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    Planning scheme amendments

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    Every Wodonga Planning Scheme amendment is placed on public exhibition to allow the affected parties and the public to view the amendment and make submissions to either support or object the amendment. 

    Amendments are generally placed on public exhibition for one month. 

    Notice of when an amendment is on exhibition appears in The Border Mail on a Wednesday or Saturday. Anyone can view the amendment when on exhibition at our offices at 104 Hovell St, Wodonga during business hours. 

    Submissions to an amendment must be made in writing, be submitted before the closing date and addressed to: 

    Chief Executive Officer,
    Wodonga Council,
    PO Box 923,
    Wodonga, VIC 3689

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    Before making a submission, or if you have any further enquiries, please phone our planning team on (02) 6022 9300 to discuss.

     

    Wodonga Planning Scheme Amendment and Planning Permit C135

    The planning scheme amendment has been approved by the Minister for Planning and a notice appeared in the Victorian Government Gazette on Thursday, February 10. 

    The amendment resolves inconsistencies between the zone maps (Map No. 13) under the Wodonga Planning Scheme and the proposed future stages at the Riverside Estate development. 

    You may inspect the amendment, any documents that support the amendment and the explanatory report about the amendment, free of charge, at:

    • The Wodonga City Council website at Wodonga Council — Planning scheme amendments; and/or 
    • During office hours, at the office of the planning authority, Wodonga City Council, 104 Hovell Street Wodonga.
    • At the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning website www.delwp.vic.gov.au/public-inspection. 

    Any person who may be affected by the amendment may make a submission to the planning authority about the amendment. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make. 

    Name and contact details of submitters are required for council to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend council meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions. The closing date for submissions is 16 August 2021. A submission must be sent to the Chief Executive Officer, Wodonga City Council, PO Box 923, Wodonga, Victoria, 3689.

    The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office and/or on its website for any person to inspect free of charge for two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.

     
    Amendment C135 explanatory documents

    Wodonga Planning Scheme Amendment C136

    This amendment has been prepared by the Wodonga City Council, which is the planning authority for this amendment. 

    The amendment has been made at the request of Victory Lutheran College – 28 Drage Road West Wodonga and applies to that land. 

    The amendment rezones Victory Lutheran College, 28 Drage Road, Wodonga from Farming Zone (FZ) to General Residential Zone – Schedule 1 (GRZ1).

    The amendment is required to reflect the current and historical use and development of the land as a school which is located in a developing mixed use and residential area. The school has existed at the land since 1991 (30 years) and has grown to provide P-12 education for the Wodonga community.

    Any person who may be affected by the amendment may make a submission to the planning authority about the amendment.

    Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make. Name and contact details of submitters are required for council to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend council meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions.

    The closing date for submissions is the 8th October 2021.

    A submission must be sent to the Wodonga City Council

    • PO Box 923, WODONGA VIC 3689, or
    • info@wodonga.vic.gov.au.

    The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office and/or on its website for any person to inspect free of charge for two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.

    AMENDMENT C136 EXPLANATORY DOCUMENTS
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