Planning for the future
Melbourne is growing. And a global city needs a global transport network. We’re building the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) now to make travelling across Melbourne easier, quicker and more affordable for generations to come.
Thousands more homes will be built within walking distance of the new stations in Cheltenham, Clayton, Monash, Glen Waverley, Burwood and Box Hill.
We’re ensuring these areas have the infrastructure and services needed to provide better connections to jobs, open space and community facilities – all on the doorstep of world-class public transport.
The approved structure plans and planning scheme amendments for SRL East neighbourhoods will give certainty about how these areas will grow and change over time while protecting the places and qualities communities value most.
After several years of planning, consultation and review, the Minister for Planning has approved the planning scheme amendments for the SRL East station areas at Cheltenham, Clayton, Monash, Glen Waverley, Burwood and Box Hill.
Feedback has been instrumental in shaping the final plans. Consultation has occurred across 5 phases, from August 2023 to December 2025, giving communities and stakeholders opportunities to have their say and influence the plans every step of the way.
More than 10,000 responses and submissions were received, and this feedback helped shape the final planning controls and structure plans, with stronger outcomes for open space, community infrastructure, transport, housing, and neighbourhood character.
Six implementation plans have also been released to guide how actions and the infrastructure projects will be delivered over time.
The approved structure plans and planning scheme amendments now give certainty about how these neighbourhoods will grow and change over time while protecting the places and qualities communities value most.
More than 800 submissions were received, and 92 days of public hearings gave the Committee, submitters and expert witnesses the chance to test the detail and work through the issues before the final plans were approved.
Feedback across every stage of engagement has helped shape a more balanced set of precinct plans, with stronger outcomes for open space, community infrastructure, transport, housing, neighbourhood character, movement and local amenity.
Structure planning for SRL East Precincts
Structure Plans for SRL East Precincts will set out a shared vision and provide a framework for how areas around the new stations will grow and change over time while protecting and preserving the features people love about them now.
The plans will guide change in each precinct over decades by defining the preferred outcomes important to the local area. These might include future land use, buildings, and additional infrastructure, open space, car parking and the future street network, among others.
After consultation with local councils, the structure planning boundaries for the areas around the 6 new SRL East stations are now confirmed.
Planning Scheme Amendments (PSAs) will be required to implement structure plans into the planning schemes of the cities of Bayside, Kingston, Monash and Whitehorse.
Gazettal of the PSAs
The 6 SRL East structure plans were approved by the Minister for Planning on 25 June 2026 and were included in the relevant planning schemes in July 2026.
This is an important milestone for SRL East, following years of consultation, engagement, technical work and review.
Find out more on how feedback helped shape the plans
View the approved SRL East structure plans and gazetted PSAs
Gazettal of the Infrastructure Contribution Plans
Infrastructure contributions plans (ICPs) are a simpler infrastructure funding system and will help support the growing SRL East neighbourhoods, including roads, footpaths and public spaces, and will also contribute to building the new SRL East stations.
How the new system works
ICPs will enable levies to be collected from new development. Councils and the Victorian Government will use this funding for essential infrastructure, including parks, public spaces, community services and transport.
The levy will be applied in stages and apply to residential and non-residential developments that add dwellings or floor space to a property.
From 1 January 2027, this one-off levy will apply to new developments in the structure plan areas - generally within 800 metres of each SRL East station.
Developers will pay a standard contribution of $11,350 for each new home, $114 per square metre of new commercial space and $57 per square metre of new industrial space (indexed annually).
From 2032, an SRL infrastructure component will be added to the standard levy to help fund SRL East.
ICPs for Train and Tram Zone Activity Centres are still under consideration. For more information visit the Train and Tram Zone Activity Centres Program.
Key steps for SRL East structure planning
Mid to late 2023 – Developing shared visions
- Share feedback captured to date
- Outline the structure planning process and timeline
- Seek input on ambition statements and proposed priority outcomes for each SRL East Precinct
Late 2023 – Refining the visions
- Seek feedback on draft precinct visions
- Refine opportunities and challenges
- Explore place-shaping criteria and values and needs for each area
2024 – Shaping the plans
- Continue gathering feedback to inform final precinct visions and draft structure plans
- Build awareness of upcoming exhibition process
- Encourage continued feedback and participation
- 'Guidelines for the preparation of Structure Plans' published
- Release of Final Visions
Early 2025 – Exhibiting the plans
- Release draft structure plans and planning scheme amendments
- Exhibit structure planning documents for public review and comment
- Seek stakeholder and community submissions
2025 – Public hearing
- An independent advisory committee is convened
- Structure planning documents are considered by the committee
- A public hearing is held by the advisory committee
2026 – Sharing the outcomes
- Structure plans are finalised and approved
- Planning scheme amendments are finalised and gazetted
- Structure plans are applied to all development within SRL East neighbourhood areas