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Local VicSmart Checklist – Ballarat: Applications under a Design and Development Overlay

If you qualify for the VicSmart permit application process, the council will have given you a VicSmart application form and one or more of the checklists like the one below. You should be able to find answers to any questions you have about the VicSmart application form or checklists on this site.

This site also allows you to do your own planning permit online. It simplifies the government’s VicSmart application form, checklists, permit decision criteria, local planning schemes and government guides with planning advice in an interactive online guide to help you, step by step, with the VicSmart permit application process.

Balllarat Planning Scheme Schedule 1 to Clause 59.16

Ballarat – Applications under Design and Development Overlay

Pre-application discussion: Was there a pre-application meeting? Who with and when?
Planning Officer: Date:
INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
For all planning permit applications the following MUST be provided:
A completed application form
Signed declaration on the application form
The application fee
Accompanying information
Note: The council may reduce the information that you need to provide but cannot ask for more information than listed. Please check the information requirements with council. The following information must be provided as appropriate.
Copy of title and any registered restrictive covenant.
The title information must include a ‘register search statement’ and the title diagram, and any associated ‘instruments’. Check if council requires title information to have been searched within a specified time frame.
3 copies of a plan drawn to scale and fully dimensioned showing:
The location, shape and size of the site.
 The location, height and design of the proposed buildings and works.
The location, height and use of buildings and works on adjoining land.
Relevant ground levels.
Site features including trees and fencing.
All existing and proposed driveways, car parking, bicycle parking and loading areas
Street frontage features including poles, street trees and kerb crossovers.
Existing and proposed landscape areas.
Elevation drawings to scale showing the height, colour and materials of all proposed buildings and works.
A street elevation of the subject site showing the proposed development and the development on the adjoining properties along the street frontage
A photograph of the building or area affected by the proposal.
A written statement describing if relevant:
The built form and character of adjoining and nearby buildings.
The heritage character of any adjoining heritage places.
Whether the proposal meets the design objectives and the requirements contained in the schedule to the overlay.
How the proposal responds to the City of Ballarat Residential Guidelines for the relevant urban character area


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Derived from Schedule 1 to Clause 59.16 – Ballarat Planning Scheme by the State of Victoria