This page contains the notified Change as well as supporting documentation, summaries of submissions received, and any decisions made for each Plan Change (as or when applicable at each stage of the process).
Operative as of 4 September 2025.
An appeal was lodged with the Environment Court against the Hearing Panel’s decision and was resolved by mediation, making this Plan Change Operative. The Environment Court’s decision can be found below, under Plan Change Details and Documents.
Plan Change Notified: 6 September 2022
Submissions Opened: 9 September 2022
Submissions Closed: 17 October 2022
Further Submissions Opened: 31 October 2022
Further Submissions Closed: 11 November 2022
Hearing Date: 12 June 2024
Decision Report Released: 6 September 2024
Appeal Period Opened: 9 September 2024
Appeal Period Closed: 18 October 2024
Environment Court's Decision Released: 4 September 2025
All submissions or feedback (including the names and contact details of submitters) are public information and may be made available to the public and media in various reports and formats including on Council’s website. Personal information will also be used for administration relating to the subject matter of submissions. Submitters have the right to access and correct any personal information included in any reports, information, or submissions.
The purpose – and therefore the objective – of Plan Change 76 is to provide additional land for residential housing and encourage both intensification and a variety of densities within an identified site in Wakefield (the proposed ‘Wakefield Development Area’). This is responding to issues around the need to provide for population growth, the need to manage housing affordability and the need to provide a variety of lot sizes to cater for different demographics and ensure efficient land use. In order to address these issues, this Plan Change is seeking to rezone and change applicable rules for an area of land identified in the Future Development Strategy 2022 and to encourage medium-density housing in this area and the adjoining area of undeveloped Residential zoned land.
2025-07-03 Consent Order - Wakefield.pdf (pdf 12 MB)
UpdateMap78_1_Area_PC76WakefieldOperative.pdf (pdf 235 KB)
UpdateMap78_2_Zones_PC76WakefieldOperative.pdf (pdf 260 KB)
UpdateMap78_3_Fire_PC76WakefieldOperative.pdf (pdf 226 KB)
Decision Area Map - PC76 Wakefield CL16 (pdf 368 KB)
Decision Zone Map - PC76 Wakefield CL16 (pdf 474 KB)
Decision Fire Ban Map - PC76 Wakefield CL16 (pdf 512 KB))
Date: 6th September 2024
PC76 Wakefield Decision Report - FINAL 26.06.2024.pdf (pdf 247 KB)
PC76 Wakefield Schedule of Amendments FINAL (pdf 458 KB)
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Agenda and Notice of Hearing (pdf 94 KB)
Memo Changes to S42A Appendix 1 - Schedule of Amendments (pdf 182 KB)
AMENDMENTS S42A Appendix 1 - PC76 Schedule of Amendments UPDATED (pdf 676 KB)
S42A Appendix 1 - PC76 Schedule of Amendments UPDATED (pdf 671 KB)
S42A Appendix 2 - S32AA Report FINAL with appendices (pdf 3.6 MB)
S42A Appendix 3 - PC76 Original Submissions and Further Submissions (pdf 26 MB)
S42A Appendix 4 - Maps (pdf 2 MB)
S42A Appendix 5 - Statements of Evidence (pdf 8.6 MB)
S42A Appendix 6 - FINAL Evidence R Squire (pdf 21 MB)
S42A Appendix 7 - Evidence W Rice (pdf 534 KB)
S42A Appendix 8 - FINAL Evidence J Deans (pdf 1.1 MB)
S42A Appendix 9 - PC76 S32A Report with Appendices FINAL (pdf 6 MB)
PC 76 - Growth Wakefield - Further Submissions (pdf 5.4 MB)
Date Notified: 28 October 2022
Further Submissions Closed: 11 November 2022
Further submissions can be e-mailed to: [email protected]
View the Submissions
PC 76 Wakefield summary of submissions by name.pdf (pdf 160 KB)
PC 76 Wakefield summary of submissions by topic.pdf (pdf 201 KB)
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