South Gippsland Shire Council

hansen partnership
Korumburra Town Centre Framework Plan: Policy Review
# Document name Summary Key issues / implications for framework plan
New zones
Public Acquisition Overlay (PAO)
The PAO is used to identify land which is proposed to be acquired by an authority or to
reserve land for a public purpose and to ensure that changes to the use or development of
the land do not prejudice the purpose for which the land is to be acquired.
The PAO has been applied to various parcels of land behind Commercial Street that particularly relate to off street car
parking.
The Minister for Planning is currently reforming the Victorian planning zones to ensure that
they are still relevant and adequately reflect the aspirations of all Victorians. An advisory
committee has been appointed to make recommendations about the final form of the
reformed zones and how they should be introduced.
The Reformed Zones Advisory Committee submitted its progress report on the residential
zones to the Minister on 14 December 2012. The government has responded to this report
with a set of final residential zones.
The Advisory Committee’s report on the commercial zones is still outstanding.
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The Minister for Planning’s proposed zone reforms may have an impact on commercial development within the Korumburra
Town Centre.
The zone reforms would replace the town centre’s Business 1 Zone with the proposed Commercial 1 Zone. The Commercial
1 Zone will broaden the range of activities that land can be used for without the need for a planning permit and removes floor
area a
restrictions. This is considered to have positive benefits for retailing and encouraging investment within the Town
Centre.
Whilst not directly applicable to the Town Centre, proposed changes to the Industrial Zones may have a negative impact on
retail development. The reformed Industrial 3 Zone provides the opportunity for a supermarket with a leasable floorspace of
not more than
2,000sqm and supporting shops to be developed as a Section 1 use at the former saleyards site. This could
result in a larger supermarket than the current IGA being developed as a use that does not require a planning permit and
therefore
could negatively impact on the desire to retain the Town Centre as the focus for retail activities.
At this stage it is not known whether the commercial and industrial zone reforms will proceed as proposed or in a modified
format as the Advisory Committee has not reported on this.
Changes to the Residential Zones, which have recently been reviewed by the Advisory Committee, create more flexibility for
small scale shops, food and drinks premises (up to 100 sqm) and medical centres (up to 250 sqm) within 100 metres of a
commercial zone or Mixed Use Zone being developed without the need for a planning permit. Such uses must have the
same street frontage as land in the commercial zone or Mixed Use Zone, or have access to a road in a Road Zone. This has
implications for many of the areas immediately surrounding the town centre, particularly as Radovick Street is in the RDZ1,
and could further undermine the Town Centre’s retail focus.
The Mixed Use Zone (currently applied to the land adjoining the South Gippsland Highway to the east of the Town Centre) is
also being reformed. Changes proposed by the Minister propose to remove or reduce restrictions on non-residential land
uses such as place of worship, medical centre and convenience shop and also removes the floorspace area restriction for
office, shop and trade supplies. This has the potential to further disperse retail activities across the township as opposed to
consolidating retail within the Town Centre core area.
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