Next steps

The revised Mitchell Planning Scheme will be limited in what it will change as a part of this project.

It will:

• translate the planning scheme into the new Planning Policy Framework format in line with the State-wide Amendment VC148, which includes updating the Municipal Strategic Statement (MSS), to a new briefer Municipal Planning Strategy (MPS);
• Look to implement policies that are relevant to planning that have been adopted by Council over the past 8 years;
• Remove policy that is duplicating or at odds with what is said in the Planning Scheme at State and Regional level; and
• Identify further work to further improve the planning scheme for the next 5 years.

It cannot/will not:

• Insert new policy that is not adopted by Council
• Insert new structure plans into the planning scheme. This work will be prepared as a separate planning scheme amendment, if they are not already implemented into the scheme.
• Rezone or nominate land for rezoning. Such nominations need to be informed by a strategic project such as a township structure pan and would be subject to a separate planning scheme amendment.