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title: Amendment C175mith council: mitchell state: vic category: amendment classification: MINOR status: approved last_compiled: 2026-05-31 source_docs:

  • web-research-L1-amendment-c175-page-dtp.txt
  • web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt
  • web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt

Amendment C175mith

Amendment C175mith is an approved Minister-led amendment to the Mitchell Planning Scheme that uses two new Specific Control Overlays and a new incorporated document to facilitate extractive industry at 175 Northern Highway, Wallan and associated land. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) The amendment is procedurally important because the Minister prepared it, exempted herself from the ordinary notice requirements in sections 17, 18 and 19 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987, gave no notice, and did not consult Mitchell Shire Council before approval. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt)

Background

The Minister for Planning approved Amendment C175mith on 30 July 2025. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt) The amendment came into operation on 5 August 2025, the date the approval notice was published in the Victoria Government Gazette. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) The amendment was prepared by the Minister for Planning, while Mitchell Shire Council remains responsible for administering the Mitchell Planning Scheme after approval. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt)

The amendment introduces two new Specific Control Overlays and incorporates the Conundrum Quarry, Beveridge North Incorporated Document, dated August 2025, into the Mitchell Planning Scheme. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) The stated planning purpose is to facilitate the development and use of land known as 175 Northern Highway, Wallan and associated land for extractive industry. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

Analysis

Statutory Mechanism

The operative planning mechanism is not a conventional rezoning described in the available sources; it is the introduction of two Specific Control Overlays together with a site-specific incorporated document. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) In plain terms, the amendment appears to place a special rulebook over the affected land, and that rulebook sits inside the planning scheme as an incorporated document rather than relying only on the standard zone and overlay controls. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

The available sources do not provide the text of the Conundrum Quarry, Beveridge North Incorporated Document, so the exact permissions, conditions, expiry provisions, referral requirements, environmental controls, operating limits, rehabilitation obligations, or decision guidelines cannot be verified from the manifest documents. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) This is the central analytical limitation: the gazette notice confirms the statutory instrument exists, but it does not show what the incorporated document actually allows or constrains. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

Approval Pathway and Public Process

The amendment followed a Minister-led pathway rather than a council-prepared pathway. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt) The Minister exempted herself from the requirements of sections 17, 18 and 19 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987, including requirements to give the amendment and incorporated documents to the municipal council, make the amendment available for inspection until approval, notify affected Ministers, public authorities, councils, owners and occupiers, publish newspaper notice, and publish gazette notice of the amendment before approval. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt)

No notice of Amendment C175mith was given before approval. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt) The Minister did not consult the responsible authority before approval. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt) The Minister did not prepare the amendment under section 20A of the Planning and Environment Act 1987. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt)

The practical planning consequence is that the amendment appears to have moved directly to approval through Ministerial action without the ordinary public exhibition pathway documented in the available sources. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt) That does not itself establish whether technical assessment occurred outside the manifest record, but it means this wiki page cannot analyse submissions, panel findings, agency objections, conditions negotiated through exhibition, or council officer assessment because none of those materials are present in the provided source set. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt)

Extractive Industry Implications

The amendment facilitates extractive industry at 175 Northern Highway, Wallan and associated land. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) Extractive industry planning controls usually matter because quarry operations can interact with transport routes, amenity buffers, noise, dust, blasting, rehabilitation, groundwater, native vegetation, and nearby settlement planning, but the manifest sources do not provide technical reports or incorporated-document conditions that allow those matters to be assessed for this site. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

The amendment location is described as 175 Northern Highway, Wallan and associated land, but the available sources do not identify cadastral boundaries, overlay map numbers, land area, quarry footprint, buffer distances, haulage routes, operating hours, extraction depth, rehabilitation staging, or interface with nearby urban growth areas. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) Without those details, the planning impact can be described only at mechanism level: the amendment creates special site-specific controls to enable an extractive industry use that would otherwise require a different or less direct planning pathway. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

Relationship to Other Mitchell Amendments

Amendment C175mith was gazetted in the same Victoria Government Gazette special issue as Amendment C158mith and Amendment C161mith for the Mitchell Planning Scheme. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, pp.1-2) Amendment C158mith incorporated the Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan and Beveridge North West Development Staging into the planning scheme, while Amendment C161mith incorporated the Beveridge North West Infrastructure Contributions Plan for that precinct. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.1)

The available sources do not state that Amendment C175mith is formally part of the Beveridge North West PSP package. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, pp.1-2) The sequencing is still notable because three Mitchell amendments were approved or brought into operation through the same August 2025 gazette issue, and two of those amendments relate to Beveridge North West precinct planning while C175mith relates to Conundrum Quarry at Wallan and associated land. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, pp.1-2)

Current Status

Amendment C175mith is approved. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) It came into operation on 5 August 2025. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) The amendment can be inspected through the Department of Transport and Planning public inspection website, by contacting the department, at Mitchell Shire Council’s Broadford Customer and Library Service Centre, and on Mitchell Shire Council’s website. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

Dependencies

  • Blocks: The available sources do not identify any downstream planning process that is blocked by Amendment C175mith. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)
  • Blocked by: The amendment is not blocked in the available record because it has already been approved and gazetted. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)
  • Informed by: The available sources identify the Conundrum Quarry, Beveridge North Incorporated Document, dated August 2025, but do not provide its contents or supporting technical reports. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)
  • Implements: The available sources state that the amendment facilitates extractive industry at 175 Northern Highway, Wallan and associated land, but they do not identify a higher-order strategy or policy document that the amendment implements. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)
  • Conflicts with: The available sources do not identify conflicts with settlement planning, transport planning, environmental planning, quarry buffers, or nearby land uses. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

No cross-jurisdictional relationship is identified in the manifest source documents. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) The available record does not identify referrals to transport, water, environment, resources, or adjoining municipal authorities. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt)

Gaps in This Analysis

The DTP amendment page extract is only a JavaScript application shell and contains no substantive amendment content. (Source: web-research-L1-amendment-c175-page-dtp.txt) The incorporated document titled Conundrum Quarry, Beveridge North Incorporated Document (Minister for Planning, August 2025) is not included in the manifest source documents. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) The amendment documentation available here does not include the explanatory report, instruction sheet, ordinance changes, overlay schedules, planning scheme maps, technical assessments, agency referral material, environmental assessment, transport assessment, quarry work plan material, rehabilitation plan, or any public submissions. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-parliament-approval-parliament.txt)

These gaps mean the page can confirm the amendment’s approval status, statutory mechanism, procedural pathway, and stated extractive-industry purpose, but it cannot quantify land area, extraction scale, traffic generation, amenity buffers, environmental constraints, rehabilitation obligations, or interface impacts on nearby settlement planning. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2) A priority gap should be recorded in _gaps for the full incorporated document and amendment package because the incorporated document is the legal instrument that determines what the two Specific Control Overlays actually permit and regulate. (Source: web-research-L1-c175-gazette-approval-gazette.txt, p.2)

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