Subdivision SWMPs
Clause 56.07-4 stormwater management plans for outer-growth subdivisions, with Melbourne Water referral coordination.
SWMP service and quote inputs → Council · City of Whittlesea
Stormwater management plans for the City of Whittlesea.
Council-ready Stormwater Management Plans for residential subdivisions, infill, and commercial development across the Whittlesea Planning Scheme area. Melbourne Water referrals managed end-to-end.
Council requirements
What the Whittlesea Planning Scheme requires.
The Whittlesea Planning Scheme adopts the Victorian Planning Provisions with local schedules. Stormwater management is governed primarily by Clause 56.07-4 for residential subdivisions and Clause 53.18 for non-subdivision development, both demonstrating compliance with EPA Publication 1739.1 best-practice targets.
Whittlesea's growth-corridor footprint sits inside the Melbourne Water Port Phillip and Westernport Drainage Schemes. Most subdivisions in the municipality trigger Melbourne Water referral under Clause 66.04 of the Victorian Planning Provisions, with STORM ≥100% the typical compliance target for residential WSUD strategies.
What we deliver in Whittlesea
Core stormwater coverage for the Whittlesea scheme.
WSUD strategies
Treatment trains sized to STORM ≥100% — bioretention, rainwater tanks, permeable paving — coordinated with the broader drainage scheme.
SWMP service and quote inputs →OSD requirements
On-Site Detention sizing where the council requires it, against ARR 2019 design rainfall and the local discharge constraint.
SWMP service and quote inputs → Local context
Outer-growth corridor specifics.
Whittlesea is one of Melbourne's most active growth-corridor councils. Greenfield subdivisions in suburbs like Mernda, Doreen, and Donnybrook sit inside Melbourne Water drainage scheme areas — meaning treatment train design has to coordinate with estate-scale wetlands, retarding basins, and the broader scheme drainage logic, not just the lot-scale compliance score. The typical measures are covered in the Victorian WSUD guide.
For infill projects in the established suburbs (Thomastown, Lalor, Mill Park) the constraints shift to footprint and Legal Point of Discharge. We work both ends of the municipality.
Recent work
Projects in Whittlesea.
We've delivered SWMPs and WSUD strategies for subdivisions and commercial sites across the Whittlesea growth corridor. See our 24-lot subdivision case study for an indicative example.
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