C2Z — Commercial 2 Zone
A commercial zone for offices, trade supplies, bulky-goods retail and light manufacturing — typically along main roads rather than in shopping strips.
Built form
No default height limit; interface setbacks and amenity conditions apply near residential zones.
Typically allowed
- Offices, trade supplies, restricted retail (bulky goods) — mostly without a permit
- Industry with limited amenity impact (with conditions)
- Small-scale supermarkets/shops in some locations (permit or floor-space capped)
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
- New dwellings (prohibited, other than a caretaker’s house)
- Heavy industry
What to look at
Not a housing zone — residential conversion needs rezoning. Suits business owner-occupiers and bulky-goods investment; check road access and loading arrangements.
Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 34.02 (Commercial 2 Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au
Councils that map C2Z
- Ararat3 mapped areas
- Ballarat4 mapped areas
- Banyule5 mapped areas
- Bass Coast3 mapped areas
- Baw Baw12 mapped areas
- Bayside6 mapped areas
- Benalla1 mapped area
- Boroondara6 mapped areas
- Brimbank11 mapped areas
- Campaspe21 mapped areas
- Cardinia2 mapped areas
- Casey4 mapped areas
- Colac Otway6 mapped areas
- Corangamite3 mapped areas
- Darebin7 mapped areas
- East Gippsland6 mapped areas
- Frankston1 mapped area
- Gannawarra1 mapped area
- Glen Eira7 mapped areas
- Glenelg6 mapped areas
- Golden Plains1 mapped area
- Greater Dandenong20 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong30 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay2 mapped areas
- Horsham10 mapped areas
- Hume19 mapped areas
- Kingston16 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map C2Z — 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.