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Summary
Victoria's first Act directed to comprehensive land-use planning was the Town and Country Planning Act of 1944, which covered detailed planning through optional powers for local authorities. Amendments in 1949 and 1968 provided respectively for better co-ordination of Melbourne's planning and the preparation of comprehensive state strategic land-use policies, called Statements of Planning Policy. A new Act, the Land Conservation Act 1970, provided more explicitly for comprehensive strategic planning on public lands.
Statements of Planning Policy were intended to serve three major purposes: to assist Government to co-ordinate land-use planning throughout the State; to provide guidelines for State, regional and municipal land-use planning and management authorities; and to safeguard State interests in the conservation and development of localised resources.
The paper examines concepts of comprehensive strategic land-use planning and implications for foresters with particular reference to the preparation and implementation of Statements of Planning Policy in Victoria.