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title: QA Report — Moorabool Shire council: moorabool state: vic category: qa status: pass last_compiled: 2026-05-31

QA Report — Moorabool Shire

Verdict: PASS

Summary

The Moorabool Shire v2 wiki would give a council officer materially better planning intelligence than a junior planner. The major initiatives are generally sourced, quantified, and mechanism-led, with clear treatment of land supply, DCP/contribution logic, servicing constraints, transport triggers, buffers, biodiversity risk, amendment status, and downstream dependencies. The wiki is also honest about critical evidence gaps, especially Parwan Station, Bacchus Marsh Eastern Link Road, VGED, and final gazettal/status records.

Major Issues

  • None

Strengths

  • Merrimu PSP/DCP provides strong quantified analysis: 906.64 ha total area, 425.78 ha NDA, 8,063 dwellings, 24,189 residents, 549,779 per NDHa DIL, 234.083 million DIL recovery, and clear BMELR, drainage, ecology, cultural heritage and PAO dependencies.
  • C81/Bacchus Marsh UGF correctly explains the parent-framework mechanism and downstream PSP/DCP/development-plan dependency chain for Merrimu, Parwan Station, Hopetoun Park North and Parwan Employment.
  • Ballan Precinct 5, Underbank and Housing Bacchus Marsh pages show senior-level planning judgement by distinguishing strategic support, panel findings, operative-law status, servicing caps, contribution mechanisms and unresolved technical evidence.
  • Cross-cutting pages _current, _relationships, _signals and _gaps are present, coherent and officer-useful.
  • Suspiciously low citation pages are mostly transparent synthesis or CRITICAL_GAP nodes: _qa has 0 citations but is not substantive evidence; VGED, BMELR and Parwan Station are intentionally citation-light because they flag missing primary packages rather than pretending to be complete deep-dives.
  • No obvious wrong-council contamination found; cross-council references appear connected to real regional planning, transport, water, housing-market or service-access relationships.

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