Baw Baw Planning Scheme — Amendment Tracker
A planning scheme amendment is a formal change to a council's planning scheme, the legal document that controls land use and development in its area. Amendments can rezone land, introduce or vary overlays, or update local planning policy, and each one is gazetted by the Victorian Government before it takes legal effect. PolicyPing checks the Baw Baw Planning Scheme daily and records every change below.
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Recent amendments
We detected a change to Baw Baw's planning scheme (VC323): for full accuracy, we're showing the amendment's own official government description directly: "Amend clause 59.05 (Building and works in an overlay) to enable a VicSmart application for land within an EMO to be accompanied by the information specified in the EMO, including information specified in a schedule to the EMO.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
In Clause 32.05-6, the text was modified to clarify that a dwelling can be constructed or extended on a lot less than 300 square metres if it meets the standards of Clause 54, specifically referencing Clause 54.02-1 Street setback.
The Baw Baw Planning Scheme's Clause 14.03-1S was updated to encourage exploration and extraction of "earth and energy resources" instead of "natural resources." The clause now includes a requirement to "develop and maintain buffers around mining and extractive industry" and to "identify and protect extractive industry and extractive resources within Strategic Extractive Resource Areas and Extractive Industry Interest Areas." This change introduces new decision guidelines related to the management and protection of extractive resources, which were not present in the previous version.
Baw Baw's planning scheme was amended by C150bawb: Planning Vic's own gazettal document manifest confirms this amendment changed planning scheme maps only, with no ordinance or schedule text amended, so there is no clause-level wording for PolicyPing to compare; the amendment's own official government description reads: "Rezone surplus Department of Education land at 930 Drouin-Korumburra Road, Athlone from Public Use Zone 2 to Farming Zone.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Baw Baw's planning scheme was amended by C153bawb: Planning Vic's own gazettal document manifest confirms this amendment changed planning scheme maps only, with no ordinance or schedule text amended, so there is no clause-level wording for PolicyPing to compare; the amendment's own official government description reads: "The amendment rezones council owned reserves across the municipality to the Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ) or where appropriate, to the Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PPRZ).", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Baw Baw's planning scheme was amended by C153bawb: Planning Vic's own gazettal document manifest confirms this amendment changed planning scheme maps only, with no ordinance or schedule text amended, so there is no clause-level wording for PolicyPing to compare; the amendment's own official government description reads: "The amendment rezones council owned reserves across the municipality to the Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ) or where appropriate, to the Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PPRZ).", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Baw Baw's planning scheme was amended by GC255: Planning Vic's own gazettal document manifest confirms this amendment changed planning scheme maps only, with no ordinance or schedule text amended, so there is no clause-level wording for PolicyPing to compare; the amendment's own official government description reads: "Corrects the mapping of the Environmental Significance Overlay in the Ballarat, Baw Baw, Benalla, Colac Otway, Golden Plains, Greater Bendigo, Hepburn, Horsham, Loddon, Macedon Ranges, Mansfield, Mitchell, Moorabool, Mount Alexander, Pyrenees, South Gippsland, Surf Coast and Wodonga Planning Schemes to align with the gazetted Special Water Supply Catchment Areas declared under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Baw Baw's planning scheme was amended by GC255: Planning Vic's own gazettal document manifest confirms this amendment changed planning scheme maps only, with no ordinance or schedule text amended, so there is no clause-level wording for PolicyPing to compare; the amendment's own official government description reads: "Corrects the mapping of the Environmental Significance Overlay in the Ballarat, Baw Baw, Benalla, Colac Otway, Golden Plains, Greater Bendigo, Hepburn, Horsham, Loddon, Macedon Ranges, Mansfield, Mitchell, Moorabool, Mount Alexander, Pyrenees, South Gippsland, Surf Coast and Wodonga Planning Schemes to align with the gazetted Special Water Supply Catchment Areas declared under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
The amendment changed the date of the VC reference from 05/05/2026 VC248 to 16/06/2026 VC312.