Town planning in the City of Greater Geelong.
Geelong · Ocean Grove · Leopold · Lara · Armstrong Creek · Drysdale · Barwon Heads
Greater Geelong is Victoria's second city and effectively a metropolitan planning system of its own: a growing CBD with height and design frameworks, the Armstrong Creek growth corridor delivering greenfield suburbs, coastal towns from Ocean Grove to Barwon Heads under firm settlement boundaries, and a heritage core of Victorian-era fabric.
The Bellarine's coastal towns deserve particular care — protected by design controls, vegetation overlays and town boundaries that reflect decades of community insistence that they remain towns rather than suburbs.
Our Geelong-region work includes activity-centre development on the Bellarine — the Kingston activity centre at Ocean Grove among it — alongside residential and coastal-town matters. Geelong assesses like a capital-city council, with urban design input on anything of scale, and the Bellarine towns add community scrutiny that applications need to be built for.
Controls you'll commonly meet in Greater Geelong.
Every property is different — these are the zones and overlays that most often shape applications in this municipality. Each links to the current ordinance in the Greater Geelong planning scheme.
Services we provide in Greater Geelong.
Residential
Single dwellings, dual occupancies, multi-unit and apartment developments — the backbone of our practice.
Feasibility Report
Can your block be subdivided? A planner-reviewed desktop report for any Victorian address — $275 inc. GST, delivered within 24 hours on business days.
Commercial Permits
Statutory planning strategy, lodgement and permit management for commercial, retail and industrial projects.
VCAT Appeals
Strategic advocacy at the Tribunal — for applicants fighting a refusal, and for objectors challenging a permit.
Strategic Planning
Planning scheme amendments, rezonings and structure plans for long-horizon projects.
Protection Works
Form 7 and Form 8 notices under the Building Act — acting for building owners, adjoining owners and surveyor referrals. Victoria only.
Questions we’re asked most.
If you have a question that’s not here, call us — we answer honestly, whether or not it leads to work.
- Inside the town boundaries, conventional residential development subject to the coastal design controls — heights and siting are managed to protect the towns' scale, and vegetation overlays protect the canopy that defines them. Outside the boundaries, the answer is deliberately very little: the settlement boundaries on the Bellarine are among the most firmly held in Victoria.
Got a site, a permit, or a refusal on your desk?
An obligation-free conversation is the fastest way to see if we can help. We respond within 24 hours — usually much sooner.