PUZ6 — 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 PUZ6
- Alpine2 mapped areas
- Ararat14 mapped areas
- Ballarat11 mapped areas
- Banyule19 mapped areas
- Bass Coast16 mapped areas
- Baw Baw4 mapped areas
- Bayside4 mapped areas
- Benalla6 mapped areas
- Boroondara49 mapped areas
- Brimbank18 mapped areas
- Campaspe38 mapped areas
- Cardinia39 mapped areas
- Casey63 mapped areas
- Colac Otway29 mapped areas
- Corangamite27 mapped areas
- Darebin14 mapped areas
- East Gippsland10 mapped areas
- Frankston47 mapped areas
- Gannawarra10 mapped areas
- Glen Eira19 mapped areas
- Glenelg10 mapped areas
- Golden Plains11 mapped areas
- Greater Dandenong4 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong6 mapped areas
- Hindmarsh10 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay10 mapped areas
- Horsham14 mapped areas
- Hume15 mapped areas
- Indigo4 mapped areas
- Kingston19 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe2 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map PUZ6 — 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.