PCRZ — Public Conservation and Resource Zone
Public conservation land — national and state parks, forests, coastal and waterway reserves — managed by a public land manager for environmental protection.
Built form
Development requires public land manager consent and is limited to the conservation/resource purpose; private development effectively requires rezoning first.
Typically allowed
- Conservation, informal recreation and works by/for the public land manager
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
- Private dwellings and private commercial development unrelated to the conservation purpose
What to look at
If a lot shows this zone it is almost certainly public parks estate, not developable private land — verify title and ownership. Adjoining PCRZ land does mean protected outlooks, but also bushfire exposure worth checking.
Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 36.03 (Public Conservation and Resource Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au
Councils that map PCRZ
- Alpine34 mapped areas
- Ararat53 mapped areas
- Ballarat13 mapped areas
- Banyule56 mapped areas
- Bass Coast59 mapped areas
- Baw Baw93 mapped areas
- Bayside6 mapped areas
- Benalla98 mapped areas
- Boroondara1 mapped area
- Brimbank17 mapped areas
- Campaspe68 mapped areas
- Cardinia105 mapped areas
- Casey16 mapped areas
- Colac Otway162 mapped areas
- Corangamite61 mapped areas
- Darebin6 mapped areas
- East Gippsland154 mapped areas
- Frankston32 mapped areas
- Gannawarra74 mapped areas
- Glenelg80 mapped areas
- Golden Plains87 mapped areas
- Greater Dandenong4 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong113 mapped areas
- Hindmarsh96 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay6 mapped areas
- Horsham105 mapped areas
- Hume10 mapped areas
- Indigo121 mapped areas
- Kingston3 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe5 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map PCRZ — 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.