PPRZ — Public Park and Recreation Zone
Public open space — parks, gardens, sports grounds and foreshore reserves, generally in public ownership.
Built form
Development limited to what serves the open-space purpose; usually requires public land manager consent.
Typically allowed
- Public recreation, open space and associated pavilions/kiosks (many need 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
- Private dwellings and commercial development unrelated to the park function
What to look at
If a lot you are examining carries this zone it is almost certainly public reserve, not developable land — verify title and ownership before proceeding.
Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 36.02 (Public Park and Recreation Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au
Councils that map PPRZ
- Alpine27 mapped areas
- Ararat49 mapped areas
- Ballarat164 mapped areas
- Banyule205 mapped areas
- Bass Coast133 mapped areas
- Baw Baw213 mapped areas
- Bayside72 mapped areas
- Benalla29 mapped areas
- Boroondara204 mapped areas
- Brimbank175 mapped areas
- Campaspe67 mapped areas
- Cardinia83 mapped areas
- Casey453 mapped areas
- Colac Otway80 mapped areas
- Corangamite48 mapped areas
- Darebin185 mapped areas
- East Gippsland106 mapped areas
- Frankston213 mapped areas
- Gannawarra28 mapped areas
- Glen Eira47 mapped areas
- Glenelg52 mapped areas
- Golden Plains40 mapped areas
- Greater Dandenong84 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong462 mapped areas
- Hindmarsh37 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay155 mapped areas
- Horsham43 mapped areas
- Hume105 mapped areas
- Indigo26 mapped areas
- Kingston277 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe16 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map PPRZ — 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.