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SOURCE: VICMAP PROPERTY CADASTRE (DEECA), QUERIED LIVE · DRAWN BY PROPERTYFLAGS · MAP GEOMETRY, NOT A SURVEY: TITLE PLAN DIMENSIONS PREVAIL
19 checks ran against official registers. How to read the flags: the three colours are a prioritised checklist, not a rating. Red means check this point first: an official register has an entry here, and the next step is to confirm what it means with the authority that keeps that register, or through your conveyancer. A red flag describes a register entry, not the property itself; entries can be broad, provisional or apply to only part of a property, and only the source can confirm how one applies to you. Yellow means worth reviewing in its section below. Green means the register we checked returned no entry for this location, which is evidence, not a guarantee.
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Overlays are Victoria's layer of site-specific controls on top of zoning: they can require permits for tree removal, external changes, or add flood/bushfire conditions. Each one is a question for your conveyancer: "what does this overlay's schedule require?"
Absence here is a record gap, not a bushfire-risk clearance. See the Bushfire Management Overlay and Bushfire Prone Area checks in section 1.2 for that.
Also on record nearby: 45 completed environmental audits (within 500 m) and 2 preliminary risk screen assessments (within 1 km). Audits are common in former-industrial suburbs. Each has a published report your conveyancer can pull.
Sensitivity mapping follows waterways and landforms; being outside it removes one approval trigger for future works.
An easement means someone else (usually the water utility, the council, or a neighbour) has a permanent legal right to use or access a strip of this land for a specific purpose, even though you'd own the whole block. Most commonly it's a buried drainage or sewer pipe running through the yard. You can't build over that strip, and it can rule out a pool, an extension or a granny flat in that spot. The open Vicmap layer doesn't say what the easement is for: a title search (the plan of subdivision and any associated instruments) shows the details. Ask your conveyancer to pull it before you commit.
Exhibited amendments can still change. You can make a submission while they are on exhibition. What gets rezoned next door shapes what gets built next door.
HCTZ1 · HOUSING CHOICE AND TRANSPORT ZONE - SCHEDULE 1.
This is a Housing Choice and Transport Zone (HCTZ), one of Victoria's 2025 housing-reform zones near transport: expect more multi-dwelling development to be permitted around you than the old zoning allowed.
Victoria writes height and density limits into overlay schedules (documents, not maps). Where a Design and Development Overlay (DDO) appears in Chapter 1, the exact numbers live in that schedule's text: worth reading before you rely on a view or expect a low-rise street to stay low-rise.
1483 applications within 500 m over the record's span, a gauge of how much this pocket has been changing.
A small second dwelling here would take the permit path, not the no-permit path
Since Amendment VC253 (December 2023), a small second dwelling (SSD), a self-contained home of up to 60 m² gross floor area (GFA) on the same lot as an existing house, needs no planning permit in the Housing Choice and Transport Zone on lots of 300 m² or more, but this lot's ~180 m² estimated area sits below that line, so construction would need a planning permit assessed under clause 54 instead. The zone allows the use only while all of its conditions hold: no more than one existing dwelling on the lot, this would be the only SSD, and the SSD must not be connected to reticulated (mains) gas (conditions this report cannot verify from mapping). A building permit is always required, and an SSD can never be subdivided off or sold separately.
Overlay caveat: this lot carries DCPO (see Chapter 1): an overlay keeps its own permit triggers even where the zone needs none. Heritage, design and neighbourhood-character overlays (HO/DDO/NCO) allow a no-permit SSD only up to 5 m high in muted tones; landscape and airport overlays (SLO, AEO/MAEO) always require a permit. With DCPO mapped here, assume a permit may still be required until the overlay schedule says otherwise.
Subdivision & dual occupancy: Victoria sets no statewide minimum lot size for these: where numbers exist they live in the Merri-Bek Planning Scheme's zone schedules, and they differ council by council. Don't assume a figure: check the schedule (or ask a planner) before pricing in a split.
Dwellings on this lot. No straightforward second-dwelling uplift passes the pre-test on this lot as mapped.
North-facing living areas get all-day winter sun; south-facing ones get none. With the winter sun this low, buildings to the north cast shadows ~1.8× their height.
A geometric calculation from this address's latitude, not a data query. Local terrain, buildings and trees will shade parts of this earlier or later than shown.
~6% of this pocket is under tree cover. Sparse canopy: expect a hotter, harder streetscape in summer.
Surface ~9.5°C above a vegetated baseline. Mesh-block mapping of Brunswick, 2018 vintage (metro Melbourne only). Dated, but structural patterns persist.
Fibre to the Premises: fibre runs all the way into the building; the best NBN technology, full speed tiers available.
Snapshot vintage: this comes from the Australian Government's official July 2020 technology map (this area ready for service 13/09/2013). nbn's fibre-upgrade program has since moved many FTTN/FTTC addresses to full fibre. Treat it as the baseline and check today's status for this exact address at nbn.com.au (free, takes a minute).
These are transmitter sites from the national licence register, a proximity signal, not a coverage map: terrain, building materials and indoor position all change real signal. "5G mid-band" means a 3.5 GHz (5G-only spectrum) transmitter is licensed at that site, the band behind 5G's speed claims; its reach is shorter than 4G bands, so distance matters more. The only test that counts is your own phone at the inspection, in the rooms you'll actually use.
Straight-line 110 m. Walking distance is more like ~140 m (estimated with a typical ×1.3 street-network factor, not a routed path).
These are shortcuts: each number is pulled from a full section further down, where you'll find the detail behind it, the source, and the fine print.
A renter-heavy, young-professional area feels very different day-to-day from an owner-occupied family one.
Under the Victorian Department of Education's current placement policy, this address entitles your child to enrol at these 2 government schools. Zone boundaries can change: confirm the current zone on findmyschool.vic.gov.au before you rely on it.
11 schools of all sectors within 2 km (straight-line distances), and the nearest school is not always the zoned school.
⚠ These are the official 2027 school-year boundaries (Victorian Department of Education). Year 8–12 entry zones can differ from the Year 7 zone shown, and our copy of each boundary is simplified by up to ~10 m. If this address sits within a few doors of a zone edge, or a particular school is part of why you want this home, confirm the exact address on findmyschool.vic.gov.au before you commit.
NQS (National Quality Standard) ratings from the ACECQA (Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority) national register: Exceeding is above the standard, Meeting is at it, Working Towards is below.
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] · ~2.4 km away in a straight line: the nearest PUBLIC hospital reporting emergency-department activity to the AIHW; private hospitals and hospitals without an ED are deliberately excluded, so it may be further than the closest hospital of any kind.
Late-licensed venues nearby mean night-time noise and closing-time crowds. Walk past on a Friday night before deciding. Licensed hours are the legal maximum, not necessarily actual practice.
Where this area is heading: on the public record, this area is set for strong growth: the state projects +28% residents in the Merri-bek council area by 2036 (from 173,540 in 2021 to 221,750, passing 205,560 by 2031). That is a council-area projection (VIF2023), not this street. Growth cuts both ways: more services and transport over time, and also construction years and denser streets.
Generated from this report's findings. Take them to the inspection. An agent must not knowingly mislead you, so direct questions on the record are worth asking.
Signing the contract of sale is the moment a private-treaty purchase becomes binding, subject to any statutory cooling-off period that applies. There is no cooling-off at all if you buy at auction, so do as much of this as you can before then. Generated from this report's findings. This is a preparation list, not legal or financial advice: the professionals it points to are the ones who advise.
Planning-scheme overlays (flood, bushfire management, public acquisition, erosion, airport noise, environmental audit) · Designated Bushfire Prone Areas · Victorian Heritage Register & Heritage Overlay · EPA Priority Sites Register, environmental audits & risk-screen assessments · EPA-licensed operations · Aboriginal cultural heritage sensitivity · Easements intersecting the lot · Rezoning amendments on exhibition · Zoning & planning-scheme controls · Cadastral parcel & ground elevation · Recorded fire history · Quarries, mining tenements & extractive-industry interest areas · Recorded flood-history extents · High-voltage transmission-line & coastal acid sulfate soils proximity · Railway station, road hierarchy & nearest emergency department · Tree canopy & urban heat mesh-block mapping · School zone boundaries · NBN technology at this address · Growth-area layers (Urban Growth Boundary / Precinct Structure Plans).
Walking distance to the nearest station (estimated with a typical ×1.3 street-network factor, not a routed path).
Building/planning permit history (PPARS): records end financial year 2022–23: anything lodged since is invisible here · Street-level building activity (BPC, formerly VBA): 2026-07-28 · Property crime (Crime Statistics Agency Victoria): 2026-07-30 · Licensed venues (Liquor Control Victoria): 2026-07-19 · Childcare centres & NQS ratings: 2026-07-27 · Public transport timetables (PTV GTFS): 2026-07-19 · Emergency departments (AIHW): 2026-07-20 · Mobile base stations (ACMA licence register): 2026-07-27 · Population projection & building-project lists (VIF2023 / VSBA / Big Build): 2026-07-30.
Neighbourhood demographics are the 2021 ABS Census (queried live, but the figures describe 2021; the next Census runs August 2026) · Tree canopy and urban heat come from the state's 2018 mesh-block cooling-and-greening dataset (queried live, but the underlying survey is 2018). Dated, but the structural pattern (leafy vs sparse streets) tends to persist.
Ground level from mapped contours · walking distance to the nearest station.
Coverage this run: every source we query responded: no section is missing from this report.