Knox 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 Knox Planning Scheme daily and records every change below.
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Recent amendments
We detected a change to Knox'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 32.07-6, the text was modified to clarify that a fence exceeding the maximum height specified in Clause 55.02-8 is associated with two or more dwellings on a lot or a residential building.
In the Knox Planning Scheme, Clause 14.03 was updated with several changes.
Knox's planning scheme was amended by C174knox: 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 three surplus Council-owned sites from Public Use Zone - Schedule 6 (PUZ6) to Neighbourhood Residential Zone - Schedule 4 (NRZ4) at 4 Coorie Avenue, Bayswater, part of 69-75 Eildon Parade, Rowville, and 10 Tamara Street, Wantirna South.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Knox's planning scheme was amended by C172knox: 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: "Removal of the Land Subject to Inundation Overlay from land at 15 Emmeline Row, Rowville (Lot S20 PS743596, formerly 980 Stud Road)", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Knox's planning scheme was amended by GC261: 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 land to PUZ7 and apply the Environmental Audit Overlay for four existing fire stations, in the Hume, Knox, Melton, and Wyndham planning schemes", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Knox's planning scheme was amended by GC178: 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 GC178 rezones residential land in the Boroondara and Knox Planning Schemes that were inadvertently omitted from Amendment GC172.
Knox's planning scheme was amended by GC189: 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 that has been declared a freeway or arterial road under the Road Management Act 2004 to the Transport Zone 2, following the completion of transport projects.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Knox's planning scheme was amended by GC189: 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 that has been declared a freeway or arterial road under the Road Management Act 2004 to the Transport Zone 2, following the completion of transport projects.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
The amendment updated the date from 05/05/2026 to 16/06/2026 for VC312 in the relevant clauses.