VicSmart Clause 59.07 – Decision Guidelines

59.07 – Applications Under Heritage Overlay is the clause in local planning schemes that sets out the following for VicSmart planning applications:

• Clause 59.07-1 Information requirements – what you must provide to support your application and repeated in VicSmart Checklist 8: Minor subdivision, minor buildings and works, painting or tree lopping in a Heritage Overlay.
• Clause 59.07-2 Decision guidelines – the decision guidelines by which the council assess your application.

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59.07 APPLICATIONS UNDER A HERITAGE OVERLAY

59.07-2 Decision guidelines

 

4/10/2018 VC149
In assessing an application the responsible authority must consider as appropriate:

 

General

• The significance of the heritage place and whether the proposal will adversely affect that significance.
• Any applicable statement of significance, heritage study and any applicable conservation policy.
• Whether the proposal will adversely affect the character or appearance of the building or heritage place.
• Whether the proposal meets any relevant local heritage policy set out in the scheme.

Demolition

• Whether the outbuilding to be demolished contributes to the significance, character or appearance of the building or heritage place.

Buildings and works

• Whether the location, bulk, form and appearance of the proposed building or works will adversely affect the significance of the building or heritage place.
• Whether the proposed building or works will affect the health or appearance of a tree which is the subject of a Heritage Overlay.

Alterations

• Whether the proposed alterations will restore or reconstruct original fabric which has been removed or damaged.
• Whether the proposed alterations will adversely affect the significance, character and appearance of the heritage place.

Fences

• Whether the fence proposed to be demolished contributes to the significance, character and appearance of the building or heritage place.
• Whether the proposed fence, including its style, height and materials, is appropriate to the building or heritage place.

Trees

• Whether the proposed lopping will adversely affect the health, appearance or significance of the tree.

Subdivision

• Whether the proposed subdivision retains the significant setting (landscapes, landscape features and views) of the heritage place.
• Whether the proposed subdivision respects the rhythm and spacing of buildings in the streetscape.
• Whether the proposed subdivision will result in a new boundary fence, wall or structure that adversely affects the setting of the heritage place.

Signage

• Whether the proposed sign will adversely affect the significance, character or appearance of the heritage place.

 Source: Victoria Planning Provisions – VicSmart Clause 59.07 by the Department of Transport and Planning