Sustainable Design

The purpose of Darebin’s SDA program is to:

To facilitate the Sustainable Design Assessment Planning Process programme Darebin recommends the use of the following free ESD assessment tools:

Visit the STEPS website for assessment tools for residential developments or download the Sustainable Design Scorecard for non-resiential developments.

Darebin also encourages the use of the Green Star suite of rating tools. Visit the Green Building Council Australia for details.

To identify whether your development application needs to undergo an Sustainable Design Assessment and what is required, Darebin has developed a flow chart outlining councils expectations and documentation required for different development types.

Download the chart below:

All documentation must be completed to the satisfaction of the responsible authority and will be sent to Council's Ecologically Sustainable Development officer for approval.

Relationship with Planning & Environment Act 1987

The Sustainable Design Assessment Planning Process (SDAPP) Programme is intended to be fully consistent with the purpose and objectives of planning in Victoria as expressed in the P&E Act. The submission of SDA documentation as part of the SDAPP program enables Council, as responsible authority under its planning scheme, to fulfil its duties as required under Section 60 of the P&E Act, in particular its requirement to consider:

"Any significant effects which the responsible authority considers the use or development may have on the environment or which the responsible authority considers the environment may have on the use or development. (60|1|e)."

Relationship with State Planning Policy Framework (SPPF)

The area of a planning scheme that is consistent throughout Victoria, is aimed at fostering development in the interests of net community benefit and sustainable development. For more information refer to Clause 11 of any Victorian planning scheme.

Consistency Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) directions

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