Manningham Planning Scheme
SCHEDULE 1 TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OVERLAY
Shown on the planning scheme map as ESO1.
YARRA RIVER ENVIRONS
1.0 Statement of environmental significance
The Yarra River and its environs are one of Melbourne’s most important natural assets. The river and its environs are significant elements of the character and landscape of the municipality. Views of and from the river valley attract residents and visitors to the area. The river and its environs are of significant cultural and heritage significance. The river is a popular destination for a wide range of recreational activities. The surrounding area is characterised by urban and non-urban land uses. Careful planning is necessary so that use and development does not detrimentally impact on the Yarra River environs.
2.0 Environmental objectives to be achieved
To protect areas along the Yarra River from development that may damage the streamside environment as a visual, conservation, ecological and recreation resource.
To enhance and encourage the conservation and maintenance of the streamside environment as a visual, conservation, ecological and recreation resource.
To conserve water quality and watercourse capacity to enable appropriate beneficial land use and water-based activities to be undertaken.
To protect and enhance vistas from the Yarra River, its banks and nearby parkland.
To protect areas along the Yarra River from visual intrusion caused by inappropriate design and siting of buildings.
To encourage development consistent with The Middle Yarra Concept Plan - Burke Road to Watsons Creek, December 1993.
To encourage the retention and enhancement of a continuous corridor of indigenous vegetation along river and creek banks in order to provide corridors for the movement of wildlife.
To ensure the viability of the catchment ecosystem is not threatened.
To protect and enhance a sense of remoteness in the Yarra Valley.
3.0 Permit requirement
A permit is required to construct or carry out:
§ A building or works specified in Clause 62.02 of this scheme other than a fence.
§ A fence other than a post and wire fence of less than 1.2 metres in height.
A permit is not required to:
§ Remove, destroy or lop an exotic tree which has all of the following:
A trunk circumference of less than 0.35 metre at one metre above ground level.
A height of less than 6 metres.
A branch spread of less than 4 metres.
§ Prune an exotic tree for regeneration or ornamental shaping.
§ Remove an exotic tree which is dead.
§ Any species listed in the Table to this Schedule.
An application to subdivide land, construct a building or construct or carry out works must be accompanied by the following information, as appropriate:
§ A site analysis as described in the Development Guide for Areas of Environmental & Landscape Significance, 2011.
§ Full building elevations.
§ Accurate and detailed existing and proposed finished site levels.
§ The gradient and location of the top and toe of all cut and fill batters.
§ Finished floor levels.
§ Floor plan layouts.
§ The location and level of any driveways.
§ The proposed external building materials, finishes and colours.
§ A site plan denoting the accurate location of any vegetation in the vicinity of the buildings and works.
§ A site plan denoting the setbacks of buildings and works to all boundaries.
§ Details and the location of the proposed method of sewage, sullage and effluent disposal.
§ The location of any easements.
§ The purpose and function of the buildings and works.
§ Plan details of retaining walls and other measures to stabilise cut and fill batters.
§ Details of adequate safeguards to ensure that activities in any developed portions of the land do not detrimentally affect the significant communities or populations of indigenous plants or fauna or their habitats.
§ Details of any proposed revegetation, including the proposed species to be planted and any proposals for ground stabilisation.
§ In the case of the construction or illumination of a tennis court:
Plan details of all proposed fencing.
The location and height of any light poles.
The specification for any lights.
An application to remove, destroy or lop vegetation must be accompanied by the following information:
§ The purpose of the vegetation removal.
§ An accurate site plan denoting the position, height and species of the vegetation to be removed.
§ The slope of the land where the vegetation is to be removed.
§ The extent of vegetation on the property.
§ Plan details of proposed replanting.
4.0 Decision guidelines
Before deciding on an application to subdivide land, construct a building or construct or carry out works, the responsible authority must consider, as appropriate:
§ The conservation and enhancement of the area.
§ The preservation of the character of the area and the impact on the natural environment.
§ The benefit of a condition requiring planting, replanting or other treatment of any part of the land.
§ The need to screen all buildings and structures from views along the watercourse and its banks and to ensure that screen planting is maintained to the satisfaction of the responsible authority.
§ The need to prevent erosion and pollution.
§ The existing use and development of the land.
§ Whether the location, bulk and appearance of the building or works will be in keeping with the character and appearance of the area, including the vista from the Yarra River and adjoining public open space.
§ The need to encourage building design which is in keeping with the character of the area by:
Ensuring that buildings are sited parallel with site contours on land with an average slope greater than 1 in 10.
Keeping the height of all buildings and structures to a minimum.
§ The need for exterior building colours and materials to be non-reflective and blend with the natural colour of the surrounding environment. (Preferred colours for roofs are dark, non-reflective grey, brown, olive green or black.)
§ The need for all cut and fill batters to be of a gradient less than 1 in 5 and revegetated immediately following construction.
§ The need for at least 50 per cent of a site to be native vegetation, lawn or other pervious open space. (It should not contain a building, swimming pool, pavement or other impervious surface.)
§ The Middle Yarra Concept Plan - Burke Road to Watsons Creek, December 1993.
§ The views of the relevant drainage authority.
§ For land which is adjacent to or opposite the Yarra Valley Parklands or Warrandyte State Park, the views of Parks Victoria.
Before deciding on an application to remove, destroy or lop vegetation, the responsible authority must consider:
§ The Middle Yarra Concept Plan - Burke Road to Watsons Creek, December 1993.
§ The conservation and enhancement of the area.
§ The preservation of and the impact on the natural environment and the need to prevent erosion.
§ The management of vegetation to minimise fire hazard.
§ The benefit of a condition requiring planting, replanting or other treatment of any part of the land.
§ The views of Parks Victoria.
TABLE TO SCHEDULE 1: Species exempt from permit requirements
COMMON NAME / SPECIES / STATUS /Balm Mint Bush / Prostanthera melissifolia / Victorian Native Vegetation
Box Elder / Acer negundo / Exotic Tree
Cedar Wattle / Acacia elata / Australian Native Tree
Cherry Laurel / Prunus laurocerasus / Exotic Tree
Cherry Plum / Prunus cerasifera / Exotic Tree
Cluster Pine or Maritime Pine / Pinus pinaster / Exotic Pine Tree
Cootamundra Wattle / Acacia baileyana / Australian Native Tree
Cotoneasters / Cotoneaster species / Exotic Tree
Desert Ash / Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. angustifolia / Exotic Tree
Early Black-wattle / Acacia decurrens / Australian Native Tree
Giant Honey-myrtle / Melaleuca armillaris / Victorian Native Vegetation
Golden Wreath Wattle / Acacia saligna / Australian Native Tree
Gosford Wattle / Acacia prominens / Australian Native Tree
Hawthorn / Crataegus monogyna / Exotic Tree
Holly / Ilex aquifolium / Exotic Tree
Irish Strawberry Tree / Arbutus unedo / Exotic Tree
Large-leafed (or Tree) Privet / Ligustrum lucidum (Ligustrum japonicum) / Exotic Tree
Laurustinus / Viburnum tinus / Exotic Tree
Loquat / Eriobotrya japonica / Exotic Tree
Morning Flag / Orthrosanthus multiflorus / Victorian Native Vegetation
Ovens Wattle / Acacia pravissima / Victorian Native Vegetation
Radiata Pine or Monterey Pine / Pinus radiata / Exotic Pine Tree
Sallow Wattle / Acacia longifolia / Victorian Native Vegetation
Sticky Wattle / Acacia howittii / Victorian Native Vegetation
Sweet Pittosporum / Pittosporum undulatum / Victorian Native Vegetation
Sycamore Maple / Acer pseudoplatanus / Exotic Tree
Tagasaste or Tree Lucerne / Chamaecytisus/(Cytisus) palmensis / Exotic Tree
Tobacco-bush or Wild Tobacco Tree / Solanum mauritianum / Exotic Tree
Tree Locust / Robinia pseudoacacia / Exotic Tree
White Sallow-wattle / Acacia floribunda / Victorian Native Vegetation
Willow-leaf Hakea / Hakea salicifolia / Australian Native Tree
Willows and Sallows / Salix species / Exotic Tree
Wirilda / Acacia retinodes / Victorian Native Vegetation
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