Port of Melbourne planning zones
The 8 planning zones mapped in Port of Melbourne, Victoria, which registers cover the council and which map nothing here. A report can be bought for almost every address in Port of Melbourne that is in the state address register.
A report can be bought for almost every address in Port of Melbourne that is in the state address register, $9.90 including GST, paid once. This page is the free part: what the Victorian planning registers hold for the council. The report is for one address, and reads the planning, heritage and hazard registers listed below for it. Check an address in Port of Melbourne first: the check is free and states the total before you pay.
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 the Victorian figures by council, and the report for an address here carries them.
Planning zones mapped in Port of Melbourne
8 zones in use
PORT ZONE
- PZ
PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION ZONE
- PPRZ
SPECIAL USE ZONE
- SUZ1
- SUZ2
- SUZ3
- SUZ4
TRANSPORT ZONE 1 - STATE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
- TRZ1
TRANSPORT ZONE 2 - PRINCIPAL ROAD NETWORK
- TRZ2
The 8 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.
The zones as a table, with mapped areas
| Zone | Name | Mapped areas |
|---|---|---|
| PZ | PORT ZONE | 2 |
| PPRZ | PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION ZONE | 7 |
| SUZ1 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 | 1 |
| SUZ2 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 | 4 |
| SUZ3 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 | 3 |
| SUZ4 | SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 | 2 |
| TRZ1 | TRANSPORT ZONE 1 - STATE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE | 2 |
| TRZ2 | TRANSPORT ZONE 2 - PRINCIPAL ROAD NETWORK | 1 |
Overlays in force in Port of Melbourne
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.
The overlays as a table
| Code | Overlay | Schedules | Mapped areas |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO | HERITAGE OVERLAY | 11 | 12 |
| SCO | SPECIFIC CONTROLS OVERLAY | 4 | 4 |
| DDO | DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY | 2 | 2 |
| CLPO | CITY LINK PROJECT OVERLAY | 1 | 1 |
| SBO | SPECIAL BUILDING OVERLAY | 1 | 1 |
Which of our 8 Victorian planning registers map Port of Melbourne
- Areas of Cultural Heritage SensitivityOne list for the whole State
- Coastal Acid Sulphate SoilsHeld, not a survey of the State
- EPA Victoria Environmental Audit Reports - Location PolygonsHeld, not a survey of the State
- Heritage InventoryHeld, not a survey of the State
- Special Water Supply Catchment AreasOne list for the whole State · updated 2 June 2009
- Vicmap Planning - Planning Scheme Overlay PolygonCovers Port of Melbourne · updated 22 September 2026
- Vicmap Planning - Planning Scheme Zone PolygonCovers Port of Melbourne · updated 20 January 2022
- Victorian Heritage RegisterOne list for the whole State · updated 31 July 2026
Registers that cover Port of Melbourne
5 of the 8 Victorian planning registers we hold map Port of Melbourne. Land in this council that is not in one of them is outside its mapped area, and that is a finding.
The 5 covering registers as a table, with what each maps
| Register | In Port of Melbourne | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
22 mapped areas | 20 January 2022 |
| Vicmap Planning - Planning Scheme Overlay Polygon Every gazetted overlay in the scheme: heritage, design and development, bushfire, inundation, vegetation, public acquisition and the rest. |
20 mapped areas | 22 September 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. |
one list for 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. |
one list for 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. |
one list for the whole State | 2 June 2009 |
Registers that leave Port of Melbourne unresolved
We hold 3 further Victorian planning registers, and a search of them in Port of 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, as the publisher says, so land absent from them is not a finding: the register cannot say either way.
The 3 registers that settle nothing here, as a table
| Register | In Port of 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 is not a finding: the register cannot say either way. |
held, but not a survey of the State | — |
Sources
Reproduced verbatim, as the licences require.
© State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
© State of Victoria (Department of Premier and Cabinet). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
© State of Victoria (Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
© State of Victoria (Environment Protection Authority Victoria). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
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.
Where a report can be bought
A report is on sale for most addresses in the Australian Capital Territory, every address in New South Wales, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Moreton Bay, Noosa and Toowoomba in Queensland, most addresses in Tasmania and almost every address in Victoria. In Western Australia a shorter report is free, read at the address point only (addresses whose location is on the property). The check is free: it tells you which registers cover an address and what the report costs for it, before you pay anything. Reports from $9.90 including GST, paid once, and the price belongs to the jurisdiction the address is in.
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