What is Amendment C109?

Planning Scheme Amendment C109 will facilitate a comprehensive restructure of the Wellington Planning Scheme (Planning Scheme) and include minor revisions to some zone and overlay provisions to help reduce red-tape and make some types of new (minor) development such as sheds, easier. The Amendment is a ‘mandated’ State Government requirement under the ‘Smart Planning’ program that applies to all planning schemes across Victoria to ensure state-wide consistency in how they are presented.

The Amendment will result in a new look, streamlined Planning Policy Framework (PPF), which integrates state, regional and local planning policy into a more succinct and user-friendly structure.

Following the closure of the Hazelwood Mine in the Latrobe Valley in October 2016, a 3-year state government funded initiative called ‘Planning in the Economic Growth Zone’ (PEGZ) was established. PEGZ sought to improve the planning system and ensure that development and investment can progress in a streamlined manner with greater certainty across the Latrobe Valley. The PEGZ Councils included Wellington Shire, Latrobe City and Baw Baw Shire.

The recommendations of both the Smart Planning program and PEGZ initiative will culminate in a substantially restructured and more succinct version of the existing Planning Scheme.

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What are the key changes proposed?

Amendment C109 will replace the current ‘Municipal Strategic Statement’ (MSS) at Clause 21 and local policies at Clause 22 of the Planning Scheme with a new ‘Municipal Planning Strategy’ (MPS) and combined local and state Planning Policy Framework, whilst also making (minor) changes to a select number of local zone and overlay schedules.

The Amendment makes the following key changes to the current content of the Planning Scheme:

• Relocates the content under the appropriate headings of the new Planning Policy Framework (PPF) and local schedules of the Planning Scheme where the intended effect of that clause or any other clause is not changed.
• Makes minor revisions to selected zone and overlay schedules to improve their operation and reduce the number of unnecessary planning permit triggers.
• Clarifies and improves the style, format, language or grammatical form of the Planning Scheme in accordance with the principles set out in, ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to Victorian Planning Schemes (October 2018)’, where the intended effect of that clause or any other clause is not changed.
• Updates clause references, department names, legislation names, document references, terminology and statistical data.
• Deletes or adjusts incompatible content that conflicts with State planning policy of the Victoria Planning Provisions.
• Removes repetitive or duplicated content.
• Removes or updates outdated content.

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Exhibition documents

• Use this link to view the Mapping Changes - PS Amendment C109
• Use this link to view the Wellington C109 Explanatory Report
• Use this link to view the Wellington C109 - Instruction Sheet
• Use this link to view the Summary - Zone and Overlay changes
• Use this link to view the Planning Ordinance Changes
• Use this link to view the Port Albert Heritage Precinct Permit Exemptions
• Use this link to view the Amendment C109well Fact Sheet

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Further Information

For further information on this Amendment please contact a member of the Strategic Planning Team on 1300 366 244.

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