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VicSmart Checklist 9: Minor subdivision or buildings and works within a Special Building Overlay (SBO)

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.

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Minor subdivision or buildings and works within a Special Building Overlay

plication 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 boundaries and dimensions of the site.
 The layout, size and use of existing and proposed buildings and works, including vehicle parking areas.
 Setbacks between existing and proposed buildings and site boundaries.
 Natural surface levels of the site to Australian Height Datum (AHD)
 Floor and surface levels of any existing and proposed buildings and works to AHD.
 Cross sectional details of any basement entry ramps and other basement entries to Australian Height Datum, showing floor levels of entry and exit areas and drainage details.
 If subdivision is proposed, the location, shape and size of the proposed lots to be created.
 Written advice, including endorsed plans of the proposal and any conditions, from the relevant floodplain management authority demonstrating that the floodplain management authority has considered the proposal for which the application is made within the past three months and does not object to the granting of the permit for the proposal.
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:


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Source: VicSmart Checklists by the Department of Transport and Planning