Amendment C103 - Hopetoun Park North

Council has prepared Amendment C103moor to the Moorabool Planning Scheme at the request of EMM Consulting, on behalf of Bacchus Marsh Property Group.  

The amendment is required to facilitate a master-planned residential development of approximately 62 hectares of land. The land is identified for residential development at Clause 11.01-1L-02 of the Moorabool Planning Scheme. 

The planned residential development would consist of approximately 400 dwellings on minimum size lots between 800m2 and 1500m2, active open space, community facilities, a local retail centre, local parks and shared trails.  

The amendment proposes to: 

  • Rezone the subject land from Farming Zone (FZ) to Neighbourhood Residential Zone Schedule 8 (NRZ8); 

  • Apply the Development Plan Overlay Schedule 7 (DPO7) to the subject land;  

  • Apply the Design and Development Overlay Schedule 17 (DDO17) to the subject land;  

  • Apply the Environmental Significance Overlay Schedule 7 (ESO7) to remnant native vegetation on the subject land;  

  • Remove the Design and Development Overlay Schedule 2 (DDO2) and Significant Landscape Overlay Schedule 1 (SLO1) from the subject land. 

Have your say 

The Amendment is on public exhibition from 21 March to 4 May 2025. 

The best way to have your say is to make a submission while the Amendment is on public exhibition.  

Submissions can be made in the following ways; 

Online 

Via Council’s Have Your Say webpage:

Have Your Say  

Email  

info@moorabool.vic.gov.au

Post

Moorabool Shire Council,
PO Box 18, Ballan VIC 3342,
with the subject “Submission Planning Scheme Amendment C099moor attention Manager Growth and Development” 

 

All submissions must include your name and contact address, clearly stating why the amendment is supported or opposed, and indicating what changes (if any) you wish to be made.  

Please be aware that submissions are public documents and copies may be made available to any person for the purpose of consideration as part of the planning process. Your personal contact details will not be published with your submission, and your personal information will be managed in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014. 

Find out more 

You can find out more about the amendment and view the amendment documents by visiting Council’s Have Your Say webpage  

or 

on the Department of Transport and Planning website

www.planning.vic.gov.au/public-inspection

Hard copies of all Amendment documents can be viewed at Council’s Darley or Ballan offices, the Lerderderg Library or can be posted to you upon request.