The State Government has just released a discussion paper regarding proposed new residential zones for Victoria.

In summary, it is proposed to have three new residential zones (to replace 3 of the existing ones), identifying areas for:

• Substantial change ("GO GO")


• Incremental change ("GO SLOW")


• Limited change ("NO GO")

This closer alignment with common local policies, will effectively allow Planning Authorities to designate areas for limited change by way of zoning control, rather than purely on the basis of policy (and on, what I consider, the overuse of the Heritage Overlay). Planning Authorities have had the power for a long time to designate areas for substantial change via the Residential 2 Zone - although it is not a zone which is widely used.

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Planning 17th February, 2008 16:30:01   [#] 

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