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title: Amendment C106mith - Beveridge North West PSP and ICP Panel Process council: mitchell state: vic category: amendment classification: MAJOR status: superseded-by-gazetted-2025-controls last_compiled: 2026-05-31 source_docs:

  • Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf
  • web-research-L1-c106mith-council-response-mitchellshire.txt
  • web-research-L1-c106mith-explanatory-report-dtp.txt
  • web-research-L1-c106mith-ordinance-ugz-vpa.txt
  • web-research-L1-submission-summary-c106mith-vpa.txt
  • web-research-L1-wurundjeri-submission-c106mith-vpa.txt

Amendment C106mith - Beveridge North West PSP and ICP Panel Process

Amendment C106mith is a major growth-area amendment because it translates the Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan from corridor-level urban designation into statutory controls for about 1,279 hectares between Wallan and Beveridge, with a planned residential community of about 16,286 dwellings and about 45,000 to 51,000 residents. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.i)

The central planning issue is not whether urban development has policy support; the Panel found broad support for urban growth in the precinct, but recommended revising the amendment to explicitly include precinct-level planning for extraction from Work Authority 1473 before urban development sterilised that stone resource. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.21-23)

Background

The VPA prepared Amendment C106mith as the planning authority, and the amendment proposed to implement the Beveridge North West PSP by introducing Schedule 3 to the Urban Growth Zone, applying it to the precinct, incorporating the PSP, inserting an Incorporated Plan Overlay schedule, and making associated zone and overlay changes. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-explanatory-report-dtp.txt)

The amendment area is generally bounded by the Hume Freeway to the east, Camerons Lane to the south, Old Sydney Road to the west, and the western extension of the Hadfield Road reservation to the north. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-explanatory-report-dtp.txt)

The exhibited amendment was on public exhibition from 5 September 2019 to 7 October 2019 and attracted 34 submissions. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.i)

The Panel process included directions hearings on 6 March 2020 and 23 June 2020, then hearing days from 20 July 2020 to 13 August 2020 by videoconference, with the Panel report dated 7 October 2020. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.i)

Analysis

Land Supply, Settlement Structure and Statutory Mechanism

The PSP is planned as a predominantly residential precinct with sub-regional and local town centres but no large employment precincts, meaning its main regional function is housing supply and local service provision rather than strategic employment land. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.i)

The explanatory material states that the PSP provides for four local town centres, two local convenience centres, four sports reserves, local parks, drainage reserves, enhancement of Kalkallo Creek, three government primary schools, one government primary-secondary school, two non-government primary schools, one non-government secondary school, and four community centres. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-explanatory-report-dtp.txt)

The Panel report records a slightly different community-infrastructure position, noting four local town centres, four sport field reserves, five primary schools, a primary-secondary school, two non-government schools, and five new community centres after post-exhibition changes. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.1-3)

The UGZ3 schedule applies different statutory zone effects inside the precinct: local town centres and local convenience centres use Commercial 1 Zone provisions, mixed-use land uses Mixed Use Zone provisions, residential land wholly within walkable catchments uses Residential Growth Zone provisions, and other residential land uses General Residential Zone provisions. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-ordinance-ugz-vpa.txt)

The retail caps in the UGZ3 schedule limit shops to 6,300 square metres in the southern local town centre, 3,300 square metres in the eastern local town centre, 6,300 square metres in the northern local town centre, and 6,300 square metres in the western local town centre, which indicates a network of local centres rather than a single dominant major centre. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-ordinance-ugz-vpa.txt)

The UGZ3 schedule also allows small-lot dwellings under the Small Lot Housing Code where lots under 300 square metres are identified by title restriction, so the amendment embeds a statutory pathway for compact housing once subdivision layouts are approved. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-ordinance-ugz-vpa.txt)

The Quarry Conflict Is the Amendment’s Binding Strategic Issue

Work Authority 1473 covers about 49.7 hectares on the western flank of the Spring Hill Volcanic Cone, and a planning permit application for a quarry had been lodged with Mitchell Shire Council but not determined when the Panel reported. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.27)

The exhibited PSP did not plan for extraction of the stone resource, and the Panel accepted that approval of the amendment in that form would effectively prevent the quarry from proceeding. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.i,18)

Council opposed a quarry inside the Urban Growth Boundary because it considered quarrying incompatible with a planned greenfield community, likely to reduce adjacent residential catchments, affect planned schools and town centres, and disrupt key transport infrastructure including the eastern north-south arterial intended for public transport. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-council-response-mitchellshire.txt)

The Panel accepted that the stone resource was significant, high quality, well located on the arterial network, and within reasonable transport distance of the North East Link, the Outer Metropolitan Ring Road, and demand within the northern growth corridor. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.ii)

The Panel’s mechanism-first reasoning was that urban development would be delayed locally if quarry extraction were planned for, but the stone resource would be permanently sterilised if the PSP proceeded without accommodating extraction. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.21-22)

The Panel therefore recommended revising Amendment C106 to explicitly include precinct-level planning for resource extraction from Work Authority 1473, while also stating that the amendment should not be abandoned. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.22-23)

Transport, Access and Boundary-Road Funding

The PSP transport structure relies on two new north-south arterial roads through the precinct, with the western arterial intended for a sub-regional traffic role and the eastern arterial intended to form part of the future Principal Public Transport Network. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.40-45)

The Panel concluded that two north-south arterials were justified because they improve sub-regional connectivity, improve network resilience, reduce reliance on the Hume Freeway and Northern Highway, and create the opportunity to prioritise public transport on the eastern arterial. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.43-45)

The Panel rejected elevation of Old Sydney Road to arterial-road status because it sits on the edge of the Urban Growth Boundary, does not connect directly to the Outer Metropolitan Ring Road, and was expected to carry volumes below arterial-road justification. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.52-54)

Council argued that Old Sydney Road was partly unsealed, would be used by future residents, and had an estimated upgrade item of about $8.1 million in Council’s submission, but the Panel concluded it should be upgraded as developer works along developable frontages rather than included in the PSP Precinct Infrastructure Plan. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-council-response-mitchellshire.txt; Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.52-54)

The submission summary records a Department of Transport request for subdivision referral after certification of the 1,100th lot across Lockerbie North, Beveridge North West, and Beveridge Central, and the VPA supported amending the UGZ schedules to include that referral trigger. (Source: web-research-L1-submission-summary-c106mith-vpa.txt)

The Panel considered Hadfield Road a cross-PSP funding issue because it borders Beveridge North West but lies within the Wallan South PSP, and the Panel concluded that allocating 100 percent of Hadfield Road to Wallan South was consistent with the VPA’s boundary-road approach in the corridor. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.103-107)

The Panel accepted a 50/50 cost apportionment for the two Hadfield Road signalised intersections IN-08 and IN-09 between Beveridge North West and Wallan South. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.105-107)

The draft ICP was not before the Panel as a final statutory instrument, and the Panel found that the need for a supplementary levy had not been established, while noting that further VPA assessment would be needed once the Precinct Infrastructure Plan was completed. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.105-107)

Landscape, Rural Conservation Zone and Spring Hill Cone

The amendment substantially reduces existing Rural Conservation Zone land that the Northern Growth Corridor Plan had identified for landscape values, which made the extent and function of the RCZ a central design and public-land question. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.55)

The Panel concluded that the Spring Hill Cone and western hills should be recognised for geological importance in the RCZ schedule, and that an undeveloped link should be required between the eastern and western sides of the RCZ. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.64-65)

The Panel accepted the VPA’s RCZ boundaries for the western area, the northern and eastern sides of Spring Hill Cone, and the western protrusion from the Cone, but recommended amending the southern Cone boundary in line with Mr Murphy’s evidence and reviewing built-form height controls. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.64-65)

The Panel also recommended stronger recognition of a potential future regional park for the landscape-values land and further liaison with DELWP before finalising the amendment. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.64-65)

Drainage, Sodic Soils and Waterway Risk

The Panel treated sodic and dispersive soils as a material environmental-risk issue because sub-soils across the PSP ranged from moderate to high sodicity and the Jacobs assessment identified moderate to high erosion risk across the precinct. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.66-67)

The practical mechanism is that urban works can expose dispersive sub-soils through topsoil removal, cut and fill, service trenches, road construction, culverts, and changed water velocity, so unmanaged subdivision works can transfer soil-risk into creek turbidity and waterway degradation. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.66-70)

The Panel accepted the VPA and Melbourne Water position that sodic-soil risks could be managed through detailed permit-stage assessment, Site Environmental Management Plans, Erosion and Sediment Control Plans, and further sampling, rather than requiring abandonment of the amendment. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.66-75)

The drainage network is tied to the Kalkallo Creek Development Services Scheme, and the Panel found that unilateral changes to drainage assets shown in the PSP should be pursued through Melbourne Water’s DSS process rather than through the amendment Panel. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.87-91)

The VPA proposed adding a 0.3 hectare sediment basin on the southern boundary of Property 15 and an approximately 0.5 hectare retarding basin on the eastern edge of Parcel 6 because Melbourne Water advised those assets had been omitted from the exhibited PSP. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.87)

The Panel found a prima facie case for further consideration of an additional 1.5 hectare retarding basin on Property 15 because it could benefit the Beveridge Central drainage scheme, but the Panel did not recommend the basin because it was a DSS matter requiring Melbourne Water and landowner resolution. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.88-91)

Cultural Heritage and Wurundjeri Engagement

The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation submission stated that Wurundjeri had undertaken a targeted cultural-values inspection in 2014 based on the original Future Urban Structure, but substantial later changes to the FUS had not been subject to targeted on-ground inspection. (Source: web-research-L1-wurundjeri-submission-c106mith-vpa.txt)

Wurundjeri did not endorse the amended and exhibited FUS at the time of its submission and requested further targeted inspection of proposed bridge and culvert alignments, arterial roads, drainage basins, and passive open spaces. (Source: web-research-L1-wurundjeri-submission-c106mith-vpa.txt)

The Wurundjeri submission identified land within 200 metres of Kalkallo Creek as an area of cultural heritage sensitivity and stated that further archaeological investigations would be required before construction of frog ponds, drainage basins, passive open space, and bridge structures in those sensitive areas. (Source: web-research-L1-wurundjeri-submission-c106mith-vpa.txt)

The VPA submission summary records the Wurundjeri issues as resolved after the VPA engaged Wurundjeri to undertake further targeted inspections and updated the Cultural Values Assessment in light of the inspection findings. (Source: web-research-L1-submission-summary-c106mith-vpa.txt)

Affordable Housing

The Panel accepted that growth areas play a fundamental role in affordable housing delivery, but it rejected mandatory affordable-housing requirements and fixed target metrics because no strategic study or delivery framework had justified a specific percentage for Beveridge North West. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.82-86)

The Panel recommended replacing the proposed affordable-housing requirement with a guideline stating that residential subdivision or residential/mixed-use development should provide affordable housing as defined by the Planning and Environment Act 1987, located in walkable catchments and delivered through a range of housing typologies responding to demonstrated local need. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.85-86)

The Panel also recommended an application requirement for proposals of 10 or more lots or dwellings to include a written statement explaining how the proposal would contribute to affordable housing delivery, including proposed delivery mechanisms. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.86)

Community Infrastructure, Open Space and Biodiversity

The VPA proposed increasing the southern town-centre community centre from 1.5 hectares to 2.0 hectares, adding a 0.8 hectare community centre on Property 14, increasing two non-government primary schools to 3.0 hectares, and making school-frontage wording changes. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.91)

The Panel noted that it was unusual for a Community Infrastructure Assessment not to have informed PSP preparation, but the assessment commissioned after exhibition supported the increased facility sizes and quantum proposed during the hearing. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, p.92)

Council’s exhibition response identified about 356 hectares for active open space, passive parks, hilltops and drainage corridors, with about 83 hectares of unencumbered open space comprising passive parks and active open-space reserves. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-council-response-mitchellshire.txt)

The Panel supported VPA open-space modifications including deleting LP-21, increasing LP-23 to 1.0 hectare, relocating LP-04, adding a new local park on Property 14, reducing LP-05 to 0.75 hectare, increasing LP-07 to 1 hectare, and reorienting SR-01 east-west. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.92-94)

The Panel found that the PSP area had relatively low biodiversity values but that habitat restoration and ecological function should be pursued more strongly to improve conservation and liveability outcomes. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.98-102)

The Panel identified Hanna Swamp as an overlooked ephemeral wetland issue and recommended explicit PSP recognition so that wetland, waterway-management and habitat-restoration opportunities were not missed. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.100-102)

Bushfire Controls

The explanatory report states that the precinct is in a designated Bushfire Prone Area, that no part is covered by the Bushfire Management Overlay, and that the hazard is largely grassland risk expected to lessen as surrounding urban development occurs. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-explanatory-report-dtp.txt)

The explanatory report states that development abutting the RCZ requires a minimum 19 metre buffer from the RCZ to manage development to BAL-12.5 adjacent to grassland frontage. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-explanatory-report-dtp.txt)

The Panel recommended identifying the western side of Old Sydney Road as Bushfire Hazard Area 1, increasing Guideline 46’s static water supply reference from 1,000 litres to 2,500 litres, and requiring Bushfire Management Plans for subdivision adjacent to all bushfire hazard areas. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.95-98)

Current Status

The available source set establishes that the Panel report was issued on 7 October 2020 and recommended revision of the amendment to include precinct-level planning for Work Authority 1473 rather than abandonment. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.i,22-23)

This legacy amendment page must be read as historical context. Later synthesis and amendment records identify the Beveridge North West statutory pathway as resolved through the C158mith/C161mith/C175mith package gazetted on 5 August 2025; this page no longer records the operative status as unknown. Its continuing value is the 2019-2020 Panel reasoning on quarry sequencing, Hanna Swamp/burrung buluk, drainage, landscape values, cultural heritage and affordable housing. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf; Source: Beveridge-North-West-Precinct-Structure-Plan-Victorian-Planning-Authority-November-2024.pdf)

Dependencies

  • Blocks: The amendment blocks full statutory implementation of the Beveridge North West PSP unless the VPA, Council, and Minister resolve the Panel’s recommendation about Work Authority 1473 and the associated redesign or procedure. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.21-23)
  • Blocked by: The amendment is blocked by unresolved post-Panel decisions on quarry integration, final PSP drafting, final PIP/ICP assessment, and any required consultation or statutory pathway under the Planning and Environment Act 1987. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.21-23,103-107)
  • Informed by: The amendment was informed by transport modelling, sodic-soil assessment, drainage/DSS inputs, bushfire assessment, cultural-values work, landscape evidence, and community-infrastructure assessment, but not all underlying technical reports are present as standalone documents in this manifest. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.24,66-75,87-102)
  • Implements: The amendment implements growth-area planning for land inside Melbourne’s Urban Growth Boundary by applying UGZ3 controls and incorporating the PSP into the Mitchell Planning Scheme. (Source: web-research-L1-c106mith-explanatory-report-dtp.txt)
  • Conflicts with: The amendment conflicts with extractive-resource protection policy to the extent that urban development without quarry accommodation would likely sterilise Work Authority 1473. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.18-23)

The amendment has a direct relationship with Wallan South PSP because Hadfield Road, intersections IN-08 and IN-09, Hanna Swamp, and boundary-road apportionment depend on planning and infrastructure decisions north of the Beveridge North West precinct. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.43-45,100-107)

The amendment links to Beveridge Central because a contested additional retarding basin in Beveridge North West was argued to have substantial benefits for Beveridge Central drainage, but the Panel treated that as a Melbourne Water DSS matter rather than a PSP Panel matter. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.88-91)

The amendment links to Beveridge North East PSP because the possible additional Hume Freeway crossing was identified as improving access to a potential future railway station in Beveridge North East and employment associated with the Beveridge Interstate Freight Terminal. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.45-47)

The amendment depends on state and agency coordination with the VPA, Department of Transport, Melbourne Water, DELWP, CFA, Yarra Valley Water, and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation because transport referrals, drainage schemes, conservation land, bushfire controls, servicing, and cultural-values inspections all shape permit-stage implementation. (Source: web-research-L1-submission-summary-c106mith-vpa.txt; Source: web-research-L1-wurundjeri-submission-c106mith-vpa.txt; Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.66-107)

Gaps in This Analysis

This analysis is constrained because the manifest does not include the final PSP document, the final ICP, the draft ICP cost schedules, the full transport assessment, the Kalkallo Creek DSS, the Jacobs sodic-soil report, the Terramatrix bushfire report, the biodiversity assessments, the landscape and visual assessment, the community infrastructure assessment, or a gazettal notice. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.24,66-107)

The most important quantitative gap is the absence of the final ICP because the Panel records only that a draft standard-levy ICP was being assessed and that a supplementary levy had not been established, so this page cannot state final levy rates, per-hectare charges, per-lot equivalents, or itemised infrastructure costs. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.103-107)

The second major gap is the absence of the final Ministerial decision or gazettal notice, so the page cannot verify whether the Panel’s quarry recommendation was accepted, modified, or rejected. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.21-23)

The third major gap is the absence of final post-Panel PSP mapping, which prevents parcel-level quantification of developable-area loss from quarry buffers, RCZ boundaries, drainage corridors, Hanna Swamp treatment, arterial roads, schools, and open-space reservations. (Source: Panel-Report-Mitchell-Planning-Scheme-Amendment-C106mith-Beveridge-North-West-PSP-Planning-Panels-Victoria-October-2020.pdf, pp.55-65,87-102)

Operative Status Reconciliation

Production QA reconciliation: this page is retained for historical amendment analysis, but the operative Beveridge North West status used across the wiki is the later C158mith/C161mith/C175mith package gazetted on 5 August 2025. The unresolved questions are therefore narrower: final levy tables, quarry permit outcome, post-gazettal implementation conditions, detailed staging and agency delivery evidence. It is not correct for this page to tell a user that Beveridge North West’s final statutory approval is simply unknown.

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