VicSmart Clause 59.06 – Information Requirements

59.06 – Remove, destroy or lop a tree  is the clause in local planning schemes that sets out the following for VicSmart planning applications:

• Clause 59.06-1 Information requirements – what you must provide to support your application and repeated in VicSmart Checklist 7: Remove, destroy or lop one tree.
• Clause 59.06-2 Decision guidelines – the decision guidelines by which the council assess your application.

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59.06 REMOVE, DESTROY OR LOP A TREE

59.06-1 Information Requirements

31/07/2018 VC148
An application must be accompanied by the following information as appropriate:

• A copy of title for the subject land and a copy of any registered restrictive covenant.
• If the tree to be removed, destroyed or lopped is identified as a significant tree in a schedule to the overlay, a report prepared by an arborist.
• A layout plan, drawn to scale and fully dimensioned showing:
  • The location, shape, size and slope of the site.
  • The location of the tree to be removed, destroyed or lopped.
  • The location and type of other significant vegetation on the site.
  • The location, species and height of any significant trees on the site that have been removed or approved to be removed in the past 3 years.
• A written statement that describes:
  • The species, height and trunk girth of the tree to be removed, destroyed or lopped.
  • The reason the tree is to be removed, destroyed or lopped.
  • If provision is to be made to replace the tree elsewhere on the land.
  • If the tree is to be lopped, the extent of lopping proposed.
  • Any impacts on the significance of the area.
• A photograph of the tree to be removed, destroyed or lopped

 Source: Victoria Planning Provisions – VicSmart Clause 59.06 by the State of Victoria