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

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 (except 2 Creswell Street) and 1 - 3 Cooma Street, Crib Point, and
• 12 additional properties that are proposed to be included within the revised 2023 DCP area, including 2 Creswell Street (as shown in figure 2).

Figure 2: Extent of the existing DCPO1 and 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 existing 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 2023 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 2018 DCP to 1,138 linear metres in the revised 2023 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 original 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.
  
  
• Increases the DCP area because the extent of unmade road to be upgraded has been increased.  The revised DCP will therefore include an additional 12 properties which are immediately adjacent to, and will benefit from, the upgraded local roads.
  
  
• The section below details individual landowner DCP contribution levy costs per property.
  
  
• 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 2028, 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 – not finance and plan preparation costs as proposed in the 2023 DCP). 
  
  
• Increases the delivery timeframe of the project (i.e. infrastructure upgrades) to 30 June 2028.
  
  
• Revises the demand units on which the DCP levies are calculated from ‘linear metre of lot frontage’ to ‘metre square of lot area’.
  
  
• Includes a vegetation removal plan identifying the vegetation to be removed from private and public land to allow for the construction of the road and drainage infrastructure being delivered by the DCP. (It is noted that Amendment C295morn is also changing the Schedule 1 to Clause 52.17: Native Vegetation to exempt Council from needing a planning permit to remove native vegetation to deliver infrastructure under the DCP).

Table 1 below sets out the estimated landowner contributions for each property under the revised 2023 DCP. Contributions will be charged according to the number of square meters per property. (Note: Figures are expressed in May 2023 dollars and are subject to quarterly indexation adjustments).

The DCP Parcel Number ID in table 1 corresponds to the property numbers shown in figure 4.

Figure 3: DCP area, infrastructure works and DCP parcel number ID

Table-1-2024-DCP-and-revised-2023-DCP-contributions-compared-as-at-23-7-25.pdf(PDF, 61KB)

Where can I see the amendment documents?

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 20 May 2025 Ordinary Council meeting minutes

The amendment was publicly exhibited from 7/11/2024 to 20/12/2024.

Council received a total of 7 submissions.

You can view all submissions free of charge by:

• downloading - Amendment C295morn – submissions C295morn-Submissions-1-to-7.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. 

Council decided at its meeting on 20 May 2025 to refer Amendment C295morn and all submissions received during public exhibition to an independent Planning Panel for review and recommendations. As part of this decision, Council resolved to endorse some proposed changes to Amendment C295morn which it will present to the Planning Panel for consideration.

The proposed changes seek to address issues raised in some of the submissions and include:

1. Deleting the exemption which would have allowed Council to remove native vegetation (required to accommodate the DCP infrastructure) without needing a planning permit, and removing all related references to vegetation removal from the amendment. This proposed change responds to submissions 3 and 7. Because of this change, a planning permit to remove native and non-native vegetation to accommodate the infrastructure works will now be sought, and Council will be bound to deliver any associated native vegetation offsets.
2. Remove 6 Cooma Street, 90 and 92 Disney Street and associated infrastructure from the DCP and Amendment C295morn. This change responds to submissions 2, 5 and 6 and would mean that these properties would not be required contribute to the costs of the DCP and the portion of Cooma Street abutting their properties would not be sealed.
3. Include the quantity surveyor cost estimates as an appendix to the DCP Incorporated Document. This will provide greater transparency to all landowners affected by the DCP about the costs underpinning the DCP.

These proposed changes will be presented in Council’s submissions to the Planning Panel as ‘Day 1’ documents. (The documents will be posted to this website when the Panel process gets underway.)

The following dates have been scheduled for the panel:

• Directions hearing (to sort out procedural matters): was held online on Monday, 30 June 2025.
• Panel hearing (for registered speakers to present their submissions/evidence): will be held on Monday, 11 August 2025 from 10am to 3.30pm in the Kings Meeting room at the Hastings Shire Office (21 Marine Parade, Hastings). Please note:

• The hearing will be held in person only. Parties cannot attend online, and the hearing will not be livestreamed or recorded.
• If you are not registered to speak at the hearing, but would like to come along to observe the hearing, please call us on (03) 5950 1103 to reserve a seat (there is limited space available).
• The Kings Meeting room has stair access only via the Marine Parade entry to the office.
• Tuesday, 12 August 2025 has been reserved as an extra hearing day in case it’s needed. If needed, the panel will confirm arrangements for the extra day by the end of the Monday, 11 August 2025.

If you made a written submission to Council during the public exhibition period, the panel will still consider your written submission regardless of whether you participate in the planning panel hearing.

After reviewing submissions and holding a public hearing, the panel will prepare a report with findings and recommendations that will be sent to Council.

For more information about what a planning panel is and how they work, visit the Planning Panels Victoria website.

All panel-related documents including Council’s submission to the panel and the panel’s report will be posted in the Document Library on this webpage as soon as they are ready.

Once Council receives the panel’s report, it must consider the findings and recommendations outlined in the report before deciding whether to:

• adopt the amendment (with or without changes recommended by the panel)
• abandon all or part(s) of the amendment

If Council adopts the amendment (with or without changes), we will submit the amendment to the Minister for Planning for approval. The Minister’s decision on the amendment can’t be appealed. If the Minister approves the amendment, a notice will appear in the Victorian Government Gazette and the amendment will come into effect.

If Council abandons the amendment, we will notify the Minister, all affected landowners and submitters of Council’s decision and the planning scheme will not be changed.

If you made a submission to Council about the amendment during public exhibition, we’ll continue to notify you in writing about the amendment’s progress. 

• call us on (03) 5950 1003
• 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