title: Vegetation Protection Overlay Schedules VPO1 and VPO2 council: golden-plains state: vic category: constraint classification: MINOR status: pending last_compiled: 2026-05-30 source_docs:

  • Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf
  • Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf
  • Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf

Vegetation Protection Overlay Schedules VPO1 and VPO2

Vegetation Protection Overlay schedules VPO1 and VPO2 operate as targeted environmental constraint controls in the Golden Plains Planning Scheme: VPO1 protects Western Plains Grasslands, while VPO2 protects bushland reserves and roadside vegetation areas. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) Their planning significance is not only ecological; they also sit at the point where settlement growth, road maintenance, subdivision design, bushfire management and native vegetation loss must be reconciled through permit assessment. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.76; Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253)

Background

The Golden Plains Planning Scheme Review identifies Clause 42.02 Vegetation Protection Overlay as the local control used to protect areas of significant vegetation, minimise vegetation loss from development, preserve existing trees and other vegetation, recognise vegetation protection areas as places of special significance, maintain habitat corridors for indigenous fauna, and encourage native vegetation regeneration. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.76) The same review states that remnant native vegetation across Golden Plains is estimated at approximately 25 per cent of the pre-European extent, and that some of the Shire’s most significant native vegetation occurs on roadsides. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253)

The VPO schedules were reviewed through the 2022 planning scheme review and the proposed C102gpla ordinance package. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.6; Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116) The review characterises many proposed scheme changes as policy-neutral changes to align the ordinance with the Ministerial Direction on the Form and Content of Planning Schemes, while also updating factual material and incorporating adopted strategic work. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.6)

The wider municipal policy setting matters because the Shire contains nationally significant roadside native grasslands and grassy woodland plains that support the endangered striped legless lizard and spiny rice flower. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.1) The scheme context also records that Golden Plains contains rich and diverse environmental, cultural and scenic landscapes, including granite outcrops, river valleys and open volcanic plains. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.1)

Analysis

What VPO1 Protects

VPO1 is shown on the planning scheme map as Schedule 1 to Clause 42.02 and is titled Western Plains Grasslands. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298) The schedule identifies the protected vegetation as remnant grasslands that are significant because they represent the Western Plains Grasslands. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298) The two stated objectives are to protect the conservation values of those areas and to protect significant remnant grassland species. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298)

The mechanism is simple: where VPO1 applies, development and subdivision assessment must test whether the proposal is consistent with the grassland conservation purpose of the schedule. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298) The proposed C102gpla drafting shifts the operative assessment emphasis into decision guidelines that ask whether development or subdivision accords with the environmental objectives, whether it is consistent with site and surrounding environmental qualities, how it affects conservation and enhancement of the area, how it affects natural environment and vegetation values, how vegetation supports flora and fauna habitat, and how Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act objectives or recommendations are addressed. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116)

In practical planning terms, VPO1 is a grassland constraint rather than a general landscape preference. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298) Its strongest effect is likely to arise where a subdivision layout, access arrangement, building envelope, service trench, road work, or fire management treatment intersects remnant grassland. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116) The available documents do not provide mapped parcel-by-parcel VPO1 coverage, hectare counts, ecological condition scores, or offset liabilities, so this page cannot quantify the area of Western Plains Grasslands affected by the schedule. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298)

What VPO2 Protects

VPO2 is shown on the planning scheme map as Schedule 2 to Clause 42.02 and is titled Bushland Reserves and Roadside Vegetation Areas. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The schedule identifies the protected vegetation as significant remnant vegetation in bushland reserves and government road reserves. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) It specifically names Red Ironbark, Yellow Box and Red Stringy Bark eucalyptus species, as well as rare and endangered flora and fauna species of regional significance. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) Its objectives are to protect conservation values and significant remnant vegetation species. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

VPO2 has a different practical footprint from VPO1 because it includes roadside vegetation areas as well as bushland reserves. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) That means the control can affect not only private land development but also driveway crossings, road maintenance, roadside works, subdivision access points and transport corridor design. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The VPO2 decision guidelines expressly require consideration of sensitive siting and construction of driveways and crossings over roadsides, and require roadside works to have regard to preventative measures to stop the spread of pest plants. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

The VPO2 decision test is broader than VPO1 because it adds corridor and species-retention considerations. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) In addition to the shared VPO questions about environmental objectives, site qualities, conservation, vegetation and habitat, VPO2 asks whether native vegetation should be retained because it is rare, supports rare species, or forms part of a wildlife corridor. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) It also asks whether vegetation will be established and maintained elsewhere on the land. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

C102gpla Drafting Mechanism

The planning scheme review found that both VPO1 and VPO2 had drafting issues against the Ministerial Direction on the Form and Content of Planning Schemes. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.76; Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.77) For VPO1, the review states that the first two permit requirements should be redrafted as decision guidelines and that referral or notice requirements should be moved to Clause 66.06. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.76) For VPO2, the review states that the first two permit requirements should be redrafted as decision guidelines, referral or notice requirements should be moved to Clause 66.06, and Council permit exemption wording should be redrafted to comply with the Ministerial Direction. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.77)

The track-changes ordinance shows the effect of this change for VPO1: statements that development and subdivision must accord with environmental objectives are marked as more appropriate as decision guidelines, while the schedule retains an exemption for works and maintenance of roads, railways and highways controlled by the Head, Transport for Victoria or VicTrack where an agreed vegetation management plan has been approved. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298) The clean ordinance for C102gpla shows the proposed VPO1 permit requirement as allowing any application to develop land to be referred for comment to the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, and retaining the transport infrastructure maintenance exemption where an agreed vegetation management plan has been approved. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116)

For VPO2, the track-changes ordinance shows exemptions for works and maintenance of roads, railways and highways controlled by the Head, Transport for Victoria or VicTrack where a vegetation management plan has been approved by the responsible authority. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The same VPO2 schedule also exempts works and maintenance of roads controlled by Golden Plains Shire Council where a Roadside Management Plan has been approved by the responsible authority. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

This drafting change is administrative in form but operationally important. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.6) Moving assessment language from permit requirements into decision guidelines does not remove the environmental test; it changes where the test sits in the ordinance and reduces the risk that a schedule contains material not permitted by the Ministerial Direction. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.76; Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.77)

Referral and Notice Pathway

The planning scheme review found that referral requirements were being specified in local schedules and should be moved to Clause 66.04 and Clause 66.06. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.19) It recommended that Council relocate referral requirements in local schedules to Clause 66.04 and liaise with the relevant agency or authority to confirm the appropriate referral authority type. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.19) It also recommended that Council consult referral authorities proposed to be moved to Clause 66.04 and Clause 66.06 before seeking authorisation for a planning scheme amendment. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.19)

The marked-up ordinance identifies VPO1 and VPO2 as local provisions where any application to develop land would notify the Secretary to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, with notes stating that referral and notice requirements need to be specified in Clause 66.04 and Clause 66.06. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.371) The clean C102gpla ordinance updates the department name in VPO1 to the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116)

The practical result is that applications in VPO1 and VPO2 areas may involve environmental agency input, but the correct statutory location for the notice or referral pathway is outside the VPO schedule itself. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.19; Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.371) This matters because an applicant, responsible authority and referral body need a clear procedural pathway for who is notified, who comments, and what legal weight that comment carries. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.19)

Relationship to Settlement Growth and Bushfire

The VPO schedules sit within a municipality where growth pressure and vegetation protection are explicitly in tension. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.8; Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253) The planning scheme review records that Golden Plains has experienced some of the highest population growth rates in percentage terms of any municipality outside metropolitan Melbourne since the late 1990s, influenced by proximity to Melbourne, Geelong and Ballarat. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.1) The same policy context says biodiversity will be supported by protecting significant habitats and remnant vegetation from development encroachment, while balancing native vegetation conservation with development pressures, land use change and protection of people from bushfire. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253)

This balance is particularly relevant because the scheme states that bushfire protection of human life is the primary consideration, while vegetation conservation is a lower but still important priority in bushfire-prone areas. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253) The review includes an advocacy recommendation for clearer State Government tools to balance bushfire planning and vegetation protection, stating that current State policy prioritises settlement over vegetation protection through fire mitigation. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.8)

For VPO1 and VPO2, this means the overlay does not operate in isolation. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253) A proposal may need to retain grassland or roadside vegetation under the VPO while also meeting bushfire defendable-space, access and hazard-management requirements under other planning controls. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253) The available documents do not identify a settled hierarchy for resolving parcel-level conflicts between VPO vegetation retention and bushfire mitigation, beyond the general statement that protection of human life is the primary consideration. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253)

Roadside Vegetation as Infrastructure Constraint

VPO2 is materially different from a reserve-only biodiversity control because it applies to roadside vegetation areas. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The scheme context states that some of Golden Plains’ most significant native vegetation occurs on roadsides. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253) This creates a mechanism where transport access and biodiversity protection can collide at small but consequential locations such as new driveway crossings, widened roads, intersection works and service connections. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

The VPO2 decision guidelines require sensitive siting and construction of driveways and crossings over roadsides, which means access design is part of the vegetation-protection assessment rather than a separate engineering question. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The exemption for Council road works depends on an approved Roadside Management Plan, so the operational document becomes a key bridge between statutory vegetation protection and routine road maintenance. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The Roadside Management Plan itself is not included in the source set, so the standards, mapping, maintenance practices and vegetation-quality hierarchy that would guide that exemption cannot be assessed here. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

Application Assessment Consequences

Neither VPO1 nor VPO2 specifies application requirements in the available schedules. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) This means the schedules identify the environmental decision matters but do not themselves list mandatory supporting documents such as an ecological report, vegetation condition assessment, arborist report, offset statement, habitat assessment, or roadside works method statement. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

That absence is important for administration. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The responsible authority may still need enough information to answer the decision guidelines, but the VPO schedules do not define a standard evidence package. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) This can lead to case-by-case information requests, particularly where a proposal affects roadside vegetation, potential habitat corridors, rare species habitat, remnant grassland or vegetation that may support fauna. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

Current Status

The initiative is classified in the compile manifest as pending and the available ordinance material is marked as Proposed C102gpla. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116) The planning scheme review recommends that Council prepare a planning scheme amendment or amendments using the marked-up ordinance to align the ordinance with the Ministerial Direction, update factual data, reinstate transport policy, incorporate adopted strategic work and update further strategic work. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.7) Before seeking authorisation, the review recommends consultation with referral authorities proposed to be moved to Clause 66.04 and Clause 66.06. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.7)

Dependencies

  • Blocks: VPO1 and VPO2 can affect development, subdivision, access, road works and maintenance where protected grassland, bushland reserve vegetation or roadside vegetation is implicated. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)
  • Blocked by: Full spatial and quantitative analysis is blocked by the absence of VPO mapping, ecological condition data, species records, Roadside Management Plan content and recent permit examples. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)
  • Informed by: The schedules are informed by the planning scheme review, the C102gpla clean ordinance package and the C102gpla track-changes ordinance package. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.6; Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298)
  • Implements: The schedules implement local biodiversity protection by protecting significant habitats, remnant vegetation, grassland species, bushland reserve vegetation, roadside vegetation and habitat corridors. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)
  • Conflicts with: The main policy tension is with settlement growth, land use change, road access, road maintenance and bushfire mitigation where those activities require vegetation removal or vegetation management. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

Golden Plains sits between the regional service centres of Ballarat and Geelong and shares boundaries with Colac Otway, Corangamite, Pyrenees, Moorabool and Surf Coast shires and the cities of Ballarat and Greater Geelong. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.1) The municipality is split between two regional planning areas: the G21 Region in the south and the Central Highlands Region in the north. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.1) These regional relationships matter for vegetation protection because ecological systems, transport corridors, settlement pressure and bushfire risk do not stop at municipal boundaries. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.253)

The VPO schedules also connect to State environmental administration because VPO-related applications may involve notice or comment to the relevant environment department. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.371; Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116) They connect to State transport administration because road, railway and highway maintenance exemptions depend on vegetation management plans for assets controlled by the Head, Transport for Victoria or VicTrack. (Source: Att 7.6.5 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Combined_1.pdf, p.116; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

Relevant internal wiki links include biodiversity, native-vegetation, bushfire-risk, roadside-vegetation, settlement-growth, bannockburn-growth-plan, planning-scheme-review-2022, and amendment-c102gpla.

Gaps in This Analysis

The source set is adequate to explain the legal mechanism of VPO1 and VPO2, but it is too thin to quantify mapped impact. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) The missing documents are the VPO planning scheme maps, the ecological evidence that justified the schedule boundaries, any Roadside Management Plan referenced by the VPO2 exemption, and any current DEECA or Council guidance on information expectations for VPO applications. (Source: Att 7.6.1 - Golden-Plains-Planning-Scheme-Review-2022_FINAL combined_3.pdf, p.77; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

The available documents do not provide the number of hectares covered by VPO1 or VPO2, the number of affected parcels, the length of affected roadside corridors, the number of recent permit applications affected by the schedules, approval or refusal rates, offset outcomes, or examples of modified subdivision layouts. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) Those gaps prevent a quantified constraint analysis of lot yield, road access cost, maintenance burden or ecological offset exposure. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)

The most important corpus gap is the Roadside Management Plan referenced by VPO2, because that document appears to determine when Council road works and maintenance can proceed without a planning permit under the schedule. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299) A second important gap is the mapped VPO layer, because without it the analysis cannot identify which settlements, growth fronts, roads or reserves are materially constrained by VPO1 or VPO2. (Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.298; Source: Att 7.6.6 - Golden Plains C102gpla Ordinance Track Changes Combined.pdf, p.299)