Colac Otway 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 Colac Otway Planning Scheme daily and records every change below.
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Recent amendments
We detected a change to Colac Otway'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 Colac Otway Planning Scheme was updated from amendment VC312 to amendment VC313, resulting in several changes to Clause 14.03.
Colac Otway's planning scheme was amended by C085cola: 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: "Rezones 558 Corangamite Lake Road (formerly 15 Factory Road), Cororooke from Township Zone to Public Park and Recreation Zone.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Colac Otway's planning scheme was amended by C111cola: 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 combined planning scheme amendment and planning permit application facilitates the upgrade and expansion of the Red Rock Regional Theatre and Art Gallery in Cororooke.
Colac Otway's planning scheme was amended by GC27: 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 Barwon Water land in the Greater Geelong and Colac Otway municipalities and 27 Smithton Grove, Ocean Grove from Public Use Zone 1 to the underlying zones and overlays.
Colac Otway's planning scheme was amended by C130cola: 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 the former Colanda Training Centre at 120 Forest Street, Colac East, from Farming Zone (FZ) to Public Use Zone 5 (Cemetery/Crematoria) (PUZ5)", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Colac Otway's planning scheme was amended by C132cola: 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: "Rezones land from the Public Use Zone ? Schedule 5 to General Residential Zone Schedule 1 and applies the Environmental Audit Overlay, and concurrently grants two planning permits for the subdivision and development of land for 50 dwellings for land located at Pound Road, Colac.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Colac Otway's planning scheme was amended by C132cola: 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: "Rezones land from the Public Use Zone ? Schedule 5 to General Residential Zone Schedule 1 and applies the Environmental Audit Overlay, and concurrently grants two planning permits for the subdivision and development of land for 50 dwellings for land located at Pound Road, Colac.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Colac Otway's planning scheme was amended by C065Pt1: 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: "Amendment removes Design and Development Overlay Schedule 7 from land bound by Cawood Street, Great Ocean Road, Murray Street and McLachlan Street in Apollo Bay and applies Design and Development Overlay Schedule 6 to the land.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.