Practice and advisory notes
These notes are generally aimed at the planning practitioner however they can also help people who only occasionally interact with the planning system. They include:
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.
Locating a practice or advisory note
You can locate the note you need in four ways:
1) By list
List of all practice notes and advisory notes.
2) By subject group
View individual notes, with a brief description of each note, by selecting an appropriate subject group below.
Activity centres, urban design, car parking, transport & traffic
Environment, native vegetation, wildfire, flooding
Extractive industry and mining
Miscellaneous
Neighbourhood character, heritage, intervention, height limits
Planning permit process
Planning schemes, amendments, zones, overlays, local policy
Residential, subdivision
Rural, timber, coastal, green wedge
3) By keyword search of the entire set
Search a composite of
All planning practice notes and advisory notes (PDF - 8.8 MB)Note: This is a large document and may take some time to download.
Open the document and, in Acrobat Reader, select Edit/Find (Ctrl+F) or Edit/Search (Shift+Ctrl+F), then type in the word(s) to be located. All notes will be searched and the results displayed.
To assist download, the complete composite is provided split into four smaller documents below.
All numbered practice notes (new and revised) (PDF - 1.0 MB) All VPP practice notes part 1 (PDF - 2.4 MB) All VPP practice notes part 2 (PDF - 2.6 MB) All General Planning Practice Notes and Advisory Notes (PDF - 3.0 MB)4) Accessible Word versions of all Practice Notes and Advisory Notes
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Please note: Document(s) on this page are presented in PDF format. If you do not have the Adobe Reader, you can download a copy free from the Adobe web site.
Accessibility: If you have trouble accessing any of these documents, please email planning.systems@dpcd.vic.gov.au or ring (03) 9637 9652 or (03) 9637 8553.