Insights Library
Recent Precinct Structure Plans and the SRLA Precincts
Casey Fields South and Devon Meadows PSP
What is it?
The Casey Fields South (Employment) Precinct is a regionally significant industrial precinct. Devon Meadows is intended as walkable residential community, close to jobs created within the Casey Fields South precinct, embodying the concept of the 20-minute neighbourhood.
The two precincts are adjacent to one another, located on the edge of the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) within the City of Casey municipality, sharing the South Gippsland Highway as a boundary.
Who is affected?
The precinct is located approximately 50km south east of Melbourne’s central business district and covers an area of about 275 hectares, generally bounded by the South Gippsland Highway to the southeast, Clyde-Fiveways Road to the east and Ballarto Road to the north.
What to do if you have land within the PSP areas?
If your property is identified as being within the PSP area, you should make a submission to the PSP process. You are invited to have your say on the Amendment in respect of both, Casey Fields South and Devon Meadows between 28 February and 25 March 2025.
How can we help?
Our office is working with a number of landowners in the area already and if you require assistance in respect of your hearing strategy or to understand interim land use options for your landholding whilst awaiting the outcome of the PSP, please contact Best Hooper. Our team is best placed to assist on all development related queries, noting our expertise extends to:
- Preparing your submission to the PSP and structuring your arguments, hearing and expert witness and consultant team strategy;
- Engaging with key VPA, Council and stakeholder contacts regarding the PSP, including facilitating early access to key documents and consideration of issues as they arise through the consultation and exhibition phase of the process;
- Reviewing and distilling key PSP documents including providing advice in respect of development impacts and future construction considerations;
- Considering key PSP and stakeholder issues based on our experience in these processes, including future road projects, potential acquisition overlays, updates to the Drainage Scheme and other technical matters;
- Provide representation at any future hearing/s including directions, roundtables and final hearing;
- Considering temporary land use outcomes while you await the outcome of the PSP following any hearing; and
- Assisting with the development, sales or acquisitions of all property types and sites within the PSP including off-the-plan sales, superlot subdivisions, development agreements, joint venture agreements or infrastructure agreements.
Best Hooper has the expertise, industry presence and experience to represent all aspects of your development interests and consider the impacts of hearing strategy on all aspects of your project feasibility and forecasting, which enables us to guide strategy to achieve the best outcome in the PSP process.
Get in touch
Please contact a lawyer from our firm’s Planning Team to discuss further and how we might be best placed to assist you.
SRLA Precincts
What is it?
As part of Victoria’s Big Build, the Suburban Rail Loop Authority has released the Suburban Rail Loop East Precinct draft structure plans and supporting technical documents. The material has, following a period of prolonged community engagement, been released in respect of the 6 SRL East Precincts, specifically:
- Cheltenham;
- Clayton;
- Monash;
- Glen Waverley;
- Burwood; and
- Box Hill.
The draft structure plans and supporting material can be viewed here: https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/library/suburban-rail-loop/planning/srl-east-structure-plans
The SRLA envisages significant development opportunity uplift in these Precincts to cope with Victoria’s growing population.
If you are affected by these proposed Precincts, you are invited to prepare a submission to the draft structure plans and draft planning scheme amendments from Monday, 17 March 2025 to Tuesday, 22 April 2025. It is important that, if these Precincts affect you, you have your say.
