitan Melbourne’s green wedges and peri-urban areas to avoidthe permanent loss of agricultural land in those locations.

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Sustainable agricultural land use

Objective

To encourage sustainable agricultural land use.

Strategies

Ensure agricultural and productive rural land use activities are managed to maintain the long-termsustainable use and management of existing natural resources.

Support the development of innovative and sustainable approaches to agricultural and associatedrural land use practices.

Support adaptation of the agricultural sector to respond to the potential risks arising from climatechange.

Encourage diversification and value-adding of agriculture through effective agricultural productionand processing, rural industry and farm-related retailing.

Assist genuine farming enterprises to embrace opportunities and adjust flexibly to market changes.

Support agricultural investment through the protection and enhancement of appropriateinfrastructure.

Facilitate ongoing productivity and investment in high value agriculture.

Facilitate the establishment and expansion of cattle feedlots, pig farms, poultry farms and otherintensive animal industries in a manner consistent with orderly and proper planning and protectionof the environment.

Ensure that the use and development of land for animal keeping or training is appropriately locatedand does not detrimentally impact the environment, the operation of surrounding land uses andthe amenity of the surrounding area.

Policy documents


Victorian Code for Cattle Feedlots (Department of Agriculture, Energy and Minerals, 1995)

Victorian Code for Broiler Farms (Department of Primary Industries, 2009, plus 2018amendments)

Apiary Code of Practice (Department of Planning and Community Development, 2011)

Planning Guidelines for Land Based Aquaculture in Victoria (Department of Primary Industries,No. 21, 2005)

Victorian LowDensity Mobile Outdoor Poultry Farm Planning Permit Guidelines (Departmentof Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, June 2018)

Victorian Low Density Mobile Outdoor Pig Farm Planning Permit Guidelines (Department ofEconomic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, June 2018)

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Forestry and timber production

Objective

To facilitate the establishment, management and harvesting of plantations and the harvesting oftimber from native forests.

Strategies

Identify areas that may be suitably used and developed for plantation timber production.

Promote the establishment of softwood and hardwood plantations on predominantly cleared land,as well as other areas that are subject to or contributing to land and water degradation.

Ensure protection of water quality and soil.

Ensure timber production in native forests is conducted in a sustainable manner.

Conduct timber production (except agroforestry, windbreaks and commercial plantations of 5hectares or less) in accordance with the Code of Practice for Timber Production (Department ofEnvironment and Primary Industries, 2014).

Ensure Victoria’s greenhouse sinks are protected and enhanced by controlling land clearing,containing the growth of urban areas and supporting revegetation programs.

Policy documents


Code of Practice for Timber Production (Department of Environment and Primary Industries,2014)

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Catchment planning and management

Objective

To assist the protection and restoration of catchments, water bodies, groundwater, and the marineenvironment.

Strategies

Ensure the continued availability of clean, high-quality drinking water by protecting watercatchments and water supply facilities.

Consider the impacts of catchment management on downstream water quality and freshwater,coastal and marine environments.

Retain natural drainage corridors with vegetated buffer zones at least 30 metres wide along eachside of a waterway to:

Maintain the natural drainage function, stream habitat and wildlife corridors and landscapevalues,

Minimise erosion of stream banks and verges, and

Reduce polluted surface runoff from adjacent land uses.

Undertake measures to minimise the quantity and retard the flow of stormwater from developedareas.

Require appropriate measures to filter sediment and wastes from stormwater prior to its dischargeinto waterways, including the preservation of floodplain or other land for wetlands and retentionbasins.

Ensure that development at or near waterways provide for the protection and enhancement of theenvironmental qualities of waterways and their instream uses.

Ensure land use and development minimises nutrient contributions to water bodies and the potentialfor the development of algal blooms.

Require appropriate measures to restrict sediment discharges from construction sites.

Ensure planning is coordinated with the activities of catchment management authorities.

Policy guidelines


Any regional catchment strategy and related plans approved under the Catchment and LandProtection Act 1994.

Any applicable implementation strategy approved by a catchment management authority orwaterway management authority.

Any special area or management plan under the Heritage Rivers Act 1992.

Any action statement or management plan prepared under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act1988.

Policy documents


State Environment Protection Policy (Waters of Victoria)

Murray River Regional Environmental Plan No 2 (REP2) of New South Wales

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Planning permit applications in open, potable water supply catchment areas (Department ofSustainability and Environment, 2012)

Urban Stormwater - Best Practice EnvironmentalManagementGuidelines (Victorian StormwaterCommittee, 1999)

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Water quality

Objective

To protect water quality.

Strategies

Protect reservoirs, water mains and local storage facilities from potential contamination.

Ensure that land use activities potentially discharging contaminated runoff or wastes to waterwaysare sited and managed to minimise such discharges and to protect the quality of surface water andgroundwater resources, rivers, streams, wetlands, estuaries and marine environments.

Discourage incompatible land use activities in areas subject to flooding, severe soil degradation,groundwater salinity or geotechnical hazards where the land cannot be sustainably managed toensure minimum impact on downstream water quality or flow volumes.

Prevent the establishment of incompatible land uses in aquifer recharge or saline discharge areasand in potable water catchments.

Encourage the siting, design, operation and rehabilitation of landfills to reduce impact ongroundwater and surface water.

Use the mapped information available from the Department of Environment, Land, Water andPlanning to identify the beneficial uses of groundwater resources and have regard to potentialimpacts on these resources from proposed land use or development.

Policy documents


Construction Techniques for Sediment Pollution Control (Environment Protection Authority,1991)

Environmental Guidelines for Major Construction Sites (Environment Protection Authority,1996 - Publication 480)

Doing it Right on Subdivisions: Temporary Environmental ProtectionMeasures for SubdivisionConstruction Sites (Environment Protection Authority, 2004 - Publication 960)

Planning permit applications in open, potable water supply catchments (Department ofSustainability and Environment, 2012)

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Protection of declared irrigation districts

Objective

To plan and manage for sustainable change within irrigation districts declared under Part 6A oftheWater Act 1989.

Strategies

Identify and plan for the future needs of communities to adapt and adjust to land use change withinan irrigation district.

Protect agricultural land serviced by irrigation infrastructure to ensure the future viability of anirrigation district.

Ensure non-agricultural land use does not undermine the integrity of irrigation infrastructure andcomplements existing and future agricultural production.

Ensure land use change within an irrigation district does not negate the potential opportunities fora rural water corporation to make adjustments to the footprint of an irrigation district that areidentified under an approved plan or strategy.

Ensure land use change does not limit the ability of future investment in irrigation infrastructurethat achieves the intended benefits of minimising water loss, and improved irrigation serviceefficiency to the farm gate and overall agricultural production.

Policy documents


Water for Victoria (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2016)

Gippsland Region Sustainable Water Strategy (Department of Sustainability and Environment,2011)

Western Region Sustainable Water Strategy (Department of Sustainability and Environment,2011)

Northern Region Sustainable Water Strategy (Department of Sustainability and Environment,2009)

Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy (Department of Sustainability and Environment,2006)

Victorian Government White Paper, Securing Our Water Future Together – Our Water, OurFuture (Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2004)

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Resource exploration and extraction

Objective

To encourage exploration and extraction of natural resources in accordance with acceptableenvironmental standards.

Strategies

Provide for the long-term protection of natural resources in Victoria.

Protect the opportunity for exploration and extraction of natural resources where this is consistentwith overall planning considerations and acceptable environmental practice.

Recognise the possible need to provide infrastructure for the exploration and extraction of naturalresources.

Ensure planning schemes do not impose conditions on the use or development of land that areinconsistent with theMineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990, the GreenhouseGas Geological Sequestration Act 2008, the Geothermal Energy Resources Act 2005, or thePetroleum Act 1998.

Develop and maintain buffers around mining and quarrying activities.

Ensure planning permit applications clearly define buffer areas appropriate to the nature of theproposed extractive uses, which are to be owned or controlled by the proponent of an extractiveindustry.

Determine buffer areas between extractive activities and sensitive land uses on the followingconsiderations:

Appropriate limits on effects can be met at the sensitive locations using practical and availabletechnology.

Whether a change of land use in the vicinity of the extractive industry is proposed.

Use of land within the buffer areas is not limited by adverse effects created by the extractiveactivities.

Performance standards identified under the relevant legislation.

Types of activities within land zoned for public use.

Protect the brown coal resource in Central Gippsland by ensuring that:

Changes in use and development of land overlying coal resources, as generally defined inFramework for the Future (Minister for Industry, Technology and Resources and Minister forPlanning and Environment, 1987) and the Land Over Coal and Buffer Area Study (Ministryfor Planning and Environment, 1988), do not compromise the winning or processing of coal.

Coal-related development is adequately separated from residential or other sensitive uses andmain transport corridors by buffer areas to minimise adverse effects such as noise, dust, fire,earth subsidence and visual intrusion.

Use and development within the buffer areas are compatible with use and development adjacentto these areas.

Policy guidelines


Any applicable State Environment Protection Policy.

Policy documents


Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990

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Greenhouse Gas Geological Sequestration Act 2008

Geothermal Energy Resources Act 2005

Petroleum Act 1998

Melbourne Supply Area - Extractive Industry Interest Areas Review (Geological Survey ofVictoria Technical Record, 2003/2)

Ballarat Supply Area - Extractive Industry Interest Areas (Geological Survey of VictoriaTechnical Record, 1997/3)

Bendigo Supply Area - Extractive Industry Interest Areas (Geological Survey of VictoriaTechnical Record, 1998/6)

Geelong Supply Area - Extractive Industry Interest Areas (Geological Survey of VictoriaTechnical Record, 1999/2)

La Trobe Supply Area - Extractive Industry Interest Areas (Geological Survey of VictoriaTechnical Record, 1999/4)

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BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGEPlanning is to recognise the role of urban design, building design, heritage and energy and resourceefficiency in delivering liveable and sustainable cities, towns and neighbourhoods.

Planning should ensure all land use and development appropriately responds to its surroundinglandscape and character, valued built form and cultural context.

Planning should protect places and sites with significant heritage, architectural, aesthetic, scientificand cultural value.

Planningmust support the establishment andmaintenance of communities by delivering functional,accessible, safe and diverse physical and social environments, through the appropriate location ofuse and development and through high quality buildings and urban design.

Planning should promote development that is environmentally sustainable and should minimisedetrimental impacts on the built and natural environment.

Planning should promote excellence in the built environment and create places that:

Are enjoyable, engaging and comfortable to be in.

Accommodate people of all abilities, ages and cultures.

Contribute positively to local character and sense of place.

Reflect the particular characteristics and cultural identity of the community.

Enhance the function, amenity and safety of the public realm.

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Urban design

Objective

To create urban environments that are safe, healthy, functional and enjoyable and that contributeto a sense of place and cultural identity.

Strategies

Require development to respond to its context in terms of character, cultural identity, naturalfeatures, surrounding landscape and climate.

Ensure development contributes to community and cultural life by improving the quality of livingand working environments, facilitating accessibility and providing for inclusiveness.

Ensure the interface between the private and public realm protects and enhances personal safety.

Ensure development supports public realm amenity and safe access to walking and cyclingenvironments and public transport.

Ensure that the design and location of publicly accessible private spaces, including car parkingareas, forecourts and walkways, is of a high standard, creates a safe environment for users andenables easy and efficient use.

Ensure that development provides landscaping that supports the amenity, attractiveness and safetyof the public realm.

Ensure that development, including signs, minimises detrimental impacts on amenity, on the naturaland built environment and on the safety and efficiency of roads.

Promote good urban design along and abutting transport corridors.

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Urban design - Metropolitan Melbourne

Objective

To create a distinctive and liveable city with quality design and amenity.

Strategies

Support the creation of well-designed places that are memorable, distinctive and liveable.

Integrate place making practices into road space management.

Strengthen Melbourne’s network of boulevards.

Create new boulevards in urban-growth areas and selected existing road corridors acrossMelbourne.

Provide spaces and facilities that encourage and support the growth and development ofMelbourne’scultural precincts and creative industries.

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Building design

Objective

To achieve building design outcomes that contribute positively to the local context and enhancethe public realm.

Strategies

Ensure a comprehensive site analysis forms the starting point of the design process and providesthe basis for the consideration of height, scale and massing of new development.

Ensure development responds and contributes to the strategic and cultural context of its location.

Minimise the detrimental impact of development on neighbouring properties, the public realm andthe natural environment.

Ensure the form, scale, and appearance of development enhances the function and amenity of thepublic realm.

Ensure buildings and their interface with the public realm support personal safety, perceptions ofsafety and property security.

Ensure development is designed to protect and enhance valued landmarks, views and vistas.

Ensure development provides safe access and egress for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles.

Ensure development provides landscaping that responds to its site context, enhances the built formand creates safe and attractive spaces.

Encourage development to retain existing vegetation.

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Apartment Design Guidelines for Victoria (Department of Environment, Land, Water andPlanning, 2017)

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Subdivision design

Objective

To ensure the design of subdivisions achieves attractive, safe, accessible, diverse and sustainableneighbourhoods.

Strategies

In the development of new residential areas and in the redevelopment of existing areas, subdivisionshould be designed to create liveable and sustainable communities by:

Creating compact neighbourhoods that have walkable distances between activities.

Developing activity centres in appropriate locations with a mix of uses and services and accessto public transport.

Creating neighbourhood centres that include services to meet day to day needs.

Creating urban places with a strong sense of place that are functional, safe and attractive.

Providing a range of lot sizes to suit a variety of dwelling and household types to meet theneeds and aspirations of different groups of people.

Creating landscaped streets and a network of open spaces to meet a variety of needs with linksto regional parks where possible.

Protecting and enhancing native habitat.

Facilitating an urban structure where neighbourhoods are clustered to support larger activitycentres served by high quality public transport.

Reduce car dependency by allowing for:

– Convenient and safe public transport.

– Safe and attractive spaces and networks for walking and cycling.

– Subdivision layouts that allow easy movement within and between neighbourhoods.

– A convenient and safe road network.

Being accessible to people with disabilities.

Creating an urban structure and providing utilities and services that enable energy efficiency,resource conservation, integratedwater management andminimisation of waste and air pollution.

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Healthy neighbourhoods

Objective

To achieve neighbourhoods that foster healthy and active living and community wellbeing.

Strategies

Design neighbourhoods that foster community interaction and make it easy for people of all agesand abilities to live healthy lifestyles and engage in regular physical activity by providing:

Connected, safe, pleasant and attractive walking and cycling networks that enable and promotewalking and cycling as a part of daily life.

Streets with direct, safe and convenient access to destinations.

Conveniently located public spaces for active recreation and leisure.

Accessibly located public transport stops.

Amenities and protection to support physical activity in all weather conditions.

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Healthy neighbourhoods - Metropolitan Melbourne

Strategy

Create a city of 20 minute neighbourhoods, that give people the ability to meet most of theireveryday needs within a 20 minute walk, cycle or local public transport trip from their home.

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Neighbourhood character

Objective

To recognise, support a

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