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Land Use Planning

Interim changes to the Victorian Planning Provisions for vegetation clearing

The government has announced interim planning provisions to simplify residents' entitlements to clear native vegetation around their homes as part of their preparations for the 2009/10 fire season. The changes include a 10/30 right for clearing around buildings used for accommodation and along fence-lines.

The right allows landowners to clear without a planning permit:

  1. all vegetation, including trees, within 10 metres of your house
  2. all vegetation (except for trees) within 30 metres of your house.

You can also remove all native vegetation either side of your property boundary fence to a combined maximum width of 4 metres without a permit. For more information, view the following fact sheets on the DSE website:

CFA & Land Use Planning

CFA is involved in strategic and statutory land use planning and subdivision processes in a number of ways. CFA is a Referral Authority in all municipal planning schemes for subdivisions that create a road and for areas that are subject to a Wildfire Management Overlay.

The following are areas into which CFA provides input:

  • Provision of comment on design and development plans (Planning & Environment Act 1987)
  • Planning permits to subdivide land which creates a road (Victorian Planning Provisions)
  • Certification of subdivision plans (Subdivision Act 1988)
  • Statements of compliance (Subdivision Act 1988)
  • Comment on planning permit applications for dwellings in rural living, rural, environmental, rural and low density rural residential zones (Victorian Planning Provisions)
  • Determination and direction to Mandatory referral from Council with regard to all applications for development within Wildfire Management Overlay areas (Victorian Planning Provisions)
  • Comment on various other planning permit applications
  • Provisions for access and water supply in various planning scheme zones (Victorian Planning Provisions)

See Also:

Building In a Bushfire Prone or Wildfire Management Overlay Area

In an effort to assist people developing a dwelling in areas designated as 'Bushfire Prone', or covered by a Wildfire Management Overlay, CFA has produced an Applicant’s Kit titled ‘Building in a Wildfire Management Overlay’. The Applicant's Kit is intended to be used at the time when people are planning to build. However, it is equally useful for people simply seeking a building permit in a Bushfire Prone Area. More…

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