VPELA Hot Topics
Kathy Mitchell, Chief Panel Member
Planning Panels Victoria
General Update/News
• Office of 6 Senior Panel Member’s, 2 Senior
Project Manager/Officer, 5 admin support
• Goodbye Lester Townsend and welcome
Margaret Baird for 12 months
• PPV – staying at 8 Nicholson Street
• Two additional sessional member mid term
appointments (Mandy Elliot and Karina Shpigel)
• Sessional Member 3 year review at end of 2012
• ‘New look’ for all PPV templates and guidelines
What we are doing
• Finalising Privacy Guidelines and Conflict of
Interest Protocol
• Updating various templates and information (‘On
the Papers’, pre-set dates, expert evidence, recording of hearings,
FQA’s, ‘What is a Panel?’, Council checklists etc)
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OH&S: (hearing venues, site visits, driving, emergency manag’t)
Regional Groups and PPV Interest Groups
Continuing with time efficiencies, pre-set matters
Increased use of website to disseminate
information, especially for Advisory Committees:
http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/planning/panelsandcommittees
Key Issues in 2012
• Various Advisory Committees
• Land acquisition for new roads and road
widening proposals
• MSS and policy reviews
• Activity Centre Structure Plans (height, setback,
podium, built form, amenity)
• Gaming policies (discussed further)
• Heritage reviews - ongoing
• Residential Land Supply and Structure Plans
(small towns, regional cities and metropolitan areas)
Advisory Committees/EES
• Armstrong Creek West AC
• Car Parking AC
• Urban Growth Boundary Reviews (LIAC &
Anomalies)
• Healesville Koo Wee Rup Rd Upgrade AC
• Regional Rail Link Section 2 AC
• Potentially Contaminated Land AC
• Lonsdale Golf Course EES
• Princess H’way Duplication EES and AC
Key Planning Scheme Amds.
• Mildura C63, C67, C68 (retail)
• Campaspe C69, Moira C51, Greater Shepparton
C121(rural land use strategies)
• Casey C136, Frankston C76, Greater
Dandenong C115 (Duplication of Thompsons
Road)
• Ballarat C148, C149 (rural land use strategy and
redevelopment of Ballarat racecourse)
Planning Scheme Amds cont.
• Bayside Activity Centres C100, C101, C102,
C103 (Sandringham Village, Bay Street, Church Street, Hampton
Street Structure Plans)
• Brimbank C116, Melton C81, Wyndham C121
(Palmers Road/Robinson Road)
• Hobson’s Bay C76 (Newport Flour Mill, adjacent to Shell
Storage Tanks) and C82 (redevelopment of the Caltex Terminal
site for housing)
• Range of Heritage Amendments (Melbourne C186,
Bayside C82, various in Stonnington and Boroondara)
Gaming Policies
• PPV preparing a status report on the various
gaming policies have come before it (similar to NCO,
MSS, PSP reviews it has undertaken)
• Ten Councils have had gaming policies before
PPV (Campaspe, Bayside, Macedon Ranges, Yarra Ranges, Greater Geelong,
Mitchell, Greater Bendigo, Maroondah, Stonnington, Port Phillip)
• Strip Shopping Centres (mapping, Clause 52.28)
• Net Community Benefit (see Berretta’s Langwarrin, and Greater
Geelong, Yarra Ranges, Macedon Ranges and Bayside)
• Existing Use Rights (Deputy President
Dwyer and Justice Osborn
decisions)
• Destination Gaming (purpose specific trips c/w convenience gaming)
What we are doing less of
(compared with previous years)
• Wind farms (change of Government policy)
• Growth Area PSP’s (less Panel involvement)
• Ministerial Call-ins (less occurring)
In the Pipeline .....?
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Tru Energy Gas Power Station EES
Penshurst Wind Farm EES
Western Highway Stages 2 and 3
Stonnington Amendment C154
(Chadstone)
• Melbourne Metropolitan Link
• Avalon Airport Rail Link