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LCC, ECC, and VEAC unreviewed areas

Created 16/11/2025

Updated 02/03/2026

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A GIS layer of areas, former cities, townships, and boroughs that have not been assessed or reviewed in an investigation by LCC, ECC, or VEAC. The Land Conservation Council Act 1970 excluded areas from public land use studies based on municipal status; this criteria was not included in the two subsequent Acts establishing the ECC and VEAC. The status of former cities, towns, and boroughs (outside the metropolitan Melbourne area) that were excluded from past studies and have not been subsequently assessed by the ECC or VEAC is shown as well as the current municipality. Note that several municipal areas were restructured during the interval of past studies and the status of recommendations in areas technically excluded at the time of final recommendations was treated variably (recommendations for the former City of South Barwon were accepted in Melbourne Study Area Final Recommendations (1977); recommendations for, City of Cranbourne, City of Seymour in Melbourne Area District 2 Review Final Recommendations (1994) were not accepted). A government response to accept any of these recommendations is taken to mean that the LCC’s recommendations apply. All municipalities except Queenscliffe were restructured between 1993 and 1995. Municipal boundaries at the time of LCC public land use studies, in most cases, do not reflect the current local government areas across the state. The beds of the Gippsland Lakes were excluded from all public land use investigations by the LCC, ECC and VEAC. Thematic land use reviews such as the LCC’s Rivers and Streams Special Investigation, Wilderness Special Investigation, Historic Places Special Investigation South-Western Victoria, ECC’s Marine, Coastal & Estuarine Investigation covered specific types of public land that was within some of the excluded municipalities.

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Title LCC, ECC, and VEAC unreviewed areas
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/43a8e32e-531b-485e-bbe2-e0749ef69206
Remote Last Updated 20/02/2026
Contact Point
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 17/02/2024
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "LCC, ECC, and VEAC unreviewed areas". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/lcc-ecc-and-veac-unreviewed-areas84

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