Amendment C295morn: Creswell Street East, Crib Point - revised DCP

Amendment C295morn proposes to replace the current Creswell Street East, Crib Point Development Contributions Plan (Watsons, June 2024) incorporated document with the proposed revised Creswell Street East, Crib Point Development Contributions Plan (Mesh Planning, December 2025) (‘revised 2025 DCP’). The revised 2025 DCP will provide for the funding and delivery of access and drainage infrastructure required to support the urban development of 66 parcels within the DCP area, as outlined in Figure 2 below.

Properties affected by Amendment C295morn include -

All land within the existing DCP area mapped as DCPO1 in the planning scheme, being: 1 - 73 Creswell Street and 1 - 3 Cooma Street, Crib Point

Figure 2: Extent of the DCPO1 proposed by Amendment C295morn

Amendment C295morn is needed to provide a coordinated and equitable approach to the funding and delivery of local road and drainage infrastructure required to support residential development within the DCP area.

Specifically, the Amendment is required to revise the current DCP as per the recommendations of the independent review commissioned by Council. (You can download a copy of this review from the Document Library on this webpage).

The revised 2025 DCP:

• Extends the local road and drainage works to include the eastern edge of Creswell Street so it meets the existing road pavement and upgrade Cooma Street and Glossop Street between Creswell Street and Disney Street. This increases the total length of unmade local roads to be upgraded from 860 linear metres in the current DCP to about 1,147 linear metres in the revised 2025 DCP. The extension of the road and drainage upgrades will improve access and servicing outcomes for local residents and deliver two upgraded north-south local access roads.
  
  
• Retains the project type and scope of the current DCP, meaning that the road cross-section remains the same and includes the construction of a 5.5 metre wide asphalt pavement and stormwater drainage, but does not include construction of a footpath. NOTE: Detailed designs are being amended to retain two large Gippsland Manna Gums within the Cooma Street road reserve, adjacent to 90 and 92 Disney Street, Crib Point. This further work will result in an amended roadway treatment for a portion of Cooma Street.
  
  
• Increases the DCP area to include 2 Creswell Street, Crib Point which is immediately adjacent to, and will benefit from, the upgraded local roads, should the land be no longer owned and operated by South East Water.
  
  
• Increases the total costs included in the DCP to account for the extended road length, updated construction costs (based on detailed design plans and Quantity Surveyor estimates), finance costs to deliver the project by 30 June 2030, and plan preparation costs.
  
  
• Increases the DCP charges required due to the increase in total DCP costs.
  
  
• Apportions 70% of all DCP costs to the landowners benefiting from the localised infrastructure, with Council to fund the remaining 30%. (The 70/30 funding split is the same as the original DCP which only covered road and drainage infrastructure construction costs – note finance and plan preparation costs as proposed in the 2025 DCP). 
  
  
• Increases the delivery timeframe of the project (i.e. infrastructure upgrades) to be delivered by 30 June 2030.
  
  
• Revises the demand units on which the DCP levies are calculated from ‘linear metre of lot frontage’ to ‘metre square of lot area’.

Appendix 2 of the revised 2025 DCP below sets out the estimated landowner contributions for each property. Contributions will be charged according to the number of square meters per property. (Note: Figures are expressed in June 2025 dollars and are subject to quarterly indexation adjustments).

The DCP Parcel Number ID in Appendix 2 of the revised 2025 DCP below, corresponds to the property numbers shown in figure 2 below.  

 Amendment C295morn Creswell Street East Crib Point Development Contributions Pl.pdf(PDF, 19MB)  

You can view all the amendment documents free of charge:

• online at the State Government’s website
• in person (on request) by visiting one of our customer service centres during office hours:
• 90 Besgrove Street, Rosebud
• 2 Queen Street, Mornington
• 21 Marine Parade, Hastings 

You can also read more about the amendment in the attachments to 16 December 2025 Council Meeting

The amendment was publicly exhibited from 31/10/2024 to 20/12/2024.

Council received a total of 8 submissions.

You can view all submissions free of charge by:

• downloading - Amendment C295morn – submissions C295morn-Submissions-1-to-8-redacted.pdf(PDF, 3MB)
• in person (on request) by visiting one of our customer service centres during office hours:
• 90 Besgrove Street, Rosebud VIC 3939 (Rosebud Office)
• 2 Queen Street, Mornington VIC 3931 (Mornington Office)
• 21 Marine Parade, Hastings VIC 3915 (Hastings Office)

IMPORTANT: We have removed all personal details from submissions to protect privacy.

Yes. Council decided at the 20 May 2025 Council Meeting to refer submissions to an independent planning panel for review and recommendations. The panel was appointed by the Minister for Planning.

Yes. A Directions Hearing was held on 30 June 2025. The Panel Hearing was held on 11 August 2025.

The panel delivered its final report to Council on 9 September 2025. All panel-related documents including Council’s submission to the panel and the panel’s report can be found in the Document Library.

Council considered all submissions and the panel’s report, and decided to adopt the amendment with changes, during the 16 December 2025 Council Meeting. You can view the updated amendment documents in the attachments to the meeting minutes. Council has notified all submitters and owners of land affected by the amendment of this decision.

Once the Council adopted changes are made, the amendment is expected to be submitted to the Minister for Planning in early 2026.

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• email us at strategic.admin@mornpen.vic.gov.au
• visit the State Government’s website for more information about:

• the planning scheme amendment process
• planning panels and how public planning panel hearings work