The State Government will launch a review to examine how planning and building systems can be streamlined, enabling more residents to add a second home, build two new homes, or subdivide a block into two lots.
Options on the table include faster 10-day subdivisions (down from 60 days and often longer), criteria-based planning permit exemptions, or no requirement for a planning permit at all.
As part of the review, the Department of Transport and Planning will look at how approvals can be fast-tracked.
Clear limits will remain in place when it comes to things important to the community like trees and car parks, and overlays permit requirements (such as in flood or heritage overlays) will still apply.
The government will consider final options of implementing the reforms by April next year.
To read more visit vic.gov.au/more-homes
