This module provides an overview of elements of the Victoria Planning Provisions and how to use them to construct a planning scheme.
It explores the different elements of the Victoria Planning Provisions in some detail, and how they should be used, providing participants with strategies and techniques to help select the best tools to use in their local planning scheme.
This module is a practical module to build skills in the drafting of zones and schedules to zones, overlays and particular provisions.
The module will include the elements of planning schemes, and how to draft them, including a table of uses, understanding the scope of what overlay controls can achieve in line with the purpose of the parent provision, and identifying and addressing potential overlaps and conflicts in controls within the scheme as a whole.
The environmental and landscape suite of overlays require a statement of significance, and the land management suite of overlays require a statement of risk to be included in any local schedule that is applied. These statements are fundamental to the operation of local schedules, and there is limited guidance about how to draft them.
This course will set out the principles for drafting including drawing on the resources available through the Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub and provide best practice examples.
This course will provide an overview of how to make the most of the planning scheme review process that needs to be completed every four years, as required under Section 12B of the Planning and Environment Act 1987.
Drawing on published advice from DELWP as well as experience from many Council reviews across the state, you will learn the steps that you should follow to undertake a meaningful and thorough review, and how to identify and strategically justify changes that need to be made to your planning scheme as a result.
