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VicSmart Checklist 6: Construct a buildings or works in an overlay

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 an overlay

Pre-application discussion: Was there a pre-application meeting? Who with and when?
Planning Officer: Date:
Building surveyor: Date:
Under building regulations, fences on corner allotments need to respond to safety in relation to vehicle sight lines and pedestrians.
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.
 3 copies of a plan drawn to scale and fully dimensioned showing:
 The location, shape and size of the site.
 The location, length, height and design of the proposed buildings and works including details of materials.
 The location of any existing buildings, including fences and trees.
 For land in a Neighbourhood Character Overlay, any buildings proposed to be demolished.
 For land in a Neighbourhood Character Overlay, a written description of the proposal including:
 The built form and character of adjoining and nearby buildings.
 How the proposal responds to the key features and objectives specified in the schedule to the overlay.
 If demolition is proposed, the reason for the demolition.
 How the proposal meets the requirements of Clause 54.02-1, 54.02-2, 54.03-1, 54.03-2, 54.03-3, 54.04-4, 54.04-1, 54.04-2, 54.04-3, 54.04-4, 54.06-1, 54.06-2, including any Clause 54 modification specified in the schedule to the overlay.
 For land in a Design and Development Overlay, a written description of the proposal including:
 How the proposal responds to the design objectives specified in a schedule to the overlay.
 How the proposal meets the requirements specified in a schedule to the overlay.
 The built form and character of adjoining and nearby buildings.
 A photograph of the building or area affected by the proposal.
 For land in an Erosion Management Overlay, information showing:
 The extent of any proposed earthworks.
 The means proposed to stabilise disturbed areas.
 For an application under the Salinity Management Overlay, written advice including plan references and any conditions from the referral authority demonstrating that the referral authority has considered the proposal for which the application is made within the past three months and does not object to the granting of the permit for 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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