VPRS 16157 Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme (MMPS) Maps and Interim Development Orders (IDO's) Maps; Modifications, Amendments and Revocations

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The Town and Country Planning Board was constituted under the Town and Country Planning Act 1944. An amending Act in 1949, the Town and Country Planning (Metropolitan Area) Act authorised the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) to prepare a comprehensive plan for Melbourne and the Metropolitan area. The Metropolitan area was defined as the area within 15 miles of the General Post Office [Melbourne].

A subsequent Act in 1954 established the Board as the permanent planning authority for Melbourne and the Metropolitan Area. Responsibilities transferred to the MMBW for the metropolitan area included the preparation or amendment of planning schemes and interim development orders.

The Planning Scheme approved on 30 April 1968, contained a series of statutory maps and an ordinance. Maps comprising the Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme were numbered sequentially, 1 to 96. It established land use controls by means of zones, and reservation of lands for various public purposes.

There are two types of information in a planning scheme maps that show the zones and overlays that apply to land covered by the scheme, and written information/ ordinance that sets out the requirements of the policies, zones and overlays. The ordinance and amendments were filed separately and are located in VPRS-16158 . Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Ordinance and Interim Development Orders, Reprints and Amendments

The Metropolitan planning scheme records were maintained by the MMBW, Planning Branch until 1985 when the Planning Branch became part of a new Planning and Environment Department. During this time the name/s of the data changed from the Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme to the individual Municipal names (pre Local Government amalgamation), to the new municipal names (as at 2009).

Subsequent Series
All country Victoria planning schemes (VPRS 16131) and the Melbourne Metropolitan scheme and amendments (this series) were superseded and replaced by the Day One Schemes on 16 February 1988, located in VPRS 16155.

Following the proclamation of the Planning and Environment Act, 1987 on 16 February 1988, all planning controls made under the Town and Country Planning Act were revoked. They were replaced by 207 new planning schemes prepared under the Planning and Environment Act, 1987.

Melbourne Metropolitan Region, despite being made up of many councils, was subject to a single Planning Scheme administered by the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works, MMBW. In 1988, this changed with the introduction of municipality based Planning Schemes. This resulted in a splitting up of the Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme and an amalgamation of Shire Planning schemes in Country Victoria. This came to be known as Day one and occurred on 16 February 1988.