Statement of Planning Policy 3

(Legislative basis: Town & Country Planning Act) (Hamer govt)

Statements of Planning Policy 1 & 2 

(Legislative basis: Town & Country Planning Act)  (Hamer govt)

Statement of Planning Policy 8

(Legislative basis:  Town & Country Planning Act) (Hamer govt)  1975

State Level Regional Strategy Plan (RSP) (1982)  (Hamer govt)  Part 3A  P&E Act

Prescriptive Planning Schemes

SPP 1 & 2 included as State policy

Prescriptive Planning Schemes

SPP 8 included as State policy  1970s

Legislative Basis For Statements of Planning Policy Lost

Planning and Environment Act (1987) replaces Town and Country Planning Act   (Cain govt)  1987

Pilot Project for preparation of new format schemes (DoI project)

Assessment of new scheme to ensure Statements of Planning Policy delivered (Expertise/support from DoI)

Equal Significance - State Planning Policy Framework (VPP)  Clause 14.01-2 (now Clause 12.04)

“Environmentally sensitive areas with significant recreational value such as the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges, the Upper Yarra Valley, Westernport and Port Phillip Bays… the Mornington Peninsula… should be protected from development which would diminish their environmental, conservation or recreational values” (Kennett govt)  c1996

State Level Scheme Provision *

VPP Clause 53 – Yarra Ranges Strategy (RSP) to prevail over all other parts of VPP planning scheme

Biosphere Project *

First in world to include urban areas.  (State and Council funding – 3 years)

Planning Scheme / MSS Review *

Planning scheme scheme finished.

Preparing second 3-yearly MSS review.

Planning Scheme / MSS Review *

Planning scheme finished.

Preparing second 3-yearly MSS review.

Incomplete Planning Scheme *

1999 Planning Panel Recommendations and Minister’s 2000 instructions not delivered.  No prescription in new planning scheme.

·   First VPP planning scheme not completed:

·   Strategic work and other studies not done.

·   Overlays not applied.

No State requirement, support, expertise or funding to finish planning scheme.

First MSS review not done (7 years overdue).

Melbourne 2030 *

·  Supportive strategies and policies

·  State funding to adapt into scheme

Melbourne 2030 *

·  Supportive strategies and policies

·  State funding to adapt into scheme

Melbourne 2030 *

No direction about how it applies here (rural shire). 

Smelt submission (DSE, Nov. 2003) assumes development will be as in metro areas: “leap-frogs” metro development across green wedges to unprotected State significant area.

State Legislation: Green Wedge*

Clause 57 (VPP)

State Legislation: Green Wedge *

Clause 57 (VPP)

Bendigo Regional Corridor Plan *

‘Growth’ plan, implications unknown.  No community consultation.  Now 2010 Regional Strategic Plan - still no consultation

State Govt. Growth Projections (Victoria In Future) *

5,000 extra people by 2030

State Govt. Growth Projections

(Victoria In Future) *

22,000 extra people by 2030  - on track, another 15 - 20,000 by 2036 in 2010 draft Settlement Strategy

Closed catchments, tenement controls retained. * No net increase in total residential  development. *

* Bracks government

‘Open’ water catchments – loss of tenement controls, no specific VPP catchment control. *

 High growth rates – 50% absorbed in rural areas and open water catchments. *

Out of water – Macedon Ranges connected to Melbourne Water *