PUZ5 — 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 PUZ5
- Alpine3 mapped areas
- Ararat6 mapped areas
- Ballarat4 mapped areas
- Banyule1 mapped area
- Bass Coast7 mapped areas
- Baw Baw17 mapped areas
- Bayside2 mapped areas
- Benalla5 mapped areas
- Boroondara1 mapped area
- Brimbank2 mapped areas
- Campaspe7 mapped areas
- Cardinia5 mapped areas
- Casey2 mapped areas
- Colac Otway9 mapped areas
- Corangamite9 mapped areas
- Darebin3 mapped areas
- East Gippsland13 mapped areas
- Frankston1 mapped area
- Gannawarra3 mapped areas
- Glen Eira2 mapped areas
- Glenelg7 mapped areas
- Golden Plains9 mapped areas
- Greater Dandenong4 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong12 mapped areas
- Hindmarsh9 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay3 mapped areas
- Horsham4 mapped areas
- Hume6 mapped areas
- Indigo2 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe1 mapped area
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map PUZ5 — 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.