Victoria’s three planning zones and how they affect you

Paul Nugent from Wakelin Property Advisory recently sought out SongBowden Planning’s Daniel Bowden to ask how Victoria's new planning zones affect property owners.

Bowden explained that the planning process is really about outcomes, and the primary change for residential property owners and investors has been the introduction of three zones.

These are the three zones:

1. Neighbourhood Residential Zone
   
   
2. General Residential Zone
   
   
3. Residential Growth Zone

He explains that it’s best to consider them like traffic lights in terms of how development will be accepted in those areas – that is, the Neighbourhood Residential Zone is a red light, the General Residential Zone is an Orange light and the Residential Growth Zone is a green light.

For those in a Neighbourhood Residential Zone, the aim is to limit change and respect character.

For the General Residential Zone it’s to develop where appropriate and have some opportunity for development that’s not too intense.

In the Residential Growth Zones it’s about looking beyond character and maximising development opportunities.

“Developers are looking for sites in these growth zones and steering away from areas where it’s suggested to not be appropriate anymore,” said Bowden.

He explained that the controls do appear to protect residents from big development from happening next door to them in the “red” areas. However, if you own property in an area promoted for development, then your expectations are going to possibly need to change as a large development may occur next to you.

You can see their full thoughts in the video below.

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