FAQs
- Access and Servicing Strategy (updated 2024)
- Memorandum and letter addressing stormwater and erosion management (updated 2024)
- Landscape Plan (updated 2024)
- Club House Landscape Plan (updated 2024)
- Concept Plans for proposed dwellings (new 2024)
- Dwelling Landscape Plan (updated 2024)
- Traffic Engineering Assessment (updated 2024)
- Concept Sketch for the termination of Sheoak Ave (new 2024)
- Market Assessment
- Planning Report
Prepare a plan to coordinate proposed use or development, before a permit can be granted.
Guide content of the plan by specifying particular requirements in a schedule for the land.
Provide certainty about the nature of the proposed use or development on the land.
Remove public notice provisions for subsequent planning permit applications.
Identify particular permit conditions that help to implement the plan and ensure permits granted are in general conformity with the plan.
Provide statutory force to development plans.
Notification via notices in local media;
Information on the Council website; and
Written notification to immediately adjoining landowners.
What is currently approved for this land?
The existing approved development plan is for a residential subdivision providing approximately 97 residential allotments.
What are the proposed changes to the development plan?
The proposal is to change the use and development from a residential subdivision to a residential village.
The residential village provides for up to approximately 151 dwelling sites and includes a proposed club house, visitor car parking and lawn bowls green space for residents.
It is proposed that the sites will be developed with unregistrable moveable dwellings (UMD’s).
What is a residential village?
The planning scheme defines a residential village is defined as.
“Land, in one ownership, containing a number of dwellings, used to provide permanent accommodation and which includes communal, recreation or medical facilities for residents of the village”.
Residential villages are often described as lifestyle communities or residential land lease communities.
A residential village is generally owned and managed by a single entity and each house site is leased on a long-term agreement to the occupants of the village under the Residential Tenancies Act 1997.
Why the proposed change?
The Applicant suggests that there is demand for the proposed housing type due to an ageing population, limited housing options in Bairnsdale, individual desire to ‘age in place’ and general need for individuals to downsize to smaller and low maintenance housing options.
What documentation is being reviewed for this proposal?
What are the next steps?
After the community consultation process concludes, Council officers will consider information provided by the applicant and any community feedback received and use it to inform a report and recommendation to be decided at a Council Meeting.
What is the Development Plan Overlay?
The Development Plan Overlay (DPO) is a planning tool used to implement a plan to guide the future use and development of land in the form of an outline development plan, detailed development plan or master plan.
The application of the DPO identifies areas, generally vacant land, that require the forward planning of future use or development to be resolved before a permit can be granted for any further development to take place on the land.
The Development Plan Overlay is used to:
What is a Development Plan?
A development plan is a planning tool which implements preferred outcomes and identifies necessary services and infrastructure required to facilitate development of a large parcel of land in a coordinated and integrated manner. It provides certainty about development of land using a set of documentation, establishing planning permit conditions for proposals and removing public notification and third-party rights from planning permit applications.
When is a Development Plan required?
A development plan is required to be lodged with Council for approval for any land that has the Development Plan Overlay and where the landowner or applicant wishes to further develop the land.
What does a Development Plan contain?
The development plan may consist of plans or other documents and the content is guided by the specific requirements listed in the schedule to the Development Plan Overlay.
How are Council keeping you informed?
Once a development plan is approved, all future planning permit applications for the subject land that are generally in accordance with the approved plan, will be exempt from notice and review, meaning they are not required to be advertised to adjoining landowners.
Council is committed to consulting community during the development plan assessment stage given after approval the absence of review rights during the planning permit process. As part of this consultation process, the public are invited to provide feedback that is then considered at a formal Council meeting before a decision on the development plan is made.
Public consultation processes for development plans may vary depending on the location and nature, however, at a minimum will include:
Council accepts amendments may need to be made over time. Requests for amendments may also require a public consultation process (subject to consideration of changes).