Whitehorse 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 Whitehorse Planning Scheme daily and records every change below.
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Recent amendments
We detected a change to Whitehorse's planning scheme (VC323) but haven't summarised it yet.
The amendment changes the effective date of Clause 72.01 from 14 July 2026 to 30 September 2026.
In Clause 32.07-6, the phrase "The fence is associated with two or more dwellings on a lot or a residential building, The fence exceeds the maximum height specified in clause 55.02-8.
The amendment to clause 14.03-1S replaces references to "natural resources" with "earth and energy resources" throughout the text.
The text from Clause 42.03-s9 was removed, which included the reference to the Significant Landscape Overlay as SLO9 and the associated statement regarding neighbourhood character areas.
Whitehorse's planning scheme was amended by C257whse: 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 to the extent of the SCO14 Boundary to incorporate land at 941-951 Whitehorse Road, and portion of Hiltons Lane in Box Hill", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
Whitehorse's planning scheme was amended by C236whse: 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 changes the Whitehorse Planning Scheme in relation to the Healesville Freeway Reserve linear park, rezoning land to the Public Park and Recreation Zone and removing the Significant Landscape Overlay Schedule 9.
Whitehorse's planning scheme was amended by C224whse: 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 deletes the redundant Public Acquisition Overlay 3 from land between Springvale Road, Forest Hill and Boronia Road, Vermont South, which was previously designated for the Healesville Freeway Reserve, in the Whitehorse Planning Scheme.", this is the amendment's own official wording, not a PolicyPing-generated description of the scheme text.
The amendment introduces new permit requirements under Clause 32.10, including the need for a permit to subdivide land and to construct or extend dwellings on lots less than 300 square metres.
Under review: the source document for this council did not change, but the extracted text differs.