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RAZ — Rural Activity Zone

What the RAZ zone means in Victoria, and which councils in our corpus map it. This is a plain-language summary of published material — it is not planning advice and it decides nothing about any particular site.

A flexible rural zone where farming coexists with tourism, function centres and other rural businesses that would struggle to get approval in the Farming Zone.

Built form

Schedule sets minimum subdivision area and dwelling lot thresholds; siting must protect agricultural land and landscape values.

Typically allowed

  • Agriculture (no permit)
  • Tourism, accommodation and function/commercial uses compatible with farming (with a permit)
  • A dwelling (with a permit on smaller lots, per the schedule)

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

  • Urban subdivision
  • Industry unrelated to rural produce

What to look at

The most business-friendly rural zoning — good for agritourism ventures, but each use still needs its own permit case.

Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 35.08 (Rural Activity Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au

Councils that map RAZ

This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map RAZ — we simply cannot say.

Check what is mapped at a specific address →

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.