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Amendment C86

Brandon Park Major Activity Centre

In February 2013, Council adopted a Draft Structure Plan for the Brandon Park Activity Centre to guide the future development of the area.

Council then sought feedback from the community about Amendment C86 to the Monash Planning Scheme, which would incorporate the Structure Plan into the Scheme. Council received 47 submissions from local community members. At its June 2013 meeting, Council resolved to refer all of the submissions to an Independent Review Panel for consideration.

In September 2013, Council received the Panel Report. The Panel recommended the Amendment be adopted, but recommended a number of changes be made to what was proposed for the former school site.

At its meeting on 29 October 2013, Council decided to adopt the Amendment in accordance with some of the Panel's recommendations.

Most notably Council determined that:

15% of the former Brandon Park Secondary College site be kept as public open space. The planning panel recommended that Council reduce the public open space component to 5% of the five-hectare site.
There will be a requirement that the future developer of the school site provides 30 public car spaces on the site to meet the parking needs of the adjoining preschool and maternal and child health centre.

The amendment was gazetted on 16 August, 2018.

If you have any questions, please call Council's Strategic Planning team on 9518 3250.

Ministerial Authorisation Number: AO2495

Relevant dates:

Commencement of Public Exhibition: 18 April 2013
Completion of Public Exhibition: 24 May 2013
Panel Directions Hearing: 22 July 2013
Panel Merits Hearing: 13 & 15 August 2013
Panel Report: 13 September 2013
Adoption of Amendment: 29 October 2013
Gazetted: 16 August 2018

The Amendment affects:

Land within the Brandon Park Major Activity Centre

The Amendment proposes to implement the recommendations of the Brandon Park Major Activity Centre Structure Plan (2013) by:

Amending Clauses 21.04 and 21.06 of the Monash Planning Scheme to include reference to the Brandon Park Major Activity Centre Structure Plan, October 2013.
Introducing Clause 21.16, a Strategy Statement for the Brandon Park Major Activity Centre into the Monash Planning Scheme.
Rezoning:
- Land at 539-597 Springvale Road and 1A Village Court, Mulgrave (west side of Springvale Road south of Ferntree Gully Road), from IN1Z - Industrial 1 to C2Z- Commercial 2 Zone.
- Land at 6-30 Brandon Park Drive, Wheelers Hill (former Brandon Park Secondary College site) from PUZ2 - Public Use 2 (Education) to GRZ- General Residential Zone.
- Land at 482 Ferntree Gully Road, Mulgrave (VicRoads site between Ferntree Gully Road and the Monash freeway), from RDZ1 - Road Zone 1 to MUZ- Mixed Use Zone.
- Inserting a new Schedule 2 in the MUZ- Mixed Use Zone.
- Inserting a new Schedule 2 in the GRZ- General Residential Zone.
Introducing the Design and Development Overlay (Schedule 8) which details the design and development provisions identified in the Brandon Park Major Activity Centre Structure Plan, October 2013.
Introducing the EAO- Environmental Audit Overlay over land at 482 Ferntree Gully Road, Mulgrave.
Implementing other minor consequential changes to the Monash Planning Scheme