PUZ3 — 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 PUZ3
- Alpine4 mapped areas
- Ararat8 mapped areas
- Ballarat1 mapped area
- Banyule3 mapped areas
- Bass Coast9 mapped areas
- Baw Baw3 mapped areas
- Benalla3 mapped areas
- Boroondara3 mapped areas
- Brimbank3 mapped areas
- Campaspe7 mapped areas
- Cardinia5 mapped areas
- Casey2 mapped areas
- Colac Otway5 mapped areas
- Corangamite6 mapped areas
- Darebin3 mapped areas
- East Gippsland3 mapped areas
- Frankston3 mapped areas
- Gannawarra3 mapped areas
- Glen Eira2 mapped areas
- Glenelg7 mapped areas
- Golden Plains1 mapped area
- Greater Dandenong2 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong5 mapped areas
- Hindmarsh11 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay2 mapped areas
- Horsham4 mapped areas
- Hume5 mapped areas
- Indigo2 mapped areas
- Kingston4 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe2 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map PUZ3 — 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.