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CDZ3 — Comprehensive Development Zone

What the CDZ3 zone means in Victoria, and which councils in our corpus map it. This is a plain-language summary of published material — it is not planning advice and it decides nothing about any particular site.

A site-specific zone where an incorporated comprehensive development plan — not standard zone rules — sets what can be built (used for major redevelopment sites).

Built form

Heights, layout and staging all come from the incorporated plan in the schedule.

Typically allowed

  • The uses the comprehensive development plan allows for each precinct

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

  • Development inconsistent with the comprehensive development plan

What to look at

The incorporated plan is the rulebook — obtain it from the scheme before forming any view on use or development potential.

Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 37.02 (Comprehensive Development Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au

Councils that map CDZ3

This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map CDZ3 — we simply cannot say.

Check what is mapped at a specific address →

This page reports what is mapped in published VIC planning data, as we last synced it on 22 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.