Animal production - other industries

What is animal production?

Animal production is defined in Clause 73.03 of planning schemes as:

Land used to keep or breed farm animals for the production of livestock, eggs, fibre, meat, milk or other animal products.

Animal production includes the following uses (which are separately defined in Clause 73.03):

• grazing animal production
• intensive animal production
• cattle feedlot
• intensive dairy farm
• poultry farm
• broiler farm
• pig farm
• poultry hatchery.

There are a range of zones where animal production may be permitted, and this is outlined in the Victoria Planning Provisions.

To determine if an activity is permissible in one of the above zones, the local council should be consulted as local laws may apply that restrict certain uses.

For more information on permit requirements across zones in Victoria, download:

• Permit requirements across zones in Victoria (PDF - 89.3 KB)
• Permit requirements across zones in Victoria - accessible (WORD - 95.9 KB)

Planning Practice Note 87: Preparing a planning permit application for animal production

This practice note provides information and guidance for applicants about preparing a planning permit application to use and develop land for animal production.

View PPN87 at the Department of Transport and Planning.

Contact

For further information contact the Agriculture Victoria Planning and Advisory Service for all agricultural land use planning enquiries on agvic.planning@agriculture.vic.gov.au.