Overview
The amendment proposes to implement the Kingston Green Wedge Management Plan 2023 by introducing new and updated local policy and planning controls to protect and strengthen the semi-rural character of the green wedge. It proposes to rezone existing Green Wedge Zone land to Green Wedge A Zone and introduce built form guidelines for new development. The Amendment generally applies to all land within the Kingston Green Wedge outside the urban growth boundary.
For further details, refer to the explanatory report about the amendment.
Details of the amendment
The Kingston City Council planning authority has prepared Amendment C220 to the Kingston Planning Scheme.
The land affected by the amendment is generally all land in the Kingston Green Wedge outside the urban growth boundary.
The amendment proposes to implement the Kingston Green Wedge Management Plan 2023 by making changes to zones, overlays and policies generally affecting green wedge areas.
You may inspect the amendment, any documents that support the amendment and the explanatory report about the amendment, free of charge, at:
Any person may make a submission to the planning authority about the amendment. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make.
Name and contact details of submitters are required for the planning authority to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend planning authority meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions.
The closing date for submissions is Friday 27 November 2026. A submission must be sent to the Kingston City Council via one of these methods:
The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office and/or on its website for any person to inspect free of charge until the end of the two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.
Tara Bell, Acting Manager City Strategy
Kingston City Council