About the Amendment

Surf Coast Shire has prepared Amendment C145surf to the Surf Coast Planning Scheme to implement recommendations from the Moriac Structure Plan 2023. The Moriac Structure Plan 2023 provides a strategic framework to guide land use and development decisions over the next 10 years.

Land affected by the Amendment

The amendment applies to land shown in Figure 1 and includes the township of Moriac and the immediate surrounding hinterland.


Figure 1: Moriac and immediate Hinterland

What the Amendment does

The amendment will implement key actions and strategies to ensure future growth considers landscape constraints and maintains the town’s rural character.

It does this by inserting a new Framework Plan for Moriac in the Municipal Planning Strategy which will provide land use directions and set clear growth expectations for the town by identifying a town settlement boundary. Other proposed changes include updates to local planning policy for Moriac and rezoning of land to correct zoning anomalies and to reflect use of land for an open space reserve.

Find out more about the Moriac Structure Plan 2023.

View the Amendment and make a submission

You may inspect the amendment, any documents that support the amendment and the explanatory report about the amendment, free of charge, at:

Any person who may be affected by the amendment may make a submission to the planning authority about the amendment. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make.

Name and contact details of submitters are required for council to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend council meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions.

The closing date for submissions is Sunday 19th October 2025. A submission must be:

  • Submitted online via the online submission portal on this web page (open 18 September), or
  • Mailed to Coordinator Strategic Land Use Planning, PO Box 350, Torquay, VIC 3228

The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office and/or on its website for any person to inspect free of charge for two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.