Planning Scheme Amendments
Melbourne Water is constantly reviewing flooding information for the wider Melbourne area. We provide this information to councils, so that they have accurate information about land within their municipality that may be affected by flooding during severe storms.
Councils use this information in their local planning schemes to create Special Building Overlays, Land Subject to Inundation Overlays or Floodway Overlays.
Each council's planning scheme sets out policies and provisions for the use, development and protection of land within their municipality. Overlays are shown as maps in the planning scheme, which identify an area for which a particular planning control is needed.
Updating boundaries for overlays
From time to time, the boundaries of these overlays need to be updated if improved drainage information is made available.
Updates to the overlay boundaries ensure drainage issues are addressed at the outset of any development process and that proposals are designed accordingly.
Changes to the overlay boundaries are done through a Planning Scheme Amendment.
Current amendments to planning schemes
There are no planning scheme amendments currently on exhibition.