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VPELA Hot Topics

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

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VPELA Hot Topics

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  1. VPELA Hot Topics Kathy Mitchell, Chief Panel Member Planning Panels Victoria

  2. 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

  3. 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) • 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. 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)

  8. 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)

  9. 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)

  10. In the Pipeline .....? • 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

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