Melbourne covers 10 suburbs and 175,939 property lots in Greater Melbourne. ZoneDSS resolves the Melbourne Planning Scheme and applicable overlays for every address — and aggregates the picture by suburb here.
Suburbs in this council
Each suburb has its own zoning mix, constraints, and market profile. We have detailed planning guides for 10 suburbs in Melbourne so far — and we're adding more weekly.
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Planning instruments
Three layers of planning controls apply to every property in Melbourne. Read them together to know what can be built.
Sets the zone, building height, permitted and prohibited uses, and levels of assessment for every lot in Melbourne. The primary instrument every development application is assessed against.
The statewide template of standard zones and overlays the scheme is built from, with ResCode governing residential design.
Heritage (HO), flood (LSIO), bushfire (BMO), design (DDO) and environmental overlays modify what can be built on a lot, on top of the zone.
Dominant zone in Melbourne: GRZ — the most common single zone across the council's 175,939 lots.
FAQs
The most common zoning across Melbourne is GRZ. The full picture varies by suburb — each suburb has its own mix of zones set by the planning scheme (Victorian Planning Provisions). Browse the suburbs below to see exact breakdowns.
Melbourne covers 10 suburbs across 175,939 property lots. It sits in the Greater Melbourne region of Victoria.
The median sale price across Melbourne is $1,352,500. Individual suburbs range materially around this — drill into any suburb page below to see lot-level market data.
Melbourne operates under the Melbourne Planning Scheme, built on the Victorian Planning Provisions (VPP). ZoneDSS resolves the zone, overlays and controls for any address in the council area.
Search the suburb above, then click "Run a report on your address" in the suburb page. ZoneDSS returns the exact zone, height limit, permitted uses, and every overlay that applies to the lot — cited to source.
Official sources
Verify our data, check the official planning register, or lodge an application — direct deep links to the Victoria Government planning portals.
Official Victoria planning source — verify zoning, overlays and the figures shown for Melbourne.
Official Victoria planning source — verify zoning, overlays and the figures shown for Melbourne.
Official Victoria planning source — verify zoning, overlays and the figures shown for Melbourne.
Official Victoria planning source — verify zoning, overlays and the figures shown for Melbourne.
Nearby councils
Compare planning controls, suburb mix, and DA approval rates across Greater Melbourne councils.
Council and suburb stats are useful for context. For a buy-or-walk decision on a specific lot, you need every control, every constraint, and every clause cited to source.
Run a report — from A$2914-section report · planning scheme + overlays cross-referenced · cited to source
Melbourne stats aggregated from lot-level cadastre and the Melbourne Planning Scheme. Sources: Victorian Planning Provisions & planning schemes, Victorian Building Authority / building permit activity, Victoria in Future, ABS Census 2021, and ABS Census 2021. Aggregated by ZoneDSS · last updated 2026-06-08.
Council-level statistics — your specific suburb and lot will vary. Always run a planning report on the actual address before making a decision. How ZoneDSS works →