Maddingley Planning Study

Any land uses which require a particular focus on protecting the beneficial uses of the air environment relating to human health and wellbeing, local amenity and aesthetic enjoyment, for example residential premises, child care centres, pre-schools, education centres or informal outdoor recreation sites.

State and local planning policies require that EPA recommended separation distances be provided between sensitive land uses and industrial land uses with adverse amenity potential. Intensification of sensitive land uses should be avoided within EPA recommended separation distances, except where evidence demonstrates that a reduced separation distance is appropriate.

The circumstances needed for a person to live comfortably, such as the absence of excessive dust, odour and noise.

The distance between sensitive uses and industrial land uses with adverse amenity potential. Guideline separation distances for industrial land uses are provided in various EPA publications (e.g. EPA Publication No. 1518).

The land that is used to achieve a separation distance between uses to minimise amenity impacts.

Facilities, or groups of facilities, that process or manage waste and material streams.

The Statewide Waste and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan (2018) (SWRRIP) identifies 22 sites across Victoria that are waste hubs of state importance and require protection through the land use planning system. The Maddingley Brown Coal site is identified as one of these hubs due to its strategic location near Melbourne and the fact that it accepts large amounts of solid inert waste and shredder floc.

The SWRRIP is listed as a policy document that must be considered, under Planning Policy Framework Clause 19.03-5S of all Victorian planning schemes.

One or more planning scheme amendments will be required to implement the recommendations of the Maddingley Planning Study. A significant body of further strategic and technical assessment work may be needed to justify a planning scheme amendment, such as:

• Industrial and commercial land supply and demand assessments.
• Strategic assessment of options for the potential application of industrial and commercial zones in Bacchus Marsh.
• Maddingley Strategic Directions – final recommendations for the study area.
• A more site-specific biodiversity assessment.
• Integrated transport management plan.
• Infrastructure servicing plan.
• Drainage scheme/strategy.
• Cultural heritage assessment.
• Assessment of potential impacts of the Maddingley waste and resource recovery hub (e.g. landfill gas) on urban use and development.