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Port Phillip: planning zones and flood overlays

The 43 planning zones mapped in Port Phillip, Victoria, the overlays that apply, and which registers cover the council.

A report can be bought for almost every address in Port Phillip 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 Phillip first: the check is free and states the total before you pay.

What this page covers

This page covers the Port Phillip Planning Scheme: its zones, and the overlays counted below, which each council’s scheme applies. Victoria’s statewide hazard maps, such as the Bushfire Prone Area, are not counted here. Recorded crime for the council is charted below, and the report for an address here carries it too.

Bushfire, flood and other planning overlays in Port Phillip

What the government maps show. Not a risk rating.

31.7%of addresses on a lot at least partly in the Special Building Overlay (SBO, overland flow)14.6%of addresses on a lot at least partly in the Environmental Audit Overlay (EAO)Not appliedBMO, EMO, FO, LSIO, SMOToo few addresses here are on land whose scheme uses them to give a share. Not a finding about the land. Victoria’s Bushfire Prone Area designation is separate, and may still apply.
Share of addresses on land each map shows, counted among the addresses where that map applies: what the government maps show, not a risk rating. Hatched: no map covers most of the council (Not applied: fewer than one address in ten here is on land whose planning scheme uses the overlay); dotted: a map covers only part of the council, or records its own classes, so no share. Our build 61 of 21 October 2026.Counts derived by WattleAddr from the registers credited at the end of this section.
15,244
addresses with the Special Building Overlay (overland flow) on part of the lot, not at the address point
In Port Phillip, a check of the address point alone would report them as outside the map. Our report tests the whole lot. Our build 61 of 21 October 2026.Source: Vicmap Planning overlays, © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning); addresses and lots from Vicmap. Counts derived by WattleAddr.
  • BMO The Port Phillip Planning Scheme does not use the Bushfire Management Overlay (BMO). Victoria’s Bushfire Prone Area designation is separate, and may still apply. BMO by council, on our map.
  • EMO The Port Phillip Planning Scheme does not use the Erosion Management Overlay (EMO). EMO by council, on our map.
  • FO The Port Phillip Planning Scheme does not use the Floodway Overlay (FO). FO by council, on our map.
  • LSIO Only 24 addresses here are on land whose planning scheme uses the Land Subject to Inundation Overlay (LSIO), 7 of them on a lot in it: fewer than one in ten, too few to give a share. LSIO by council, on our map.
  • SMO The Port Phillip Planning Scheme does not use the Salinity Management Overlay (SMO). SMO by council, on our map.
Not applied: an overlay’s absence says what the scheme controls, not what the land does. An overlay is added by amending the scheme. Our build 61 of 21 October 2026.Source: Vicmap Planning overlays, © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning); addresses and lots from Vicmap. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section. See VicPlan.

Special Building Overlay (SBO, overland flow)

31.7%
Base of the share: 89,698 addresses on land whose scheme uses the overlay
  • 13,190 on the map at the address point
  • 15,244 on part of the lot only
  • 5,820 at the edge only
  • 55,444 not on the map

See VicPlan. Special Building Overlay (SBO, overland flow) by council, on our map.

How this is counted

28,434 of 89,698 addresses (31.7%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as the Special Building Overlay (SBO, overland flow) in the planning scheme. On 6,863 of 23,337 lots · 15,244 on part of the lot only · 5,820 touch only the edge.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 61 of 21 October 2026.Source: Vicmap Planning overlays, © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning); addresses and lots from Vicmap. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Environmental Audit Overlay (EAO)

14.6%
Base of the share: 89,691 addresses on land whose scheme uses the overlay
  • 12,790 on the map at the address point
  • 269 on part of the lot only
  • 863 at the edge only
  • 75,769 not on the map
  • 7 where the scheme does not apply it

The EAO marks land whose past use means an environmental audit is needed before a sensitive use, such as a home, school or childcare centre. It is not a finding that the land is contaminated. See VicPlan. Environmental Audit Overlay (EAO) by council, on our map.

How this is counted

13,059 of 89,691 addresses (14.6%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as the Environmental Audit Overlay (EAO) in the planning scheme. On 1,585 of 23,332 lots · 269 on part of the lot only · 863 touch only the edge. 7 addresses are on land where the planning scheme does not apply it, and are left out of the figure. The EAO marks land whose past use means an environmental audit is needed before a sensitive use, such as a home, school or childcare centre. It is not a finding that the land is contaminated.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 61 of 21 October 2026.Source: Vicmap Planning overlays, © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning); addresses and lots from Vicmap. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

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Free: which registers cover the address. The report ($9.90 including GST): whether the lot is on them, and how much of it.

How these are counted

Counted from every address in the Victorian address register, in build 61 of 21 October 2026, out of the addresses on land each register covers; a share is given only where the register covers nine in ten of the council’s addresses. Addresses, not homes: an apartment building is many addresses on one lot, and a vacant block is one. “Part of the lot” counts land, not buildings: the mapped area may not reach the house. A lot the map touches only at the edge, within the map’s accuracy, is shown as “Check” in a report and is counted in the base but not as on the map, so a share can be low by up to the edge count in its row. These are counts of what the government maps show, by our method; they are not a risk rating, and a council’s own count of “properties” may not match them. See why unmapped is not clear.

Counts derived by WattleAddr from these registers, by our method. Vicmap Address, Vicmap Property, and Vicmap Planning zones and overlays: © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence; Council boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Crime rates in Port Phillip: ten years of recorded crime

For the council area, not any one property. We do not rank councils and we do not turn this into a safety score.

How to read these charts

This is about the council area, not about any one property. Every address in Port Phillip carries the same figures. Each chart shows the offences recorded in each of the ten years to March 2026; the darkest bar is the latest year, where a trend was tested. Each chart has its own scale, starting at zero, so read the shape, not the height against another chart. Beneath it, the latest rate per 100,000 people (solid) is set against the Victorian rate (outlined). The Crime Statistics Agency publishes no trend, so each direction here is ours, calculated by WattleAddr from its ten annual rates, and named only where it is statistically significant. The direction is of the rate per 100,000, so it can differ from the bars, which are counts.

Break and enter, homes

Rate: no clear direction over ten yearscalculated by WattleAddr
2017year to March2026
Port Phillip706.1 VIC347.3
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded offences a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: Crime Statistics Agency, Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Motor vehicle theft

Rate: up 6.2% a year over ten yearscalculated by WattleAddr
2017year to March2026
Port Phillip908.0 VIC434.9
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded offences a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: Crime Statistics Agency, Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Theft from vehicles

Rate: up 4.2% a year over ten yearscalculated by WattleAddr
2017year to March2026
Port Phillip2,522.1 VIC1,074.8
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded offences a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: Crime Statistics Agency, Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Criminal damage

Rate: up 3.1% a year over ten yearscalculated by WattleAddr
2017year to March2026
Port Phillip886.3 VIC595.2
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded offences a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: Crime Statistics Agency, Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Assault, non-family-violence

Rate: up 3.1% a year over ten yearscalculated by WattleAddr
2017year to March2026
Port Phillip605.1 VIC318.6
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded offences a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: Crime Statistics Agency, Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.
The same figures as a table
OffenceTen year trendPort Phillip VIC
Break and enter, homes Rate: no clear direction over ten years, calculated by WattleAddr 706.1 347.3
Motor vehicle theft Rate: up 6.2% a year over ten years, calculated by WattleAddr 908.0 434.9
Theft from vehicles Rate: up 4.2% a year over ten years, calculated by WattleAddr 2,522.1 1,074.8
Criminal damage Rate: up 3.1% a year over ten years, calculated by WattleAddr 886.3 595.2
Assault, non-family-violence Rate: up 3.1% a year over ten years, calculated by WattleAddr 605.1 318.6

Recorded offences are what was reported to and recorded by Victoria Police: a rise can mean more of an offence, or more of it being reported, and these figures cannot tell the two apart. A count also moves with the population, which the rate allows for and the bars do not. We leave out offences whose recorded numbers depend mostly on police activity, such as drug and weapons offences; the offences shown are still only what was reported and recorded. Rates are per 100,000 people on the Victorian Government’s Victoria in Future population projections, not the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ current estimated resident population. The Crime Statistics Agency uses them because the ABS figure for the most recent year is not available in time. The Crime Statistics Agency excludes justice institutions, immigration facilities and Unincorporated Victoria from its council-level tables, so these figures do not add up to its published Victorian totals. We use one table throughout and never mix the two.

How a direction is calculated

Trend calculated by WattleAddr from ten years of Crime Statistics Agency data. CSA does not publish a trend figure. Method: a least-squares straight line fitted to the logarithm of the ten annual rates per 100,000, read as the average change per year. A direction is named only where that slope is significant at the 5 per cent level (two-sided t test, 8 degrees of freedom); where it is not, we say the direction is unclear rather than name one. An offence averaging fewer than 20 recorded incidents a year in the area is not calculated at all.

Charts drawn by WattleAddr from the Crime Statistics Agency’s figures. Source: Crime Statistics Agency, Victoria. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Source data. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Planning zones mapped in Port Phillip

43 zones in use

CAPITAL CITY ZONE

  • CCZ1

COMMERCIAL 1 ZONE

  • C1Z

COMMERCIAL 2 ZONE

  • C2Z

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONE

  • CDZ1
  • CDZ2
  • CDZ3

GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE

  • GRZ1
  • GRZ2
  • GRZ3
  • GRZ4
  • GRZ5
  • GRZ6
  • GRZ7
  • GRZ8
  • GRZ9
  • GRZ10
  • GRZ11
  • GRZ12
  • GRZ13
  • GRZ14

INDUSTRIAL 1 ZONE

  • IN1Z

INDUSTRIAL 3 ZONE

  • IN3Z

MIXED USE ZONE

  • MUZ

NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE

  • NRZ1
  • NRZ2
  • NRZ3
  • NRZ4
  • NRZ5
  • NRZ6
  • NRZ7

PORT ZONE

  • PZ

PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION ZONE

  • PPRZ

PUBLIC USE ZONE - CEMETERY/CREMATORIUM

  • PUZ5

PUBLIC USE ZONE - EDUCATION

  • PUZ2

PUBLIC USE ZONE - LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  • PUZ6

PUBLIC USE ZONE - SERVICE AND UTILITY

  • PUZ1

RESIDENTIAL GROWTH ZONE

  • RGZ1

SPECIAL USE ZONE

  • SUZ1
  • SUZ2
  • SUZ3
  • SUZ4

TRANSPORT ZONE 1 - STATE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

  • TRZ1

TRANSPORT ZONE 2 - PRINCIPAL ROAD NETWORK

  • TRZ2
One tile per zone code, grouped by zone, A to Z, as the register names them. Not proportional: a count of zones, not of land or properties. Register updated 6 October 2026.Counted and grouped by WattleAddr from the register. © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

The 43 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
ZoneName Mapped areas
CCZ1CAPITAL CITY ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 7
C1ZCOMMERCIAL 1 ZONE 46
C2ZCOMMERCIAL 2 ZONE 2
CDZ1COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 1
CDZ2COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 1
CDZ3COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 1
GRZ1GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 50
GRZ10GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 10 1
GRZ11GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 11 4
GRZ12GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 12 1
GRZ13GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 13 2
GRZ14GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 14 1
GRZ2GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 2
GRZ3GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 3
GRZ4GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 1
GRZ5GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 5 1
GRZ6GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 6 1
GRZ7GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 7 2
GRZ8GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 8 2
GRZ9GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 9 3
IN1ZINDUSTRIAL 1 ZONE 2
IN3ZINDUSTRIAL 3 ZONE 1
MUZMIXED USE ZONE 23
NRZ1NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 21
NRZ2NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 8
NRZ3NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 2
NRZ4NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 1
NRZ5NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 5 29
NRZ6NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 6 19
NRZ7NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTIAL ZONE - SCHEDULE 7 1
PZPORT ZONE 1
PPRZPUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION ZONE 93
PUZ5PUBLIC USE ZONE - CEMETERY/CREMATORIUM 1
PUZ2PUBLIC USE ZONE - EDUCATION 17
PUZ6PUBLIC USE ZONE - LOCAL GOVERNMENT 12
PUZ1PUBLIC USE ZONE - SERVICE AND UTILITY 8
RGZ1RESIDENTIAL GROWTH ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 14
SUZ1SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 1 1
SUZ2SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 2 1
SUZ3SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 3 1
SUZ4SPECIAL USE ZONE - SCHEDULE 4 1
TRZ1TRANSPORT ZONE 1 - STATE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE 11
TRZ2TRANSPORT ZONE 2 - PRINCIPAL ROAD NETWORK 1

Overlays in force in Port Phillip

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.

Schedules under each overlay family, A to Z; the bar is the count of schedules. Mapped areas in the register, not land or properties. Register updated 6 October 2026.Counted and grouped by WattleAddr from the register. © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
The overlays as a table
CodeOverlaySchedules Mapped areas
HOHERITAGE OVERLAY 453 547
DDODESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY 86 121
SBOSPECIAL BUILDING OVERLAY 3 84
EAOENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT OVERLAY 1 49
SCOSPECIFIC CONTROLS OVERLAY 34 39
ESOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OVERLAY 4 10
NCONEIGHBOURHOOD CHARACTER OVERLAY 5 8
DCPODEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTIONS PLAN OVERLAY 1 7
POPARKING OVERLAY 1 7
PAOPUBLIC ACQUISITION OVERLAY 2 6
DPODEVELOPMENT PLAN OVERLAY 2 2
RXOROAD CLOSURE OVERLAY 1 2
CLPOCITY LINK PROJECT OVERLAY 1 1
IPOINCORPORATED PLAN OVERLAY 1 1
VPOVEGETATION PROTECTION OVERLAY 1 1

Which of our 8 Victorian planning registers map Port Phillip

5 of 8 cover Port Phillip. Solid: the register maps this council, so land here that is not in it is outside the mapped area. That is a finding about the land, and it is worth something. Dotted: held for the whole State but not a survey of it, the publisher says, so land absent from it is not a finding: the register cannot say either way. Reversing these is the failure the whole product is built to prevent.Counted and grouped by WattleAddr from the registers. Sources, verbatim: © 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.

Registers that cover Port Phillip

5 of the 8 Victorian planning registers we hold map Port Phillip. 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
RegisterIn Port PhillipLast 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.		 885 mapped areas 6 October 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.		 401 mapped areas 6 October 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 Phillip unresolved

We hold 3 further Victorian planning registers, and a search of them in Port Phillip 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
RegisterIn Port PhillipLast 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 —

Victorian planning scheme areas next to Port Phillip

The other Victorian planning scheme areas that share a stretch of land boundary with Port Phillip, in alphabetical order; councils across the State border or across open water are not listed. Sharing a boundary says nothing about hazards, zoning or crime on either side of it: each page has its own figures. Every planning scheme area in Victoria is on one page.

Neighbours worked out by WattleAddr from the council boundaries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0).

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

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