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 course builds skills in the drafting of the MPS and the PPF. Attention will be paid to streamlining the MPS and PPF to avoid repetition with other parts of the scheme, therefore making the scheme easier to interpret for applicants, statutory planners and VCAT.
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.
Planning permits are legally binding documents. This means that preparing them is a from of statutory drafting. This is an important foundational skill for any statutory planner.
This session covers the basics of drafting planning permits that are easy to understand and legally robust. It also covers the less frequently discussed topic of how to prepare a good refusal.
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.
Planning for settlements outside the metropolitan area and regional cities has unique challenges. This course provides participants with a straightforward framework to plan rural and regional communities efficiently, considering risk, seasonality, local industry and employment trends, servicing availability and realistic levels of community services and infrastructure that can be provided to support communities.
This course is designed for planners who are responsible for delivering strategic plans such as Housing Strategies, Urban Design Frameworks, Economic Development Strategies, Structure Plans and Heritage Studies.
The course will look at all aspects of project management including development of the brief, project governance, community consultation, stakeholder engagement, budget management and managing the client / provider relationship. There will be a particular focus on ensuring that plans can be implemented (though the planning scheme, capital works budget and other channels).
Pitched at beginners to the strategic planning process, this course will teach a simplified “inform // interact // engage” framework to help project managers develop and deliver a complete and comprehensive consultation and engagement process that is ‘right sized’ for the project.
You will leave with lots of tools, including templates for presentations, key stakeholder identification and consultation planning.
This course is aimed at planners new to Victorian Planning, such as those fresh out of university or those coming from another jurisdiction. It covers the basics of the so-called ResCode provisions governing residential development.
