Maribyrnong C125 ACZ Schedule 1

MARIBYRNONG PLANNING SCHEME
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SCHEDULE 1 TO THE ACTIVITY CENTRE ZONE
Shown on the planning scheme map as ACZ1.
Footscray Metropolitan Activity Centre
1.0 Footscray Framework Plan

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2.0 Land use and development objectives to be achieved

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Housing
 To facilitate a significant proportion of the new housing required to meet the projected
population growth to be developed within the Footscray Metropolitan Activity Centre
(FMAC).
 To encourage housing to locate above commercial uses to create a mix of land uses.
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 To support increased residential densities in line with the precincts identified level of
change.
 To encourage housing intensification in areas with the greatest capacity for change.
 To provide for housing growth by providing a mix of housing types that includes
medium to higher density housing in appropriate locations.
 To provide a diversity of dwelling types, sizes and tenures across the FMAC.
 To encourage appropriate student housing in FMAC.
 To encourage affordable housing, including social housing, in the FMAC.
 To ensure new housing developments address potential amenity impacts including
noise, vibration and emissions and implement measures to attenuate any adverse
impacts for future residents.
 To ensure housing is adequately serviced by physical and community infrastructure.
 To improve the environmental performance of new dwellings.
 To encourage high quality design outcomes that will provide high internal and external
amenity for future residents.
Economic Development
 To attract a broad mix of employment uses that will improve the centre’s economic
diversity, vitality and sustainability consistent with the role of Footscray as a MAC.
 To create a sustainable retail and services centre that meets the needs of local residents
and workers, whilst also being a drawcard for shoppers from the secondary trade area.
 To focus and strengthen retail activity within the core of the centre, including new
supermarket and department store based uses, (Precinct 1 and Footscray Market site)
and avoid further dispersal of key shopping facilities into other precincts.
 To ensure that retail uses outside of Precinct 1 and the Footscray Market site do not
compete with, but serve to complement the centre’s core.
 To ensure large format retail uses are integrated into development and provide active
street frontages.
 To increase the supply and variety of office space, suitable for a range of businesses,
including the provision of affordable floor space for community based organisations,
and direct larger offices to locations close to public transport and away from
neighbourhood precincts.
 To encourage greater integration of university campuses and students into daily life
within the centre.
 To support the expansion of the medical precinct along Paisley Street.
 To encourage the co-location of health and community services and facilities and to
encourage child care services to be located with employment services.
 To support development that allows for a flexible use of space.
 To ensure gaming machines are not located in areas that will facilitate convenience
gambling.
 To encourage creative industries within the FMAC in particular within the Riverside
Precinct.
 To provide a suitable environment for accommodating the projected additional jobs and
employment floorspace.

Built form
 To ensure redevelopment contributes to the revitalisation and transformation of

Footscray MAC into a vibrant residential, employment and recreation centre.
 To ensure new development is of high architectural and urban design quality.
 To direct site-responsive and sensitively designed higher density development and taller
built form to strategically appropriate locations within the centre such as Precincts 2
and 5 (designated as Transformational Change precincts).
 To ensure new development is sensitive to the height, scale, character and proportions
of existing valued buildings.
 To provide sufficient separation between buildings above podium heights to ensure
access to daylight and sunlight for internal spaces while maintaining visual privacy and
a view to the sky.
 To ensure new buildings particularly podiums, align to the street pattern and respect the
continuity of street façades and solar access to public spaces.
 To ensure new development does not overshadow existing or proposed open space or
pedestrian priority routes between the hours of 10am and 3pm at the equinox.
 To enhance key views and vistas along the Maribyrnong River environs and capitalise
on views from the public realm to natural and physical landmarks, including the
Melbourne CBD skyline.
 To encourage the development of buildings with flexible floor spaces that can
accommodate a range of uses over time.
 To ensure development addresses sensitive interfaces through transitional built form
envelopes and maintains reasonable solar access to key pedestrian routes and
recreational areas, including the Maribyrnong River foreshore.
 To ensure the design of taller built form considers and ameliorates any adverse wind
climate conditions.
Heritage
 To recognise, conserve and enhance elements of Aboriginal and post-settlement

historical significance.
 To ensure new development appropriately considers and references elements of cultural
heritage significance.
 To ensure development adjoining or nearby heritage buildings has regard to the height,
scale, rhythm and proportions of the heritage buildings including characteristic fine-
grain frontage widths.
 To ensure that built form respects the heritage context and maintains heritage
prominence.
Environmentally sustainable design
 To integrate best practice ESD principles into new development at every opportunity,
including building energy management, water sensitive urban design, construction
materials, indoor environment quality, waste management, transport, and demolition
and construction
 To support development that reduces and manages energy consumption and greenhouse
gas emissions, and employs active systems for ESD performance that contribute in a

significant way to local, national and international efforts to reduce energy useage and
green house gas emissions.
 To encourage water conservation, ensuring that water resources are managed in a
sustainable way.
 To encourage the provision of landscaping that considers the provision of habitat, green
spaces, green roofs and roof top gardens climate control and reduces the ‘urban heat
island’ effect.
Movement & Transport
 To facilitate a balanced, sustainable, efficient and safe transport network within

Footscray that encourages walking, cycling and public transport over motorised
vehicles.
 To create a truly ‘walkable’ centre improving overall pedestrian safety, mobility and
access.
 To create a ‘pedestrian priority zone’ in the core of the centre, including continuous
weather protection and activation along frontages to designated pedestrian priority
routes.
 To complete missing links on significant cycle corridors to and through the MAC.
 To improve connectivity and access to regional walking and cycling trails, key open
space, recreation and entertainment facilities.
 To provide improved capacity and safer access to public transport, including upgraded
interchanges and stops.
 To ensure integration of public transport services.
 To prioritise public transport on roads where the road is shared with other vehicles.
 To avoid through-traffic within the centre and encourage freight movement onto the
existing arterial road network.
 To recognise the particular parking requirements of the Footscray MAC by providing
an appropriate supply of car parking within the centre that addresses the needs of all
users.
Community Infrastructure
 To increase the provision and range of community infrastructure to meet the present
and future demands of the community.
 To provide for new community infrastructure projects.
 To ensure large developments provide some community infrastructure within the
development.
 To ensure developers contribute to the provision of community infrastructure.
Open Space and Recreation
 To ensure Footscray’s residents, workers and visitors are well served by usable,
functional and high quality areas of public open space.
 To ensure new developments contribute to the creation and/or enhancement of public
open spaces and the public realm.

 To encourage greater access and connectivity to public open spaces, especially along
the Maribyrnong River.
 To ensure new public open space is clearly identifiable for public use when provided in
new developments.
 To provide for a greater amount and range of informal recreation activities that are
integrated with other residential, retail and office developments within the MAC that
provide opportunities for social interaction and meet the needs of different community
members.
 To encourage the provision of sports facilities catering for the diverse needs of the
community.
 To ensure open space is not overshadowed by new development.
Arts and Culture
 To further develop and promote Footscray as a regional focus for arts and cultural
activities.
 To encourage new development to incorporate art in the public domain.
Environment
 To protect the natural features of the MAC especially along the Maribyrnong River.
 To provide for the overall “greening” of Footscray with attractive and consistently
landscaped spaces throughout the centre.
 To ensure developments for sensitive uses incorporate design measures to mitigate
amenity impacts associated with the operation of other businesses and activities in the
centre.
3.0 Table of uses

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Section 1 - Permit not required

Use Condition
Any use listed in Clause 62.01 Must meet requirements of Clause 62.01.
Accommodation (other than Dwelling) Must be located in Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
Cinema Must be located in Precinct 1, other than Sub
Precinct 1A.
Cinema based entertainment facility Must be located in Precinct 1, other than Sub
Precinct 1A.
Convenience shop Must be located in Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6
The use must be located in a tenancy at
ground floor level.
Dependant person’s unit Must be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-Precinct
1A
Dwelling
Education centre Must be located in Precinct 1, 3, 6 or 8
Food and drink premises (other than Hotel Must be located in Precinct 1 (other than Sub-
and Tavern) Precinct 1A), 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6
Home occupation

Use Condition
Hotel Must be located in Precinct 1, other than Sub
Precinct 1A.
Informal outdoor recreation
Market Must be located in Precinct 1 other than Sub-
Precinct 1A.
Medical centre Must be located in Precinct 1 or 6
Office Must be located in Precinct 1 (other than Sub
Precinct 1A), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 8.
Postal agency
Railway
Railway station
Restricted retail premises Must be located in Precinct 5 and with a
frontage to Hopkins Street.
Retail premises (other than Convenience Must be located in Precinct 1 (other than Sub-
shop, Food and drink premises, Gaming Precinct 1A) or 2
Premises, Market and Postal agency,
Trade supplies, Landscape gardening
supplies and Motor vehicle, boat or
caravan sales)
Road
Shop (other than Adult sex bookshop, Must be located in Precinct 1 (other than Sub
Convenience shop and Restricted retail Precinct 1A).
premises )
Search for stone Must not be costeaning or bulk sampling
Telecommunications facility Buildings and works must meet the
requirements of Clause 52.19
Section 2 - Permit required

Use Condition
Adult sex bookshop Must be located in Precinct 1, other than Sub-
Precinct 1A.
Amusement parlour Must not be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-
Precinct 1A
Cinema based entertainment facility Must not be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-
Precinct 1A
Convenience Restaurant The site must adjoin, or have access to, a
road in a Road Zone.
Hotel
Industry Must not be located in Sub-Precinct 1A or
Precinct 7 and must not be for a use listed in
the table to Clause 52.10 of the Maribyrnong
Planning Scheme.
Nightclub Must not be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-
Precinct 1A
Research and development centre Must not be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-
Precinct 1A
Research centre Must not be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-
Precinct 1A

Use Condition
Restricted retail premises Must not be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-
Precinct 1A
Retail premises (other than Food and drink Must not be located in Precinct 7 or Sub-
premises, Market, Postal agency and Precinct 1A
Shop)
Store If located in Sub-Precinct 1A or Precinct 7
must be in a building, not a dwelling, and
used to store equipment, goods, or motor
vehicles used in conjunction with the
occupation of a resident of a dwelling on the
lot.
Tavern
Transport terminal (other than Airport and
Road freight terminal)
Utility installation (other than Minor utility
installation and Telecommunications
facility)
Warehouse (other than Commercial Must be located in Precinct 1 (other than Sub
display area, Fuel Depot, Mail centre and Precinct 1A), 3, 4 or 6
Store)
Must not be a purpose listed in the table to
Clause 52.10
If located in Precinct 3, must be in conjunction
with an education use.
If located in Precinct 4, must be part of a
development with frontage to a Road Zone
Any other use not in Section 1 or 3
Section 3 – Prohibited
USE
Animal Husbandry (other than Apiculture)
Brothel
Camping and caravan park
Cemetery
Corrective institution
Crematorium
Drive in theatre
Extractive industry
Fuel depot
Motor racing track
Primary produce sales
Refuse disposal
Road freight terminal
Saleyard

4.0 Centre-wide provisions

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4.1 Use of land

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A permit is not required to use land for the purposes and services of Local Government
providing the use is carried out by, or on behalf of, the public land manager.
4.2 Subdivision
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Applications for subdivision of sites that are associated with a development proposal that
does not support the objectives of this Schedule are discouraged.
Consolidation of land to facilitate the creation of viable development sites is encouraged.
4.3 Buildings and works

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Permit Exemptions
No permit is required to:

 Construct or carry out buildings and works in Precinct 1 (other than Sub-Precinct 1A)
for the following:
 The installation of an automatic teller machine.
 An alteration to an existing building façade provided:
 The alteration does not include the installation of an external roller shutter.
 At least 80 per cent of the building façade at ground level is maintained as an
entry or window with clear glazing.
 The construction or modification of a waste pipe, flue, vent, duct, exhaust fan, air
conditioning plant or similar.
 Shade sails to an existing roof deck.
 An awning that projects over a road if it is authorised by the relevant public land
manager.
 Buildings and works for the purpose of Local Government, Education or Transport
providing the use is carried out by, or on behalf of, the public land manager.
 Construct or extend the following within Precinct 7 or Sub-Precinct 1A:
 A single dwelling on a site greater than 300 square metres.
 Works normal to a dwelling.
 An open-sided pergola or verandah with a finished floor level not more than 800mm
above natural ground level and a maximum height not more than 3 metres above
natural ground level.
 An outbuilding with a gross floor area not more than 10 metres and a maximum
building height not more than 3 metres above natural ground level, but not including
the construction or extension of a garage or carport.
 A deck with a finished floor level not more than 800 mm above natural ground
level.
 A domestic swimming pool or spa and associated mechanical equipment and safety
fencing

 A front fence that does not exceed the maximum height specified in Clause 54.06-2.
4.4 Design and development

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Dwellings
On a lot of less than 300 square metres, a development must meet the objectives and should
meet the standards of Clause 54 if it proposes to:
 Construct or extend one dwelling; or
 Construct or extend a front fence within 3 metres of a street if the fence is associated
with one dwelling.
A development must meet the objectives and should meet the standards of Clause 55 if it
proposes to:
 Construct a dwelling if there is at least one dwelling existing on the lot.
 Construct two or more dwellings on a lot.
 Extend a dwelling if there are two or more dwellings on a lot.
 Construct or extend a dwelling if it is on common property.
 Construct a residential building.
 Construct or extend a fence within 3 metres of a street if:
 The fence is associated with 2 or more dwellings on a lot or a residential building,
and
 The fence exceeds the maximum height specified in Clause 55.06-2.
This does not apply to a development of four or more storeys, excluding a basement.
General built form guidelines
 Ensure safety is a key priority in the design and development of urban spaces and
buildings in Footscray.
 Ensure development demonstrates effective, considered materials selection and
configurations, for aesthetic quality, durability and contextual response.
 The bulk and scale of new development should consider the potential future built form
and land use on adjacent sites.
 New lower level built form façade treatments should provide a pedestrian environment
that has visual interest and activates the street.
 Building frontages should seek to enhance existing adjoining streets and be designed to
be visually interactive, with passive surveillance opportunities, and be visually
interesting and engaging through use of contemporary, durable materials.
 New built form in transition areas should provide a transition in scale from larger
buildings to adjacent areas with smaller scale built form.
 Ensure heights of buildings located within transition areas are at the lower end of the
preferred height ranges.
 Activation of upper levels should be maximised, including residential or commercial
spaces which have visible windows and balconies to facilitate visual interaction, as well
as appropriate privacy.

 New built form frontages should seek to provide articulation and detail in frontage
facades, especially in ‘long’ or significant new development.
 Ensure development adjacent to or nearby existing or future public spaces and places
addresses and activates the public area.
 Ensure new development does not overshadow existing or proposed open space
between the hours of 10am and 3pm at the equinox.
 Tower forms above podiums, or upper level built form, should generally be setback by
5 metres from the street to reduce visual bulk, achieve generous spacing between
buildings, views to the sky and daylight access to public realm.
 New development should reinforce existing fine grain built form.
 Ensure new development that adjoins heritage buildings:
 Has regard to the height, scale, rhythm and proportions of the heritage buildings
including characteristic, fine-grain frontage widths.
 Locates the greatest massing away from heritage buildings and responds to the
lower scale of adjoining heritage buildings.
 Has a complementary scale and façade sensitive to the adjoining heritage building
 Encourage the overall improvement in appearance of shop-fronts, especially within the
centre’s core.
 Built form frontages should seek to reinforce the existing strongly defined pattern of
streets and lanes by building up to street frontages, except where this would be
inconsistent with the established rhythm of street setbacks.
Car parking location and design
 Ensure new development provides sufficient car parking to meet its own demands,
having regard to its location and proximity to public transport and the need to reduce
non-essential use of private vehicles.
 Consolidate car parking within the centre, and encourage the provision of multi-purpose
parking areas at strategic locations
 Car parking access to built form should be consolidated at one entry point, and
carefully located away from areas with a pedestrian focus.
 Ensure that multi-level car parking is appropriately designed and articulated such that it
does not detrimentally impact upon the public realm.
 Encourage the integration of car parking into buildings, including providing under-croft
and basement parking as opposed to open-lot at-grade car parks.
 New development should seek to provide active frontages which ‘wrap’ or conceal any
proposed car parking, especially at the ground level.
Environmentally sustainable design
 Ensure development demonstrates best practice, and identifies the level of sustainability
performance standards to be adopted and demonstrates the means by which the agreed
level of sustainable performance standards will be achieved.
 The building design and layout of new development should provide good solar access
and daylight opportunities.
 Encourage new development to explore options to reduce the amount of waste
generated and encourage increased reuse and recycling of waste materials.

 Encourage building materials conservation, including consideration of their

environmental impact.
 Indoor environmental quality and healthy internal environments should be considered
from the outset through the layout and form of buildings.
 Encourage on-going monitoring and post occupancy assessment of ESD measures.
5.0 Precinct provisions

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5.1 Precinct 1: Central

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5.1-1 Precinct map

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5.1-2 Precinct objectives

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 To promote a high quality public realm, good quality urban design, protection of
heritage places, and public safety throughout the precinct.
 To ensure the offer of shops, entertainment and dining meet the needs of the future
resident and worker population.
 To encourage the provision of further supermarket and department store retail uses.
 To encourage the development of an evening economy, including restaurants, cafes,
arts and entertainment uses.
 To ensure that retail is concentrated in this precinct and avoids further dispersal of key
shopping facilities.
 To support the establishment of medical facilities along Paisley Street.
 To encourage the provision of student services and facilities.
 To support the establishment of an Arts facility.
 To create dynamic streets and a ‘market atmosphere’ in the precinct including outdoor
eating opportunities and active frontages.
 To revitalise Maddern Square as an urban plaza with active edges comprising
restaurants, speciality stores and services.
 To promote mixed-use buildings, including higher density housing, affordable housing
and office uses at upper floor levels.
 To encourage a transition to neighbouring residential areas.
 To emphasise Nicholson Street and Leeds Street as key north/south corridors through
the Footscray MAC.
 To enhance the connectivity of pedestrians within the precinct and to other parts of the
Footscray MAC, particularly universities and transport facilities.
 To maximise opportunities to improve public transport connections.
 To upgrade the pedestrian experience along key pedestrian routes.
 To enhance the image of Footscray’s retail areas through protection of heritage places,
improvements to the appearance of the built form and renewal of the public realm.
5.1-3 Precinct requirements

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Sub- Preferred maximum building Preferred setback
precinct height
1A 6 storeys (19.2 metres)
2-4 storeys (6.4-12.8 metres) at
street frontage
1B 6 storeys (19.2 metres)
street frontage
1C 3 storeys (9.6 metres)
street frontage
1D 10 storeys (31 metres) Levels above 5 storeys setback
minimum of 5 metres from street


precinct height
frontage
1E 25 storeys (76 metres) Levels above 5 storeys setback
frontage
5.1-4 Precinct guidelines

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 Maintain the fine grain and heritage streetscapes within identified heritage areas
through low rise development outcomes and well articulated facades.
 Maintain the fine grain urban form by:
 reinforcing the historic character of the 5-6 metre wide retail premises;
 inclusion of heritage buildings into redevelopment; and
 providing streets and lanes which create a highly permeable pedestrian environment.
 Key public realm spaces such as the Nicholson Street Mall and Maddern Square, should
have good solar access and outlook (between 10am and 3pm at the equinox) to maintain
and enhance activity.
 New built form on the north side of main walking routes should ensure that reasonable
sunlight access is maintained on the south side of the street, especially along key streets
in the MAC, such as Barkly / Hopkins Street and Paisley Street (between 9am and 3pm
at the equinox, September 22).
 Emphasise the Barkly and Hopkins Street east-west corridor through built form by
building to boundaries, providing for passive surveillance, and providing pedestrian
protection.
 Buildings in areas identified as Transition Areas should be designed to make an
appropriate transition in height, scale and built form between the higher scale built form
and the sensitive interface with lower scale residential buildings, this also applies to
buildings not in a transition area but which abut a heritage overlay
 Provide a high quality pedestrian environment through prioritisation of pedestrians,
minimising parking access ways, activation of street frontages, and provision of
pedestrian protection including awnings, planting and lighting, and including
continuous weather protection and activation along frontages to designated pedestrian
priority routes.
 Require noise attenuation measures to be incorporated within new dwellings along the
Barkly / Hopkins Street corridor.
 Prohibit the use of solid roller doors on shop fronts.

5.2 Precinct 2: Station

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5.2-1 Precinct map

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5.2-2 PRECINCT OBJECTIVES

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 To facilitate the redevelopment of the station precinct in accordance with the Footscray
Station Urban Framework Plan (2009).
 To create a high quality public transport interchange that integrates with the centre and
reinforces Footscray Station as a major regional intermodal transport node.
 To encourage high quality architecture and urban design that emphasises Footscray
Station as a local focus and ‘gateway’ to the Western region of metropolitan
Melbourne.
 To revitalise and stimulate private sector investment and urban renewal in the area.

 To enhance amenity and safety of the public realm, and to provide active ground level
frontages and opportunities for passive surveillance.
 To create a socially and economically sustainable mixed use precinct that provides a
diverse range of housing, commercial, retail and public recreation opportunities.
 To ensure that new development is environmentally sustainable, incorporating energy
efficiency measures and encouraging sustainable travel patterns.
 To ensure that development responds to the heritage values of the Footscray Station and
precinct.
 To ensure that environmental conditions of the site, including the effects on a proposed
use or development of contamination, noise or vibration, are appropriately considered.

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precinct height
2A 15 storeys (48 metres)
2C No built form in public plaza space
2D 8 storeys (25.6 metres)
2E 5 storeys (16 metres)
2F 3 storeys (9.6 metres)
2G 12 storeys (38.4 metres) on
McNab Ave
14 storeys (44.8 metres) at
Teardrop Site
2H 6 storeys (19.2 metres)
2I 25 storeys (80 metres) at
Footscray Market site
20 storeys (64 metres) at corner
site
2J 3 storeys (9.6 metres) on Talbot St
interface
6 storeys (19.2 metres) along
Cowper Street interface
10 storeys (32 metres) along
railway interface

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 Development proposals should contribute to the creation of a social, cultural and
environmentally sustainable community, including through the provision of affordable
housing.
 Development should complement the retail function of the core precinct and not
compete or detract from it.
 Development should accommodate a broad mix of land uses which support daytime and
evening activity and be accessible to the whole community.
 Development should retain the pedestrian focus and space around the Station, and
strengthen its identity as an oasis within an area of change.

 New built form should respond to its central and strategic location within the ‘transport
hub’, with iconic or landmark buildings.
 New built form should minimise impacts of traffic and of the railway corridor interface,
such as noise, vibrations and outlook, on amenity within buildings.
 Development should emphasise station entry points and enable safe and direct access to
the station for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users.
 New development should enhance the sense of arrival into the MAC and reinforce the
pedestrian experience, through new built form frontages, land uses and pedestrian
space.
 Buildings located within the Transition Area should provide appropriate reductions in
building height and mass toward existing lower scale development at the interface and
not exceed 3 storeys.
 Reduced off street car parking may be considered having regard to the proximity and
availability of public transport, and any agreements to implement car parking demand
reduction measures.
 Built form should respect the heritage context allowing for heritage prominence to be
maintained and sensitively mitigated
 Development should embrace the historical and present day significance of the
Footscray Railway Station and adjoining landscaping including the unique 1899 V-
junction station that has since served as a major civic building and focal point for
Footscray.

5.3 Precinct 3: University

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5.3-1 Precinct maps

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North

South

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 To support the University’s ongoing role in providing regionally significant tertiary
education facilities.
 To provide for uses and developments which support the University needs within the
precinct, whilst facilitating university services to locate within the broader FMAC,
drawing students and staff into the centre of the MAC.
 To ensure the University campuses and their students are integrated in the broader
Footscray MAC.
 To discourage commercial and retail uses unless they are associated with the operations
of the University or are part of the development of an integrated mixed use education
area.
 To improve pedestrian access and links to the University campuses in particular the key
pedestrian link along Nicholson St to the VU South campus.
 To ensure optimal utilisation of land within the precinct and minimise large expanses of
at grade car parking.


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Preferred maximum building height Preferred setback
6 storeys (19.2 metres)

2 to 4 storeys (6.4-12.8 metres) at street
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 Consideration should be given to locating university uses that would benefit from a
wider audience (eg: performing spaces) within the central FMAC precincts.
 Future redevelopment of the precinct’s existing car park sites should create a mixed-use
area focussed on education and incorporating student and staff accommodation,
teaching, research and conference facilities, and student services and facilities.
 Street wall heights should generally range between 2 and 4 storeys, other than on major
roads such as Ballarat and Geelong Roads, where the street wall height may be up to 6
storeys to assist in providing a traffic noise buffer to development behind.
 Where streetscape context reflects zero front and side setbacks, new built form should
maintain this condition, forming a continuous ‘street wall’.
 Buildings located within the Transition Area should provide appropriate reductions in
building height and mass toward existing lower scale development at the interface and
not exceed 3 storeys.
 When new development adjoins heritage buildings, the design should have regard to the
height, scale, rhythm and proportions of the heritage buildings including characteristic,
fine-grain frontage widths.
 The arrangement of buildings should facilitate pedestrian and cycle access routes into
and through the precinct which contribute to the permeability of the wider pedestrian
and cycle network.
Note: While Victoria University is excluded from the Activity Centre Zone schedule the objectives
and guidelines have been included in the schedule to provide guidance in relation to
development within and surrounding the Victoria University sites.

5.4 Precinct 4: Riverside

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 To maintain and respect the precinct’s diversity and historic value.
 To create a distinct precinct that capitalises on its River frontage and incorporates arts,
historical and maritime themes.
 To encourage a Mixed Use precinct that provides for local employment and services
local needs without compromising the amenity of residential areas.
 To create multiple walking and cycling linkages to the River, nearby uses and
development, and the central and station precincts of the MAC.

 To ensure development respects the historic nature of buildings and streetscapes within
the precinct.
 To ensure new residential development is well protected from traffic noise and port
related activities.
 To develop the precinct as a focus for the arts and creative industries.
 To encourage use and activation of the river and riverfront through creation of a
distinct, vibrant and active urban edge along the waterfront.
 To maintain public access to the River and its activities and prevent privatisation of
space along the River.
 To ensure that built form transitions to lower heights near the River frontage.

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precinct height

2 to 3 storeys (6.4-9.6 metres) at
the street frontage / podium level
4C 10 storeys (32 metres) Levels above 5 storeys setback a
2 to 3 storeys(6.4-9.6 metres) at frontage
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 In public realm areas structures and landscape treatments should enhance access to the
riverfront.
 Where development fronts the river it should actively engage with the river frontage.
 Development should create a lower, human scale form along the riverfront.
 Opportunities should be maximised for generous planting including canopy trees and
other plants of a resilient nature.
 Encourage taller building forms to front Hopkins Street and transition down to River
frontage areas and established residential areas.
 On larger sites encourage internal access ways which reflect the grid character of
surrounding streets. Built form should respond to the internalised street environment.
 Ensure buildings include appropriate building design to mitigate against traffic noise in
particular along Hopkins, Whitehall and Napier Streets and port related activities.
 Encourage development to capitalise on the precinct being the arts and creative
industries focus of the MAC through provision of public art and adaptability of building
forms.
 Buildings within the Transition Area, in particular along Moreland and Bunbury Streets
and along the riverfront, should provide appropriate reductions in building height and
mass toward the existing lower scale buildings at the interface and not exceed 3 storeys.

 Built form should respect the heritage context allowing for heritage prominence to be
maintained and sensitively mitigated. Development that adjoins heritage buildings
should have regard to height, scale, rhythm and proportions of the heritage buildings.
 The Maribyrnong River Valley Design guidelines should be consulted in regard to
building siting, scale and materials for development east of Moreland Street.
 To support removal of the railway line along the River in the event that it is deemed
redundant to Port operations.
5.5 Precinct 5: Joseph Road

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 To create a vibrant, mixed use precinct that complements the role and function of the
Footscray Central Activities Area through:
 a diverse range of higher-density housing development accommodating
approximately 4,000 dwellings
 a viable mix of commercial, retail, community, entertainment, and recreation land
uses

 a wide range of employment opportunities to complement the role of central

Footscray.
 To encourage retail, entertainment and recreational uses along the existing and
extended Warde Street, and along the riverfront.
 To encourage the provision of showroom, restricted retail and office along the Hopkins
Street frontage.
 To establish a robust urban character with:
 high quality architecture and urban design
 an active, attractive and accessible riverfront with improved public recreation
opportunities and high amenity public spaces and places
 an active and improved frontage to Hopkins Street that marks the precinct as a
‘gateway’ to Footscray.
 To provide a high amenity, upgraded street and pathway network with improved
pedestrian and cyclist connections to areas beyond the precinct.
 To support the transport function of adjoining rail corridors and the widening of the
passenger rail line, by ensuring interface amenity and safety issues are considered.
 To encourage sustainable development that:
 incorporates best practice energy efficiency and water management measures
 promotes sustainable travel patterns through an integrated approach to transport
planning
 supports the inclusion of community facilities and housing affordability.
 To ensure that development responds to the site features and constraints including
heritage values of the heritage listed features, potential contamination, flooding, and
service infrastructure requirements.
 To provide built form that does not result in significant overshadowing of the St
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Precinct height
5C West of Whitehall Street: 12 3 metre front setback for buildings
storeys (36.8 metres); and 3-4 along Hopkins Street
storeys (9.6-12.8 metres) at street
frontage / podium level
Between Whitehall and Moreland
Streets:12 storeys (37 metres);
and 4-5 storeys (12.8-16 metres)
at street frontage / podium level
Between Moreland and
Maribyrnong Streets: 12 storeys
(37.2 metres); and 5-6 storeys
(16-19.2 metres) at street frontage
/ podium level
Other areas: 12 Storeys (37
metres)


Precinct height
5D 15 storeys (46 metres)

4-5 storeys (12.8-16 metres) at
street frontage / podium level
5E 25 storeys (76 metres)
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 Development should respond to interfaces with transport corridors. The design and
construction of buildings for sensitive uses with interfaces to Hopkins Street or rail
infrastructure should ensure that potential noise and vibration impacts generated by
heavy vehicles or train movements are addressed.
 A network of high amenity public places and pedestrian spaces should be provided as
shown in the Precinct Plan.
 Visual and physical connections between the river and the precinct should be provided.
 Active frontages created by retail, entertainment, and recreation uses at ground level are
encouraged along the main connections to the river along Warde Street and along
Hopkins Street.
 Development proposals should respect planned pedestrian and cycling network.
 Pedestrian/cycle bridges provided across the passenger rail line and crossing points of
the freight rail line should be defined by robust landscaping and clear sight lines, and
designed to the satisfaction of VicTrack, the Department of Economic Development,
Jobs, Transport and Resources and Public Transport Victoria.
 Development proposals with river frontage should include opportunities for activation
along the riverside.
 Development should provide a high quality street environment which incorporates,
footpaths, cycle paths, and on-street car parking, and maximises opportunities for street
planting where appropriate.
 Opportunities should be provided to green the urban environment both in the public
realm and as a part of new developments.
 Taller forms should be generally located towards the centre of the precinct, with a
transition to lower forms adjacent to the riverfront and the residential area to the west.
 Built form should create a robust urban character with minimal boundary setbacks that
reinforce the geometry and pattern of the existing road network, except where
development should respond to the proposed changes to the existing road network
through the construction of proposed new pedestrian/cycle links as shown in the
Precinct Plan.
 The primary vehicle access point to and from the precinct should be via a signalised
intersection at the corner of Hopkins Street and Moreland Street, with associated
intersection treatments. Secondary vehicle access points should be provided at the
intersection of Whitehall Street and Maribyrnong Street, with Hopkins Street.
 Direct vehicle access from Hopkins Street to development should be avoided. Car
parking and service vehicle access for development along Hopkins Street will be
provided from the precinct’s internal street network.

 On-street car parking should be provided in streets whilst ensuring sufficient width to
accommodate parallel car parking spaces as well as bicycle lanes, pedestrian footpaths,
and landscaping treatments.
 Building forms should avoid substantial overshadowing of St Monica’s Primary School
between 9am and 3pm on 22 September.
5.6 Precinct 6: Peripheral Activity

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South

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 To support the growing mixed-use character of the precinct with an emphasis on
employment uses, commercial services and small businesses which support the regional
role of the MAC.
 To support development along main street frontages that provides for a variety of
activity on ground floor that can accommodate a range of uses that will activate the
street.
 To encourage shops along Barkly Street that complement the retail core of the MAC.
 To encourage medical, community and health services in Paisley Street.
 To encourage employment related uses including offices and small businesses.
 To encourage residential development which appropriately responds to surrounding
land uses and provides good amenity for future residents.
 To preserve identified heritage buildings and incorporate into new developments.
 To ensure that new business activity is compatible with nearby dwellings.

 To provide additional open space to serve the southern part of the activity centre as part
of any redevelopment of the bus depot.
 To ensure development in areas identified as Transition Areas is designed to make an
appropriate transition in height, scale and built form to adjoining residential areas.
 To increase pedestrian permeability between Barkly and Paisley Street and investigate
related crossings over Paisley Street.
 To facilitate provision of car parking thus minimising the need within the central
precinct whilst ensuring parking provision minimises the impact on pedestrians caused
by blank walls and accessways.

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precinct height
street frontage
6C 10 storeys (32 metres) 5 metre upper level setback from street
frontage
6D 14 storeys (44.8 metres) 5 metre upper level setback from street
frontage
2 to 3 storey (6.4-9.6 metres) at
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 Require noise attenuation measures for dwellings along Barkly and Buckley Streets and
Geelong Road, or where there is adjacent commercial activity that operates late at night.
 Buildings within the Transition Area should provide appropriate reductions in building
height and mass toward the existing lower scale buildings at the interface and should
not exceed 3 storeys within the transition area.
 Maintain a low-scale residential interface to Walter Street in future development of the
Bus Depot site.
 Emphasise the Barkly Street urban corridor through appropriate built form by building
to boundaries, providing for passive surveillance, and providing pedestrian protection,
including continuous weather protection and activation along frontages to designated
Pedestrian Priority Routes.
 Maintain a distinction between lower order streets and the Barkly Street corridor.
 Use solid building massing and height in conjunction with other sound barrier
treatments, to help reduce the impact of traffic noise from Geelong Road.
 New built form on the north side of main walking routes should ensure that reasonable
sunlight access is maintained on the south side of the street, especially along key streets
in the MAC, such as Barkly and Paisley Streets (between 9am and 3pm at the equinox,
September 22).
 Prohibit the use of roller shutters for retail premises.

 Maintain the fine grain and heritage streetscape within the Barkly and Hopkins Street
corridor.
 Retain prominent landmark buildings such as places of worship and civic buildings.
 Provide improved pedestrian connections between Barkly and Paisley Streets.
 Street wall heights should respect adjoining heritage buildings and streetscapes where
applicable, in particular on Barkly Street.
 Side setbacks should reflect the existing context within the MAC and should maintain a
continuous street wall frontage, where appropriate along key streets such as Barkly
Street and Buckley Street.
 Larger sites should accommodate medium density development to maximise land use,
whilst maintaining the existing fine grain, active streetscape presentation.
 New built form should respect and respond to the heritage context of the retail core on
Barkly Street, allowing for heritage prominence to be maintained and sensitively
managed – with the careful consideration of built form massing, articulation,
distribution, and architectural style.
 When new development adjoins heritage buildings, the design should take into
consideration the height, scale, rhythm and proportions of the heritage buildings
including characteristic, fine-grain frontage widths.
 New development should seek to reflect the minor setback condition of residential
streetscapes, such as Paisley Street and Buckley Street through landscape treatments or
gardens, providing a point of difference between the retail core and peripheral activity
precincts.
 Tower forms at upper levels should be set back from the streetscape at least 5 metres, to
reduce visual bulk and the effect of wind downdrafts.

5.7 Precinct 7: Neighbourhood

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North
West

East
South


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 To protect the amenity of established residential precincts within the FMAC.
 To support limited change and protect high quality streetscapes and identified heritage
areas.
 To protect the existing architectural style, neighbourhood character and streetscape
qualities of the precincts.
 To ensure non-residential uses or mixed use developments are located on appropriate
sites, particularly along main roads, and are compatible with surrounding residential
areas.
 To encourage improved pedestrian and cycling links through the precincts, to enhance
connectivity across the FMAC, in particular between the central precinct and VU
precincts.
 To maintain and respect the precinct’s diversity and historic value.
 To ensure development respects the historic nature of buildings and streetscapes within
the precinct.
 To ensure development along Bunbury Street reinforces heritage values.
 To maintain and enhance the area’s openness, grandeur, street tree planting and garden
settings of dwellings.
 To ensure that new residential development offers protection from the potential amenity
impacts of road and rail transport along Geelong Road, Whitehall Road and the
Railway Line.

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precinct height
7A 3 storeys As per Clauses 54 and 55 as
appropriate
As per Clause 54 and 55 as
appropriate
7B 6 storeys (18 metres)

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 Ensure existing residential land use focus and built form diversity is maintained as the
transitional space within the MAC boundary.
 Major development should be focussed on large existing lots or consolidated sites.

 In Precinct 7 West, a low scale development interface with existing residential areas to
the west, outside of the FMAC, should be provided.
 Heritage places should be retained and protected.
 New built form should be respectful and responsive in the heritage context around
Bunbury Street, Cowper Street and Nicholson Street, allowing for heritage prominence
to be maintained and sensitively managed. Built form massing, articulation and
distribution should be carefully considered.
 In areas where the Heritage Overlay applies:
 New development, including additions to existing buildings, should be
distinguishable from the original dwelling stock through the use of innovative and
contemporary, yet sympathetic architecture.
 Articulation and visual interest through colour, building details and architectural
reinterpretation is encouraged.
 When new development adjoins heritage buildings, the design should have regard to
the height, scale, rhythm and proportions of the heritage buildings including
characteristic, fine-grain frontage widths.
 Front setbacks to built form are encouraged on local streets to reflect the residential
garden character of the streetscapes.
 Large, established trees should be retained and provision should be made for the
planting of new trees where possible.
 New built form should provide:
 Side setbacks that accord with the predominant setback patterns in the street.
 Front fences up to 1 metre in height, or open style front fences up to 1.2 metres in
height other than in exceptional circumstances.
 Upper level(s) setback from the streetscape to maintain the 2 storey street wall
frontage.
 Garages and carports located behind the line of the dwelling.
 Vehicular access from a rear laneway if available.

5.8 Precinct 8: Civic

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 To support the precinct’s position as the civic centre of the FMAC by continued and
expanded municipal, community and education uses.
 To allow for sensitive redevelopment which complements the heritage values of the
precinct and adjoining residential area.
 To improve pedestrian access, amenity and safety through the precinct, particularly to
the station and new community meeting spaces.

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Preferred maximum building height Preferred setback
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 New built form should be respectful and responsive to the heritage context of the
precinct allowing for heritage prominence to be maintained and sensitively approached
through careful consideration of built form massing, articulation, distribution and
architectural style.
 Support increased usage and accessibility of the Town Hall to the community through
adaptation of the former Town Hall to a public meeting space and the Town Hall
gardens as a public open space.
 Support development of an Early Years Hub that capitalises on existing community
services provision.
 Enhance pedestrian access, amenity, safety and orientation through provision of safe,
walkable connections of high amenity through and around the area with active street
frontages, clear signage and the minimisation of potential pedestrian / vehicle conflict
areas.
6.0 Application requirements

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An application to use land must be accompanied by the following information, as
appropriate, to the satisfaction of the Responsible Authority:
 A description of the proposed use and the types of activities which will be carried out
and any proposed staging of use and activities on the land.
 An assessment of how the proposed use supports the land use mix set out in this
schedule.
 Plans drawn to scale and dimensioned which show:
 The siting and use of buildings.
 Areas not required for immediate use.
 Adjacent buildings and uses.
 The likely effects, if any, on adjoining land, including noise levels, traffic, the hours of
delivery and despatch of goods and materials, hours of operation and light spill, solar
access, glare, air-borne emissions and emissions to land and water.
 An assessment of the likely effects of railway noise and vibration on the proposed use
and measures to attenuate any adverse effects for applications within Precincts 2, 4, 5, 6
South 7West and 7East.
If an industry or warehouse:
 The type and quantity of goods to be stored, processed or produced.
 Whether a Works Approval or Waste Discharge Licence is required from the
Environment Protection Authority.
 Whether a notification under the Occupational Health and Safety (Major Hazard
Facilities) Regulations 2000 is required, a licence under the Dangerous Goods Act 1995
is required, or a fire protection quantity under the Dangerous Goods (Storage and
Handling) Regulations 2000 is exceeded.
In addition to the application requirements set out at Clause 37.08-7 an application to
construct a building or construct or carry out works must be accompanied by the following
information, as appropriate, to the satisfaction of the responsible authority:

 Three dimensional diagrams or visualisation showing the proposed building in the

context of the surrounding buildings for applications of development 5 storeys and
above in height.
 A design response including how the development responds to the objectives set out in
this schedule and the physical surrounds and adjacent land uses.
 How the development responds to any precinct wide plans.
 The location, dimensions (showing relevant levels to AHD and overshadowing
impacts), internal layout and use of proposed buildings and works.
 Elevations detailing façade articulation, and indicative concepts for external materials,
colours and finishes.
 The location and indicative concepts for landscaped areas, street trees, public lighting,
advertising signs and public art.
 Pedestrian and vehicle (including bicycle and motorcycle) access points into, around
and through the site, including disability access.
 The location of, and access to, public transport and bicycle routes and facilities relative
to the proposed buildings and works, access to them and where appropriate, proposed
user facilities.
 Details of bicycle and vehicle parking and loading, including location and access for
waste recycling, storage and removal.
 How the development will accommodate infrastructure and building servicing
requirements.
 How the development addresses any potential adverse wind conditions.
 The location of screening of existing and proposed services including plant equipment,
air conditioning, restaurant kitchen exhaust flues, and lighting.
 Staging of development, if appropriate, including the treatment of areas not required for
immediate use.
 How the development responds to community needs, including community
infrastructure and housing needs, including affordable housing.
 How the layout and design will support best practice environmentally sustainable
design principles.
 How the development will respond to the need, if required, for site remediation.
 Works within the adjoining Roads, Streets, Reservations or public areas.
 Potential location of site offices, site parking, storage areas and cranes.
 Details of any demolition and excavation.
 Management of construction waste and potentially contaminated materials.
 Any impacts on public transport operations.
 An Adverse Amenity Impacts Report(s) prepared by a suitably qualified person(s) to
the satisfaction of the responsible authority and the Department of Transport, Planning
and Local Infrastructure for applications within Precincts 4 and 7East as appropriate
that identifies all potential adverse amenity impacts from the use and operation of the
Bunbury Street Railway Tunnel and Railway Line. If the report identifies that the
proposed use and/or development may be adversely affected, specific recommendations
must be provided with the report for appropriate measures to ensure the proposed use
and/or development is not adversely affected by the identified impacts.

 A Construction Management Plan (CMP) detailing how the development of the land
will be managed to ensure that the amenity and use of the nearby area is not
detrimentally affected. The CMP must satisfy the requirements of Public Transport
Victoria and Vic Track to ensure that any development of the land, including site
works, excavation and earthworks, does not have any impact on the Albion/Werribee
Rail Corridors, Bunbury Street Railway Tunnel and Railway Corridor and associated
infrastructure.
 For applications for a sensitive use (residential use, child care centre, pre-school centre
or primary school), or the construction or carrying out of buildings and works in
association with a sensitive use on sites identified as potentially contaminated land
listed in the Environmental Site Assessment Table below, an Environmental Site
Assessment detailing the likelihood of contamination is required.
Address Site Assessment with Site Assessment

an application for with an
buildings and works in application for a
association with a sensitive use
sensitive use
23 Ann Street, Footscray Yes Yes

320 Barkly Street, Footscray Yes Yes
196-198 Barkly Street, Footscray Yes Yes
11 Blackston Street, Footscray Yes Yes
101-103 Buckley Street, Seddon Yes Yes
108-110 Buckley Street, Footscray Yes Yes
112 Buckley Street, Footscray Yes Yes
119 Buckley Street, Seddon Yes Yes
93 Buckley Street, Seddon Yes Yes
3 Droop Street, Footscray Yes Yes
5 Droop Street, Footscray Yes Yes
101-103 Geelong Road, Footscray Yes Yes
147 Geelong Road, Footscray Yes Yes
149 Geelong Road, Footscray Yes Yes
43-45 Hopkins Street, Footscray Yes Yes

Address Site Assessment with Site Assessment

an application for with an
buildings and works in application for a
association with a sensitive use
sensitive use
49 Hopkins Street, Footscray Yes Yes

75 Moore Street, Footscray Yes Yes
34 Moreland Street, Footscray Yes Yes
36 Moreland Street, Footscray Yes Yes
38-40 Moreland Street, Footscray Yes Yes
82 Napier Street, Footscray Yes Yes
41 Victoria Street, Footscray Yes Yes
1-3 Whitehall Street, Footscray Yes Yes
5 Whitehall Street, Footscray Yes Yes
1 Wingfield Street, Footscray Yes Yes
11-17 Wingfield Street, Footscray Yes Yes
1a Wingfield Street, Footscray Yes Yes
1a Wingfield Street, Footscray Yes Yes
4 Yewers Street, Footscray Yes Yes
234-240 Barkly Street, Footscray No Yes
41-43 Moreland Road, Footscray No Yes
1-11 Moreland Street, Footscray No Yes
62 Nicholson Street, Footscray No Yes
2 and 4 Saltwater Place, Footscray No Yes
The environmental site assessment should be conducted by a suitably qualified

professional, to the satisfaction of the Responsible Authority, in accordance with the
National Environmental Protection Measure (assessment of site contamination) 1999, as
amended. The assessment should:
 Assess soil and groundwater contamination, including the potential for vapor intrusion.
 Detail as appropriate:
 The nature of the previous land use or activities on the subject site.
 How long the land use or activity took place on the subject site and where the site is
contaminated.

 A description of the contamination on, under or from the subject site and its extent.
 How any contamination is being managed or may be managed to prevent any
detrimental affect on the use and development of the subject site or adjoining land
or on buildings and works.
 Advise (having regard to the proposed use, development or buildings and works)
whether:
 an Environmental Audit is required, or
 the level of contamination will prevent the proposed use or development of the land
and the level of contamination cannot be remediated to a level that would enable the
proposed use or development, or
 subject to appropriate remediation, the land would be suitable for the proposed use
or development.
If land is not identified in the table this does not mean that it is not potentially
contaminated and the Responsible Authority may still require additional information
(consistent with the above listed application requirements) to be provided as part of a
planning permit application.
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An application to construct a building or construct or carry out works is exempt from the
notice requirements of Section 52(1) (a), (b) and (d), the decision requirements of Section
64(1), (2) and (3) and the review rights of Section 82(1) of the Act unless:
 it exceeds the preferred maximum building heights contained within Clause 5 of this
schedule, and is not in respect of land located in Precinct 2G, or
 it is located within Precinct 7.
An application to use land is exempt from the notice requirements of Section 52(1)(a), (b)
and (d), the decision requirements of Section 64(1), (2) and (3) and the review rights of
Section 82(1) of the Act. This does not apply to:
 A use within 30 metres of land (not a road) which is in a residential zone, land used for
a hospital or an education centre or land in a Public Acquisition Overlay to be acquired
for a hospital or an education centre.
 An application to use the land for the purposes of a Gambling premises, Hotel,
Nightclub, Place of assembly or Tavern.
 An application to use the land for purposes other than a dwelling in Precincts 7 and 1A.
8.0 Decision guidelines

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Before deciding on an application, in addition to the decision guidelines in Clause 65 and
Clause 37.02-2, the responsible authority must consider, as appropriate:
 The Footscray CAA Structure Plan (Maribyrnong City Council, 2013)
 Footscray Skyline Study: Updated Report, SJB Urban, (October 2012)
 Footscray Central Activities Area Car Parking Study (GTA Consultants, April 20013)
 Whether the use is consistent with the objectives for the precinct.
 The interim use of those parts of the land not required for the proposed use.
 Whether the use is compatible with adjoining and nearby land uses.

 The interface with adjoining Precincts or sites identified for future redevelopment, and
the need to manage potential conflicts between existing uses (especially residential
uses) and new uses coming into the Precinct.
 The extent that the layout and design of the new use or development minimises the
potential for off-site impacts, including from noise, fumes, odour or vibrations,
ensuring that:
 existing uses are not compromised by a new development, or
 a new development is designed to address amenity impacts from existing uses.
 The potential for contamination to have adverse effects on the future land use and any
remediation works or ongoing requirements relating to the use and management of the
land.
 The views of VicTrack and Public Transport Victoria.
9.0 Advertising signs

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Precinct Advertising Category
Precinct 1: Central Category 1 – Minimum limitation

Precinct 2: Station:
Sub-Precincts 2A, 2B, 2D, 2E AND 2I Category 1 – Minimum limitation
Sub-Precinct 2C Category 2 – Low limitation
Sub –Precinct 2F, 2G AND 2H Category 3 – Medium limitation
Precinct 3: Victoria University Category 3 – Medium limitation
Precinct 4: Riverside:
Sub-Precinct 4B Category 2 – Low limitation
Sub-Precincts 4A and C Category 3 – Medium limitation
Precinct 5 Joseph Road Precinct
Land within 15m from Hopkins St frontage Category 1 – Minimum limitation
Land east of Maribyrnong Street or within Category 3 – Medium limitation
15m west of Maribyrnong Street, and not
within 15m from Hopkins St frontage
Remainder of precinct Category 2 – Low limitation
Precinct 6: Peripheral Activity Category 2 – Low limitation
Precinct 7: Neighbourhood Category 3 – Medium limitation
Precinct 8: Civic Category 3 – Medium limitation
The following requirements should be met to the satisfaction of the responsible authority:
Advertising signage should:
 Be coordinated across the centre;
 Not dominate the streetscape or increase visual clutter; and
 Respect the scale, architecture and character of the building or public space.
10.0 Other provisions of the scheme

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Clause 22.03 Potentially Contaminated Land (and pending new Clause 22.03 Potentially
Contaminated Land – Amendment C82 Part 2).

11.0 Reference documents

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Footscray CAA Structure Plan (Maribyrnong City Council, 2013)
Footscray Central Activities Area Car Parking Study (GTA Consultants, April 2013)
Footscray Retail Study, Collie & Renaissance Planning, (August 2009)
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MARIBYRNONG PLANNING SCHEME

Shown on the planning scheme map as ACZ1.

Footscray Metropolitan Activity Centre

1.0 Footscray Framework Plan

2.0 Land use and development objectives to be achieved

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 To ensure redevelopment contributes to the revitalisation and transformation of

 To recognise, conserve and enhance elements of Aboriginal and post-settlement

Environmentally sustainable design

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Movement & Transport

 To facilitate a balanced, sustainable, efficient and safe transport network within

Open Space and Recreation

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Arts and Culture

3.0 Table of uses

Section 1 - Permit not required

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Section 2 - Permit required

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4.0 Centre-wide provisions

4.1 Use of land

4.3 Buildings and works

No permit is required to:

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4.4 Design and development

General built form guidelines

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Car parking location and design

Environmentally sustainable design

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 Encourage building materials conservation, including consideration of their

5.0 Precinct provisions

5.1 Precinct 1: Central

5.1-1 Precinct map

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5.1-2 Precinct objectives

5.1-3 Precinct requirements

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Sub- Preferred maximum building Preferred setback

5.1-4 Precinct guidelines

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5.2 Precinct 2: Station

5.2-1 Precinct map

5.2-2 PRECINCT OBJECTIVES

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5.2-3 Precinct requirements

5.2-4 Precinct guidelines

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5.3 Precinct 3: University

5.3-1 Precinct maps

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5.3-2 Precinct objectives

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5.3-3 Precinct requirements