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VicSmart Checklist 13: Construct a building or works in a rural zone

If you qualify for VicSmart, the council will have given you a VicSmart application form and one or more of the checklists like the one below. You should be able to find answers to any questions you have about VicSmart checklists on this site.

This site also allows you to do your own planning permit online. It simplifies the government’s VicSmart application form, checklists, permit decision criteria, local planning schemes and government guides with planning advice in an interactive online guide to help you, step by step, with the VicSmart permit application process.

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Construct a building or works in a rural zone

Pre-application discussion: Was there a pre-application meeting? Who with and when?
Planning Officer: Date:
INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
For all planning permit applications the following MUST be provided:
 A completed application form
 Signed declaration on the application form
 The application fee
Accompanying information
Note: The council may reduce the information that you need to provide but cannot ask for more information than listed. Please check the information requirements with council. The following information must be provided as appropriate.
 Copy of title and any registered restrictive covenant.
The title information must include a ‘register search statement’ and the title diagram, and any associated ‘instruments’. Check if council requires title information to have been searched within a specified time frame.
 A description of the use of the land and the proposed buildings and works.
 3 copies of a layout plan drawn to scale and fully dimensioned showing:
 The boundaries and dimensions of the site.
 Adjoining roads.
 The location, height and use of buildings and works on adjoining land.
 Relevant ground levels.
 The layout of existing and proposed buildings and works.
 All existing and proposed driveways, car parking, bicycle parking and loading areas.
 Existing and proposed landscape areas.
 All external storage and waste treatment areas.
 Elevation drawings to scale showing the height, colour and materials of all proposed buildings and works.
 A photograph of the building or area affected by the proposal.
Note: If a proposal falls into more than one VicSmart class of application, the information requirements of each class apply and the corresponding checklists should be completed. For instance:

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