Victorian Current Acts

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT ACT 1987 - SECT 46AD

The objects of this Division are—

        (a)     to recognise the importance of green wedge land; and

        (b)     to protect, enhance and promote non‑urban values and non‑urban uses of green wedge land, and to give primacy to those values and uses; and

        (c)     to enable strategic planning for and management of green wedge land; and

        (d)     to provide for the beneficial use of green wedge land that contributes to the sustainability, prosperity, health and wellbeing of Victorians; and

        (e)     to support primary production on green wedge land and to enable its growth by preventing incompatible uses and development; and

        (f)     to manage threats of land use change that would detract from non‑urban values and non‑urban uses of green wedge land; and

        (g)     to recognise the connection and stewardship of traditional owners in relation to land that is green wedge land.

New s. 46AE inserted by No. 1/2023 s. 36.