Grange Planning Brain

title: Beveridge North West Quarry and Extractive Industry Interface council: mitchell state: vic category: strategy classification: MAJOR status: approved last_compiled: 2026-05-31 source_docs:

  • web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2023.txt
  • web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt
  • web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-ncr-community-forum.txt
  • web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt
  • web-research-L1-bne-surrounds-quarry-works-authority-vpa-evidence.txt
  • web-research-L1-part-a-submission-2022-c158-c161-quarry-vpa.txt
  • web-research-L1-wallan-quarry-community-opposition-abc.txt

Beveridge North West Quarry and Extractive Industry Interface

The Beveridge North West quarry interface is a planning conflict between a major northern-growth-corridor housing precinct and a basalt resource identified through Works Authority 1473 / WA1478 in the precinct’s north-eastern sector (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.1; Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.8). The approved planning outcome permits the Beveridge North West PSP to proceed with more than 15,000 homes while also accommodating the North Central Quarry as a time-limited extractive use with buffers, staging controls and a 2052 cessation/rehabilitation expectation (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt). The practical planning issue is not only amenity, but whether quarantining the quarry area and buffers delays schools, local centres, arterial roads, open space and infrastructure-contribution collection in the north-east of the PSP (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.18-20; Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.65-69).

Background

The Beveridge North West PSP applies to approximately 1,279.35 hectares south of Wallan, north-west of Beveridge, west of the Hume Freeway, north of Camerons Lane and east of Old Sydney Road (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.9). The VPA Part A submission described the PSP as planning for approximately 16,000 dwellings and 1,800 jobs with associated town centres, infrastructure and open space (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.8). The later approved public reporting described the precinct as about 15,000 homes for an estimated 47,000 people, with four shopping centres/town centres and schools delivered in stages (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt).

The quarry issue entered the PSP through the earlier C106mith process, where the panel’s primary recommendation was to revise the amendment to explicitly include precinct-level planning for resource extraction from Work Authority 1473 (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.19-21). The VPA response was Amendment C158mith for the PSP and planning controls, and Amendment C161mith for the Infrastructure Contributions Plan (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.11-12). Amendment C158mith proposed the Urban Growth Zone Schedule 3, a Specific Controls Overlay for the Works Authority area and surrounding buffers, and incorporation of the Beveridge North West PSP and Extractive Industry & Buffer Area document (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.11-12). Amendment C161mith proposed an Infrastructure Contributions Overlay and a supplementary levy ICP because transport infrastructure costs exceeded the standard levy expected to be collected (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.12).

Public consultation on the draft amendments began on 16 November 2021, was extended to 31 January 2022, and had received 1,065 submissions by the VPA Part A submission date (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.8). Community-facing reporting later described more than 1,000 submissions to the Beveridge North West structure plan, while the North Central Review reported more than 600 community submissions during VPA consultation and more than 1,500 letters and emails to MPs in opposition to the quarry (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2023.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt). Mitchell Shire Council opposed the quarry twice before the independent panel process recommended that quarry planning be added to the PSP framework (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-ncr-community-forum.txt).

Analysis

Land Use Mechanism: A Time-Limited Quarry Inside a Growth Precinct

The core mechanism is a sequencing compromise: the PSP enables long-term urban development while the Specific Controls Overlay creates a statutory pathway for a temporary quarry within the north-eastern part of the precinct (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.8). The VPA stated that a time limit was fundamental to balancing long-term urban development outcomes with extraction of the rock resource (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.8). The planning controls proposed that quarry activity and rehabilitation must be completed by 31 December 2052, with production blasting ceasing not more than 20 years from commencement of the use (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.9).

This mechanism matters because a quarry is not just a use on one parcel; it changes what can happen around it while it operates (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.13). The VPA proposed two buffers: a 500 metre sensitive-use amenity buffer based on EPA separation-distance guidance, and a 250 metre quarry blast buffer drawn from the proposed Works Authority (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.36). The sensitive-use buffer restricts accommodation, education, office and retail uses before 31 December 2027 and requires permits after that date (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.9). The blast buffer limits development to manage safety risks associated with blasting (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.39-40).

The quarry proponent’s operational case reported 27 full-time jobs at maximum production, average blasting about twice per month, and an additional 50 to 60 truck trips per day with more than 80 per cent directed toward Melbourne (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2023.txt; Source: web-research-L1-wallan-quarry-community-opposition-abc.txt). The resource case was linked to high-quality basalt under the precinct and to broader construction-material demand, including a 2015 estimate that Victorian demand for extractive resources would increase from 46.4 million tonnes in 2015 to 87.8 million tonnes in 2050 (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2023.txt; Source: web-research-L1-wallan-quarry-community-opposition-abc.txt). Planning materials cited in 2025 reporting described an estimated reserve of about 12 million tonnes of high-quality basalt (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt).

Staging and Land Supply Effects

The principal land-supply effect is that the north-eastern quadrant is not simply delayed by the quarry pit footprint; it is delayed by the quarry footprint, buffers, perceived amenity effects, and the uncertainty of whether surrounding infrastructure can be delivered while extraction occurs (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.16-18). Jonathon Fetterplace’s evidence concluded that the PSP did not provide enough guidance or certainty on how orderly development and infrastructure delivery would be rolled out while the quarry was operating (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.2). His evidence also concluded that urban development would effectively halt in the quarry and buffer area until cessation and rehabilitation, or 31 December 2052 under the incorporated document (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.16).

The scale of the delayed area is material to the whole PSP, not a minor edge condition (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.19). The north-eastern quadrant parcels BN-04, BN-05 and BN-06 were identified as 212.83 hectares of net developable area, representing 27.68 per cent of the overall NDA in the PSP (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.19). Fetterplace’s evidence identified 158.14 hectares of land set aside for critical infrastructure within that north-eastern quadrant that could be quarantined and delayed for more than 30 years from commencement (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.20). The affected infrastructure included two government schools, two local town centres, two community centres, an indoor recreation centre, a local sports reserve, four local parks, and parts of the western and eastern north-south arterial road reservations (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.19-20).

The PSP was forecast in Fetterplace’s evidence to deliver 15,075 dwellings, equivalent to about 502.5 dwellings per year over a 30-year development period (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.5,14). If 27.68 per cent of the NDA is constrained until after quarry cessation, the planning risk is not only a delayed final stage but a reduced number of simultaneous development fronts, which can slow lot release, reduce location choice and defer community-infrastructure triggers (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.18-20). Fetterplace’s evidence estimated that the quarry could operate until 2053 if quarry works commenced around April 2023, and that development in the north-eastern quadrant would likely be limited, if commenced at all, until that time (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.19).

Infrastructure Contributions and Funding Timing

The ICP issue is a cash-flow and equity problem created by delayed urban conversion of the quarry and buffer land (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.65-66). Submissions argued that the quarry and associated buffers would delay collection of approximately 57 million in contributions, comprising about 14 million from the 49 hectare quarry area and about $43 million from the 15 hectare buffer area (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.65). The VPA’s preferred response was to retain the quarry and buffer land in the ICP and levy contributions when the land is developed for residential purposes after rehabilitation (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.65-67).

The ICP itself was intended to fund five community building projects, four open-space projects, seven road projects, 15 intersection projects including two pedestrian crossings, five culvert and bridge projects, 20 transport inner public-purpose land items, and 32 community and recreation inner public-purpose land items (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.12). The exhibited supplementary levy rate was $69,065.13 for four intersection projects and two bridge/culvert projects where standard levy revenue was insufficient (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.12). The ICP land contribution percentage for residential development was 14.01 per cent, with 0.00 per cent for commercial and industrial development (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.9).

This creates a mechanism where the residents in earlier stages may require infrastructure that depends on a funding pool partly tied to land that cannot contribute until after quarry closure (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.20). The VPA acknowledged that the ICP timeframe may need extension because parcels delayed by the quarry may not contribute within a standard 20-year timeframe (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.66). The VPA did not support levying the quarry as a non-residential use, preferring to levy the end residential use because the infrastructure nexus is with the future residential community rather than the interim extractive use (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.66-67).

Transport and Access Interface

The transport interface is concentrated around Camerons Lane, the future north-south arterials, and the Eastern Arterial Road near the quarry buffers (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.12,16-17). The PSP area had limited existing road access, with vehicle access via Old Sydney Road to the west or Camerons Lane to the south, and Hume Freeway access about 2 kilometres south-east via Lithgow Street (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.12). Camerons Lane was proposed to be upgraded to a four-lane arterial road through ICP projects RD-01 and RD-02, with short to medium timing and Council as lead agency (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.12). The PSP proposed two four-lane north-south arterial roads, RD-03 and RD-04, with medium to long-term timing and ICP-funded land take and construction (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.12).

The quarry complicates this network because the Eastern Arterial Road must be positioned and timed around blasting separation requirements (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.68-69). The VPA proposed realigning the Eastern Arterial Road 200 metres west of its then-current Future Urban Structure position to allow delivery during the quarry life by increasing separation from later extraction stages (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.68-69). Fetterplace’s evidence warned that even if quarry phasing prevents blasting within 200 metres of RD-04, that requirement does not itself ensure the road will be built (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.16-17). The evidence also noted that the ICP did not propose forward funding for the road network in the quarry area, which could mean significant road sections are not built during the quarry operating period (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.17).

Amenity, Health and Land Use Conflict

The community objections focus on dust, noise, blasting, truck movements, air quality and traffic congestion (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2023.txt; Source: web-research-L1-wallan-quarry-community-opposition-abc.txt). Mitchell Shire Council’s stated concerns included impacts on health, wellbeing and liveability, blockage of essential infrastructure, dust, blasting noise, truck movement and limited local benefit relative to other approved quarries (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt). The water authority, Yarra Valley Water, argued in a 2020 planning panel submission that the quarry would compromise urban development and growth-area planning (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2023.txt; Source: web-research-L1-wallan-quarry-community-opposition-abc.txt).

The VPA’s planning response was to manage land-use conflict through buffers, permit application requirements, decision guidelines and referral mechanisms, rather than to exclude the quarry from the PSP (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.35-36). Clause 52.09 considerations identified by the VPA included native flora and fauna, Aboriginal places, natural and cultural landscape, emissions containment, vehicular traffic, noise, blasting, dust, vibration, rehabilitation, groundwater quality, surface drainage and surface water quality (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.35-36). The VPA treated operational compliance as a matter for regulators including the responsible authority, Earth and Energy Regulation and EPA (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.36).

Rehabilitation and End-State Risk

The rehabilitation issue is central because the quarry is only compatible with the PSP if the land can later support residential, open-space and landscape-linkage outcomes (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.38-39). The incorporated document required a rehabilitation plan with stages of rehabilitation, rehabilitation to the end use identified in the PSP, end contours, and any reductions in buffers over the duration of the use (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.8-9). The permit conditions proposed by the VPA required complete rehabilitation by 31 December 2052 and rehabilitation to a standard facilitating the PSP end use (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, p.9).

The VPA did not support the quarry permit application as presented in April 2022 because it did not respond appropriately to the proposed C158 controls, did not ensure extraction cessation and rehabilitation by 2052, and did not ensure rehabilitation to a standard suitable for PSP end uses (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.72-73). The VPA identified concern that the work-plan rehabilitation stage to approximately 293 metres AHD to 296 metres AHD was regulated under the Mineral Resources regime, while later filling to approximately 306 metres AHD to 313 metres AHD was not meaningfully secured by that regime or by a stone-extraction permit (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.74-75). Fetterplace’s evidence similarly concluded that further detail was needed on rehabilitation outcomes and timing for each phase to provide greater certainty for PSP staging (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.22-23).

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Landscape Constraints

The PSP area includes cultural heritage sensitivity along Kalkallo Creek and the historic swamp area now referred to as Burrung Buluk at the request of Traditional Owners (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.10,37-38). The VPA identified three cultural heritage inputs: a February 2014 Aboriginal Heritage Impact Assessment, an October 2014 Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Values Inspection, and an amended targeted Cultural Values Assessment in October 2019 (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.38). The VPA was awaiting an updated Cultural Values Assessment from a March 2022 site visit with the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation specifically considering Burrung Buluk and the proposed quarry area (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.38).

Community reporting recorded that Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elder Uncle Andrew Gardiner opposed the quarry at a 2022 community forum, stating that it would be detrimental to culturally significant sites near Wallan and that traditional owners had not been engaged by Conundrum Holdings or the government (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-ncr-community-forum.txt). The available corpus does not include the updated March 2022 Cultural Values Assessment or any final cultural heritage recommendations, so this analysis cannot determine whether the final approved PSP or quarry controls changed in response to that assessment (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.38).

Current Status

The latest source documents report that the Victorian Government approved the Beveridge North West PSP and the North Central Quarry in early August 2025 (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt). The approved outcome was reported as more than 15,000 homes over the next 20 to 30 years, seven or eight schools depending on the source, four town centres or shopping centres, and a quarry required to cease operation in 2052 (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt). The state government position reported in 2025 was that about 2,400 homes would be built in the first stage and future stages would begin only once key infrastructure and services, including the Camerons Lane interchange, were delivered (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt).

Mitchell Shire Council and the NO QUARRY for Beveridge/Wallan Action Group were reported in August 2025 as reviewing the decision and seeking legal advice (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt). Council was also reported as asking residents to contact MPs and ministers seeking revocation of the decision to include the quarry in the PSP under section 38(2) of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt). No source document in this manifest confirms the outcome of any legal review, revocation request, permit conditions, gazettal wording, final approved PSP maps, or final quarry work-plan requirements after the August 2025 approval (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt).

Dependencies

  • Blocks: The quarry and associated buffers can delay urban development in the north-eastern quadrant, including two government schools, two local town centres, two community centres, an indoor recreation centre, a local sports reserve, four local parks and parts of the western and eastern north-south arterials (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.19-20).
  • Blocks: Delayed urban conversion of the 49 hectare quarry area and 15 hectare buffer area can defer approximately $57 million in ICP collections if contributions are levied only when the land later develops for residential purposes (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.65).
  • Blocked by: Development staging depends on Camerons Lane upgrades, future north-south arterial delivery, water and sewer servicing, and the Camerons Lane interchange timing (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.11-12; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt).
  • Blocked by: The quarry interface depends on enforceable permit conditions for extraction timing, blasting cessation, rehabilitation standards, buffer management, environmental assessment and road separation (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.35-39,72-75).
  • Informed by: The available corpus includes VPA Part A submissions, staging expert evidence, ABC reporting, North Central Review reporting and community opposition reporting, but it does not include the final approved PSP, final ICP, final incorporated document, final permit conditions, advisory committee report, gazettal notice or current quarry approval documents (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf; Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt).
  • Implements: The PSP was framed by the VPA as part of the Northern Growth Corridor and as contributing to Plan Melbourne housing and employment objectives (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.8,23-25).
  • Conflicts with: The quarry interface creates tension between extractive-resource protection, housing delivery, community amenity, infrastructure timing, cultural heritage concerns and long-term urban land conversion (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.33-41; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2023.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt).

The precinct is tied to the northern growth corridor rather than only to Mitchell Shire because the PSP sits near Wallan, Beveridge, the Hume Freeway and the Wallan South PSP area (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.3-4). The Wallan South PSP is relevant because future road and intersection apportionment includes infrastructure outside Beveridge North West, including IN-08 and IN-09 links to Wallan South (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.64,70). Yarra Valley Water is a central cross-agency actor because it owns or has interest in approximately 740 hectares, or about 58 per cent of the PSP area, and is also the sewer and water authority for the precinct (Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf, pp.11,14). State agencies involved in the VPA whole-of-government position included Department of Transport, Victorian School Building Authority, Melbourne Water, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Yarra Valley Water, DELWP Melbourne Strategic Assessment, DELWP Land Management and EPA for the amendments (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.8-9).

Gaps in This Analysis

This page is constrained by the source set because the manifest contains media articles, a VPA Part A submission and one staging evidence statement, but not the final approved PSP, final ICP, final Specific Controls Overlay incorporated document, final advisory committee report, final planning permit, final work plan, final rehabilitation plan or gazettal notice (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf; Source: Beveridge-North-West-PSP-025.-Evidence-Statement-Jonathan-Fetterplace-A-Different-City.pdf; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt). The difference between reported seven schools in the North Central Review and eight schools in ABC reporting cannot be resolved from the manifest sources (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt; Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-north-west-quarry-abc-2025.txt). The final approved road alignment, Eastern Arterial separation treatment, buffer land-use permissions after 2027, final levy rates and final quarry permit conditions cannot be verified from the manifest sources (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, pp.65-70,72-75). The updated Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung cultural values work referenced by the VPA is not included, so cultural heritage implications remain a major analytical gap (Source: Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan - C158mith Infrastructure Contributions Plan - C161mith VCAT Proceeding P1745/2020 Part A Submission.pdf, p.38). The final post-approval legal position of Mitchell Shire Council and the NO QUARRY for Beveridge/Wallan Action Group is not documented in the manifest after the August 2025 reporting (Source: web-research-L1-beveridge-quarry-community-opposition-north-central-review.txt).

Graph View