French Island and Sandstone Island 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 French Island and Sandstone Island Planning Scheme daily and records every change below.
View the official French Island and Sandstone Island Planning Scheme on Planning Victoria →
Recent amendments
We detected a change to French Island and Sandstone Island'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.
Clause 55.02-7 was amended to define "average canopy diameter" and to adjust the minimum canopy cover requirements based on site area, changing the thresholds for canopy cover from 10% for sites of 1000 square metres or less and 20% for sites over 1000 square metres to 10% for sites of 1000 square metres or less, 15% for sites over 1000 square metres to 1500 square metres, and 20% for sites over 1500 square metres.
The French Island and Sandstone Island Planning Scheme was updated from amendment VC312 to VC313, with several specific changes to Clause 14.03.
French Island and Sandstone Island's planning scheme was amended by C11fisi: 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: "Correct inadvertent mapping error in the Significant Landscape Overlay that occurred through Amendment C006Pt1fisi by deleting the SLO2 from areas where it overlaps with the SLO3.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
The amendment VC312 updates the date from 05/05/2026 to 16/06/2026 in several instances, including the Table of uses and decision guidelines.