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1964-65 VICTORIA NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD OF VICTORIA FOR THE PERIOD 1sT JULY, 1963, TO 30TH JUNE, 1964 PRESEXTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 (2) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLAN~UNG ACT 1961 [Approximate Cost of Report.-Preparation, not given. Printing (225 eopies), £:H5.j By Authority: A. C. BROOKS. GOVERNMENT PRINTER. MELBOURNE. No. 18.-[3s. 3o.].-9962/64. INDEX PAGE Introduction 5 The Board 6 Regulations 6 Planning Schemes commenced, in course of preparation or approved 7 Planning Schemes Examined by the Board 19 Shire of Lillydale Planning Scheme 20 Shire of Bulla Planning Scheme .. 21 Shire of Flinders Planning Scheme 22 Buffalo Reservoir Planning Scheme 23 Eildon Reservoir 23 Eildon Reservoir Planning Scheme (Shire of Alexandra) 23 Eildon Reservoir Planning Scheme (Shire of Mansfield) 23 Eildon Sub-Regional Planning Scheme, Extension "A" .. 23 Eppalock Planning Scheme 24 French Island Planning Scheme 25 Planning at Fern Tree Gully 26 Lake Bellfield Planning Scheme 27 Phillip Island Planning Scheme 28 Tower Hill Planning Scheme 29 Waratah Bay Planning Scheme 29 Joint Planning Schemes in Course of Preparation- Ararat and District Joint Planning Scheme 29 Ballaarat and District Joint Planning Scheme 30 Hazelwood Joint Planning Scheme 30 Wangaratta Sub-Regional Planning Scheme 31 Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme 32 Milleara Area Planning Scheme .. 33 Local Schemes Within Metropolitan Planning Area 33 Schemes Under Section 605 of the Local Government Act .. 34 Land Use Zoning-By-Laws Under the Local Government Act 34 Main Road Reserves in Planning Schemes 34 Westernport 36 R.A.C.V. Traffic Symposium 1964 37 Metropolitan Transportation 38 Melbourne's Boulevards .. 39 Australian Planning Institute-Canberra Convention 1963 40 Extractive Industry Inquiry 40 Visits by the Board 40 Staff and Office Accommodation .. 41 ILLUSTRATIONS. Town and Country Planning Board NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 179 Queen-street, Melbourne, 0.1 The llonorable the .Zvlinister for Local Government, 61 Spring-street, 111elbmune, 0.1 SIR, 1. In accordance with the provisions of Section 5 (2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1961 (Act No. 6849), 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, 1964. 2. During the period under review the Board held 47 meetings and in addition was represented at a number of conferences held in the metropolitan area and various country centres. The meeting held on the 24th June, 1964, represented the 820th formal meeting of the Board since its inception in 1945. 3. As the Board enters its 20th year of operations and looks back over the progress of planning in this State during the past two decades it is with a feeling of satisfaction that the Board is able to record that 92 · 5 per cent. of the State's population is now living within areas which are subject to some form of planning control. 4. The number of planning schemes which have been processed to the approval stage continues to increase and this in itself reflects the growing interest which is apparent in most municipalities to the advantages which accrue from approved planning schemes. 5. However, the Board is concerned that there are a number of instances where planning schemes have been commenced and processed to an advanced stage and where the Responsible Authority is using the powers conferred by an Interim Development Order to control development instead of planning scheme provisions, which have been approved after having unde~·gone the public safeguards such as exhibition, receiving and dealing with objections, ard an examination and report by this Board. 6. The purpose of granting an Interim Development Order as envisaged by the legislation is to provide a temporary power over an area pending the approval or a planning scheme so that development will be controlled in accordance with the provisions of the scheme to be submitted for the approval of the Governor in Counc1L 7. The Board periodically seeks advice from those planning authorities where it appears that progress is unnecessarily slow so as to ascertain whether any special problems have arisen on which assistance may be offered and also to enable consideration to be given as to whether a continuance of Interim Development Order control is warranted in the circumstances. 6 8. The Board considers it wrong in principle and contrary to the spirit of the legislation for Interim Development Order control to be continued on an indefinite basis) and the Board proposes during the coming year to fully review the position with a view to the revocation of those Interim Development Orders where it is apparent that insufficient efforts are being made to continue the processing of a planning scheme. THE BOARD. 9. At a meeting of the Executive Council held on the 14th January, 1964, the Governor in Council re-appointed lVIr. F. C. Cook as a Member and Chairman of the Board for the period ending on 26th February, 1965. REGULATIONS. 10. For some years the Board had been administering staff matters in accordance with staff regulations which had originally been approved by the Governor in Council on the 5th August, 1947. These regulations referred extensively to the Public Service Regulations and by reference incorporated large sections of those regulations as being applicable to the Board. 11. During the year the Board's attention was drawn to the views of the Statute Law Revision Committee which required that regulations to have application in their own right should not incorporate references to other regulations as this in effect meant that any future variation of those incorporated portions of the Public Service Regulations would automatically be applicable to the Board's staff. 12. Having regard to these views a complete review of the staff regulations was undertaken and new regulations were framed with the assistance of the Parliamentary Draftsman to cover the Board's particular requirements. These regulations were approved by the Governor in Council on the 5th May, 1964, under the title Town and Country Planning Board (Staff) Regulations 1964. 7 PLANNING SCHEMES COMMENCED, IN COURSE OF PREPARATION, OR APPROVED AS AT 30TH JUNE, 1964. LIST " A "-PLANNING SCHEMES APPROVED. Date of Board's Report Approval by Government Scheme. to 1\linister Governor in Gazette No. Date. Council. Cities. Ararat (7,930) . 15.12.53 15.11.55 870 24.10.56 Ararat 1953, Amendment No. 1, 1961 . 9.10.61 17.10.61 90 18.10.61 Ararat 1953, Amendment No. 2 . 26.2.63 9.4.63 31 10.4.63 Ararat 1953, Amendment No. 3 . 31.7.63 12.11.63 89 13.11.63 *tBroadmeadows, Part I (66,167) . 13.9.50 14.10.52 833 22.10.52 *Broadmeadows, Part 1, Amendment No. 1 . 26.2.54 4.5.54 333 12.5.54 *Broadmeadows, Part 1, Amendment No. 2 . 30.3.54 30.11.54 1148 8.12.54 *Broadmeadows, Part 1, Amendment No. 3 . 4.3.55 27.4.55 233 4.5.55 *Broadmeadows, Amendment No. 7, 1961 . 18.8.61 29.8.61 77 30.8.61 *Broadmeadows, Amendment No. 8 . 13.12.62 22.1.63 5 23.1.63 *Broadmeadows, Amendment No. 11, 1963 . 23.3.64 28.4. 64 33 29.4.64 *Brunswick No. 1 . 10.6.49 25.10.49 879 26.10.49 *Brunswick No. 2 . 25.7.52 25.8.53 768 2.9.53 *Brunswick No. 3 . 21.5.54 16.6.54 587 23.6.54 *Brunswick 1956 (52,817) . 27.3.57 22.10.57 264 4.12.57 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 1 . 2.12.58 22.12.58 7 21.1.59 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 3 . 9.11.59 17.11.59 106 2.12.59 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 4 . 1.2.61 11.4.61 36 10.5.61 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 5, 1960 . 8.9.61 12.9.61 81 13.9.61 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 6, 1960 . 29.8.61 3.4.62 34 4.4.62 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 7, 1962 . 11.4.63 4.9.63 73 11.9.63 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 8 . 13.3.64 9.6.64 50 10.6.64 *Brunswick 1956, Amendment No. 9, 1963 . 13.3.64 28.4.64 33 29.4. 64 *Camberwell 1954 (99,206) . 14.2.56 8.10.57 252 30.10.57 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 1 . 7.4.61 20.6.61 50 21.6.61 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 2 . 8.5.62 22 .I. 63 5 23.1.63 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 4, 1962 . 8.6.62 12.6.62 59 13.6.62 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 5, 1962 . 19.6.62 26.6.62 67 27.6.62 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 6 . 10.7.62 28.8.62 96 29.8.62 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 7 . 26.9.62 27.11.62 122 28.11.62 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 8 . 20.9.63 3.12.63 94 4.12.63 *Camberwell 1954, Amendment No. 10, 1963 . 28.8.63 10.9.63 73 11.9.63 *Coburg No. 1, Bell-street, extension . 19.3.51 21.8.51 843 22.8.51 Geelong-Amendment No. 1 to the Geelong Planning Scheme 1959 . 9.4.64 9.6.64 50 10.6.64 Geelong West-Amendment No. 1 to the Geelong Planning Scheme 1959 . 13.3.63 16.7.63 58 24.7.63 Geelong West-Amendment No. 2 to the Geelong Planning Scheme 1959 . 23.12.63 17.3.64 18 18.3.64 Geelong West-Amendment No.