The 53 planning zones mapped in Melbourne, Victoria, which registers cover the council and which map nothing here. No report is sold for Victoria.
You cannot buy a report for an address in Melbourne. A report is on sale for every New South Wales address and Brisbane, Gold Coast and Moreton Bay in Queensland. Victoria is not among them, and nothing on this page is a step towards buying one. What follows is what we hold, published so it can be read for nothing.
This page is about the Victorian planning registers and nothing else. It does not describe the hazard layers we hold for Victoria, which are mapped as one extent per hazard for the whole State rather than council by council, and it carries no recorded crime: we hold none for Victoria, and a heading with nothing under it reads as though there is none to hold.
The 53 distinct zones the register maps here, and how many separate areas each is mapped over. A Victorian zone’s schedule is where its control lives, so General Residential Zone Schedule 1 and Schedule 3 are listed apart: they are the same zone and not the same rule. Zone names are as the register publishes them, capitals and all. This counts mapped areas in the register, not properties: a zone over one large polygon may cover more land than a zone over fifty.
| Zone | Name | Mapped areas |
|---|---|---|
| CCZ1 | CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 7 |
| CCZ2 | CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 | 1 |
| CCZ3 | CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 | 9 |
| CCZ4 | CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 | 1 |
| CCZ5 | CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 5 | 2 |
| CCZ6 | CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 6 | 1 |
| CCZ7 | CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 7 | 5 |
| C1Z | COMMERCIAL 1 ZONE | 21 |
| C2Z | COMMERCIAL 2 ZONE | 6 |
| CA | COMMONWEALTH LAND NOT CONTROLLED BY PLANNING SCHEME | 2 |
| CDZ2 | COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 | 1 |
| CDZ3 | COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 | 1 |
| CDZ4 | COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 | 1 |
| DZ1 | DOCKLANDS ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 1 |
| DZ2 | DOCKLANDS ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 | 1 |
| DZ3 | DOCKLANDS ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 | 2 |
| DZ4 | DOCKLANDS ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 | 1 |
| DZ5 | DOCKLANDS ZONE - SCHEDULE 5 | 1 |
| DZ6 | DOCKLANDS ZONE - SCHEDULE 6 | 1 |
| DZ7 | DOCKLANDS ZONE - SCHEDULE 7 | 1 |
| GRZ1 | GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 33 |
| GRZ3 | GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 | 1 |
| GRZ5 | GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 5 | 4 |
| GRZ6 | GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 6 | 4 |
| GRZ7 | GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 7 | 1 |
| IN1Z | INDUSTRIAL 1 ZONE | 16 |
| IN3Z | INDUSTRIAL 3 ZONE | 2 |
| MUZ | MIXED USE ZONE | 24 |
| NRZ1 | NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 7 |
| NRZ2 | NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 | 1 |
| NRZ3 | NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 | 15 |
| NRZ4 | NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 | 1 |
| PZ | PORT ZONE | 5 |
| PRZ1 | PRECINCT ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 4 |
| PPRZ | PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION ZONE | 161 |
| PUZ5 | PUBLIC USE ZONE - CEMETERY/CREMATORIUM | 1 |
| PUZ2 | PUBLIC USE ZONE - EDUCATION | 13 |
| PUZ3 | PUBLIC USE ZONE - HEALTH AND COMMUNITY | 14 |
| PUZ6 | PUBLIC USE ZONE - LOCAL GOVERNMENT | 4 |
| PUZ7 | PUBLIC USE ZONE - OTHER PUBLIC USE | 9 |
| PUZ1 | PUBLIC USE ZONE - SERVICE AND UTILITY | 8 |
| RGZ | RESIDENTIAL GROWTH ZONE | 1 |
| RGZ1 | RESIDENTIAL GROWTH ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 7 |
| RGZ2 | RESIDENTIAL GROWTH ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 | 1 |
| SUZ1 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 1 |
| SUZ2 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 | 1 |
| SUZ3 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 | 6 |
| SUZ4 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 | 1 |
| SUZ6 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 6 | 6 |
| SUZ7 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 7 | 1 |
| TRZ1 | TRANSPORT ZONE 1 - STATE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE | 14 |
| TRZ2 | TRANSPORT ZONE 2 - PRINCIPAL ROAD NETWORK | 4 |
| TRZ3 | TRANSPORT ZONE 3 - SIGNIFICANT MUNICIPAL ROAD | 2 |
Every gazetted overlay family the scheme applies here, with the number of separate schedules under it. The schedule is the control: two councils with a Heritage Overlay do not have the same heritage rules, they have their own numbered schedules to it.
| Code | Overlay | Schedules | Mapped areas |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO | HERITAGE OVERLAY | 1,050 | 1,201 |
| DDO | DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY | 144 | 267 |
| SBO | SPECIAL BUILDING OVERLAY | 4 | 71 |
| ESO | ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OVERLAY | 2 | 61 |
| PAO | PUBLIC ACQUISITION OVERLAY | 9 | 54 |
| EAO | ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT OVERLAY | 1 | 48 |
| LSIO | LAND SUBJECT TO INUNDATION OVERLAY | 4 | 48 |
| SCO | SPECIFIC CONTROLS OVERLAY | 41 | 45 |
| PO | PARKING OVERLAY | 16 | 33 |
| DPO | DEVELOPMENT PLAN OVERLAY | 13 | 20 |
| RXO | ROAD CLOSURE OVERLAY | 1 | 12 |
| DCPO | DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTIONS PLAN OVERLAY | 3 | 8 |
| SLO | SIGNIFICANT LANDSCAPE OVERLAY | 4 | 6 |
| BFO | BUILT FORM OVERLAY | 4 | 5 |
| IPO | INCORPORATED PLAN OVERLAY | 4 | 4 |
| BAO | BUFFER AREA OVERLAY | 2 | 2 |
| CLPO | CITY LINK PROJECT OVERLAY | 1 | 2 |
| ICO | INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRIBUTIONS OVERLAY | 1 | 1 |
5 of the 8 Victorian planning registers we hold map Melbourne. Land in this council that is not in one of them has been assessed against it.
| Register | In Melbourne | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| Vicmap Planning - Planning Scheme Overlay Polygon Every gazetted overlay in the scheme: heritage, design and development, bushfire, inundation, vegetation, public acquisition and the rest. |
1,888 mapped areas | 10 September 2026 |
| Vicmap Planning - Planning Scheme Zone Polygon The land use zone for every parcel in the planning scheme. Every feature is gazetted, so this layer carries no proposed or interim zone. |
439 mapped areas | 13 August 2026 |
| Areas of Cultural Heritage Sensitivity The Aboriginal Heritage Regulations 2018 definition drawn as polygons. It is the regulation, not a site register: land outside it is a finding about the regulation and is not a statement that no Aboriginal place exists there. |
declared over the whole State | not stated |
| Victorian Heritage Register The statutory register under the Heritage Act 2017. It is closed: a place is on it or it is not. |
declared over the whole State | 31 July 2026 |
| Special Water Supply Catchment Areas Catchments declared under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994. The 142 declarations are the entire declared set for the State. |
declared over the whole State | 2 June 2009 |
We hold 3 further Victorian planning registers, and a search of them in Melbourne settles nothing. That is not a finding about the land.
3 are held for the whole State but are not a survey of it — the publisher says so — so land absent from them has not been assessed rather than cleared.
| Register | In Melbourne | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| Coastal Acid Sulphate Soils Coastal prospectivity for acid sulfate soils, which is not a classification, and it stops at the coast. Inland, an absence is out of scope rather than unaffected. |
held, but not a survey of the State | — |
| EPA Victoria Environmental Audit Reports - Location Polygons Where an environmental audit has been carried out. An audit is frequently what clears land, so a record here is not a finding of contamination and an absence is not a finding of cleanliness. |
held, but not a survey of the State | — |
| Heritage Inventory Recorded archaeological sites. The publisher states it is not a complete record of them, so land absent from it has not been assessed rather than cleared. |
held, but not a survey of the State | — |
For the 5 registers above that cover Melbourne, land that is not in the register was assessed and is outside the mapped area. That is a finding about the land, and it is worth something.
For the 3 registers that leave Melbourne unresolved, a search returns unmapped. The register does not settle the question for this land. It is not a finding that the land is unaffected, and it must never be read as one.
Those two sentences are different answers and this is the point of the whole product. Reversing them — reporting a register that covers nothing as a clean result — is the failure these pages are built to make impossible.
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Council names and boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021 — Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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