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Action 3
Applying the UGB to other areas

Lead agent: Local government in partnership with DOI
Councils have the opportunity to consider whether there is a need or benefit in defining a UGB for other urban areas, such as smaller settlements contained in the green wedges or in those municipalities surrounding metropolitan Melbourne.

The need may arise through circumstances such as:

• controlling the ‘leapfrogging’ of development demands
• safeguarding environmentally sensitive locations
• preserving agriculturally productive areas
• retaining the separate identity of towns close to other urban areas.

The actions proposed in draft Implementation Plan 5, Green wedges, will provide guidance where there is a need for an UGB in these areas.

The application of a UGB to other urban areas in metropolitan Melbourne will be subject to the Minister’s Direction referred to above.