CURRENT STATUS: PANEL HEARING

Following consideration of submissions received during the C320ston public exhibition (February-March 2023) Council resolved to refer all submissions to an independent Panel.

The Panel Hearing will start on Tuesday 25 July 2023 and should run for up to eight days.

The Hearing is open for anyone to attend. The Hearing will be in a hybrid format that allows participants to attend either in person or via video conference.

The full timetable and Microsoft Teams link to join the Hearing are below in the Panel Hearing section.

At the Panel hearing, the Panel will:

• Consider all submissions in an independent forum
• Be informal and not like a court
• Give fair, unbiased advice to Council and the Minister for Planning about the Amendment

Amendment C320ston proposes to amend the Stonnington Planning Scheme to implement the findings of the Toorak, Kooyong and Armadale Heritage Reviews. The amendment will:

• Apply the Heritage Overlay to twenty-one (21) new individually significant places, one (1) serial listing, nine (9) new heritage precincts and extensions to two (2) existing heritage precincts.
• Make changes to a number of existing precincts. Specifically, the removal of places, changing of gradings, addition of Heritage Overlay controls, and changes to names and addresses where considered necessary.
• Make changes to a number of existing individual places. Specifically, the addition and revision of Heritage Overlay controls, and changes to names and addresses where considered necessary.
• Produce citations for twenty-one (21) new individually significant places, one (1) serial listing, nine (9) new heritage precincts and update citations for fifty-one (51) existing individual places and eleven (11) existing precincts.
• Remove the Neighbourhood Character Overlay (NCO5) from places on Bailey Avenue and Valentine Grove, Armadale.

The full heritage studies can be found under the Document Library.

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