List of planning practice and advisory notes
This page lists practice notes and advisory notes by category and alphabetical order. Alternatively, keyword search a composite of all notes or view the notes displayed in subject groupings with a brief summary of what each note is about .
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To help identify and locate a particular practice note, new and revised practice notes will have a unique number. The separation of notes into VPP or General Practice notes will gradually be phased out. As existing notes are revised they will become Practice Notes with a unique number rather than VPP or General Practice Notes.
VPP Practice Notes
Applying for a planning permit under the flood provisions - a guide for councils, referral authorities and applicants, August 2000 (PDF - 182 KB) Applying the flood provisions in planning schemes - a guide for councils, August 2000 (PDF - 2.2 MB) Applying the Heritage Overlay, February 1999 (PDF - 103 KB) Applying the Incorporated Plan and Development Plan Overlays, January 2003 (PDF - 243 KB) Applying the Public Land zones, February 1999 (PDF - 83 KB) Applying the Special Use Zone, February 1999 (PDF - 130KB) Applying the rural zones, March 2007 (PDF - 128 KB) Assessing applications involving native vegetation removal, March 2006 (PDF - 142 KB) Biodiversity, March 2002 (PDF - 303 KB) Extractive industry proposals, April 2006 (PDF - 181 KB) Format of municipal strategic statements, February 1999 (PDF - 258 KB) Implementing a Coastal Settlement Boundary, October 2006 (PDF - 313 KB) Incorporated and reference documents, August 2000 (PDF - 43 KB) Managing native vegetation in the planning system, September 2008 (PDF - 204 KB) Metropolitan Freeway Service Centres, August 2000 (PDF - 26 KB) Native vegetation offsets, September 2008 (PDF - 197 KB) Parking precinct plans, July 2002 (PDF - 422 KB) Planning for wildfire protection, July 2002 (PDF - 687 KB) Planning Requirements for Public Transport Land, January 2000(PDF - 42 KB) Preparing a native vegetation precinct plan, September 2008 (PDF - 213 KB) Shipping container storage, January 2003 (PDF - 81 KB) Timber production in the Rural Zone, February 1999 (PDF - 83 KB) Understanding the residential development standards, June 2004 (PDF - 538 KB) Using the access and mobility management provisions of Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 602 KB) Using the integrated water management provisions of Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 616 KB) Using the neighbourhood character provisions in planning, July 2004 (PDF - 249 KB) Using the parking provisions, July 2002 (PDF - 463 KB) Using the residential subdivision provisions Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 79 KB) Using the site management provisions of Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 109 KB) Urban Growth Zone, June 2008 (PDF - 482 KB) Vegetation protection in urban areas, August 1999 (PDF - 453 KB) Writing a local planning policy, December 1999 (PDF - 262 KB) Writing Schedules, May 2000 (PDF - 581 KB)Page Top
General Practice Notes
Managing Referrals and Notice Requirements, January 2009 (PDF - 203 KB) Assessing mining proposals, April 2006 (PDF - 369 KB) Assessing an application for a dwelling in a residential zone, December 2001 (PDF - 54 KB) Authorisation to prepare planning scheme amendments affecting the Urban Growth Boundary and green wedge land, June 2003 (PDF - 40 KB) Improving access to planning documents, October 2007 (PDF - 49 KB) Making a planning application for a dwelling in a residential zone, December 2001 (PDF - 66 KB) Managing coastal hazards and the coastal impacts of climate change, December 2008 (PDF - 190 KB) Ministerial powers of intervention in planning and heritage matters, November 2004 (PDF - 65 KB) Planning considerations for horticultural structures, February 2002 (PDF - 398 KB) Potentially Contaminated Land General Practice Note June 2005 (PDF - 73 KB) Preparing a Green Wedge Management Plan, August 2005 (PDF - 89 KB) Resolving Planning Issues, February 1999 (PDF - 76 KB) Review of planning schemes, February 2006 (PDF - 109 KB) Rural Residential Development Guidelines, October 2006 (PDF - 140 KB) Strategic Assessment Guidelines (PDF - 298 KB)(see Strategic Assessment Guidelines checklist template on Checklists page.)
Structure planning for activity centres, December 2003 (PDF - 143 KB) The Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 and the planning permit process, October 2007 (PDF - 184 KB)See also
EES Advisory Note: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and the Environment Effects process, August 2007 (PDF - 218 KB) Understanding Neighbourhood Character, December 2001 (PDF - 59 KB) Urban Design Frameworks, September 2002 (PDF - 81 KB)Page Top
Advisory Notes
Amendment VC60, September 2009, AN 22 (PDF - 220 KB) Interim measures for bushfire protection - Amendment VC61, September 2009, AN 21 (PDF - 188 KB) Amendment VC56 - Government funded education facilities, revised May 2009 (PDF - 352 KB) Amendment VC56 - Government funded social housing, May 2009 (PDF - 231 KB) Amendment VC49, September 2008 (PDF - 188 KB) Applying the Residential 3 Zone, November 2004 (PDF - 82 KB) A protocol for fast tracking amendments, March 2007 (PDF - 51 KB) Bushfire replacement buildings - Amendment VC57, May 2009 (PDF - 172 KB) Changes to the gaming provisions in planning schemes, October 2006 (PDF - 42 KB) Changes to the planning permit process, May 2005 (PDF - 119 KB) Changes to the planning scheme amendment process, May 2005 (PDF - 104 KB) Interim height limits for neighbourhood centres, November 2004 (PDF - 177 KB) Interim provisions for structure plans, March 2007 (PDF - 189 KB) New exemptions for native vegetation removal in planning schemes, September 2008 (PDF - 371 KB) New native vegetation provisions in planning schemes, March 2006 (PDF - 156 KB) New Planning Provisions for Melbourne Airport, May 2007 (PDF - 85 KB) New Zones for Rural Victoria, June 2004 (PDF - 42 KB) Planning provisions for Melbourne's green wedges, November 2003 (PDF - 26 KB) Reducing amendment timeframes, February 2007 (PDF - 48 KB) Reducing amendment timeframes by pre-setting panel hearing dates, July 2007 (PDF - 41 KB) Referral of projects to the Priority Development Panel, February 2006 (PDF - 453 KB) Wildfire protection and native vegetation- additional exemptions to manage native vegetation around dwellings, November 2006 (PDF - 35 KB)Page Top
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