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Appendix 1
Green wedge attributes

These features typify land in green wedges.

Environment/conservation features

• areas used and suited to parks and conservation (national, State and local)
• areas of flora and fauna significance
• areas with native vegetation cover
• wetlands
• rivers and streams and their environmental buffers
• significant geographic features (ridge lines, river valleys, mountains, plains)
• heritage areas – natural/indigenous/European

Natural resource features

• areas with potential for extractive industries (stone, sand, clay, soil)
• areas of productive agricultural land (existing or potential)
• timber reserves
• water-supply catchments
• areas considered suited to waste-water reuse

Community value features

• areas of recognised landscape value
  
• areas used or suited for recreation – public and private
  
• open landscapes separating and distinguishing different urban communities

Existing policy features

• areas identified at State level as off-limits to urban development, for example, Mornington Peninsula, Yarra Valley, Dandenong Ranges, Macedon Ranges
  
• land identified in local policy instruments as preferred non-urban areas

Physical/safety features

• areas of flooding and drainage difficulty
  
• areas of high fire hazard
  
• steep land subject to erosion and/or subsidence
  
• coastal land subject to erosion
  
• land with effluent absorption constraints (septic systems)
  
• areas of contaminated land

Trunk servicing features

• areas remote from public transport corridors
  
• areas with constraints in providing physical and social services
  
• areas near high-voltage transmission lines and major gas pipelines

Major facility features

• locations used for or suited to airports and airfields
  
• locations used for sewage treatment
  
• locations used for or suited to waste disposal and recycling
  
• locations used for prisons and other institutional uses

Potential land use conflict features

• buffer areas required around uses with off-site effects, for example, Environment Protection Authority buffers and airport buffers