Rural and regional planning
Regional Victoria is the area outside metropolitan Melbourne and includes regional cities, towns and rural land as well as important natural areas.
Rural and regional planning aims to improve opportunities for growth in regional areas through effective planning for the use and development of land. This involves the development of integrated land use planning policy, plans and strategies that respond to growth and change in regional Victoria.
Rural and regional planning addresses:
- liveability and economic prosperity
- climate change adaptation and migration
- population and demographic change
- risks from hazards such as bushfires, flooding and coastal inundation
- water supply uncertainty.
In this section:
Regional growth plans
Eight regional growth plans are being developed to provide broad direction for land use and development across regional Victoria. They will also provide more detailed planning frameworks for key regional centres.
More information about regional growth plans
Rural land use planning program
An initiative to assist councils to resource the necessary strategic planning work to improve the protection and management of rural land within planning schemes.
More information about the rural land use planning program
Regional settlement planning projects
Place based or thematic projects about regional settlement including:
- Armstrong Creek, Geelong Planning Partnership
Planning for the Armstrong Creek Urban Growth Area involved developing a planning partnership between DPCD and the City of Greater Geelong.
- Murray River Settlement Strategy
Planning for settlements in the Murray River corridor to ensure that economic, social and environmental issues are addressed.
