C1Z — Commercial 1 Zone
The main shopping-strip and centre zone: retail, offices, food and entertainment, with housing above shops encouraged.
Built form
No default height limit — scale comes from overlay schedules (commonly a DDO) and abutting-residential interface setbacks (Clause 34.01-4 amenity provisions).
Typically allowed
- Shops, offices, food and drink premises (mostly no permit required)
- Dwellings above ground floor / shop-top housing (generally no permit for the use)
- Accommodation, medical centres, places of assembly (some with a permit)
What is allowed on a particular site depends on the council’s schedule to this zone and any overlays. Check the scheme; we make no determination.
Typically not allowed
- Heavy industry
- Uses with significant off-site amenity impacts
What to look at
Very flexible commercially, and residential upstairs is usually straightforward. Expect trading activity, deliveries and evening uses next door; check overlays for the real height limit.
Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 34.01 (Commercial 1 Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au
Councils that map C1Z
- Alpine8 mapped areas
- Ararat18 mapped areas
- Ballarat34 mapped areas
- Banyule51 mapped areas
- Bass Coast15 mapped areas
- Baw Baw17 mapped areas
- Bayside65 mapped areas
- Benalla9 mapped areas
- Boroondara139 mapped areas
- Brimbank67 mapped areas
- Campaspe14 mapped areas
- Cardinia30 mapped areas
- Casey37 mapped areas
- Colac Otway17 mapped areas
- Corangamite21 mapped areas
- Darebin109 mapped areas
- East Gippsland23 mapped areas
- Frankston1 mapped area
- Gannawarra12 mapped areas
- Glen Eira79 mapped areas
- Glenelg4 mapped areas
- Golden Plains7 mapped areas
- Greater Dandenong49 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong144 mapped areas
- Hindmarsh18 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay47 mapped areas
- Horsham6 mapped areas
- Hume45 mapped areas
- Indigo18 mapped areas
- Kingston64 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe7 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map C1Z — we simply cannot say.
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This page reports what is mapped in published VIC planning data, as we last synced it on 23 May 2026. It is general information, not planning advice, and it makes no assessment of any proposal. Whether an approval is needed, and what a council decides, are matters for the responsible authority — check the council’s own planning scheme and contact them directly.