Overview

Minimal Housing Change Areas have limited capacity for housing change and growth due to their historic, physical, and natural attributes.

They are also areas with semi-bush and semi-rural character that provide an important role in the ‘edge’ of the three townships, offering a transition to the surrounding rural and farmland, forest areas and Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park.

Objectives:

• Encourage additional housing, including detached housing, and dual occupancies in constrained areas, noting some areas are unlikely to experience growth.
• Ensure new development responds to the preferred neighbourhood character of the place and the constraints to development.
• Encourage retention of existing housing that positively contributes to the preferred neighbourhood character of the precinct.

Criteria:

• Areas affected by the Bushfire Management Overlay
• Areas affected by the Floodway Overlay
• Areas affected by the Land Subject to Inundation Overlay
• Areas within proximity to the Castlemaine Transfer Station (former landfill) and Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Areas that are within the character areas of semi-rural and semi-bush

Overview:

Encompass residential areas with established neighbourhood character values that have capacity for housing change and growth to occur.

There is capacity for housing growth and diversity to occur at a managed level, within the context of the preferred neighbourhood character.

These areas are located in close proximity to the train station and central Castlemaine.

Where these areas are subject to a Heritage Overlay, housing is to be managed in a way that allows for sympathetic infill development.

Objectives:

• Allow for housing growth & diversification
• Ensure new development responds to preferred neighbourhood character
• Encourage retention of existing housing types and characteristics that positively contribute to the preferred neighbourhood character
• Ensure new development within heritage overlays and adjacent to is subservient to the heritage character
• Encourage smaller housing sizes and types, including 1 and 2 bedroom dwellings.

Criteria:

All areas that are outside of the minimal change areas are located within the managed housing change area – this includes land that is affected by the Heritage Overlay, and other overlays not included within the criteria for minimal housing change.