A local planning strategy is required to be prepared by a local government for each local planning scheme that is approved for land within its district. A local planning strategy is intended to inform the local planning scheme, which then forms the principal statutory tool for implementing a local planning strategy.

More specifically, a local planning strategy is required to:
 

• Outline the long-term planning directions for the area;
• Apply state or regional planning policy that is relevant to the strategy;
• Set out how land is zoned or classified under the local planning scheme.

The City of Belmont has an overarching Local Planning Strategy and several sub-planning strategies/supporting documents which relate to specific aspects of planning in the district including housing, commercial centres (also known as activity centres), public open space and the environment.
 
The City of Belmont is currently reviewing its Local Planning Strategy, including the sub-strategies, to inform the review of Local Planning Scheme No. 15.
 
Learn more about the review of the Local Planning Strategy and Local Planning Scheme.

Documents relating to the Local Planning Scheme are located on the bottom of this page.

Activity Centre Planning Strategy

Shopping precincts and industrial areas play an important part in shaping our community. They are community focal points, attracting people for a variety of reasons, including to shop, work, study, and live. We call these areas activity centres.

It's important we make sure our activity centres stay up-to-date with community needs and reflect best practice planning. That's why we've created our Activity Centre Planning Strategy, which guides the future planning, coordination, and development standards of our activity centres, and replaces our 2008 Local Commercial Strategy.

After extensive community consultation, we've taken what you told us was important and incorporated it into our Activity Centre Planning Strategy, which is also informed by a review of the current strategic planning framework, future economic trends, and analysis of best practice activity centre planning. It contains actions relating to zoning, movement networks, streetscapes, open spaces, and public art in and around activity centres.

The Activity Centre Planning Strategy is large in scope, covering 18 existing and three future activity centres. For simplification, the Strategy is broken up into two parts:

• Part One: An overarching, holistic look at the strategy, including background information, outcomes from community consultation, and its broad vision, objectives and strategies.
• Part Two: An in-depth analysis of each activity centre, including actions and an implementation table.

We've further broken up Part Two, providing a single Activity Centre Planning Strategy and Action document for each activity centre.

Strategy documents for each centre are provided below.