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VicSmart Checklist 4: Construct a front fence in a residential zone

If you qualify for VicSmart, 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 VicSmart 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.

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Construct a front fence in a residential zone

Pre-application discussion: Was there a pre-application meeting? Who with and when?
Planning Officer: Date:
Building surveyor: Date:
Under building regulations, fences on corner allotments need to respond to safety in relation to vehicle sight lines and pedestrians.
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, length, height and design of the proposed fence including details of materials
 The location, height and design of any existing front fence on adjoining and nearby properties including details of materials.
 A photograph of the site and adjoining and nearby properties along the street frontage.
 The reason for the proposed height.
Note: If a proposal falls into more than one VicSmart class of application, the information requirements of each class apply and the corresponding checklists should be completed. For instance:

Creative Commons License Source: VicSmart Checklists by the Department of Transport and Planning