PUZ2 — Public Use Zone
Land held for a public purpose — schools, hospitals, utilities, government facilities — with a suffix number identifying the purpose (e.g. PUZ2 education).
Built form
Development for the public purpose is largely exempt from permit requirements; anything else needs rezoning.
Typically allowed
- Uses conducted by or on behalf of the public land manager for the zoned purpose
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 development unrelated to the public purpose (requires rezoning first)
What to look at
Not private development land. If offered for sale (e.g. a surplus school site), value depends on a future rezoning — price that risk explicitly.
Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 36.01 (Public Use Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au
Councils that map PUZ2
- Alpine8 mapped areas
- Ararat12 mapped areas
- Ballarat39 mapped areas
- Banyule31 mapped areas
- Bass Coast12 mapped areas
- Baw Baw30 mapped areas
- Bayside18 mapped areas
- Benalla10 mapped areas
- Boroondara33 mapped areas
- Brimbank44 mapped areas
- Campaspe19 mapped areas
- Cardinia18 mapped areas
- Casey43 mapped areas
- Colac Otway15 mapped areas
- Corangamite14 mapped areas
- Darebin38 mapped areas
- East Gippsland20 mapped areas
- Frankston31 mapped areas
- Gannawarra9 mapped areas
- Glen Eira22 mapped areas
- Glenelg11 mapped areas
- Golden Plains12 mapped areas
- Greater Dandenong35 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong4 mapped areas
- Hindmarsh8 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay23 mapped areas
- Horsham9 mapped areas
- Hume26 mapped areas
- Indigo6 mapped areas
- Kingston32 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe3 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map PUZ2 — 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.