List of practice & advisory notes
This page lists all current planning practice notes and all advisory notes in alphabetical order. Alternatively, view the notes displayed in subject groupings with a brief summary of what each note is about.
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Practice Notes
PN56: Activity Centre Zone, September 2009 (PDF - 539 KB)
PN11: Applying for a planning permit under the flood provisions - a guide for councils, referral authorities and applicants, August 2000 (PDF - 182 KB)
PN12: Applying the flood provisions in planning schemes - a guide for councils, August 2000 (PDF - 2.2 MB)
PN01: Applying the Heritage Overlay, February 1999 (PDF - 103 KB)
PN23: Applying the Incorporated Plan and Development Plan Overlays, January 2003 (PDF - 243 KB)
PN02: Applying the Public Land zones, republished June 2011 (PDF - 241 KB)
PN42: Applying the rural zones, March 2007 (PDF - 128 KB)
PN03: Applying the Special Use Zone, February 1999 (PDF - 130 KB)
PN15: Assessing an application for a dwelling in a residential zone, December 2001 (PDF - 54 KB)
PN33: Assessing applications involving native vegetation removal, March 2006 (PDF - 142 KB)
PN34: Assessing mining proposals, April 2006 (PDF - 369 KB)
PN25: Authorisation to prepare planning scheme amendments affecting the Urban Growth Boundary and green wedge land, June 2003 (PDF - 40 KB)
PN19: Biodiversity, March 2002 (PDF - 303 KB)
PN51: Buildings and Native Vegetation removal, revised July 2009 (PDF - 250 KB)
PN65: Bushfire Management Overlay and bushfire protection: planning requirements, November 2011 (PDF - 950 KB)
PN35: Extractive industry proposals, April 2006 (PDF - 181 KB)
PN52: Farming and Native Vegetation removal, revised July 2009 (PDF - 239 KB)
PN60: Height and setback controls for activity centres, April 2010 (PDF - 179 KB)
PN36: Implementing a Coastal Settlement Boundary, October 2006 (PDF - 313 KB)
PN13: Incorporated and reference documents, August 2000 (PDF - 43 KB)
PN61: Licensed premises: assessing cumulative impact, March 2011 (PDF - 430 KB)
PN64: Local planning for bushfire protection, November 2011 (PDF - 1045 KB)
PN16: Making a planning application for a dwelling in a residential zone, December 2001 (PDF - 66 KB)
PN53: Managing coastal hazards and the coastal impacts of climate change, December 2008 (PDF - 190 KB)
PN48: Managing native vegetation in the planning system, September 2008 (PDF - 204 KB)
PN54: Managing Referrals and Notice Requirements, January 2009 (PDF - 203 KB)
PN14: Metropolitan Freeway Service Centres, August 2000 (PDF - 26 KB)
PN29: Ministerial powers of intervention in planning and heritage matters, November 2004 (PDF - 65 KB)
PN49: Native vegetation offsets, September 2008 (PDF - 197 KB)
PN20: Parking precinct plans, July 2002 (PDF - 422 KB)
PN18: Planning considerations for horticultural structures, February 2002 (PDF - 398 KB)
PN09: Planning Requirements for Public Transport Land, January 2000(PDF - 42 KB)
PN30: Potentially Contaminated Land General Practice Note June 2005 (PDF - 73 KB)
PN31: Preparing a Green Wedge Management Plan, August 2005 (PDF - 89 KB)
PN50: Preparing a native vegetation precinct plan, September 2008 (PDF - 213 KB)
PN05: Resolving Planning Issues, February 1999 (PDF - 76 KB)
PN32: Review of planning schemes, February 2006 (PDF - 109 KB)
PN59: The role of mandatory provisions in planning schemes, September 2010 (PDF - 154 KB)
PN37: Rural Residential Development, May 2012 (PDF - 358 KB)
PN24: Shipping container storage, January 2003 (PDF - 81 KB)
PN46: Strategic Assessment Guidelines (PDF - 340 KB)
See Strategic Assessment Guidelines checklist template on Checklists page.
PN58: Structure planning for activity centres, April 2010 (PDF - 238 KB)
PN45: The Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 and the planning permit process, October 2007 (PDF - 184 KB)
See also EES Advisory Note: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and the Environment Effects process, August 2007 (PDF - 218 KB)
PN06: Timber production in the Rural Zone, February 1999 (PDF - 83 KB)
PN43: Understanding Neighbourhood Character, December 2001 (PDF - 59 KB)
PN27: Understanding the residential development standards, June 2004 (PDF - 538 KB)
PN17: Urban Design Frameworks, September 2002 (PDF - 81 KB)
PN47: Urban Growth Zone, June 2008 (PDF - 482 KB)
PN38: Using the access and mobility management provisions of Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 602 KB)
PN39: Using the integrated water management provisions of Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 616 KB)
PN28: Using the neighbourhood character provisions in planning, July 2004 (PDF - 249 KB)
PN22: Using the parking provisions, July 2002 (PDF - 463 KB)
PN40: Using the residential subdivision provisions Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 79 KB)
PN41: Using the site management provisions of Clause 56 - Residential subdivision, October 2006 (PDF - 109 KB)
PN07: Vegetation protection in urban areas, August 1999 (PDF - 453 KB)
PN08: Writing a Local Planning Policy, September 2010 (PDF - 319 KB)
PN04: Writing a Municipal Strategic Statement, September 2010 (PDF - 809 KB)
PN10: Writing Schedules, May 2000 (PDF - 581 KB)
Advisory Notes
AN34: Addressing the Transport Integration Act 2010 in a planning scheme amendment, January 2011, AN34 (PDF - 221KB)
AN16: Amendment VC49: September 2008 (PDF - 188 KB)
AN18: Amendment VC56: Government funded education facilities, revised May 2009 (PDF - 352 KB)
AN19: Amendment VC56: Government funded social housing, May 2009 (PDF - 231 KB)
AN22: Amendment VC60: September 2009, AN22 (PDF - 220 KB)
AN29: Amendment VC66 Regional Blueprint implementation, July 2010, AN29 (PDF - 145 KB)
AN30: Amendment VC68: Delivering Melbourne's newest sustainable communities, August 2010, AN30 (PDF - 221 KB)
AN28: Amendment VC69: Waste Transfer and Materials Recycling Facilities, August 2010, AN28 (PDF - 200 KB)
AN31: Amendment VC71: The revised State Planning Policy Framework, September 2010, AN31 (PDF - 163 KB)
AN35: Amendment VC78: Wind energy facility provisions - Clause 52.32, March 2011, AN35 (PDF - 533 KB)
AN36: Amendment VC82: Changes to wind energy facility provisions, August 2011 (PDF - 244 KB)
AN33: Amendment VC83 - Bushfire protection: Community fire refuge and private bushfire shelter exemptions, November 2011 (PDF - 664 KB)
AN39: Amendment VC83 - Bushfire protection: Vegetation exemptions, November 2011 (PDF - 776 KB)
AN40: Amendment VC83 - Bushfire protection: Bushfire planning provisions, November 2011 (PDF -672 KB)
AN03: Applying the Residential 3 Zone, November 2004 (PDF - 82 KB)
AN12: A protocol for fast tracking amendments, March 2007 (PDF - 51 KB)
AN20: Bushfire replacement buildings - Amendment VC57, May 2009 (PDF - 172 KB)
AN09: Changes to the gaming provisions in planning schemes, October 2006 (PDF - 42 KB)
AN05: Changes to the planning permit process, May 2005 (PDF - 119 KB)
AN06: Changes to the planning scheme amendment process, May 2005 (PDF - 104 KB)
AN04: Interim height limits for neighbourhood centres, November 2004 (PDF - 177 KB)
AN13: Interim provisions for structure plans, March 2007 (PDF - 189 KB)
AN17: New exemptions for native vegetation removal in planning schemes, September 2008 (PDF - 371 KB)
AN08: New native vegetation provisions in planning schemes, March 2006 (PDF - 156 KB)
AN14: New Planning Provisions for Melbourne Airport, May 2007 (PDF - 85 KB)
AN41: New Subdivision (Procedures) Regulations 2011, October 2011 (PDF -200 KB)
AN02: New Zones for Rural Victoria, June 2004 (PDF - 42 KB)
AN38: Planning and Environment Amendment (Schools) Act 2012, February 2012 (PDF - 291KB)
AN33: Planning permit exemptions - private bushfire shelters - Amendment VC76, November 2010, AN33 (PDF - 352 KB)
AN01: Planning provisions for Melbourne's green wedges, November 2003 (PDF - 26 KB)
AN11: Reducing amendment timeframes, February 2007 (PDF - 48 KB)
AN15: Reducing amendment timeframes by pre-setting panel hearing dates, July 2007 (PDF - 41 KB)
AN27: The new State Planning Policy Framework, September 2010, AN27 (PDF - 178 KB)
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