TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD· 33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 1977-78
VICTORIA 1978
TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD
THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT FINANCIAL YEAR 1977-1978
PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 (2) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1961
By Authoniy: F. D. ATKINSON, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, MELBOURNE.
No. 69-10853/78-PRICE $1.40
Thirty-Third Annual Report
235 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
The Honourable the Minister for Planning, 500 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000.
Sir,
In accordance with the provisions of Section 5(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1961, the Board has pleasure in submitting to you for presentation to Parliament the following report on its activities during the twelve months ended 30th June, 1978.
Yours faithfully,
Chairman, H. W. HEIN
Deputy Chairman, J. J. BAY L Y
Member, J. R. BAGHEL
Secretary, W. H. CRAIG Member, P. S. COLCLOUGH
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS AND PRINCIPAL OFFICERS AS AT 30TH JUNE, 1978
MEMBERS
H. W. HEIN Chairman J. J. BAYLY Deputy Chairman J. R. BAGHEL (MRS.) Member P. S. COLCLOUGH .. Member
PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
Secretary .. . . W. H. CRAIG Director of Planning (Statutory) P. J. BROWN Director of Planning (Strategic) . . V. R. C. WARREN TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD
HEAD OFFICE
Melbourne: 235 Queen Street Melbourne, 3000 Tel.: {03) 6020111
REGIONAL OFFICES
Bendigo: 391 Hargreaves Street. Bendigo, 3550 Tel.: {054) 421511
Central Gippsland: 71 Hotham Street. Traralgon. 3844 Tel.: {051) 745223
W arrnambool · T. & G. Building, Liebig Street. Warrnambool, 3280 Tel.: (055) 624532
Wodonga: Astra House, Jack Hore Place, Wodonga, 3690 Tel.: (060) 244688 CONTENTS
The Year in Review 9 Strategic Planning 11 Statements of Planning Policy 11 Other Studies 18 Regional Planning 21 Melton-Sunbury Growth Centre 29 Local Planning 31 Planning Control Administered by the Board 31 Planning Schemes Approved 36 Interim Development Orders 39 Statutory Review of Planning Schemes 41 Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Area 41 Western Port Planning Area 43 Geelong Planning Area 44 Urban Renewal 45 Legislation 49 Committees 51 Promotion of Planning 53 Decentralisation of Offices 57 Board Members and Staff 59 Appendices 61
9 THE YEAR IN REVIEW
This has been yet another important Ranges; and the rural land mapping year for planning in Victoria. The programme is well advanced. new concepts of decentralisation, regionalisation and consultation in Interest in regional planning in the troduced in previous years have country areas of the State continued increased the scope of planning and is being constantly fostered by considerably, involving the Board the Board. There is a regional in a greater range of activities. lt planning authority in the Loddon has also been a year of consolida Campaspe region and provis'onal tion and of new impetus in both committees in East and Central statutory and strategic planning. Gippsland. The Board provides supportive services for all. Councils As part of the Board's decentralisa in the Gippsland regions are in tion programme, to bring planning terested in the establishment of closer to the people, two more re authorities but are awa;ting legis gional offices were opened in Cen lation expected to be introduced tral Gippsland at Traralgon and in in the Spring Session of Parliament. Wodonga. The first two such Studies in the Central Highlands offices were opened last year in and Loddon-Campaspe regions Warrnambool and Bendigo. The were completed and are being fol new offices are intended to help lowed up and a comprehensive pro local councils and residents with gramme is under way in Central planning problems by providing on and East Gippsland. the-spot assistance and, where rele The Board's involvement with the vant, to service regional planning Melton-Sunbury project was main bodies. tained. The bulk of the work is Another facet of th:s new approach, organised by the independent Mel instituted last year, is the holding ton-Sunbury Interim Co-ord:nating of Board meetings outside Mel Committee, with the Board's Chair bourne. Such meetings were held man as Chairman of the Committee this year in Traralgon, Wodonga, and officers of the Board seconded Warrnambool. Bonalla and Wer full-time to the project. The plans ribee. Th;s enables Board mem are at a stage where they must now bers to gnin a first-hand knowledge be given statutory effect and vig of particular areas and to meet in orously implemented. formally with Councillors and Coun The Board was also involved in cil staff to discuss local planning reporting on urban renewal pro problems. posals pursuant to the Urban The State-wide studies encompass Renewal Act 1970 and under the ing both policy and regional plan Local Government Act on nroposals ning progressed well. Particular to create shopping malls. emphasis was given to relating An increasing volume of statutory programmes to the practical issues planning was completed. Principal facing regional and local author planning schemes were approved ities. A statement of planning for Lorne and Maldon (both pre policy on Coastal Environments was pared by the Board} and for the submitted to the Minister; the Shire of Newham and Woodend. review of those statements for the Fourteen interim development Dandenong Ranges and River Yarra orders, to be administered by is almost complete; and work is counci Is. were a Iso approved. continuing on those for the Mel bourne Metropolitan Reqion and for In the metropolitan area. work on Urban Waterways. Considerable the substantial amendments Nos. progress was made with implemen 3 and 21 continued, several other tation of the policy for Macedon amendments were approved and 10 others are being processed. A sub schemes and maintaining liaison stantial amendment to the Western w1th the Melbourne and Metropoli Port Interim Development Order tan Board of Works and other (Conservation Plan, Southern regional planning authorities Mornington Peninsula) was also reviewed. A growing awareness of the im portance of planning has been re Planning schemes prepared by the flected in the increasing number of Board for Lake Nillahcootie and requests for speakers, articles, pro Lake Tyers to Cape Howe have been ject material and general informa exhibited and approval is expected tion. shortly; work was substantially completed on the preparation of a The Chairman. Deputy Chairman strategy plan for the Gippsland and senior officers have been in Lakes area and six interim develop vited to speak at conferences and ment orders were made by the seminars in the metropolitan area Board to protect the Central Gipps and country centres and to prepare land brown coal resources. articles for publication in various journals. As part of the Board's policy to hand planning control back to local The Board's programme of publish councils, the Board's control in ing material and holding seminars several municipalities. including and displays to stimulate interest parts of the Ovens-Upper Murray and develop an understanding of area. has been revoked. The admin planning has expanded as more re istration of several smaller schemes sources have become available. will similarly be handed back when councils have introduced satisfac The staff continued to carry out tory alternative controls. their duties with efficiency and enthusiasm despite the difficulties This change of emphasis in the created by the split in the central Board's statutory responsibilities accommodation, the establishment will enable the Board to give greater of regional offices and new initi attention to promoting planning, atives. and the increasing work load advising and assisting councils and which all officers have been called thus streamlining the statutory upon to bear. process. This brings the Board to the com The Board's representation on com pletion of thirty-three years of mittees continued to consume a State planning, years in which plan considerable proportion of its re ning in Victoria has grown from a sources. minor activity of local government to a major instrument of State and Board members and staff continued local policy. with their promotion of planning, visiting many areas to discuss and Sound planning in its widest sense explain to councils and the public is of paramount importance to the the advantages of planning; assist future of the State. lt is a challenge ing municipalities contemplating to the planners of today to provide planning control or preparing interim for tomorrow. We look forward to development orders or planning the challenge with enthusiasm. 11 STRATEGIC PLANNING
The strategic planning functions of A policy for Coastal Environments the Board encompass both regional has been finalised and submitted to and policy planning, which are the Minister and work on documen becoming increasingly interwoven. tation of coastal sites of special Regional studies and planning pro scientific significance is almost posals help identify issues, re completed; preparation of a policy sources and proposals of State sig for Urban Waterways is well ad nificance and in turn give effect to vanced; and considerable liaison State policies already decided. and research towards preparation of a Metropolitan policy has been During the past year, particular carried out. attention has been given to develop ing and balancing the relationship Review of the policy statements for between policy and regional plan the River Yarra and the Dandenong ning programmes. At the same Ranges is now almost complete and time, a stronger emphasis has been particularly pleasing results are placed on relating these pro emerging from the implementation grammes to the practical issues programme for the Macedon Ranges facing regional authorities and policy. municipalities. The preparation of statements of Welding a strong connection be planning policy is a much slower tween the State, regional and muni process than the Board would cipal levels of planning is essential to the development of planning in prefer. However, all the statements affect the activities of a large num Victoria. Concomitant with that is the need for economy of effort in ber of public authorities, munici cluding the prevention of dupl palities and community groups and are increasingly tested before the tion of work by public authorities and municipalities), and the bal Appeals Tribunal. Consequently, ancing of long term plans and lengthy consultation is both ex short term solutions to urgent prac pected and sought by the Board. Information and analysis of issues tical problems such as rural sub division. with which any policy deals must also be well documented to give Progress in each of the strategic assurance and authority to those activities has also contributed to planning agencies who must rely the gradual development of a State on statements of planning policy wide approach to planning. The both as a guide to development Board has frequently referred ~~o decisions and also for support when the need for a State planning appeals are heard against those strategy: while there is no direct decisions. The Board is concerned programme to prepare such a at the time and expenditure now strategy at present, the Board is required in the preparation of state conscious of the need to relate all ments of planning policy and land use planning to a State-wide despite some criticism believes that context to ensure co-ordination and research and consultation must be balance at all levels of activity. kept within limits that allow reason ably prompt finalisation of policy j)reparation. STATEMENTS OF PLANNING A further problem has been that POI.ICY even when policies are finalised, Policy programmes this year have there may be either a lack of re included a range from development sources or of detailed local infor of new statements of planning mation by which full effect may be policy to the review and im;:>lemen given to them. This was seen to tation of existing ones. be the case with rural subdivision. 12
Although this issue was clearly a to outline requirements that must problem of State concern, it was be met to ensure that the best pos realised that a formal statement of sible combination of wide-ranging planning policy would not enable uses is provided for people today, municipalities to grapple effectively whilst ensuring reasonable oppor with demands for individual sub tunities for future generations. divisions. Moreover, several public authorities were being drawn into The first coastal planning scheme a duplication of effort and some for the Ocean Road-was intro times into conflict by requests for duced in 1954. In this case. as in assistance from municipalities on a number of others to follow, the a subdivision by subdivision basis. scheme was introduced and ad Thus the Board decided to start ministered by the Board. The a rural land mapping programme Board's interest in coastal planning in which various public authorities has continued and in the Board's would be invited to participate. 1960/61 Annual Report, mention This approach is seen as an altern was made of the need to introduce ative to the preparation of a formal control over the remaining unpro statement of planning policy tected parts of the State's coastline. Results to date have been very This was at a time when the Board promising and well received at the was already preparing planning municipal level. schemes for a number of additional areas. as well as a time when ad ditional major subdivisions were be Coastal Environments ing created. Some municipalities (Statement of Planning Policy No. 10) favoured subdivisions simply be The coast represents one of the most cause they were seen as a means of valuable resource regions of the increasing rate revenues. Further State in terms of its economic signi concern was expressed in 1964 ficance. its historic role in the de when the then Minister for Local velopment of Victoria. its recrea Government called for a detailed re tional and aesthetic appeal. and the port from the Board on the whole scientific and educational im question of coastal planning and portance of its natura I environments. foreshore protection throughout the lt is also a very diverse region. with State. many issues and organisations to By 1973. the whole coastline was deal with them and one that has subject to some form of planning been subjected to long-standing control, either in the form of interim pressures particularly since the mid development orders or approved 1950 s. The coastal region overall. planning schemes administered by but especially in areas closer to the Board or some other authority. Melbourne, has been subjected to The planning controls however apply intense interest in recent years and to specific. relatively narrow sec this has spawned a number of tions of the coast. studies. Some of these have been comprehensive but there sti 11 remain One of the most significant features many ~aps in our knowledge and of current planninq and management understanding of the requirements in the coastal reqion of Victoria is for sound planning and management the multiplicity of organisations that of the coast's valuable resources. are involved and the complexity of the inter-relationships between The intention of the Board's pro them Furthermore. there are ob- wamme has been to gain an over vious dichotomies between planninl] view of strategic planning issues and manaQement. private and public and to develop policies at govern land, and the planning and manage ment level directed to co-ordination ment of land and water. of plannin~ and management in the whole of the State's coastal reqion. Work directed snecifica lly towards The general aim. or qoal. of the a State wide policy commenced in policy is to draw attention to the 1973, by which time the~e already special significance of the coast and existed two statements of planning 13 policy covering small portions of the Reviewing of policy drafts based on coast: Western Port and the written and verbal submissions to Mornington Peninsula. From the the overall programme and, more outset. the programme has run with particularly, on reactions from the very limited resources. State Co-ordination Council and the local authorities has now been com Concepts embodied in the first state pleted and a final draft of the pro ments of planning policy, the Plan posed policy submitted to the Min ning Guidelines for the Gippsland ister. Lakes. other broad planning policies studies such as the Port Phillip Bay and Western Port Bay Environ mental Studies have all added to the Sites of Special Scientific and Historic overview. Interest in the Victorian Coastal Region One of the early considerations During last year. the Board pub was to define an appropriate area lished the four sub-programme re for study, which is particularly com ports which resulted from a series plex with a " region " such as the of studies carried out the previous coast. The final area extends in year under a grant from the National land for varying widths and was de Estate programme. The reports fined by comprehensive analysis of deal with the identification and pro coastal influences, encompassing tection of sites of special scientific physical and biological elements as interest in the Victorian coastal re well as the influence of man's acti gion and cover archaeology, zoo vities. logy, botany and geology-geomor phology. A preliminary survey of resources was compiled by October, 1975 Copies of the reports have been dis with a first draft of a policy, to serve tributed to the Heritage Commission as a discussion document. Follow and to interested groups and indi ing normal procedures. this docu viduals for comment. When the ment was reviewed by the Board reaction has been evaluated. one and the newly-constituted State Co comprehensive report will be pub ordination Council as part of the lished. process of consultation required by the Act. lt was originally intended that the identification of sites and features The preliminary survey was sent to of historic interest should form part all organisations thought to be in of this programme but no suitable volved with the planning, manage principal researcher was available ment. or use of coastal resources. at the time. so the project was post These included municipalities. poned. sporting organisations. research bodies and " public interest " During this year. financial support groups. All were invited to submit from the Heritage Commission was any information they thought should obtained for three more specific pro be the subject of policy. jects. These were: This work was followed up in a (a) further work on zoological number of ways. Regional work sites to complement the earlier shops were held for councillors and study; council officers to stimulate thought (b) identification and documenta on the issues involved and to seek tion of sites of special historic their views. Detailed discussions interest (drawing heavily on were also had with departmental material already submitted to officers and a few group representa the Board and the Heritage tives and individuals. Additional Commission); and research was conducted, including studies concerned with the identifi (c) establishment of a " master cation and documentation of sites file .. to ensure that information of special scientific interest. is readily accessible. 14
Granite tors, Mt. Korong and surrounding grazing land-part of the Loddon-Campaspe rural mapping project. (By courtesy of li. E. Wilkinson)
The Bunga Arm, a lagoon between the inner barrier (Boole Poole Peninsula, left) and the outer barrier (right) in the Gippsland Lakes area, with part of the Ninety Mile Beach. 15
Each of these projects has been sub been broadly defined as the extent stantially completed. The master of the existing open space. or the file is of particular importance and flood plain, whichever is the greater. will shortly be available for use by municipalities. public authorities To date a number of draft research papers have been prepared, covering and the pub I ic. lt wi 11 be main tained in the Board's office and is water qual1ty, conservation features. seen as an important assembly of recreation areas. historical develop information to assist in the proper ment and non-metropolitan urban planning for sites of special signifi centres: Discussions have been cance in the coastal region. held With representatives of a wide range of departments. councils and community groups. This work has Urban Waterways and Environs allowed the commencement of de The Board began preparatory studies tailed consideration of the form and for a statement of planning policy content of the policy itself and it is for Urban Waterways and Environs expected that a draft policy will be in 1976. The purpose of the policy prepared in the near future. is to set priorities for use of urban waterways and their environs Melbourne Region throughout the State. and to provide guidelines for resolving land use The Board has long recognized the issues involving conflicting or in need for a statement of planning compatible proposals. pol1cvfor the Melbourne region, the objeCtive of which would be to de Urban waterways form an extensive termine priorities and principles for natural system in the Melbourne gu1dmg the growth of the metropolis metropolitan area and are an im m recogn1t1on of its far-reaching in portant natural feature in many other fluence both within the Port Phillip urban areas. Within the urban District and beyond. framework. they are not only part of the drainage system but also form However, it is acknowledged that to an extensive open space net-work handle the complexity of the area through built-up areas. As such. and it great diversity of interests waterway environs provide a con the Board must adopt a course of siderable proportion of the under action which encourages consider developed land remaining in urban able Government authority interac areas. and demands for their use, tion, co-ordination and community including transport routes and mvolvement. Accordingly, its of service easements. are increasing. ficers have critically reviewed alter The future planning of urban water native approaches to the preparation ways and their environs must have of the policy. The process being regard to their functions as major sought IS one which endeavours to drainage systems and an invaluable bridge conflicting interests and thus open space resource. Considera gain a wide commitment. Conse tion should also be given to the de quently, throughout the year. liaison finition of areas where new and ex between authorities at officer level tended works and development has been developed and extended. cou Id satisfactorily be located, rec As another part of the project. the reation needs met and features of Board has begun investigations of landscape or conservation signifi major planning questions facing cance protected. Melbourne. Recent trends are The policy will apply to the im being re-appraised to define critical mediate environs of all waterways problems and establish means for within the urban areas of Melbourne tackling them. The emphasis is and other urban areas within the very much on understanding the State. where " waterways " are de market processes underlying urban fined as being all rivers. streams, change. lakes and other water bodies within Also, during the year, the Board or bounding urban areas. The commissioned consultants to under environs " of waterways have take a study to identify the location, 16 extent and nature of vacant and oc Implementation of Statement of Planning cupied land with potential for re Policy No. 8 (Maceclon Ranges and sidential development in built-up Melbourne, particularly in the inner Surrounds) and middle suburbs. Barriers which The Board has continued its con could limit the scope for re certed efforts to bring about imple utilisation of such tracts were also mentation of Statement of Planning to be identified. Policy No. 8. The main thrust of these activities has been through the Two basic aims underlie this study: Macedon Ranges Advisory Com to provide a yardstick for better as mittee. The Committee, chaired by sessment of the worth of alternative a senior officer of the Board. com development strategies for the bines the knowledge and resources urban area and to develop a metho of municipalities. community inter dology which would assist in similar est groups and government depart studies in other parts of the State. ments and is an effective vehicle for the co-ordination of the efforts of Review of Statements of Planning Polity local and State government. for the Danclenong Ranges ancl River Yarra The Committee has dealt with a (Nos. 3 ancl 4) variety of issues related to the im plementation of the policy. These Review of these policies is now al have included comments on new most complete following extensive planning schemes. advice concern consultation with Government agen ing proposed major developments cies and. in particular, the State Co and the development of guidelines ordination Council and the Upper to ensure that planning decisions in Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges the policy area are in accordance Authority. with the aims and provisions of the The Board proposes to recommend policy. the retention of the basic thrust of A major study of recreational usage the original policies, which aimed in the area was launched in January, to prevent suburbanisation while 1978 This aims to define the types providing positive guidelines for of recreational use. the perceptions the conservation and use of the and desires of people using the many fine natural resources of the area. the capacity of and demand on area. particular sites. conflicts between Changes to be proposed wi 11 be recreation and other activities and based on experience and new infor the potential for the area to cope mation since the original policies with increased recreational demand. were approved. The reviewed poli lt is expected that the findings will cies will provide a clear guide for be published shortly. The informa the preparation of a regional stra tion will then form a basis for plan tegy plan by the Upper Yarra Valley ning and management decisions by and Dandenong Ranges Authority. a range of agencies, in accordance with the statement of planning To facilitate the preparation of a policy. regional strategy plan and to reduce potential conflicts and the need for This year has also seen the ad interpretation between overlapping vancement of planning at the muni policies, the Board proposes that cipal level. with the approval of a one Statement of Planning Policy planning scheme for the Shire of should cover both the Upper Yarra Newham and Woodend, the intro Valley and the Dandenong Ranges duction of a new interim develop areas. ment order for the Shire of Gis borne. the imminent completion of The combined policy for the Upper a planning scheme in that Shire and Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges the preparation of a new interim area should be available early in the development order for the Shire of next financial year. Romsey. This progress in statutory 17
planning is particularly important as The initial programme is being con the new controls have been pre ducted jointly with the Loddon pared in accordance with the pro Campaspe Regional Planning visions of the statement of planning Authority and major government policy and seek to provide a frame agencies are providing the follow work for its implementation. ing information: Progress has been made with efforts (i) the Soil Conservation Author to restructure problem subdivisions ity-information on the physi and some schemes are now nearing cal suitability of the various completion. The Board. in co land forms in the region for operation with other Government small lot subdivision and agencies. has assisted municipali development; ties in this process. (ii) the Department of Agriculture -a classification of agricul The Board has also been involved tural land quality within the in a number of planning appeals. region; where the proposed development threatened the implementation of (iii) the State Rivers and Water the policy. In this context sub Supply Commission--guide missions by the Minister for Plan lines on those areas con ning to the tribunal were of par- sidered to be either unsuitable ticular importance. The Minister for subdivision and develop emphasised that the tribunal ment. or suitable only subject " should implement the aims and to given conditions. i.e. details provisions of Statements of Plan of flood prone areas. water ning Policy " and this has been a supply catchments. irrigation significant factor in assisting plan areas. etc.; ning authorities to control develop ment contrary to the policy. (iv) the Department of Minerals and Energy-information on The Board's work in implementing the importance and location of the policy has highlighted the mineral and stone deposits effectiveness of a co-operative within the region. and on approach to policy implementation groundwater resources. involving not only planning authori ties but also other government Broadly speaking the project aims agencies and the local community. to draw together the various physi cal constraints that exist within each of the rural municipalities in the Rural Land Mapping Programme Loddon-Campaspe Region. This data is then mapped and presented Every year millions of dollars are to each municipality which will use spent both by State and local gov it to assist in evaluating proposals ernment in dealing with localised for subdivision and development. rural problems such as soil erosion. and to provide a sound basis for land slippage and flood relief. Much the formulating of new or amended of this expenditure could have been interim development orders or plan avoided if. in the past. certain ning schemes. areas had not been subdivided. developed or otherwise used for For the Regional Planning Authority, purposes for which they were the exercise represents part of its physically unsuited. The need to regional planning programme lead promote sound guidelines for the ing towards the preparation of a re planning of rural areas has there gional strategy plan. For the Board, fore long been recognised by the and the other government agencies Board. and a Rural Land Mapping involved. the programme will assist Programme has now been devel in co-ordinating their approach to oped to form the basis for future subdivision and development prob planning and decision-making in lems in rural areas and should re rural areas. duce unnecessary duplication of ef-
10853/78-2 18 fort in the formulation of policies as the valley between Warrigal and well as the consideration of specific T oorak Roads, and to recommend proposals. appropriate action. The study began The first · packages · of information early in 1977 and was completed for Shires within the region have by the end of that year. been completed and the remainder The Board was represented on both are being produced at regular the Steering Committee and the intervals. Considerable interest Technical Advisory Panel as well as has been shown in the project by a providing staff for the Waterway number of municipalities outside Environs Study Team. one of six the Loddon-Campaspe Region and specialist study teams. This team the exercise has been extended to carried out investigations into open cover a few of these. The Board is space, vegetation. fauna and land accordingly reviewing the priorities scape, and conducted a survey of to determine how the mapping the educational use of the valley. exercise can best be expanded into A final report was produced which other areas of the State. covered all the above aspects. The Board takes this opportunity to thank the participating departments Grampians Area and authorities for their co-opera tion and to compliment them on the The Grampians and their environs excellence of their work. There can fall within eight municipalities in be no doubt that this type of co western Victoria. As there are a operation between agencies is an number of issues of common con essential ingredient in rural as in cern, the Board convened a meeting other aspects of planning. of the Councils in July, 1977 to discuss the co-ordination of plan ning in the area. Scenic Land As an extension of the Rural Land The meeting was attended by forty Mapping Project. the Board, in con one representatives of Councils and junction with the Loddon-Campaspe relevant Government Departments and agencies. Regional Planning Authority, is pro ducing layout and design guidelines The meeti.ng recommended that for subdivision and development in representatives of the eight Shires rural areas. -Ararat, Arapiles, Dundas, Kow The project forms another facet of ree, Mount Rouse, Stawell, Wannon the Board's overall programme for and Wimmera-continue to meet rural areas. designed to improve the and that the Board convene such ava•ilability of information to assist meetings. Councils in their decision making. During the remainder of the year, The guidelines take the form of four of these meetings were held handouts to assist subdividers and with agreement being reached on a homebui lders in the Loddon-Cam number of important issues. These paspe Region to make the best use included the need for a common of their sHes both in visual and set of planning objectives, the physical terms having regard to the desirability of a planning strategy particular type of landscape in for the Grampians and the formu which they are located. lation of a standard interim develop ment order upon which each coun cil could base its future planning OTHER STUDIES proposals. Work on these is pro Gardiner's Creek Valley Study ceeding. The Gardiner's Creek Valley Study was established by the State Gov Gippsland Lakes ernment to examine transport. Following the publication of and drainage, recreation and environ receipt of comments on the Gipps mental problems in the section of land Lakes Planning Study (pre- 19 pared last year by a consortium detriment to its outstanding natural of planning consultants). the Board environment. embarked on the preparation of a land use strategy plan for the area. During the year. the Boole Poole This is to establish the basis for Peninsula. which is located in the the future planning of the area by lakes system opposite Metung, the four Shire Councils of Avon. became a focus of controversial Rosedale, Bairnsdale and Tambo. applications for development. These applications for intensive housing it is proposed to finalise the strateQY development in a remote area devoid of services and access other plan before the end of 1978 1n conjunction with the councils and than by water. highlight the need government agencies. The plan for effective policies and strategies will not be a planning scheme but for areas such as the Gippsland will provide policies and proposals Lakes. lt is important that both for incorporation in statutory plan the regional context and the ning controls to be prepared and physical suitability of the sites be administered by the four municipali taken into account when develop ties. ments of this type are proposed. Because the Board considers that During the preparation of the plan. the development should not be discussions were held with muni restricted without proper considera cipalities and government agencies tion of the site concerned, a on a wide range of issues. This detailed study was undertaken of process of consultation should not the Boole Poole Peninsula. only assist in the preparation of the This study, finalised in March. plan but should ensure that it will 1978, detailed physical, biological have the broad support of all those and cultural features of the area. most directly concerned with the lt also examined various land uses future of the Gippsland Lakes area. and the difficulties in servicing development on the peninsula. A The provisions of the land use history of the area was prepared strategy plan are based on exper and various development options ience from the Board's involvement examined in terms of biophysical in the area. extensive consultation and cultural constraints and con and the various studies that have straints associated with the pro been undertaken. it is intended VISIOn of services and existing that as soon as the four councils planning controls. have prepared interim development orders or planning schemes to The Boole Poole report was the first accord with the main provisions of to be prepared by the Board in such the plan. the Board will relinquish scientific detai I and it is antici its planning controls. pated that further reports of this type may be needed in other cases. Future development should then However, such detailed studies will proceed on the basis of locally ad only be warranted where the issues ministered controls drawn up to involved can only be satisfactorily safeguard the recreation potential resolved if detailed environmental and prosperity of the area without information is available.
Metung, Gippsland Lakes. (By courtesy of the Ministry of Tourism) 20
Railway bridge. Taradale, " classified " by the National TrusL (By courtesy of the Ministry of Tourism)
Castlemaine Market. " designated " by the Historic Buildings Preservation Council. (By courtesy of the Ministry of Tourism) 21 REGIONAL PLANNING
Regional planning is the middle tier ments of planning policy and other in the planning hierarchy in Victoria. policies at State level and, on the The legislation to enable the estab other hand, the preparation of de lishment of regional planning autho tailed planning schemes at the local rities was passed in 1 968 as an level, but has led to a situation amendment to the Town and Coun where in some areas more than one try Planning Act 1961, an amend planning permit is required for the ment which also provided for the same development proposal. Board to undertake strategic plan ning including the preparation of A major step which will help to over statements of planning policy. The come this, is the establishment of preparation of such policies and the the Upper Yarra Valley and Dande establishment of regional planning nong Ranges Authority under separ authorities were seen as being ate legislation which provides for closely related and initially as being the Authority to undertake a strate appropriate arrangements to plan for gic planning role. including the the future growth of Melbourne. preparation of a regional strategy plan, and not to be directly involved Thus, not only were the first state in local planning other than for mat ments of planning policy prepared ters defined as being of regional for areas on the fringes of Mel significance. bourne. but with the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works per Because of the special significance forming the role of a statutory re of the Upper Yarra Valley and Dan gional planning authority for Mel denong Ranges area and of the bourne, the first new authorities set special functions which will be re up under the Act were for Western quired of the Authority, the Author Port and Geelong. The Board was ity's Act has provided for the eight intimately involved in the establish municipal representatives (two each ment of these authorities and has from the Shires of Healesville, Lilly worked closely with them since. dale, Sherbrooke and Upper Yarra) The latter was re-constituted last to be supplemented by a representa year as the Geelong Regional Com flve of the Melbourne and Metro mission with powers appropriate to politan Board of Works (to assist its role of encouraging, co with the co-ordination and integra ordinating and assisting the de tion of planning with that of the velopment of the Geelong region. metropolis) together with nominees of the Ministry for Conservation. the Consistent with the initial need for Ministry of Forests. and the Ministry regional planning in the fringes of of Social Welfare and three resi Melbourne, the Upper Yarra Valley dents nominated respectively by and Dandenong Ranges Authority conservation, primary producer, and was established last year to plan for trading and commercial organisa the protection and conservation of tions in the region. that region. The Board notes and welcomes the lt has been of some concern to the Minister's statements that compar Board that the Town and Country able legislation applicable to other Planning Act gives to regional plan existing and future regional planning ning authorities essentially the same authorities will be introduced, since planning powers as it gives to muni this will clarify the distinctive and cipal councils, that is. the responsi desirable roles of planning at the bility for preparing and administer State. regional and local levels re ing interim development orders and spectively. planning schemes. This has not only made difficult the promotion of lncreasinQiy, the State Government's regional planning as a valuable link attention has also been drawn to the between, on the one hand, state- need to provide for co-ordinated 22 planning at the regional level in the Because of limited resources. the country areas of the State. In these Government has decided that, al areas, although growth may be though the merits of regional plan small, there are considerable prob ning should be promoted. a regional lems and pressures on the use of planinng authority or committee land and other resources. Recog should only be established as a re nizing this, regional planning author sult of a request from the municipali ities and provisional regional plan ties within a region and generally ning committees are being estab when professional and administra lished as groupings of municipal tive support can be made available councils within the framework of by the Board. In addition. the Gov the revised system of regions estab ernment is providing financial assist lished by the Government in 1973. ance on the basis of $2 for every $1 At present, there is an authority in raised from member municipal the Loddon-Campaspe Region and councils. The Board welcomes this provisional committees in the Cen much needed practical support and tral and East Gippsland Regions. believes that '1t will increase the each provided with professional and acceptance of regional planning. administrative support by the Board. In the case of the organisations in the Loddon-Campaspe and Central LODDON-CAMPASPE REGION Gippsland Regions. the support The Loddon-Campaspe Regional the Board is able to give has been Planning Aut:1ority has been serviced considerably strengthened by the by the Board since its inception in establishment of Board offices in 1973. but it is only since the open Bendigo and Traralgon. ing of the Board's Bendigo Office in The Board also provided resources December. 1976. that the staff have during the year to assist the Upper lived in the region. Those staff are Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges are responsible for providing local Authority. An officer was second planning assistance and advice to ed to the Authority during Apri I and municipal councils. organisations May to develop a programme for the and individuals in the region. as well preparation of the Authority's urban as servicing the Authority. strategy plan and currently, a senior officer is on secondment to assist The work of the Authority is pro with the Authority's statutory plan gressing towards the preparation of ning functions. a regional strategy plan. As a foun dation for this, the Authority is cur The resources available to support rently finalising a Situation Report. or assist regional planning organis This report, on the planning and ad ations are limited. Consequently, ministrative work of the Authority the Board has recently adopted the since it was established nearly five approach of establishing "task years ago. reviews the progress forces " to undertake intensive plan made. highlighting the five major ning programmes in areas of major areas of the work programme: rural concern. By this means the Gipps land use. water resources. conserva land Lakes Strategy Plan has been tion features. population and com prepared (and is now being discus munity facilities. and economic sed with the affected municipal structure and communications. councils) and a project team is about to undertake a programme of The report describes the pertinent one year's duration to assist the facts and trends surrounding each Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong of the five areas of study, identifies Ranges Authority with the prepara the major planning issues in the re tion of its regional strategy plan. gion and proposes a series of actions This latter team will consist of about and policies. it also puts forward four officers from the Board supple the Authority's draft goals and ob mented by officers with appropriate jectives for the future of the region. special skills from a number of When published, the Situation Re other Government agencies. port will be widely distributed with- 23 in the community and to councils emphasis has been given to the and Government departments, and problem of salinity and the Author will thus provide a focus for discus ity, in this regard, was eo-sponsor sion of regional planning issues and of a seminar entitled, " Overcoming for agreement on goals and objec Salt in Northern Victoria ", which tives appropriate to the Loddon pub I ished the report referred to Campaspe Region. above. Under the Authority's aus pices, the Bendigo Creek Consulta The rural land mapping programme tive Panel has been convened to which the Board is undertaking in assist in the Bendigo Creek Flood conjunction with the Authority, and ing Study being undertaken by the which is described in an earlier sec State Rivers and Water Supply Com tion of this report. will provide a mission. The panel, which includes sound basis for planning in the representatives of the local Coun rural parts of the region. The ex cils within the area covered by Stage tension of this to prepare landscape 1 of the Study (i.e. upstream from guidelines for development in rural Huntly) will provide local knowledge areas will be particularly valuable and input to supplement the hydro both to councils in their local plan graphic information being provided ning and to subdividers, developers by the Commission. and individual home builders. In February, 1978, the Shire of Mal In addition to this basic informa don joined the Authority, thus be tion on rural land use planning, the coming the twentieth member. One Authority has over recent years pub representative from each of the fol lished a series of discussion papers lowing municipalities constitutes the and reports to form " building Authority: the Cities of Bendigo, blocks " for the regional strategy Castlemaine. Echuca and Mary plan. Those produced this year are: borough, the Borough of Eaglehawk. " Conservation of Geological Fea the Town of St. Arnaud, and the tures ";" Overcoming Salt in North Shires of Bet Bet. Charlton. East ern Victoria " (Seminar Papers, Loddon, Gordon. Huntly, Kara Kara. August. 1977); and " The Arterial Korong, Maldon. Marong, Metcalfe. Road Network of the Loddon-Cam Rochester, Strathfieldsaye and Tul paspe Region " laroop, together with the Western In addition to the Water Resources. Riding of the Shire of Waranga. The Drainage and Waste Water Commit Shire of Pyalong remains an ob tee and the Rural Land Use Commit server because the provisions of the tee which have existed for some Town and Country Planning Act re time. the Authority considered it quire contiguity with the existing necessary during the past year to authority planning area before a establish two more technical advis counci I may be represented on an ory committees. the Transport and authority. the Bendigo Whipstick Committees. The Authority administers interim The Authority has encouraged exten development control over the Ben sive contact with the councils repre digo Whipstick area and the major sented and with community groups role of the Bendigo Whipstick Com and individuals so that it can be mittee is to oversee the preparation aware of the range and breadth of of a planning scheme for the Whip views and opinions within the re stick, an area to the north of Ben gional community on the major plan digo, which contains flora and fauna ning issues. and so that the com of regional significance. munity can in turn be aware of the functions and work of the Authority. Work on water resources has in This contract to a large extent volved a variety of matters. Sub supplements the activity of the missions have been prepared for Board in providing assistance and inquiries including the Senate Com advice on and promoting sound mittee on National Resources and planning throughout the State. As Parliamentary Public Works Com part of this. the Bendigo office staff mittees of Inquiry. Considerable organised a seminar as part of the 24
celebration of World Town Planning at Traralgon. The staff. in addition Day in November. The programme to servicing the Interim Committee. was built around the title,·· Positive have an important role in assisting Planning Produces Progress ". and advising Councils and the com munity on planning and in promot ing planning throughout the region. CENTRAL GIPPSLAND REGION This work can be considered to be The Board in its last annual report largely of a local planning nature, described the progress towards the but matters of a regional nature have establishment of a regional planning included the preparation of submis authority in Central Gippsland and sions to the Parliamentary Public stated that nine Councils had" indi Works Committee on the need for cated their firm support for the and location of a second emergency establishment of the Central Gipps gas turbine power station and on land Regional Planning Authority, the routeing of 500 kv transmission when the proposed amending legis lines from Hazelwood to Cran bourne. lation for regional planning is known ". The situation remains Statement of Planning Policy No. 9 essentially the same. although it is (Central Gippsland Brown Coal De understoood that special legislation posits in the Context of Overall Re to establish the Authority wi 11 be in sources). adopted by the Govern troduced into Pari iament shortly. ment in 1975. emphasised the im In July, 1977, a meeting of munici portance of the brown coal resources pal representatives from the Central of Central Gippsland. the need to Gippsland Region met in Mirboo protect them and to enable their North and resolved to establish a future use in a manner consistent Central Gippsland Regional Plan with broad planning goals in the ning Authority Interim Committee region. Quite clearly, the Central with the primary purpose of steering Gippsland Regional Planning Author the formation of a Central Gipps ity. when formed. will have a major land Regional Planning Authority. role to play in the implementation of This Interim Committee. which has this policy. been meeting regularly throughout the year. is comprised of represen EAST GIPPSLAND REGION tatives from ten municipalities: the Cities of Moe and Traralgon. and the The East Gippsland Regional Plan Shires of Alberton. Buln Buln, Mir ning Committee is a non-statutory boo. Morwell. Rosedale. South body comprised of representatives Gippsland. Traralgon and Warragul. of seven of the nine municipalities in the region. namely. the City of The Committee is undertaking a Sale. the Town of Bairnsdale. and planning role. in effect as a provis the Shires of Avon. Bairnsdale. ional committee, and in particular is Maffra, Omeo and Rosedale. it has laying the groundwork for the future been operating since May. 1974. Authority by discussing the nature and this year has continued to be of regional planning and of a region very active in the promotion of al strategy plan and by considering planning on a regional scale. In so which matters in the Central Gipps doing, it has had the assistance of land Region can appropriately be technical and administrative support considered to be of regional signifi from the Board. and has deployed cance. its own funds to increase public awareness of planning issues in the The Central Gippsland Regional region. Planning Authority Interim Commit tee is provided with professional and The Committee has always been ap administrative support by the Board. preciative of the advice and support This support has been greatly assis it has received from a large number ted by the establishment in Decem of Government agencies and local ber. 1 977 of an office of the Board interest groups and it has encour- 25
aged representative organisations to ning legislation under which it accept observer status with the would function as an authonty. Committee. During the year. four more organisations were granted such status bringing to a total of REGIONAL STUDIES sixteen the number who are co In addition to the support the Board operating with the Committee to fur is providing to regional planning ther regional planning in East authorities and committees. it is Gippsland. undertaking a regional studies pro gramme throughout country Vic In November. 1977 the Committee toria. These two functions are com sponsored a seminar in Bairnsdale plementary. with each regional study to celebrate World Town Plannmg forming part, as far as poss1ble. of Day. The seminar entitled ... Our the work programme of a regional Lakes. Our Land ",concentrated dis organisation. and the regional organ cussion on two major regional isation using the study as the bas1s issues of concern to the community. for the preparation of policy state the future planning of the Gippsland ments and ultimately of a regional Lakes area and of rural land. strategy plan. The Committee's Rural Land Use The general purpose of the Board's Sub-Committee has continued to regional studies is to contribute to discuss the latter issue and by the the development of regional plan end of the year had submitted its ning in non-metropolitan Victoria ~Y report which contains recommenda establishing a framework w1thm tions on desirable rural land use which regional planning authorities. policies. The report when publish the Board and other State. regional ed will make a valuable contribu and municipal authorities can work tion to the debate on the best use of to develop appropriate policies. rural land and to the options avail plans and programmes for the future able. This work is an important of each region. Whilst all regional part of the East Gippsland Regional studies have this common purpose. Study, which the Board is under the Board seeks to ensure that the taking in co-operation with the studies undertaken in any single re Committee. gion reflect the particular circum The Committee considered a num stances and requirements of that ber of major planning matters dur region. ing the year. but of these the most At this stage. the Board has initiated important were the Land Conserva such studies in four of Victoria's ten tion Council's draft recommenda non-metropo I itan regions. tions on the Alpine Study Area and the Board's Gippsland Lakes Strat egy Plan (discussed elsewhere in Central Highlands and this report). In addition. the Com Loddon-Campaspe Regions mittee considered and reported on a number of major planning applica In August 1977. the final reports on tions referred to it by the Board. the studies in the Central Highlands and Loddon-Campaspe Regions. en The Committee has also discussed titled "Towards Building a Com the nature of regional planning. of a prehensive Planning and Develop regional strategy plan and of mat ment Strategy .. were published. In ters of regional significance. These releasing the reports. the Minister discussions have been part of a con for Planning and his colleagues. the tinuing debate on whether the Com Minister for State Development and mittee should become a regional the Commonwealth Minister for En planninq authority. The Committee vironment. Housing and Community has deferred any decision on this Development, expressed the hope matter until after it has been given that the reports would " receive the opportunity to consider and re widespread public circulation and port on the expected regional plan- discussion. resulting in the formula- 26 tion of effective policies and pro Also during the year. the Board re grammes to cater for the future of leased the results of the survey of the Regions ". post-school intentions of students in Central and East Gippsland under The reports contained a review of taken in November. 1976 in con the principal economic, demo junction with the Gippsland Regional graphic. social and physical factors Office of the Education Department. influencing the future of the regions The Board also worked closely with up to 1986, and identified the major the East Gippsland Regional Plan issues involved in planning for ning Committee in a study of rural them. The planning and develop subdivision patterns in East Gipps ment strategy recommended for land including a special analysis of each region was then outlined. Titles Office records to identify the number and size of lots created in Since the release of the reports, the East Gippsland since 1970. Board has organised a programme of consultation with municipalities in lt is intended that a final report. en the regions. Comments have also titled. "Towards Strategic Policies been sought from State Government and Plans in East Gippsland" will agencies. In March, seminars were be issued before the end of 1978. held in the regions to enable muni cipal representatives to discuss the Central Gippsland Region reports before councils made formal submissions to the Board on the During this year, working papers recommendations. These submis were issued on Transport and Com sions and the comments received munications. Basic Services. the from State Government agencies Students' Intentions Survey, Hous are currently being evaluated. ing, and Demographic and Economic Factors. Analysis of rural sub The Board is working with the State division patterns throughout Central Co-ordination Council and. in the Gippsland and of the structure of Loddon-Campaspe Region, with the retailing in the Latrobe Valley are Regional Planning Authority to fol nearing completion. low up the recommendations con As well as the Students' Intentions tained in the reports. lt also in Survey, two other special studies tends to convene further meetings have been included in the Central with municipalities in the Central Gippsland programme. A report on Highlands Region to develop an the study of accessibility to com agreed basis there for following up munity services in South Gippsland. the reports. undertaken by the Gippsland Insti tute of Advanced Education as con East Gippsland Region sultants to the Board and the Com monwealth Department of Social Substantial progress was made this Security, is being finalised for pub year on the Board's regional study lication. This contains a compre in East Gippsland. which is being hensive analysis of the economic undertaken in conjunction with the and social structure of South Gipps East Gippsland Regional Planning land and identifies the pattern of Committee. Working papers were community service use in that area. issued on Transport and Communi Currently in progress is a consultant cations. Basic Services. Accessibil study designed to identify the hous ity to Services. and the Students· ing needs and preferences of Latrobe Intentions Survey. These papers Valley residents which the Board is supplemented those prepared last funding jointly with the Housing year on Demographic and Economic Commission and the State Electricity Factors. Social Planning, and Tour Commission. This will provide in ism to provide a comprehensive formation which will enable State coverage of the major issues in Government authorities and munici volved in planning for the future of palities to decide on the types. sizes. East Gippsland. design and location of dwellings to 27 be built to meet the demand in the Regional Planning Authority Interim Latrobe Valley arising from the con Committee to ensure that the stud struction of the Loy Yang power sta ies programme in Central Gippsland tion. is related closely to the major plan Through its Central Gippsland office ning issues in the region. A final in Traralgon, the Board is liaising report on the programme is expect closely with the Central Gippsland ed to be issued early in 1979.
Rain forest. East G ippsland. (By courtesy of C. Totterdel!l 28
Melton an im pression of the built form of the town · ~ spine in the medium · >OATH term. L------~~~ 29 MEL TON-SUNBURY GROWTH CENTRE
The Melton-Sunbury Interim Co ing the economic viability of the ordinating Committee has continued satellite town project. The report work on the planning of the project also further identified the priorities and more importantly on its imple and urgency of particular items. mentation and promotion. The working party consisted of Following completion of the Phase senior officers from the following: 11 planning for Melton. a summary Town and Country Planning Board, document was prepared entitled. Ministry for Planning, State Treas " Melton Short and Medium Term ury, Shire of Bulla, Shire of Melton, Action Plans: Recommended Gov State Co-ordination Council (Prem ernment Actions". This contains ier's Department), Housing Com a brief summary of the main report mission. Ministry for Water Resour and details recommendations for ces. Ministry of Transport. and early action by Cabinet and Govern Ministry for Minerals and Energy. ment departments together with a five year budget. lt is believed to The report of the working group. to be the first time that this type of gether with the final " Recommend plan has been presented fully costed ed Government Actions " for Sun to the Government. bury, has been presented to the Min ister for Planning. A similar study was completed for Sunbury. The Phase 11 programme The State Government now has all is directed towards action plans for the information necessary to make the town centre, residential areas decisions on the future of the satel and the town edges. Because the lite towns project. This informa expected maximum population level tion is believed to be in a more de of 35,000 people will be reached in tailed and comprehensive form than about fifteen years. the report was costing for any other planning pro developed as a final structure plan ject in Victoria. rather than as short and medium term plans. but allowing for the The Melton Phase 11 and Sun necessary flexibility to meet the bury Phase 11 planning reports were needs of changing circumstances. published as Volumes 4 and 6 re spectively of the Interim Co-ordin Again a summary document was pre ating Committee series in April. pared containing recommendations 1978. To promote the reports and for early actions by Government and the project. a model of each town a five year budget. ship was prepared to show what Melton and Sunbury are expected to Following the presentation of the look like about ten years from now. " Recommended Government Ac The models are at a scale of tions " for Melton to State Cabinet. 1 . 5,000 and are each nearly two the Minister for Planning set up a metres square. senior officers working group to in vestigate thoroughly the financial im The models. together with descrip plications of the five year budget. tive panels explaining the principles together with the corresponding of the plans. were put on exhibition figures for Sunbury which at that for a three week period in a public time were in draft form. This work place in each town. After this they ing group collected views from rele were placed in the respective Shire vant Government departments and offices as well as being used in dis discussed the implications at length play villages. The models and re before compiling a report support- ports have created a great deal of 30 interest and favourable comment The Interim Co-ordinating Commit from the public. tee has also been involved in many As recommended in earlier studies, other activities such as the Melton considerable work needed to be Industrial Promotion Committee, the carried out on a drainage policy for Sunbury Town Centre Development Melton. This was allowed for at Committee, negotiations and pro the beginning of the financial year motion of the towns with develop and an approach was made to the ers and investors and the co-ordin Dandenong Valley Authority to carry ation of the activities of other Gov out a study on behalf of the Interim ernment departments in the two Co-ordinating Committee. The State towns. Rivers and Water Supply Commis The work for which the Interim Co sion also became concerned about ordinating Committee was originally certain aspects of the Melton Reser set up is now almost complete. The voir and has provided input to the plans are at a stage where they must study A report is expected during be given statutory effect. The need the next financial year. However, now is for the Government to pursue the work done to date has already vigorously the implementation of the enabled councils and developers to planning already carried out. De make important decisions about sub cisions must be ta:~en now concern divisional layouts. ing the management and promotion The final draft of the Community Re of the satellite towns based on this sources Study has been printed and planning. This will require altera circulated to all interested Govern tions to the structure, resources and ment departments for discussion powers of the Interim Co-ordinating before a final set of recommenda Committee. This opportunity must tions is produced. not be allowed to pass or the care The final series of studies, commen ful and devoted work of the Com ced in May, 1978, is related to the mittee over nearly four years, in development of the Sunbury Town cluding much time and money, will Centre and the Melton Linear Spine. be wasted. At this advanced stage of planning, it is not possible to separate land The Board commends the work of use planning, design, implementa the Interim Co-ordinating Commit tion and management. The purpose tee. of these studies is therefore to de velop a set of design and imple mentation guidelines within a statu tory planning framework for the use The Board's Chairman is Chairman of councils and developers. These of the Committee and officers of the documents wi 11 tend to encourage Board have been seconded full-time the right type of development at the to the project. While this assist right time to make the town centres ance is given to the Committee, it vigorous and attractive. The studies will be appreciated that the Commit will be completed early in the next tee is responsible in its own right financia I year. for the work it carries out. 31 LOCAL PLANNING lt is the Board's policy to progres other areas are smaller and cover sively hand over its planning con land at Yinnar, Flynn, Holey Plains, trol still exercised in various parts Won Wron and Ge\liondale in the of the State, to the local municipal Shires of Alberton, Morwell. Rose councils. dale and Traralgon. The planning schemes are being The Board's control over parts of prepared substantially as a result the municipalities was revoked last of Statement of Planning Policy No. year in the Shires of Alexandra, 9 (Brown Coal Deposits in the Con Bacchus Marsh, Maffra, Newstead, text of Overall Resources) 1975 Oxley, Tullaroop and Wangaratta which was directed primarily to the and this year in Beechworth, Ben planning of land use and of develop alia, Morwell, Winchelsea and Yac ment necessary for the conservation kandandah. This has been achieved and utilization of the Central Gipps either by the council assuming re land brown coal deposits. sponsibility for administering an ap proved planning scheme prepared by As a result of the need to keep coal the Board or by the Board trans accessible at reasonable cost with a ferring interim development control minimum of community disruption, to the council. the Government decided to imple ment planning control through the The effect of this will mean a change Town and Country Planning Board. in emphasis in the Board's statutory New development will be regulated responsibilities. Fewer resources and the important brown coal re will be required to exercise develop serves protected for use when re ment control and consequently the quired for the benefit of present and Board will be able to give greater future generations. Future hardship attention to advising and assisting and inconvenience should thereby councils as early as possible in the be eliminated or minimised. statutory process. The Board con fidently expects that its assistance The Board is represented on the in the early stages will streamline recently established Central Gipps the process and, in particular, will land Brown Coal Resources Work result in a speedier consideration of ing Committee. a major function of planning proposals at the time of which is to advise the Board on the the Board's preparation of its statu administration of the orders. tory report to the Minister. In the three months following the making of these orders, the Board's Traralgon office handled over 400 PLANNING CONTROL enqui1 ies specifically on this matter and in so doing clearly demonstrat ADMINISTERED BY THE BOARD ed the advantages of offices in the Central Gippsland (Brown Coal country. Deposits) The Board has also published a set of guidelines to assist in the admin In April, 1978, the Board was re istration of the orders. quested by the Minister for Plan ning to prepare a planning scheme Further details of the Board's in for the areas covered by econ volvement in Central Gippsland are omically winnable brown coal in the given under " Regional Planning ". Latrobe Valley. As a consequence the Board made six separate in terim development orders to cover Clunes Swamps the areas, the lar!=]est of which lies The Clunes Swamps are a valuable in the heart of the Latrobe Valley refuge for migratory birds, the between Moe and Stradbroke. The breeding and feeding ground for 32
numerous species of waterfowl and step towards vesting the future a unique habitat in the Central planning of the area in the Shire Highlands Region. The Board's in Councils of Avon, Bairnsdale, Rose terim development order was ap dale and Tambo. it is expected that proved in July, 1976 with the inten the strategy plan will serve as the tion of protecting the environs of basis for the preparation of detailed the swamps from incompatible de planning controls by these Councils velopment. in 1978-79. Further details are given under " Strategic Planning ". During this year, the Ministry for Conservation has carried out a de The Board has also been involved. tailed assessment of the environ together with representatives of the mental factors concerned with the Shire of Rosedale, Ministry for Plan swamps and has purchased, by ning. and Environment Protection negotiation, several parcels of land Authority, on a steering committee abutting the foreshore. investigating future planning op tions for the Ninety Mile Beach. The Board and the Ministry for The 11,200 small residential lots Conservation, in conjunction with on this very valuable strip of coast the Shire of Talbot and Clunes. line are unlikely to be serviced by have discussed revoking the reticulated water or sewerage in Board's order and introducing more the foreseeable future. All of the specific controls into the Shire's re Ninety Mile Beach subdivisions cent order. it is expected that have been examined to ascertain agreement will be reached, the which lots are on floodprone land Shire's order amended early next or in environmentally sensitive year and the Board's control then areas and therefore will be pre revoked. cluded from development. In the areas where residential develop Corop Lakes ment had previously been permitted the handing back of planning con During the past year, the Board has trols to the Shire of Rosedale is im continued to administer the provi minent. An acceptable basis for de sions of its interim development velopment of the remainder of the order to control attempts to divert lots will shortly be determined. In excess water on to roadways and all areas, strict conditions on the along inappropriate courses. disposal of domestic wastes will be lt has also assisted the Shire of applied. Waranga to finalise its interim de velopment order for the whole municipality, incorporating the Lake Buffalo Corop Lakes area. This order has The Board continues to administer been placed on public exhibition interim development control over and it is expected to be approved part of the area within the Shire of early in the new year, after which IV1yrtleford. However, discussions the Board's control will be revoked. have been held with the Council with a view to the Shire introducing Gippsland Lakes a new order over the whole of the municipality and the Board revoking The Board has continued to admin its control. ister the provisions of its interim development order in this area. and during 1977-78. 188 planning ap Lake Mokoan plications were received. In accordance with the Board's The Board's most important priority policy to return planning control to in the Gippsland Lakes area has local municipalities wherever pos been to follow up the work of a con· sible, the Board's interim develop sortium of planning consultants in ment order was revoked in Decem 1976-77 with the preparation of a ber, 1977. Concurrently, Amend· strategy plan. This will be a major ment No. 7 to the contiguous Shire 33 of Benalla Planning Scheme ex Latrobe Valley Sub-Regional, tended that scheme over the Lake Extension "A" Mokoan area. The zoning provisions for the area include a Rural Resi A substantial portion of the Board's dential Zone to the north-west of interim development order was re the lake, near the existing recrea voked in November 1977 following tion facilities. The majority of rural approval of an order by the Shire of land in the vicinity of the lake is in Morwell. covering the same area. cluded in a new Rural C Zone in The Board now administers a small which a 40 hectare minimum sub remaining area within the Shire of division size is intended to prevent Traralgon. inappropriate subdivision. Lorne Foreshore Lake Nillahcootie The Lorne Planning Scheme, cover ing the whole township, except for The Lake Nillahcootie Planning one small pocket of land near the Scheme. prepared by the Board in central foreshore. was prepared by consultation with the State Rivers the Board and approved in July and Water Supply Commission and 1977. This is discussed under the Shires of Benalla and Mansfield, " Planning Schemes Approved " is designed to protect the lake and its catchment. and to maintain the However. the Board continues to ad rural use and character of the sur minister its interim development rounding land. lt was placed on order over the small foreshore area. public exhibition from July to Octo Recommendations for the area, con ber. 1977 and after reviewing the tained in the " Lorne Foreshore objections. a number of minor al· Plan " prepared for the Board by terations were made. consultants. were endorsed by the Board this year. The Board ack The revised scheme was then for nowledges that not all the recom warded to the State Rivers and mendations can be implemented im Water Supply Commission and the mediately and they have thus been councils for further comment. it is classified into short. medium and expected that the scheme wi 11 be long term objectives. lt is now pro approved early in the new year. and posed to discuss with other agencies handed back to the two councils for ways to implement the recommen administration of their respective dations and to incorporate them areas. into the planning scheme.
Lake Tyers to Cape Howe Coastal Ocean Road, Extension "A" The Board has continued to adminis The coastal area between Lake ter interim development control in Tyers and Cape Howe is still largely this area and has received several unspoiled and the Board has pre applications for development during pared a planning scheme to protect the year. In addition. the Board has the delicate natural features but at undertaken a detailed study of the the same time recognising the im existing subdivision in the Wild Dog portance of the various settlements Creek and Busty Road vicinity within the area. where there is a high land-slide potential. The scheme was exhibited last year. the review of objections has been Discussions are continuing with the completed and the Board has adopt Shire of Otway with the object of ed the scheme for the approva I of co-ordinating the various planning the Governor in Council. Follow controls in the municipality and the ing approval it is expected that the eventual introduction of one plan scheme will be administered by the ning scheme administered by the Shire of Orbost. Council. 10853/78-J 34
Ovens-Upper Murray Simpson The Board continues to administer The Board continues to administer interim development control over a interim development control over the large part of the area within the 55 Simpson township. However, fol kilometre radius of Union Bridge at lowing discussions with the Shire of Albury/Wodonga. The extent of the Heytesbury, the Board has agreed to control has been much reduced over revoke its control over the township, the past year, with the order being upon the approval of a new Council revoked over the Shires of Beech order to cover the whole municipal worth and Yackandandah, with each ity. Shire taking over the role of re sponsible authority. The areas cov ered by the Shire of Wangaratta and South Western Coastal the AI bury /Wodonga Development Corporation's designated area were The South Western Coastal planning revoked earlier. area comprises a narrow coastal belt averaging five kilometres in width Two rural planning studies commis and extending almost continuously sioned by the Board for the Shires from the South Australian border of Rutherglen and Tallangatta were eastwards to the approved Ocean completed by consultants during Road Planning Scheme near Apollo the year. The Tallangatta study is Bay, through the Shires of Portland. presently being used by the Board Belfast. Warrnambool, Heytesbury to draft planning controls for a Coun and Otway. cil interim development order and the Rutherglen study will be simil The Board administers an interim arly used. When these orders are development order over the whole of approved the Board's control over the area, with the aim of preserving these municipalities will be revoked. the coastal environment and con centrating development within exist This will leave control over only ing townships. During this year. parts of the Shires of Chiltern, draft detailed interim development Myrtleford and Wodonga and it is orders were prepared for each the Board's intention to revoke this municipality for discussion with the once satisfactory alternatives are in Councils. General agreement was troduced. reached on the format and detai Is to The consultants report received last be embodied within each order and year on the periphera I towns of when the new Counci I orders are Albury/Wodonga has been used by approved, the Board's control will the Board to draft planning controls be revoked. for the towns of Chiltern and Bar nawartha. The Shire of Chiltern In lt was reported last year that a new terim Development Order incorpor approach to involve people in the ating these controls was exhibited preparation of planning schemes in March-April, 1978 and the ob was being tried at the Board's sug jections subsequently considered. gestion. in the Shire of Warrnam When the order is approved the bool. Meetings were held in each existing Ovens-Upper Murray order of the Shire's three ridings at which wi 11 be revoked over the two town local people elected representatives ships. to committees to be directly involv ed with Councillors in examining The planning area for the proposed planning issues in their own areas. initial development of the growth This year. the Committees produced complex is administered by the a detailed plan which was put on Albury-Wodonga Development Cor public display and received general poration and the Wodonga Council. approval throughout the municipal The Board's officers, however. con ity. After slight modification, this tinue to liaise with the Corporation plan is to form the basis on which in regard to development within the the Shire of Warrnambool is to ad complex. minister planning control for the 35
Public meeting at Nelson to discuss the "Nelson Planning Study."
Port Fairy and the mouth of the Moyne River. 36 whole of the municipality including needs of residents, holidaymakers the South Western Coastal area. and day trippers. Similar approaches are being tried Because of the natural qualities and in the Shires of Otway and Portland. State-wide significance of the Lorne area, the township and environs were designated in 1974 as an area Nelson Area Working Committee of " special significance " and A committee comprising representa " natural beauty ", pursuant to the tives of a number of State agencies Third Schedule of the Town and and the Shire of Portland was set up Country Planning Act. in 1976, at the request of the Min isters for Planning and Conserva The Lorne Planning Scheme, cover tion to recommend the best method ing the whole township, except for of expediting the planning of Nelson one small pocket of land near the and environs. central foreshore, was prepared by the Board and approved in July lt was decided that the Board would 1977. proceed with the South Western Coastal Planning Scheme and would Primarily, the scheme imposes limi give high priority to the completion tations on the size, nature, intensity of that part of the scheme embrac and direction of urban growth, ing the Nelson township. coupled with controls on subdivis ion, allotment size and tree felling. During this year, the committee pre Hence, the scheme is designed to pared a draft report entitled, " Nel preserve the village atmosphere of son Planning Study", which was the the township while accommodating subject of a well attended public growing urban related land uses meeting at 1\Jelson in February. The and recreation/leisure activities. proposals were also on public dis play for one month. after which the The scheme is now administered by Board's regional officer met with the Shire of Winchelsea. those people wishing to discuss the The sma 11 foreshore area, sti I I ad proposa Is further. ministered by the Board, is discuss Submissions requested from the ed under .. Planning Control Admin public are now being considered by istered by the Board ". the working committee. lt is en visaged that the recommendations Maldon of the report and subsequent sub The Maldon Planning Scheme, pre missions will provide a basis for a pared by the Board, was approved statement on the future planning of in October, 1977. At the same time, Nelson to be accompanied by a to assist in the implementation of planning scheme for the township. the scheme, a Restoration Fund was established and an Architectural Ad viser appointed. PLANNING SCHEMES Maldon is an outstanding example APPROVED of a nineteenth century gold mining The following principal schemes, town, considered so important in the two of which were prepared by the history of the State, that special Board, were approved during the planning methods were needed to year. The dates of approval are protect and preserve it. contained in Appendix 11. The planning scheme is unique in Victoria and indeed in Australia in Lorne that it is the first statutory attempt to achieve positive historic conser The coastal township of Lorne is set vation-not just of a precinct or amidst a natural amphitheatre of street but of a whole town. bush and sea. Its primary function is as a scenic seaside resort cater Covering Maldon township and sur ing for the recreation and leisure rounds, it provides for detailed con- 37
Maldon streetscapes. 38 trol of the appearance of buildings Architectural Adviser in the historic parts of the town with the aim of preserving the With the appointment of an Archi town's appearance and character as tectural Adviser in addition to the it was in the second half of the Board's officers, free advice is avail nineteenth century. able to the public and the respon sible authorities on appropriate de The scheme identifies the central signs for new development. altera commercial area as an " Historical tions to existing buildings. restora Interest Zone ". All shops are con tion work and general planning re fined to this area to prevent compe quirements in accordance with the tition setting up in areas where strict approved scheme. The Advisory planning controls are not in force. Service is available at Maldon on This is to help the old centre de Fridays and Saturdays and has been velop and prosper. All new build exceedingly successful and well ac ings within this zone must conform cepted by the public, property with the appearance of the area be owners and the planning bodies con tween 1860 and 1900. Internal lay cerned. outs are not affected. Restoration Fund A permit is required for any use or A Restoration Fund has been estab development in the Historical In lished by the State Government so terest Zone. This includes any that finance is available, generally changes to the external appearance on a loan basis, or by direct grant of existing buildings, such as re to public bodies to assist in the painting and the painting or erec restoration of historical structures tion of advertising signs. Pamt in Maldon. The fund is also pro colours, style of lettering to be used posed as a revolving one. that is, on advertising signs, placement of money may be expended on build signs on buildings and materials to ings wh i eh are purchased, restored be used on the external surface of and re-sold, and the money re-used buildings are specified in the on another similar project. The scheme. Specified historic build Maldon Restoration Fund Commit ings and objects must not be de tee administers the Fund, and con molished without a permit. Place sists of representatives of the Coun ment of street furniture, fittings and cil, local community interests. the works on roads (including foot National Trust, the Ministry for ways) adjacent to this zone also re Planning, the Historic Buildings Pre quire a permit. servation Council and the Board.
The approaches to the town, the in ternal tourist routes, the area sur Maldon Conservation Study rounding the Historical Interest Zone During the administration of the and items of interest such as the Maldon Interim Development Order mining areas are similarly protected. and the preparation of the planning There are also general provisions re scheme, the need for documenta lating to demolition, tree-felling, tion of the historical and technical details of buildings and sites in Mal height limits, street furniture, sub don became apparent. For example, division and advertising signs. the planning scheme sought to en sure that the appearance of build The Counci I of the Shire of Mal don ings in the central shopping area and the Board are responsible conformed with their appearance 1n authorities for different parts of the the years 1860-1900 .. in regard to scheme. The Board is responsible design. colour, building matenals for the zones in the historic town and placement and style of advertis centre and along the main roads ing signs. However much of th1s and tourist routes, whilst the Shire data was not readily available and Council administers the remainder its lack was seen as a major draw of the scheme. back to the successful implementa- 39
tion of the planning scheme and to of the banks of major streams, in the authentic restoration of Maldon. cluding Five Mile Creek, Monument To fill this gap the Board. in ApriL Creek and Deep Creek. is included 1977, commissioned " The Mal don in a Watercourse Zone. designed to Conservation Study ". The report protect the streams from pollution. contains a wealth of carefully re The shire is specified as an area of searched data, including line draw " special significance " and " nat ings of the building facades, which ural beauty", pursuant to the Third wi 11 greatly assist plannmg authori Schedule of the Town and Country ties and local people in the preser Planning Act and there are controls vation of the historic character of on tree clearing and historic build 1\!laldon. ings. The Conservation Study, Restor Urban development is concentrated ation Fund and Architectural Adviser in the Woodend township with New are of invaluable assistance in the ham being a possible future alterna implementation of the planning tive. Rural residential development scheme. is provided for mainly in the treed areas to the south of Woodend town Newham and Wooclend ship, where substantial subdivision The Shire of Newham and Woodend has already taken place. Develop Planning Scheme was approved in ment for a distance of fifty metres June, 1978. on either side of the Calder High way (outside Woodend) is restrict The Shire has an area of 246 square ed. kilometres and a population of about 2.500. More than half of the popu Phi/lip Island lation lives in the main town of Woodend, which is located on the The Phillip Island Planning Scheme, Calder Highway about 70 kilometres prepared by the Board, was approv north-west of Melbourne. ed in December, 1974 and the Council of the Shire of Phillip Island The scheme is the first to be ap was made the Responsible Authority proved within the area covered by for the administration of the scheme. Statement of Planning Policy No. 8 However, five areas were excluded ( Macedon Ranges and Surrounds) from the scheme, including substan and the whole of the shire except a tial areas considered to be potential small part in the south-west corner additions to existing flora and fauna is within the policy area. The policy reserves. With the scheme's ap states that protection and uti I ization proval, the Board's interim develop of the resources of the policy area ment order ceased to operate except for water supply, tourism. recreation over the five excluded areas. and nature conservation shall be of primary concern and that, where ap Following subsequent investiga propriate, due account shall be given tions, amendments have been made to the value of the area for forestry to include the excluded areas in the and agriculture. Scheme under the control of the Shire Council. Amendment No. 3, The scheme is designed to assist in approved in May, 1978, related to the implementation of the planning the last area to be included in the policy and it places particular scheme and thereby the Board ceas emphasis on the protection of the ed to have planning control in the water resources of the area and the Shire of Phillip Island. landscape. The northern slopes of the Macedon Ranges, the foothills of the Cobaw INTERIM DEVELOPMENT Ranges. the Jim Jim. land adjoining ORDERS Hanging Rock and other areas of Interim development orders to be high landscape value are included administered by the local authorities in an Environment Protection Zone. were approved for: the Town of designed to protect the character of Camperdown; the Borough of Won these areas. Land within 40 metres thaggi {balance); the Shires of Dun- 40 munkle, Gisborne, Hampden. Hunt PROGRESS ly (balance). Kerang. Morwell, Swan Hill (balance). Tullaroop (balance). Appendix I gives a complete list of Upper Yarra, Yackandandah (Rural schemes in the course of prepara Areas), Walpeup and Wannon. tion and the stage that each has Dates of approval are contained in reached. Appendix 11 lists approv Appendix I. ed planning schemes.
Lake Tyers to Cape Ho we Coastal Planning Scheme area.
The Ninety Mile Beach subdivisions, Shire of Rosedale. 41 STATUTORY REVIEW OF PLANNING SCHEMES MELBOURNE METROPOLITAN St Kilda junction (formerly High Street St Ki Id a). PLANNING AREA Amendment 66 zoned a sub Melllourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme stantial area of land at Hop per's Crossing, Werribee, to The Melbourne and Metropolitan Reserved Living. This amend Board of Works continued the estab ment included a minor exten lished practice of submitting sion of the approved planning amendments dealing with many scheme into the Extended seperate items. After public exhibi Area. tion. these amendments are adopted in parts: Part 1 consisting Amendment 75 established the of those items to which there are no reservation for the F9 Lower objections, and later parts. follow Yarra Freeway, and made ad ing hearing and determination of justments to the reservation objections. for the F14 Mulgrave Free way. In addition to these comprehensive amendments. other amendments, Amendment 80 introduced a some made under Section 32 ( 6) Special Residential 1 Zone of the Act (amendments by the incorporating provisions fo; Governor in Council where he is sat sound insulation of houses, to isfied that in the circumstances the cover a residential subdivision preparation of an amending Scheme affected by noise from aircraft is not warranted), dealt with mat using Tullamarine Airport. ters which. while of importance to One revocation in part was ap those immediately involved, were proved during the year. not of wide significance. Amendments of this type approved during the year were: Amendment No. 21 (Rural Areas} Amendment 62. Part 2 Amendment 64, Part 2. 2A The approval of Parts 1 to 7 of this and 3 amendment was reported on in the Amendment 68, Part 2A 1975-76 report. Part 8 deals with Amendment 70, Part 1, 2 and the balance of the amending 3 scheme and during this year the Amendment 72, Part 1 Board considered a series of re Amendment 79 ports relatin!=J to it. This amend Amendment 84 ment establishes the " Corridor Amendment 85 Plan " within the aoproved Metro Amendment 86 politan Planning Scheme area. and Amendment 93 also a new system of non-urban Amendment 98 zones. Amendment 1 00 The Board has now reported on this Amendment 1 06 amendment and it is expected that Amendments dealing with specific the . amendment wi 11 be sub matters of more general interest or stantially approved early in the new significance included the following: yea_r. Delays will however be ex p~nenced_ with some items which Amendment 45 introduced Will requ~re exhibition because of special controls to land ad c~anges m~de to the amendment joining St Kilda Road, east of s 1nee the f1rst exh i bi ti on. 42
Amendment No. 3 (Extended Planning Standards ") was pub Metropolitan Area) lished and that report forms the basis of the current amendment. In the early part of the year. priority was given to the examination of During this year, the Board adopted Amendment 21. but in the second a report on Amendment No. 30 for half, substantial attention was given submission to the Minister. The re to Amendment No. 3. which is vir port recommended that the amend tually a principal scheme for the ment be approved subject to a num extended metropolitan area. ber of modifications. The main modifications recommended were The Board has considered reports that the amendment contain a state on this amendment as it affects four ment of objectives and that there of the eleven municipalities in be a general increase in the power volved, and technical work is sub of the Responsible Authority to re stantially complete on the other lax the standards having due regard areas. Negotiations with the Mel to the specified objectives. bourne and Metropolitan Board of The Minister has decided to with Works on outstanding points are in hold action on the approval of the progress. amendment pending: (a) the introduction of legislation Amendment No. 30 (Residential to enable certain provisions Planning Standards) relating to residential planning Amendment No. 30 to the Mel standards in the Uniform bourne Metropolitan Planning Building Regulations to be Scheme is a major ordinance made inoperative in areas amendment which proposes to in where satisfactory alternative troduce detailed planning standards provisions are included in ap for residential development in the proved planning schemes; and metropolitan area. lt is principally (b) the further examination of the concerned with siting, amenity, amendment to determine: area. access and parking standards " whether the flexi bi I ity of the for apartment houses, detached proposed provisions is suffi houses. flats and residential build cient; ings in the Residential Zones in the " whether any undue com planning scheme area. plexity in the structure of the The amendment derives from con amendment can reasonably cern expressed in 1968 by the then be reduced or eliminated at Minister for Local Government re this stage; and garding the unco-ordinated devel * what particular administra opment of flats in the metropolitan tive difficulties may arise in area. The Minister requested the procedures for the issue of Board of Works, as the metro permits, appeals or amend politan planning authority, to mod ments. ify the residential zoning provisions in the Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 96 (City of Planning Scheme to define more Melbourne) precisely the density and type of The Melbourne and Metropolitan development which should be per Board of Works has deposited for mitted in the planning scheme area. public inspection Amendment 96 to In 1969, the Board of Works pre the Metrooolitan Planning Scheme pared a report entitled. " Resi to give effect to part of the Mel dential Planning Standards " and bourne Strategy Plan. However in the following year established a this amendment has not yet been Technical Advisory Committee to adopted by the Board of Works or review the proposals contained in submitted to this Board for report. the report. In September, 1970 the Proposals for the Bourke Street Technical Advisory Committee's re Mall are discussed under " Urban port (also entitled " Residential Renewal ". 43 WESTERN PORT PLANNING Authority between February and Apri I, 1976. AREA A revised plan (Amendment No. 1 A) Western Port Region Interim Development was prepared by the Authority in the Order-Amendment No. 1A light of the objection determinations to the original plan and revisions Amendment No. 1 A to the Western made to Statement of Planning Port Region Interim Development Policy No. 2, the revised version of Order (Conservation Plan- South which had been released in Febru ern Mornington Peninsula) was ary, 1976. adopted by the Western Port Re gional Planning Authority in Au9ust. Amendment No. 1 A was exhibited 1977 and submitted to the Mmtster. between November and December, 1976 and there were 285 objec The main purpose of the plan is to tions to it. An independent review assist in the implementation of committee heard and reported on Statement of Planning Policy No. 2 the objections to the Authority. Most (Mornington Peninsula) which was objectors submitted that the plan or approved by the Government in certain provisions in the plan were 1970 and subsequently reviewed too restrictive. However, a sub and a variation approved in 1976. stantial proportion of objectors sub Amongst other matters the state mitted that the plan or some of its ment requires that. in implementing provisions were inadequate to pro the policy, all public agencies shall tect the conservation values of the have particular regard to a number area. of matters including the preparation. adoption, review and observance of The main issues raised by objectors a recreation and conservation plan. related to: The plan departs significantly from * minimum allotment sizes for sub recently approved planning schemes division; in its general format and approach. * provisions for the exctsion of lt contains three sets of controls as house lots; follows: * controls over land use, particular * land unit provisions which corre ly farming activities; spond to the land use provisions in a conventional planning scheme * provisions relating to recreational and which control the use and development; development of land throughout * natural systems provisions; the planning area; * natural systems provisions which • cultural element provisions; are designed to protect areas and * complexity; elements of the natural environ ment which are particularly sen * compensation. rates and incen- sitive to development such as tives; cliff and beach areas, dunes, * administration; and streams and bushland; * cultural element provisions which • public participation. are designed to protect areas and elements of special human inter In June, 1978 following a prelimin est including those of special ary examination of the plan, the scenic, historic, scientific and cul Board considered that where it dealt tura I interest. with matters of local concern. such matters should be administered by The first version of the plan (Amend the local counci Is. The Board con ment No. 1) was exhibited between sidered that the question of admin May and November, 1975 and there istration should be resolved prior were some 500 objections. These to proceeding with a detailed exam were heard and determined by the ination of the plan and accordingly suggested to the Minister that he Interim Development Order. admin seek the Authority's agreement to: istration of which is substantially (a) the Authority retaining control delegated to municipalities. except only in respect of those matters in the Shire of Bellarine. In Bell or issues considered to be of arine, the Counci I controls develop regional significance; and ment by a remnant of the Gee- long Planning Scheme 1959, (b) all other planning controls be and a local interim develop- ing administered at the local ment order outside the Gee long level, this being achieved by Planning Scheme 1959 area. In ad the Authority delegating such dition. the Geelong Regional Com maters to the municipal coun mission administers directly the cil. Geelong Regional IDO in this Shire. GEELONG PLANNING AREA The Geelong Regional IDO is relat ed to the Geelong Regional Planning During this year. the Geelong Re Scheme as deposited for public in gional Commission. which replaced spection in 1975. Since that time, the Geelong Regional Planning there have been a series of amend Authority. completed and adopted ments to the order and these have the Geelong Regional Planning been incorporated in the adopted Scheme. This was submitted to the planning scheme. In this way, many Board for s·tatutory report in June. of the changes made between the 1978. deposit of the scheme and its adop Development in the nine municipal tion have already been the subject ities covered by the Geelong Re of public exhibition. and considera gional Planning Scheme is presently tion by the Board, in the form of controlled by the Geelong Regional amendments to the IDO. 45 URBAN RENEWAL
Under the provisions of the Urban Similiarly, the site in Avoca is locat Renewal Act 1970. the Town and ed in the centre of the township, Country Planning Board is required and comprises approximately eight to report on any notice by a Renew een hectares. The proposal aims al Authority that it intends to recom primarily to develop the potential of mend to the responsible Minister the shopping centre by stimulating that it be authorised to prepare an centralisation of commercial activi urban renewal proposal for a par ties. Complementary objectives ticular area. Following the authoris are the solution of parking problems ation of the preparation of a renew and the beautification of the area. al proposal and the preparation. ex hibition and adoption of a proposal In Eaglehawk, the site is near the by a Renew a I Authority, the Board town centre and consists of approxi is required to prepare a report on mately four hectares. The major the proposal and any objections objective is to guide the direction of thereto. local urban growth by developing the land for residential purposes. During the year, the Board complet ed reports on notices of intention The site in the City of Collingwood that the Housing Commission be is located about 250 metres east of authorised to prepare urban renewal the intersection of Hoddle Street and proposals for Ouyen (Shire of Wal Victoria Parade, and has an area of peup), the City of Warrnambool approximately 2·5 hectares. The (Area 2). the City of Echuca. the proposal deals with vacant land, ac Borough of Oueenscliffe. Boort cess and parking problems and the (Shire of Gordon} and Boronia renovation and repair of buildings. (City of Knox). lt also reported on lt also incorporates provisions for a notice of intention by the Shire of low cost housing in the area. Sherbrooke that it be authorised to prepare a proposal for areas in Bel The renewal area in the City of Ben grave and Tecoma. digo is located on the south-eastern fringe of the city centre, and covers The Board also completed reports about 6·3 hectares. Major prob on renewal proposals prepared by lems were identified as inadequate the Housing Commission for: Tra accessibility and car parking facili falgar (Central Area) (Shire of Nar ties and a need to beautify vacant racan), Avoca (Shire of Avoca), the areas. The basic components of Borough of Eaglehawk. the City of the proposal are the development of Collingwood (Charles Street) and a ·· Government Precinct " and a the City of Bendigo. In addition the shopping centre, to be integrated Board reported on a proposal pre with the existing city centre. pared by the City of Heidelberg for an area in Haig Street. Heidelberg. In the City of Heidelberg. the re The area in Trafalgar is located in newal area comprises ·6 hectares in the centre of the town and covers Haig Street. lt is to be transformed approximately ten hectares. The from a run down shopping centre primary purpose of the proposal is to into a residential area with provision deal with problems arising from the for some commercial uses. duplication of the Princes Highway through the town. Because the The general objective of renewal duplication necessitated the reloca proposals, as exemplified by those tion of eighteen businesses, the op above, is to provide a framework for portunity was taken to consolidate the resolution of problems and the and centralise the commercial de rehabilitation of areas in the inter velopment and to plan for parking ests of ratepayers. residents and and traffic circulation. property occupants. 46
The Law Courts and Post Office. Bendigo. " recorded " by the National Trust. (By courtesy of the Ministry of Tourism) 47
(b) there wou Id be an increase 1n PROPOSALS TO CREAIE traffic flows and congestion in SHOPPING MALLS some streets as a result of the Under Section 539B (9) of the Local m a 11 but there is scope for Government Act. the Minister for traffic management measures Local Government is required to to minimise the adverse effects obtain a report by the Board on pro of the displaced traffic; posals to create shopping malls and (c) access to premises abutting the any objections thereto. mall for loading and unloading During the year the Board reported is generally good while access on proposals to create malls in for emergency vehicles should Bourke Street, Melbourne and Main be satisfactory, subject to care Street, Stawell. Both proposals ful design to avoid undue in were subsequently approved by the terference with fire fighting Governor in Council and details are vehicles and equipment. as follows: In summary, the proposed mall should provide a safe. convenient Bourke Street Mall and attractive area for pedestrians in the retail shopping heart of the The Bourke Street mall occupies the centre of Melbourne without caus section of Bourke Street between ing any insuperable traffic or access Elizabeth and Swanston Streets and problems. is the first shopping mall proposal to be submitted to the Board for a The Board therefore recommended street in the Melbourne City Centre. that the proposa I be confirmed on Under the proposal, trams are per the understanding that complemen mitted to enter the mall at all times tary traffic management measures but delivery vehicles are only per outlined in the Road Safety and mitted during prescribed hours. Traffic Authority report be expediti ously implemented. The City of Melbourne Strategy Plan, published in 1974, recommen The Board also granted a permit ded the development of a number of under Section 25 of the Town and pedestrian preference streets in the Country Planning Act 1961 subject City Centre and suggested that the to the submission of satisfactory section of Bourke Street between plans of the proposed layout and Elizabeth and Swanston Streets design. should be one of the areas initially The mall opened in February, 1978 considered for a mall. The Strategy with an interim treatment of the Plan suggestions were generally area pending the design of a final supported by a Pedestrian lVI a 11 proposal. Study carried out by the Melbourne City Council in relation to the retail shopping core of the City Centre. Stawell Mall The object of the study was to de termine the feasi bi I ity of the pedes The Stawell Mall occupies the sec trianisation of the central core of tion of Main Street between Wim the City Centre so as to enhance the mera and Patrick Streets in the retail vitality and attractiveness of the heart of the Town of Stawell. city. The concept of the replanning of the Stawell town centre to incorporate a In its report on the proposal, the pedestrian mall was promoted by Board considered that: the Board with the support of the (a) the proposed mall is consistent Council in 1970. Largely as a re with the objectives and policies sult of the proposa I, in the same of the City of Melbourne Strat year, the Town of Stawell won an egy Plan and could be inte award in a section of the Premier grated with a wider pedestrian Town Contest conducted by the De system in the future; velop Victoria Council. In relation 48
to Stawell. the judge for the section mall to provide better access stated: for loading and unloading de livery vehicles. " A spirited attack on problems and an enthusiasm for constructive pro Much of this development has been jects are shown in all the town plan carried out and the mall is under ning exercises. By far the most construction. The surface will be significant is the proposal to con lined with new paving and provision vert Main Street to a pedestrian will be made for a fountain. seating. mall. The mall will at once solve children's play areas. planting and the traffic parking problems of the general landscaping. it is expected shopping centre ... and make for a that the official opening will be held centre of great charm. lt wi 11 un in November. 1978 on World Town doubtedly be unique in this State Planning Day. and show the way to many country towns facing the same problems." "Pedestrian Malls" Discussion Paper In response to an increasing num The mall has been designed as an ber of requests from councils for in integral part of broader proposals to formation on malls and pedestrian improve the Stawell town centre. areas. an initial discussion paper These include: was prepared last year and is sti 11 (a) the development of Scallan much in demand. The paper Street-Byrne Street as a town focusses on the experience with centre by-pass road to serve existing malls overseas and locally, through traffic displaced from and includes sections on data col Main Street as a result of the lection. finance. legal procedures creation of the mall; and design. Pub! ic comments on the concepts have been received (b) the creation of car parking and a final report is being prepared. areas between Scallan and Sloane Streets to the rear of A similar theme. " From Urban shops abutting the mall; Spaces to People Places ", was chosen for the World Town Planning (c) the development and improve Day celebrations this year and is re ment of service roads at the ported under " Promotion of Plan rear of premises fronting the ning " 49 LEGISLATION
During the year, the Board was in authorised officer of a planning strumental in guiding discussions authority shall be prima facie related to a wide variety of pro evidence of what it says. lt is ex posed amendments to the Town pected that this amendment will and Country Planning Act 1961 and markedly faci I itate the production other legislation. lt is expected that of evidence in proceedings. much of the proposed new legisla tion will be introduced into the coming Spring Session of Parlia ment. Geelong Regional Interim Development Order (Validation) Act Action during the year on specific 1978 items of legislation was as follows: This legislation was enacted to validate the Geelong Regional In Town and Country Planning terim Development Order approved (Amendment) Act 1978 by the Governor in Council on 16th November, 1975. On this day, dele This legislation was enacted to gations in favour of certain coun faci I itate the statutory process cils, within the region, were also associated with the preparation approved. and implementation of planning schemes. To remove any legal doubts in this regard, the legislation provides that Jt deletes a previous requirement the order sha 11 be deemed to have for pub I ication of an advertisement, been validly made, adopted and relating to the exhibition of a pro approved and also that the delega posed planning scheme, to describe tions to the member councils shall the purport of the scheme. lt also be deemed to have been validly validates notices which may have made and given. been technically deficient and which were published prior to the coming into operation of the legis Town and Country Planning lation. Deletion of this provision does not affect the pub I ic in regard Regulations to objection rights During the year under review, two amendments were made to the Provision was also made for the regulations. No. 21 related to the consolidation of an original plan format of revenue accounts, esti ning scheme and its amendments. mates and associated matters to be to enable a substituted copy to be adopted by regional planning used in legal proceedings. Prior to this amendment a consolidated authorities and No. 2 provided for an increase in fees for planning version of an ordinance lacked statutory effect. certificates from $3. 70 to $4. 00.
A further section of the Act relates to the proof of planning schemes Outdoor Advertising Regulations in courts of law and provides that a document prepared by the Govern Officers of the Board have prepared ment Printer purporting to be a a set of draft outdoor advertising copy of the planning scheme or regulations, together with explana ordinance shall, of itself, be tory and illustrative materia I. The evidence without the trouble and draft has been presented both to the expense of calling other evidence. Board and certain Government de Alternatively. a document signed partments and agencies, together by or purporting to be signed by the with other interested bodies. This 10853178-4 50
has been carried out as a proced Stall Regulations ural step towards the introduction In accordance with past practice of a form of standard control of and to maintain uniformity with the outdoor advertising on a uniform Victorian Public Service, the basis throughout the State. lt is in Board's Staff Regulations and De tended that control will be imple terminations have been amended to mented under the Town and Coun correspond generally with amend try Planning (Outdoor Advertising) ments initiated by the Public Ser Act 1975. vice Board. 51 COMMITTEES
The Board is represented on a num historic preservation. regiona I plan ber of committees related directly or ning, recreation. natural resources, indirectly to the many facets of its transportation, outdoor advertising. work. A considerable amount of place names, airfields, mapping. the staff's time is devoted to com coasta I management. flood and mittee activity, particularly where erosion prone land. rural land use the Board convenes the group and/ and social planning. or provides secretarial and technical assistance. Committees convened and serviced State Co-ordination Council by the Board include: (a) Advisory Committee on the The Chairman of the Board is a Preservation of Places of His member of the State Co-ordination toric Interest; Council and of the Policy and (b) Macedon Ranges Advisory Priority Review Group, which acts Committee. as a central core or co-ordinating unit of the Council. There is a Joint Federal/State Government direct link between this group and committees on which the Board is the Board in the development and represented include: preparation of statements of plan (a) Geelong Recreation Study ning policy. The Chairman is also Steering Committee; a member of the Works and Services (b) Joint State/Commonwealth Group directly and ex-officio of the Committee on Airports Plan Natural Resources and Special Re ning in the Port Phillip District; sources Groups. (c) Research Liaison Committee. Committees for which the Board provided technical assistance in S.C.C. Co-ordinating Groups/Task clude: Groups (a) Building and Development Ap The Board's staff continued to be in provals Committee (BADAC); volved with the four co-ordinating (b) Central City Consultative Com- groups-for AI bury /Wodonga, Gee mittee, long, Melton/Sunbury and Western (c) Gardiner's Creek Valley Study; Port Catchment-which act as ad visers to the Counci I. (d) Legislation Committee. These are in addition to substantial In addition to these, the Council has assistance provided for the State Co several special task groups in which ordination Council, the Melton/Sun Board staff are involved: a Special bury Interim Co-ordinating Commit Task Group for Investigation of a tee, the Loddon-Campaspe Regional Land Data Classification System for Planning Authority, the East Gipps Victoria, a Task Force Group on land Regional Planning Committee, Forecasts. a Special Task Group on the Central Gippsland Regional Plan Airports Planning in the Port Phillip ning Authority Interim Committee, District. a Special Task Group In and related groups. vestigating Waste Water Disposal for the Western Port Catchment and Other Committees on which the Mornington Peninsula and an Inter Board is represented cover such departmental Committee on Liquid subjects as education, urban studies, Waste Disposal. 52
The Board's Chairman, Mr. H. W. Hein, the Minister for Planning, the Hon. G. P. Hayes, MP., and the President of the Royal Australian Planning Institute, Mr. J. Earle, at the World Town Planning Day seminar, " From Urban Spaces to People Places".
Part of the Board's display at the Royal Show, il!ustrating proposals for Melton and Sunbury. 53 PROMOTION OF PLANNING For many reasons people generally PUBLICATIONS are becoming more aware of the im portance of planning and more in The Board has continued with its volved in the process. Effective programme of publishing material participation however is dependent to stimulate interest and develop an upon an adequate supply of informa understanding of planning and of tiOn-information that brings plan its goals, uses, achievements and ning to life and enables people to potential. react con~tructively to the facts and ideas put before them. Lack During last year a small newsletter, of communication is the cause of " Planning Bulletin "was instituted much misunderstanding and failure lt is published every two months and this increased public interest and distributed widely to parlia has revealed an enormous lack of mentarians. Commonwealth and knowledge, prevalent misconcep State Government departments and tions and a need for far more plan agencies, education institutions, ning promotion and education in all libraries, organisations and individ sections of the community. This is uals. lt is designed to keep people extremely costly and time-consum informed of the Board's activities ing and because of the Board's and of items of general interest in slender resources, it has not been planning and allied fields. This has able to accomplish all that it would proved to be most successful: the wish. However. much has been mailing list is constantly growing done. and items from this (and other of the Board's publications) have been Each year Board members and staff reprinted in various other journals visit many areas to discuss and ex and newspapers. plain to councils and the public the advantages of planning and assist The Board is also continuing to pub municipalities contemplating plan lish broad guidelines for planning ning control or preparing interim de authorities and the public to assist velopment orders or planning them with planning problems. The schemes. In this respect the estab- first of a series of manuals. " A 1ishment of the regional offices and Guide to Administrative Procedures the Board meetings in country cen under the Town and Country Plan tres have been particularly valuable. ning Act", published two years ago, In the past year. the Board has dealt is sti 11 extremely popular. The sec with numerous enquiries of a gen ond manual, " Motels-A Planning eral or specific nature and as a re Guide". published last year and sult, several more municipalities the third, " Caravan Parks-A Plan have resolved to prepare planning ning Guide ",published last year are schemes. Representatives of inter also sought after. A discussion ested organisations are also invited paper on .. Pedestrian Malls " has regularly to the Board's offices to been circulated widely and is much discuss recent planning activities. in demand. Public comments on the concepts have been received and The growing awareness of the im a fin a I report is being prepared. portance of planning is also reflect Similarly. a discussion paper on ed in other ways, among them the .. Poultry Farming " has been cir increasing number of requests for culated. particularly among the in speakers. articles. project material dustry, and comments are awaited. and general information. The paper covers existing legisla· Board members and staff have been tion, planning issues and controls, invited to speak at many seminars nuisance and ways of overcoming and conferences and on radio and it and planning guidelines for local to prepare articles for publication in authorities. Considerable assist various journals. ance has been given by the Depart- 54 ment of Agriculture and the Environ tions and requests and sales are ment Protection and Agriculture steadily increasing. A list of major Liaison Committee. publications available and prices can be found in Appendix Ill. The two brochures, " Steps in the Planning Process " and " Permits and Appeals " are still much in de EXHIBIT-ROYAL AGRICULTURAL mand. They are free of charge and are made available in bulk to coun SHOW cils and interested organisations to For the fourth consecutive year the ensure a wider distribution. Many Board staged a display at the Royal councils have assisted by actively Agricultural Show. it was designed distributing them within their muni to show ways of " humanising " the cipalities and many thousands of urban environment including the each brochure are finding their way proposals for Melton and Sunbury. into the community. lt consisted of an audio-visual. "We've got to Plan ", photographic In the regional planning area, and hand-out material and the several reports and discussion pap .. Planning Oracle ", which proved ers have been produced for the Lod extremely popular and successful don-Campaspe, East and Central as a subtle means of education. Gippsland regions. Once again. however. preparatory In addition to this, the Board has planning was severely hampered by produced numerous small reports, uncertainty as to the availability of pamphlets, research papers, sem funds. In this regard. the Board inar proceedings, guides to plan considers that unless funds are ning schemes, handouts and gen allocated in sufficient time to en eral promotional material. Many able an effective display to be of these, such as study reports or mounted to compete with the other policy documents. are referred to attractions, full advantage cannot under the relevant section. There be taken of the excellent promo is now a considerable amount of tional opportunities presented by information freely available to help the Royal Show. meet the increasing demand from all sections of the community. The promotion of planning in SEMINARS, PUBLIC MEETINGS schools is one of the Board's par AND DISPLA VS ticular concerns and to this end, an " information stall " was run at a World Town Planning Day seminar at Rusden State College in November on " Resources for the World Town Planning Day is cele Teaching of Environmental Educa brated internationally on 8th tion ". Considerable enthusiasm November to draw attention to the was shown by the teachers for the aims. objectives and progress of number and range of suitable pub planning. To mark the day this lications produced by the Board year, and to give added weight to and much material has been sub its promotional planning, the Board sequently requested. The more organised a series of activities material that can be disseminated throughout the State. each designed in schools, the better will students to meet a need that was thought to be equipped to participate in the exist in that particular area at that planning process. time. The Board's publications are also These included: available through the Community 1. Melbourne "From Urban Services Centre, with which the Spaces to People Places ": Board has a permanent liaison officer. An all day seminar /workshop including panel discussions, In all. considerable interest has case studies and audio-visuals. been shown in the Board's public<;l, on pedestrian malls and traffic- 55
free areas, on humanising the Films (including Australia's con urban environment. Designed as tributions to Habitat) were a technical working session for shown on two evenings. practitioners, particularly local government officers, to show The proceedings of the seminars in what had and could be done Bendigo, Portland and Wodonga locally and overseas and how to were all published. go about it. The Board's dis The publicity in the press and on cussion paper, " Pedestrian radio was extensive and extremely Malls ", was distributed to all good before and after the functions. participants and the proceedings were published. Overall the media publicity state wide would have reached many 2. Bairnsdale-" Our Lakes, Our thousands of people; several thous Land ": and would personally have received some form of literature by mail or An evening seminar to enable otherwise; and several hundred have the public again to express their either attended seminars or seen the views on the Gippsland Lakes displays. In short the functions Strategy Plan and the rural sub proved to be extremely valuable division issues sponsored educational and promotional exer jointly by the Board and the cises. East Gippsland Regional Plan ning Committee. A display of Considerable interest has also been work by the Board, the local generated since among local coun councils and various other cils, in activities for World Town groups was held in the same Planning Day, 1978. Several coun venue during the day and even ci Is have decided upon programmes ing and attracted considerable already and other are finalising pro interest, particularly from posals. schools.
3. Bendigo - "Positive Planning Displays Produces Progress ": Displays on " Caring for our Coast " An all day seminar designed as and " Planning for Macedon " have a technical working session for been shown in various venues dur counci I officers and councillors. ing the year. A third display on A display on beha If of the Lod regional planning is being prepared. don-Campaspe Regional Plan The displays, supported by hand ning Authority was held in the outs. have attracted considerable in central Bendigo shopping area terest and have been seen by a for two days and attracted con broad range of people. siderable interest. The Board feels that these promo 4. Portland "Putting Plans into tional activities are a vital part of Action ". its work and it is intended to spon An afternoon seminar designed sor more such projects as funds per partly for technical officers and mit. partly for the public. The invi tation from the Portland Town Counci I to host the function was Robin Boyd Environmental Award accepted and topics discussed The Board submitted two entries in were directed to the Portland the Robin Boyd Environmental area. Award category of the Royal Aus tralian Institute of Architects (Vic 5. Wodonga "Planning- Who torian Chapter) 1977 awards pro Needs lt? "· gramme: An all day forum designed to en (i) Statement of Planning Policy courage the public to express No. 8 (Macedon Ranges and their views and grievances. Surrounds); and 56
(ii) the work of the Me/ton-Sun- Members and staff of the Board bury Interim Co-ordinating are invited regularly to lecture to Committee. various groups of students, who are, along with others, invited to visit A syndicate of four staff members the Board's offices to gain an in nominated the Board and its work in sight into the Board's work and into the same category. practical planning-technical and administrative. This was a particularly valuable op portunity to explain the work and Frederick Charles Cook Memorial Award role of the Board to professional groups in a different context from The Frederick Charles Cook Memor that in which it is usually seen. ial Award was this year shared by Russell Caster. Town Planner with the City of Croydon and Alex Evans, EDUCAl'ION an engineer with the Country Roads The Board recognises the import Board. ance of maintaining close contact The award was instituted in 1976, with planning educators and stu to commemorate Mr. F. C. Cook, a dents. lt has had representation on Past Chairman of the Board, who the Board of Studies of the Depart died in 1972. Mr. Cook was one of ment of Town and Regional Plan the pioneers of planning in the State ning at Melbourne University, since and rendered outstanding public the inception and now, with the re service which commenced with his organisation of the Faculty, the association with the Metropolitan Board maintains its interest in the Town Planning Commission in the Department as a member of the Ad 1920s and continued through to his visory Board. period as Chairman of the Board The Board is also involved with the from 1951 to 1966. Colleges of Advanced Education The award is presented annually and is represented on the Footscray for high scholastic achievement to Institute of Technology General the best student over the final four Studies Advisory Board and the years of the Town Planning Course Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech at R.M.I.T. lt consists of a com nology Course Advisory Committee memorative scroll and a selection of on Town Planning. books. 57 DECENTRALISATION OF OFFICES
As part of a progressive plan to de increased assistance that the Board centralise the Board's activities. so has been able to give. as to be in closer contact with local During the year, a number of Coun communities, the Board has now cil representatives in the region met established regional offices in four the Minister and the Board during centres. The first two offices were their respective visits to the area. opened last year in Warrnambool This too was valuable in promoting and Bendigo and this year two others understanding. were opened in Traralgon and Wodonga. In the absen,ce of a regional plan ning authority or regional committee The new offices are intended to help in the south west, the Board's work local councils and residents with with the Grampians Co-ordination planning problems by providing ex Committee (discussed elsewhere in pert on-the-spot assistance and, the report) is presently the only in where relevant, to service regional volvement with planning at a re planning bodies. gional level. Planners have often been accused of being too remote and the establish ment of regional offices should help Locldon-Campaspe Region (Bendigo to rectify this. Regional officers live Office) and work in the communities being The Board's responsibilities for plan planned and are in a better position ning within the Loddon-Campaspe to assess the needs and priorities of Region are largely undertaken by its the local people. office in Bendigo, presently the larg est of the four regional offices. South Western Region {Warrnambool Staffed by two town planners. an ad Office) ministrative officer and a typist The Board's responsibilities for receptionist, the Bendigo office is planning within the South Western responsible for all statutory plan Region are undertaken by its office ning work in addition to servicing in Warrnambool. which is presently the Loddon-Campaspe Regional staffed by a town planner and a Planning Authority. As with the typist-receptionist. other offices, the establishment of the Bendigo office has enabled The examination of all amending greater contact with councils, local planning schemes and interim de organisations and the public, lead velopment orders and the continued ing to more effective co-ordination administration and finalization of the and promotion of planning general South Western Coastal Planning ly. The work of the office during Schemes (reported on elsewhere) is the year is reported on more fully now done locally. The existence of under "Regional Planning". the regional office has also facilitat ed greater contact with counci Is. local organizations and the public, Central Gipps/and Region which together assist in the co-or (Traralgon Office) dination and the more effective pro The Central Gippsland office was motion of planning within the com established in Traralgon in Decem munity generally. Throughout the ber, 1977 and is presently staffed year. discussions have been held by two town planners and a typist with all municipalities within the receptionist. The work is largely reqion, many of which have express of an advisory and local planning ed their appreciation of the Board's nature at the moment although tech activities in the south-west and the nical and administrative support is 58
provided for the Central Gippsland North Eastern Region Regional Planning Authority Interim (Wodonga Office) Committee. This aspect of the work is reported on more fully under The Wodonga office is the most re " Regional Planning". The estab cent and was set up in January, lishment of this office has also 1978 to handle aspects of the meant greater contact with counci Is, Board's work in the North Eastern local organizations and the public region. The office is staffed by a and has facilitated the co-ordination town planner and a typist-reception and promotion of planning through ist and already has enabled an im out the region. This aspect has portant contribution to be made in been particularly important with the the promotion and co-ordination of introduction of the interim develop planning within the region. The ment orders over the brown coal planning officer has been working deposits in the area and has enabled closely with the shire councils in a far greater degree of local under the drafting and administering of standing of the controls than would planning controls and with the otherwise have been possible. De Albury/Wodonga Corporation. lt tails of the orders are given under is expected that a second town " Planning Controls Administered planner will be posted to the office by the Board ". later this year.
Cr. Basil Downes, Past President. Shire of Portland welcomes the Chairman of the Board, Mr. H. W. Hein (right). to a meeting of the Portland Shire Council. Mr. Don Pollock, the Board's planning officer for the South-Western Region and now in charge of the Warrnambool office, looks on. 59 BOARD MEMBERS AND STAFF
The Board continued with its pro Teheran. the theme of which was gressive plan to decentralise its how to build a new town from its activities so as to be in closer con inception to the middle years. in tact with local communities. One cluding financing, management and facet of this approach is the estab methods of evaluating success. lishment of offices in country cen tres. Another is the holding of The Government also agreed to send Board meetings in centres outside the Board's Assistant Secretary, Mr. Melbourne. Such meetings are held H. R. Trotter, to North America and three or four times a year in various Europe, to study planning legisla parts of the State to enable the tion, the structure and organisation Board members to gain a first-hand of planning systems and decision knowledge of particular areas and making processes. He was also to meet informally with Councillors concerned with the legal and ad and Council staff to discuss local ministrative aspects of regional planning problems. planning, historic conservation. out door advertising. negotiated de Such meetings were held this year velopment and public participation in Traralgon, Wodonga, Warrnam programmes. bool. Benalla and Werribee. A special meeting and site inspection The Deputy Chairman, Mr. J. J. also took place in Mallacoota Bayly, was granted leave of absence to undertake a private study tour in The next meeting in a country cen connection with which he had made tre will be held in Bairnsdale in commitments before JOining the August, 1978. Board. Approval was given for the extension of the tour to include The Board noted with pleasure that discussions with authorities in the Chairman, Mr. H. W. Hein, and Europe responsible for planning de the former Chairman, Mr. R. D. L. velopments relevant to the Board's Fraser. had both been recipients of work. the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal. On one occasion during the year it it also noted w1th pleasure that in was necessary because of special the New Year Honours Her Majesty circumstances to appoint a tempor the Queen had bestowed upon Mr. ary Board member and the Board Fraser the Award of Companion of records its appreciation that the the Imperial Service Order. Government appointed the Secre During the year, the Government tary, Mr. W. H. Craig, to act in that agreed to send the Chairman. Mr. role. H. W. Hein. overseas for a short study tour. He visited several Euro From the foregoing account of the pean cities to study planning pro Board's activities over the past cedures by major city councils with twelve months it will be seen that in the state-regional framework; the year has again been one of high mixed uses in city centres. incen activity with the Board not only tives to arrest population outflow. consolidating work previously com changes in shopping and recreation menced but opening new avenues in patterns, enhancement of street its promotion, co-ordination and de scapes; and pedestrianisation with centralisation of planning. emphasis on tram movement The establishment of the new region throughout malls and on the neces al offices was conducted smoothly sary procedures. legislation, finance. and the resident staff have settled public involvement and mainten happily into the local communities. ance. In spite of the difficulties of space He also attended the International and the increasing work load. the New Towns Association Congress in staff have continued to carry out 60
their duties with dedication, effici the Board considers itself most for ency and enthusiasm for which the tunate in having built up over the Board is most grateful. Skilled years the quality of staff it has. The and experienced staff are the back Board thanks them for their contin bone of any good organisation and ued loyalty and support. 61 APPENDIX I Planning Schemes in Course of Preparation
I Date of I I.D.O. Exhibition I Received Report Planning Scheme. Commence~ Approved. Period for to ment. Expired. Report. I Minister.
Cities tBerwick (Berwick Riding) 21.5.56 9.2.60 1.6.67 Castlemaine 21.11.46 23.3.47 *Coburg 26.3.56 27.2.68 19.2.59 22.2.61 *Eitham (part) 20.11.72 13.11.73 tEitham (part) 27.10.58 27.2.63 *Keilor (part) 3.12.74 20.12.74 *Kew 22.7.75 *Malvern 20.4.53 9.6.53 27.2.58 8.3.63 *Melbourne (part) 17.10.61 13.3.68 16.3.65 •Melbourne (Central Business District) 1.6.76 *Melbourne (Market Area) 30.6.70 27.10.70 *Melbourne (balance) 15.10.73 23.10.73 *Oakleigh (flats) 1.12.68 *Port Melbourne (part) 14.1.74 30.4.74 *Preston 18.2.52 5.12.67 31.7.63 11.8.64 •South Melbourne (whole) 21.11.77 *South Melbourne (part) 15.7.74 4.12.73 Swan Hill 7.3.50 4.4.50 Warrnambool 1.6.70 27.10.70 *Waverley .. 16.8.51 30.4.68 2.6.55 9.6 58 26.5.59 Wodonga .. 16.2 67 23 5.67 11 8.67 13 2 68 Towns Camperdown 12.1.66 7.2 78 St. Arnaud 21.5.73 19.2.74 Stawell (Mall) 30.6.70 20.10.70 5 2.71 8.4.71 21.2.72 Boroughs Eaglehawk 3.8.72 24.10.72 28.12.77 Kerang 10.7.68 23.5.72 Wonthaggi (balance) 25.10.77 7.2.78 ! Shires ! Alberton (Inland Areas) 9.9.65 3.11.65 Arapiles (balance) .. 11.9. 73 19.3.74 Ararat (balance) 19.3.73 28.8.73 Avon 3.7.72 15.7.75 Bairnsdale .. 8.10.70 28.9.71 Ball an 4.10.71 21.3.72 Ballarat (balance) 8.7.74 29.7.75 Bass 10.8.62 16.10.62 19.1.67 i 20.i2.67 8.2 72 Beechworth (part) 2.8.68 8.10.68 26.2.70 I 25.2.72 Beechworth (Extended Area) 2.3.73 7. 11.73 Beechworth (whole) 1.4.77 Bellarine (balance) 4.12.58 7.6.60 Benalla (part) 20.12.76 Benalla (balance) 16.4.73 23.7.74 Bet Bet .. 24.10.73 25.6.74 Birchip 15.9.75 5.11.75 Bright 1.1.72 25.7.72 Broadford 1.1.71 3.2.76 Buln Buln .. 17.3.64 13.10.64 Bungaree (balance) 4.12.72 11.6.74 Buninyong (balance) 7.4.72 5.2.74 Chiltern 7.11.77 Cobram (balance) .. 19.1.76 14.12 76 14.3.78 Cohuna (part) 19.9.63 19.11.63 Colac (balance) .. 11.2.74 21.12.76 I tCranbourne (part Cranbourne and Tooradin Ridings) 11.12.59 1 1.3.60 24.10.63 5:~.651 62
APPENDIX 1-Continued
Report Planning Scheme. to Minister.
Cranbourne (Lang Lang, Koo-wee-rup and part Tooradin Ridings) 17.4.64 13.10.64 Cranbourne (Western Port) 8.11.74 27.5.75 17.12.75 4.11.76 Creswick .. 12.8.74 24.6.75 Daylesford and Glenlyon 12.11.73 17.12.74 Deakin (balance) .. 15.1.68 9.4.68 Deakin (Tongala Township) 19.9.60 11.7.61 Dimboola 16.12.75 11.3.76 Donald 21.1 1.73 25.6.74 Dundas 4.10.73 4.5.76 Dunmunkle 26.7.77 4.10.77 East Loddon i 11.4.74 25.2.75 tEitham (part) . 27.10.58 27.2.63 Euroa 119.11.73 25.6.74 Flinders (flats) 4.2.70 22.4.70 Gisborne .. 3.10.61 14.2.78 24.11.77 Glenelg 24.6.74 Gordon 5.3.76 11.5.76 Goulburn I 16.9.71 30.11.71 Grenville (balance) I 8.12.72 31.7.73 Hampden .. 20.12.71 28.9.77 Hastings I. I 1.60 21.12.60 24.9.67 28.11.68 Healesville . 1.6.60 9 .1.62 22.7.70 Heytesbury (whole) .. i 16.2.78 Heytesbury (balance) 16.8.76 19.10.76 Huntly (balance) 9.11.77 10.1.78 Kaniva (part) 19.7.72 12.9.72 Kaniva (balance) i 23.4.74 8.10.74 Kara Kara 8.8.74 29.6.76 Kerang 9.7.74 2.11.77 Korong 5.2.74 13.4.76 Kowree (Edenhope Township) 5.9.72 12.12.72 Kyneton .. 14.1.71 29.6.71 Leigh 20.10.72 22.5.73 Lexton 1.8.73 4.12.73 Lillydale (flats) .. 9.9.68 7 .4.70 Lillydale (Mt. Dandenong Ridge Area) 28.5.73 4.12.73 Lowan 14.9.76 5.4.77 Mclvor (balance) .. 16.6.70 4.5.71 Maff ra (balance) 9.5.72 25.6.74 Maldon (Rural) 9.1.74 26.2.74 Mansfleld (balance) 27.7.72 21.11.72 Marong (part) 5.8.70 8.12.70 tMelton (part} 14.8.62 27.8.63 12.8.63 17.12.68 Metcalfe (balance) .. 31.3.71 16.5.78 Mildura (No. 4) 3 .4.75 27.5.75 Mirboo 14.2.74 23.7.74 Mornington (flats) .. 21.5.69 22.4.70 Morwell (whole) . . . . 16.3.77 4.10.77 17.8.78 Mount Rouse (Grampians Area) I 14.11.73 26.2.74 Myrtleford (balance) 13.4.76 Narracan (Trafalgar-Yarragon) 6.6.66 12.7.66 6.10.67 18.11.68 10.2.72 Narracan (balance) 12.8.74 20 7.76 Nathalia (Nathalia Township) 20.1.64 5.5.64 Nathalia (balance) .. 17.9.73 15.1.74 Newstead (balance) 14.2.74 13.5.75 Omeo 18.1.72 15.1.74 Orbost (Extended Area) 14.8.70 9.2.71 0 rbost (balance) .. 9.10.70 Otway (balance) I .3. 75 9.12.75 Otway (Apollo Bay Township) 1.2.66 22.10.68 6.8.70 Oxley (balance) 1.12.76 8.2.77 Pakenham 9.12.74 14.4.75 Portland (Rural Areas) .. 9.4.76 4.5.76 Portland (Rural Areas) (balance) 9.9.77 Pyalong 9 .4.70 28.7.70 Ripen 1.6.72 19.9.72 Rochester (North West Riding) 2.4.70 24.4. 71 63
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Exhibition Received Report ! Date of I I.D.O. Planning Scheme. Commence- Approved Period for to ment. ' Expired. ReporL Minisre1·. I ----·-- Rochester (balance) 1.8.74 2.3.76 Rodney (Merrigum Township) 26.3.62 19.6.62 Rodney (Mooroopna Township) 26.3.62 22.1.63 Rodney (Tatura Township) .. 26.3.62 19.6.62 Rodney 30.4.73 31.8. 76 Romsey 2.11.67 17.7.68 Rutherglen 8.11.71 9.8.72 Seymour (balance) .. 9.3.71 29.6.71 Shepparton (balance) 19.10.71 8.2.72 25.5.76 Shepparton (part) .. 1.7 .63 12.5.64 South Gippsland (Inland Areas) 13.3.75 27.5.75 Stawell (Panrock Creek Reservoir) 5.12.72 16.7.74 Sta well (balance) .. 4.9.73 25.6.74 Strathfieldsaye (part) 1.8.67 14.10.69 Strathfieldsaye (balance) 1.7.72 17.5.77 Swan Hill (balance) 5.10.77 20.12.77 Talbot and Clunes 4.10.76 3.11.76 Tallangatta (Bethan~a-Talgarno) 19.10.64 7.2.67 Tallangatta (balance .. 18.8.70 29.8.72 Tambo (balance) .. 21.6. 78 Traralgon (part) 6.12.77 Tullaroop (balance) 11.8.70 11.4.78 Upper Murray (balance) 6.3.73 25.6.74 Upper Yarra 6.8.63 7.3.78 Violet Town 8.10.73 12.2.74 Walpeup .. 11.11.76 2.11.77 Wangaratta (balance) 15.12.71 17.10.72 Wannon .. 4.8.75 6.9.77 Waranga (balance) .. 20.7.71 11.10.71 Waranga 20.9.77 Warragul (balance) .. 13.6.72 13.11.73 Warrnambool (part) 15.2.73 15.5.73 Warrnambool (balance) 10.8.77 tWhittlesea 1.10.66 6.12.66 Wimmera (Grampians and adjacent area) 16.10.72 28.11.72 Wimmera (balance) 15.7.74 11.2.75 Winchelsea (balance) 12.4.72 11.9.72 Wycheproof 10.8.71 19.9.72 Yackandandah (Rural Areas) 12.12.68 6.9.77 Yarrawonga (part). . . . 11.6.74 6.11.74 17.3.76 Yarrawonga (Yarrawonga Township) .. 3.8.54 23.11.54 6.7.65 20.9.66 Yea 5.7.73 11.2. 75
joint Committees Ararat and District (City of Ararat and part Shire of Ararat) 15.12.60 11.4.61 Regional Planning Authorities Geelong (Cities of Geelong, Geelong West and Newtown, Shires of Bannockburn, Barrabool, Bellarine, Corio and South Barwon and Bor- ough of Queenscliffe) . . . . 31.7.69 23.5.72 9.2.76 16.6.78 Loddon Campaspe (Cities of Bendigo, Castlemaine, Echuca and Marybor- ough, Borough of Eaglehawk, Town of St. Arnaud, Shires of Bet Bet, Charlton, East Loddon, Gordon, Hun- tly, Kara Kara, Korong, Maldon, Mar- ong, Metcalfe, Rochester, Strathfleld- saye and Tullaroop and the Western Riding of the Shire of Waranga) 23 .11. 73 64
APPENDIX 1-Continued
Date of 1.0.0. Exhibition Received Report Planning Scheme. Commence~ Approved. Period for to ment. Expired. Report. ----Minluer. Loddon Campaspe (Bendigo Whipstick) 28.1. 77 10.5.77 ...... Western Port (Shires of Flinders, Hastings, Mornington and Phillip Island and part Shires of Bass and Cranbourne and Parish of French Island) ...... 12.6.69 6.10.70 ......
Development Corporations AI bury jWodonga Development Cor- poration-Aibury/Wodonga (Victoria) 24.10.74 14.10.75 ......
Board of Works Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 3 (Extension Scheme) .. 11.6.68 30.11.71 3.7.72 . . .. Part I ...... 12.3.76 .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 ...... 16.3.71 .. 3.7.72 .. .. Part 8 ...... 12.3.76 Part BA ...... 28.11.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 23 ...... 14.9.71 .. 6.1.72 .. . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 27 ...... 6.7 71 . . 10.11.72 .. . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 29 ...... 7.12.71 .. 1.2.72 5.12.73 .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 30 ...... 17.10.72 . . 22 11.73 4.7.75 29.8.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 34 ...... 17.10.72 . . 22.11.73 .. .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 35 ...... 11.7.72 . . 10.10.74 .. .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 36 ...... 6.12.72 19.12.72 20.1. 73 .. .. Part I ...... 20.3.75 .. Part 2 ...... 27.11.75 .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 49 ...... 11.6.74 .. 26.5.75 . . .. Part 2A ...... 22.11.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 54 ...... 22.10.74 .. 20.2.75 .. .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 55 ...... 8.11.74 .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 56 ...... 28.8.75 . . .. Part 2 ...... 18.5.76 15.11.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 57 ...... 29.7.75 .. 24.12.75 . . . . Part 4 ...... 4.5.77 27.6.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 60 ...... 8.7.75 . . 25.5.76 .. .. Part I ...... 14.10.76 5.12.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 62 ...... 7.10.75 . . 25.5.76 . . .. Part I ...... 9.8.76 .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 63 ...... 5.12.75 .. . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 64 ...... 17.2.76 . . 26.8.76 . . . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 68 ...... 27.4.76 .. 22.12.76 .. . . Part 2 ...... 3.8.77 . . 65
APPENDIX 1-Continued
I I Exhibition Received Report I Date of ! 1.0.0. ~ Planning Scheme. :Commence.. Approved. Period for to ment. Expired. Report. Minister.
Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 69 ...... 30.3.76 . . 13.10.77 . . .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 70...... 14.9.76 . . 23.3.77 .. . . Part 4 ...... 14.11.77 1.6. 78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 71 ...... 30.3.76 . . 5.6.76 .. . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 72 ...... 18.5.76 . . 25.8.77 . . .. Part 2 ...... I .. . . 21.2.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 76 ...... 27.6.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 77 ...... 26.4.77 I . . 21.10.77 . . . . Part I ...... 17.1.78 21.6. 78 Part 2 ...... 22.2.78 .. Part 3 ...... 16.3.78 .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 81 ...... 14.6.77 I . . 21.12.77 .. .. Part I ...... 16.3.78 21.6. 78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment . No. 82 ...... 4.10.77 . . 15.3.78 .. . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment I No. 83 ...... 4.10.77 . . 15.5.78 .. .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 87 ...... 7.2.78 .. 21.7. 78 . . . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment I No. 88 ...... 7.2.78 ...... Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 89 ...... 18.4. 78 . . 21.9.78 . . . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment l No. 90 ...... 16.5.78 ...... Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 92 ...... 16.5.78 . . 21.9.78 .. . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 95 ...... 5.5.78 . . . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 96 ...... 30.8.78 . . .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment I No. 101 ...... 18.4.78 .. 24.8.78 . . . . Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 102 ...... 3.6.78 . . .. Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment I No. 103 ...... 8.5.78
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Town and Country Planning Board I
Central Gippsland (Brown Coal i Deposits )-Area 'A' (part Shires of Alberton, Morwell, Rosedale, Traralgon and the Yallourn Works I Area) ...... 7.4.78 i 11.4.78 ...... Central Gippsland (Brown Coal Deposits)-Area ' B' (part Shires of Rosedale and Traralgon) .. 7.4.78 11.4.78 ...... Central Gippsland (Brown Coal Deposits )-Area ·c· (part Shire of Rosedale) ...... 7 .4. 78 11.4.78 ...... Central Gippsland (Brown Coal Deposits)-Area 'D' (part Shire of Morwell) ...... 7.4.78 I 11.4.78 ...... I : 10853178-S 66
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Date of 1.0.0. Exhibition Received Report Planning Scheme. Commence- Approved. Period for to ment. Expired. Report. Minister.
Central Gippsland (Brown Coal Deposits)-Area 'E • (part Shire of I Alberton) ...... 7.4.78 11.4.78 ...... Central Gippsland (Brown Coal Deposits )-Area , F' (part Shires of Alberton and South Gippsland) .. 7 .4.78 11.4.78 ...... Clunes Swamps (part Shire of Talbot and Clunes) ...... 2.7.76 13.7.76 . . . . I . . Corop Lakes (part Shire of Waranga) 14.3.69 28.10.69 ...... Gippsland Lakes (part Shires of Bairnsdale, Tambo, Avon and Rosedale) .. 6.7.73 3.2.76 ...... Lake Buffalo (part Shire of Myrtleford) 10.5.63 18.6.63 ...... Lake Nillahcootie (part Shires of Benalla and Mansfield) ...... 11.1.67 7.2.67 6.10.77 .. . . Lake Tyers to Cape Howe Coastal (part Shire of Orbost) .. . . 31.10.64 24.11.64 15.3.77 . . . . La~;ob~. Valley Su_b-Regional Extension A (part Sh1re of Traralgon) .. 16.9.64 13.10.64 10.10.66 Lorne (part Shire of Winchelsea) 30.4.69 20.12.74 7.7.76 Ocean Road, Extension " A " (part Shire of Otway) .. 1.9.72 14.8.73 Ovens-Upper Murray (Shire of Chiltern, part Rural City of Wodonga and part Shires of Myrtleford, Rutherglen, Tallangatta and Yackandandah) 8.3.73 16.9.75 Simpson (part Shires of Heytesbury and Otway) 20.12.67 23.1.68 South Western Coastal (part Shire of Belfast) 7 .1.65 27.1.65 South Western Coastal (part Shire of Heytesbury) 7 .1.65 27.1.65 South Western Coastal (part Shire of Otway} 7 .1.65 27.1.65 South Western Coastal (part Shire of Portland} 7.1.65 27.1.65 South Western Coastal (part Shire of 7. 1.65 27.1.65 • These schemes are within the area of the approved Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme. t These schemes are within the extended planning area of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board o( Works. 67 APPENDIX 11 Planning Schemes Approved
Date of Date of Approval Gnettal Planning Scheme. by (Scheme Governor became in Council. effective).
Cities •Aitona 25 3.58 2 .4. 58 Ararat 15.11.55 24.10.56 Ben alia 24.12.74 8.1.75 Bendigo 13.5.70 20.5.70 *Box Hill (part) 7.5.68 8.5.68 *Camberwell 8.10.57 30.10.57 Colac 25.6.68 26.6.68 tCroydon .. 30.11.65 1.12.65 Echuca 11 10.71 13.10.71 tFran kston .. 26.10.71 3.11.71 Hamilton .. 13.7.71 21.7.71 Horsham .. 12.6.73 27.6.73 tKnox 24.8.65 25.8.65 Maryborough 6.2.68 7.2.68 Mildura 24.8.71 1.9.71 Moe 12.10.54 20.10.54 Sale 2.2.77 4.2.77 Shepparton 17.5.55 25.5.55 Traralgon .. 20.9 60 5.10.60
Bon•ugl1s
Kyabram (part) 23.5.67 24.5.67 Port Fairy .. 25.6.68 26.6.68
Towns
Bairnsdale .. .. 123.11.76 1.12.76 Stawell 28.10.69 5.11.69
Shires
Alexandra .. 10.5.77 18.5.77 Alberton (Coastal) .. 27.2.68 28.2.68 Arapiles (Horsham Boundary) 10.7.73 . 18.7.73 Ararat (Willaura) 14.12.71 I 22.12.71 Bacchus Marsh 8.7.75 16.7.75 Be nail a (part) 11.1.55 19.1.55 tBulla (part) 11.1.66 19.1.66 Cobram (Cobram Township) 19.12.50 20.12.50 Colac (Colac Environs) 22.10.74 30.10.74 tCranbourne (Cranbourne Township) 27.8.63 28.8.63 Flinders .. 5. 5.65 12.5.65 Kilmore .. 3.7.73: I I .7.73 Korumburra 14.12.76 I 22.12.76 Lillydale .. 30.11.65 1.12.65 Maffra (Heyfield Township) .. 25.3.75 4.4.75 Maffra (Maffra Township) .. 26.3.74 I 3.4.74 Mornington 30.5.61 . 14.6.61 Morwell (Morwell Township) 15.1.57 . 20.2.57 Morwell (Boolarra) 27.5.58 4.2.59 Morwell (Yinnar) .. 27.5.58 4.2.59 Myrtleford (Myrtleford Township) 20.1.76 28.1.76 Newham and Woodend .. 7.6.78 14.6.78 Numurkah (Numurkah Township) 23.8.60 31.8.60 Portland (Heywood Township) 14.12.76 22.12.76 Rochester (Parish of Wharparilla) 24.8.71 1.9.71 Rochester (Rochester Township) 10.7.73 18.7.73 Rosedale .. 21.12.76 22.12.76 Seymour (Seymour Township) 3.11.71 10.11.71 Sherbrooke 24.8.65 25.8.65 68
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Date of Date of Approval Gazettal Planning Scheme. by (Scheme Governor became in Council. effective).
South Gippsland (part) 16.1.73 24.1.73 Swan Hill (Castle Donnington) 29.10.63 30.10.63 Swan Hill (Nyah-Nyah West) 14.12.71 22.12.71 Swan Hill (Robinvale) 11.4.61 17.5.61 Tambo (Lakes Entrance) 3.11.76 10.11.76 Upper Murray (Corryong) .. 29.10.63 30.10.63 Warragul (Warragul Township) 4.2.58 21.5.58 tWerribee (part) 5.9.67 6.9.67 Wimmera (Horsham Boundary) 12.6.73 27.6.73 Woorayl (balance) .. 19.2.74 27.2.74 Yackandandah (Kiewa and Tangambalanga Townships) .. 30.3.71 7.4.71 Yackandandah (Yackandandah Township) 30.3.71 7.4.71
Prepared by the Board pursuant to Section 14 of the Act Club Terrace (part Shire of Orbost) 24.5.55 1.6.55 Eildon Reservoir (part Shire of Mansfield) 10.8.65 11.8.65 Eppalock (part Shires of Metcalfe, Mclvor and Strathfieldsaye) .. 17.1.67 18.1.67 French Island 24.2.65 3.3.65 Lake Bellfield (part Shire of Stawell) 9.4.68 10.4.68 Lake Cairn Curran (part Shires of Maldon, Newstead and Tullaroop) 11 .1.77 19.1.77 Lake Glenmaggie (part Shire of Maffra) 11 .1.77 19.1.77 Latrobe Valley Sub-Regional (part Shires of Morwell, Narracan, Rosedale and Traralgon) .. 24.7.51 25.7.51 Lorne (part Shire of Winchelsea) 5.7.77 13.7.77 Maldon (part Shire of Maldon) 11.10.77 19.10.77 Ocean Road (part Shires of Barrabool, Otway. South Barwon and Winchelsea) 15.4.58 30.4. 58 Phillip Island 17.12.74 18.12.74 Tallangatta (part shire of Tallangatta) 25.6.58 9.7.58 Tower Hill (part Shires of Warrnambool, Belfast and part Borough of Koroit) 17.5.67 : 24.5.67 Tyers Township (part Shire of Traralgon) 14.2.56 22.2.56 Wangaratta Sub-Regional (City of Wangaratta and part Shires of Oxley and Wangaratta) 30.11.76 15.12.76 Waratah Bay (part Shires of Woorayl and South Gippsland) 26.4.72 3.5.72 Wonthaggi Coastal (part Borough of Wonthaggi) 30.9.75 8.10.75 Yallourn North (part Shires of Morwell and Narracan) 24.5.55 i 29.6.55 I I Board of Works Melbourne Metropolitan 30.4.68 : 22.5.68 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. I 23.12.69 9.1.70 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 2 .. 3.2.70 11.2.70 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 4 .. 26.11.68 4.12.68 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 4A 24.12.68 24.12.68 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 5 .. 18.3.69 26.3.69 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 6 .. 17.12.68 18.12.68 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 7 .. 3.2.71 10.2.71 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 8 .. 15.4.69 23.4.69 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 9 .. 15.12.70 16.12.70 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 10 28.10.69 5.11.69 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 11 9.12.69 19.12.69 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 12 1.8.72 2.8.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 13 22.12.70 23.12.70 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 14 15.9.70 23.9.70 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 15 6.7.76 14.7.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 16 27.7.71 4.8.71 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 17 17.10.72 25.10.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 18 22.12.70 8.1.71 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. IBA 12.12.72 20.12.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 19 18 8.70 26.8.70 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 19A 20.10.70 28.10.70 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 19s 20.10.70 28.10.70 69
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Date of Date of Approval Gazettal Planning Scheme. by (Scheme Governor became in Council. effective}.
Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 19C 15.4.73 19.4.73 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 20 21.12.71 22.12.71 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 {Part I) 16.9.75 24.9.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 (Part 2) 6.4.76 14.4.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 {Part 3) 24.12. 75 7.1.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 (Part 4) 25. 11.75 3.12.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 (Part 5) 24.12. 75 7.1.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 {Part 6) 25.11.75 3.12.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 21 (Part 7) 1.4.76 7.4.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 22 24.8.71 1.9.71 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 23 (Part I) 25.9.74 2,10.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 24 24.10.72 1.11. 72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 25 .. 27.4.71 5.5.71 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 26 (Footscray Business District) 27.11. 73 5.12.73 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 27 (Part I) 9.10.73 17.10.73 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 27 (Part 2) 16.7.74 24.7.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 27 (Part 3) 6.8.74 14.8.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 27 (Part 4) 29.4. 75 7.5.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 27 (Part 5) 7.10.75 15.10.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 27 (Part 6) 3.2.76 11.2.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 28 10.4.73 11.4.73 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 29 (Part I) 30.10.74 6.11.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 31 26.4.72 10.5.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 32 I 1.4.72 12.4.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 33 15.8.72 23.8.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 34 (Part I) 30.10.74 6.11.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 34 (Part 2) 27,5.75 11.6.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 34 (Part 3) 5.8.75 13.8.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 34 (Part 4) 14.9 76 22.9.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 34 (Part 5) 23.11.76 1.12.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 35 (Part I) 24.6.75 2.7.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 35 (Part 2) .. I 25.5.76 2.6.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 35 (Part 3) 3.11.76 10.11.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 35 (Part 4) 3.2.76 11.2.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 35 (Part 5) 11.3.76 17.3.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 35 (Part 6) 31.8.76 8.9.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 36 (Part lA) 29.4.75 7.5.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 36 (Part I B) 5.8.75 13.8.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 37 8.11.72 15.11.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 38 19.12.72 20.12.72 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 39 6.6.73 13.6.73 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 41 19.8.75 27.8.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 42 14.10.75 22.10.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 43 20.11.73 28.11.73 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 44 19.2.74 27.2.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 45 26.4.78 3.5.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 46 19.3.74 27.3.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 47 25.2.75 5.3.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 48 2.4.74 10.4.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 49 (Part I) 13.4.76 23.4.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 49 (Part 2) 13.7.76 21.7.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 49 (Part 3) 10.8.76 18.8.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 50 29.10.75 5.11.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 51 25.2.75 5.3.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 52 30.9.75 8.10.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 53 17.9.74 25.9.74 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 54 (Part I) 30.9.75 8.10.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 54 (Part 2) 25.8.76 1.9.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 54 (Part 3 2.3.76 10.3.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 56 (Part I) 3.3.76 24.3.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 56 (Part 2A) 24.5.77 1.6.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 57 (Part I) 10.8.76 18.8.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 57 (Part 2) 3.11.76, 10.11.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 57 (Part 2A) .. · 15.2.77 I 16.2.77 70
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Date of Gazettal Planning Scheme. (Scheme bec:ame effective).
Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 57 (Part 3) 14.12. 76 22.12.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 58 7 10.75 8.10.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 59 15.2.77 23.2.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 61 2.9.75 3.9.75 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 62 (Part lA) 21.9.76 22.9.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 62 (Part IB) 19.10.76 : 27.10.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 62 (Part 2) 13.6.78 ! 21.6.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 62 (Part 3) 14.12.76 22.12.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 62 (Part 4) 5.4.77 15.4.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 64 (Part I) 1.3.77 9.3.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 64 (Part 2) 21.2.78 1.3. 78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 64 (Part 2A) 23.5.78 31.5.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 64 (Part 3) 20.9.77 28.9.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 65 7.12.76 15.12.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 66 15.11.77 23 .11. 76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 67 5.10.76 13.10.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 68 (Part I) 7.6.77 15.6.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 68 (Part 2A) 2.2.78 8.2.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 70 (Part I) 13.12.77 14.12.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 70 (Part 2) 12.7.77 13.7.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 70 (Part 3) 2.11.77 9.11.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 72 (Part I) 21.3.78 5 .4. 78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 73 19.10.76 27.10.76 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 74 5.4.77 15.4.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 75 6.12.77 14.12.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 78 27.4.77 4.5.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 79 2.8.77 10.8.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 80 23.8.77 31.8.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 84 2.11.77 9.11.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 85 2.11.77 9.11.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 86 2.11.77 9.11.77 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 93 20.12.77 6.1.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 98 21.3.78 22.3.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 100 28.2.78 1.3.78 Melbourne Metropolitan Amendment No. 106 7.6.78 14.6.78
joint Committees
Ballaarat and District (City or Ballaarat, Borough or Sebastopol and part Shires or Ballarat, Bungaree, Buninyong and Grenville) 23.8.72 Geelong (part Shire of Bellarine) .. 29.8.62 Hazelwood (part Shire of Morwell) .. 25.11.64 Portland (Town of Portland and part Shire of Portland) 29.6.60
" These schemes are within the area of the apptoved Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme. f Thes:e schemes are within the extended planning area of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. 71 APPENDIX Ill
List of Publications
Statements of Planning Policy (with accompanying reports) Cost Postage $ Cents No. 1-Western Port (as varied) 1.10 35 No. 2-Mornington Peninsula (as varied) 1.10 35 No. 3-Dandenong Ranges 1.10 35 No. 4-River Yarra 1 . 10 35 No. 5-Highway Areas 1.10 35 No. 6-Land Use and Aerodromes 1.10 35 No. 7-Geelong 1.10 35 No. 8-Macedon Ranges 1 . 10 35 No. 9-Central Gippsland: Brown Coal Deposits 1. 10 35 All Statements without accompanying explanatory reports are available free of charge.
Reports Melton and Sunbury Investigation Areas (2 Volumes) 15.50 LOO Land Requirements and Recommended Designated Areas (Melbourne Investigation Area Study) 7' 10 1.00 Coast Road Studies (Peterborough-Warrnambool; Mallacoota-Wingan Inlet) 3.00 70 City of Melbourne Investigation Area Report 3.55 70 Central Gippsland Social Survey 4.15 70 Life in the Latrobe Valley (a companion report to the Central Gippsland Social Survey) 2.95 70 Report on General Concept 0 bjections. 197 4 L 10 45 Annual Reports Free 45 Macedon Ranges Research Report 6.85 LOO Ninety Mile Beach: The Future of Existing Subdivisions Free 35 A Guide to Administrative Procedures under the Town and Country Planning Act 4. 15 70 Motels-A Planning Guide Free 35 Caravan Parks-A Planning Guide Free 35 Pedestrian Malls-A Discussion Paper Free 70 Sites of Scientific Interest on the Victorian Coast (wall chart) 1 . 10 35 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Victorian Coastal Region-Four Reports- A Report on the Zoological Aspects Free 70 A Report on the Archaeological Aspects Free 70 A Report on the Geological Aspects Free 70 A Report on the Botanical Aspects Free 70
Research Papers (Free) No. 1-Towards a Planning Philosophy by R. H. Arnot 45 No. 2-Population and Resources: A National Spatial Ordering Concept Plan by R. H. Arnot 45 No. 3-Approaches to the Conduct of Regional Economic Studies by L Benzler 45 No. 4-The Place of Zoning in the Planning Process by A S. Ongan 45 No. 5-lnappropriate Rural Subdivision---A Review by R. C. Spragg 45 No. 6-Whither Planning? by R. H. Arnot 45 72 APPENDIX Ill-Continued
Cost Postage $ Cents Transcripts (Free) " Citizen Participation-How to Plan a City for People "-public lecture by Prof. J. l. Hancock. July, 1976 35 " Squares, loops, Whorls and Malls "-public lecture by Prof. P. Johnson-Marshall. April. 1977 45 " From Urban Spaces to People Places "-proceedings of a seminar in Melbourne to mark World Town Planning Day, November, 1977 70 " Positive Planning Produces Progress " proceedings of a seminar in Bendigo to mark World Town Planning Day, November, 1977 45 " Putting Plans into Action "-proceedings of a seminar in Portland to mark World Town Planning Day. November, 1977 45 " Planning-Who Needs lt? "-proceedings of a seminar in Wodonga to mark World Town Planning Day, November, 1977 45
Pamphlets (Free) The Preparation of a Planning Scheme 25 Requirements for the Preparation and Examination of Planning Schemes 25 Permits and Appeals 25 Steps in the Planning Process 25 Numerous other small pamphlets are also available free of charge
Maps Planning in Victoria as at 30th June, 1978 Free 25 Regional Boundaries for Government Activities in Victoria 40 25
By Authority: F. D. ATKINSON, Government Printer, Melbourne PLANNING SCHEMES APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL
• A ltona Alexttnd ra P LANNIN.G IN VICTORIA A rarat Alberton (Coastal Areas) B a ii Jur o:~t (Joint Scheme) A rap iles (H orsham Boundary) Banal la A r <.~ra t (WJllaura) 30th JUNE 1978 Bend igo Bacch us Ma rsh ~ B ox Hill (part) Ballarat (Joint Scheme) • Brunswick Bellarine (Joint Scheme) • Camberwell Bena\la {p art ) Colac t Bu lla (part) t Croydon Bungaree (Joint Scheme) Echuca Buninyong (Joint Scheme) t Fran kston Cobram (Cobram Township ) Ham ilton Colac (Co lac Environs) Horshum t Cranbourne (Cranbourne Township) TKno)( Fllnders Maryborough Grenvitle (Joint Scheme) M ildura K ilmore Moe Korum burra Sale L illydal !:! Sheppan on M affra (Hey f ield Township) Trar:llgon M 1. WESTERN PORT REGION AL PLANNING AUTHORITY A REA 2. GEE LONG REGIONAL PLANNING AUTHOR ITY AREA 3. LODOO N CAMPASPE REGIONAL PLANNING A U T HOR IT Y AREA 4. UPPER YARRA VAL LEY AND DANDENONG RANGES AUTHORIT Y AREA 5. AREA COVERED BY GIPPSLAND L AKES INTERIM D EVEL OPMENT ORDER 6. A REA COVERED BY OVENS-UPPER M U RRAY INTERIM DEVEL OPMENT ORDER 7. AREA COVERED BY CENTRAL G IPPSLAND (BROWN COA L DEPOSITS) INTERIM DEV ELOPM ENT ORDE RS APPROVED PLAN N ING SCH EM ES PREPARED BY THE SCHEMES IN COU RSE OF PREPA RATION B Y THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNIN G BOARD TOWN A N D COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD (8 1 Latrobe Valley Sub-Regional Shire of Morwell !RI Lake Buffalo Shire of Mynloford Shire of Narrocan ITI Latrobe V:~ l l ey Sub-Regional Shire of RosodDie Extension ' A ' Shire of Morwell Shire of T rara1gon Shire of Traralgon (Cl Tyers Townsh ip Shire of Trara!gon IUI Lake Tyers to Cape Howe (0 1 Yallourn North T ownship Shire of Morwoll Coastal Shire of Orbost Shire of N:Hracan IV) South West ern Coastal Sh ire of Otw