From time to time, changes to the scheme are proposed to either reflect new circumstances or improve the scheme. The Minister for Planning, the council or an applicant can instigate an amendment.

The process for an amendment to the scheme is outlined in the Planning and Environment Act 1987.  The Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) provides a guide which outlines the steps in the amendment process. An amendment may involve a change to a planning scheme map (sometimes called a rezoning) or a change to the ordinance (written part of the scheme) or both.

Currently on Exhibition

Current Amendments

• Amendment C169 - Proposed Ballarat Grammar Educational Campus, Mount Rowan
• Amendment C154 - Ballarat Gaming Policy Framework
• Amendment C164 - Former Ballarat Orphanage site - 200, 200A & 200B Victoria Street, Ballarat East
• Amendment C141- Ballarat Open Space Strategy and Environmental Sustainability Strategy

Recently Completed Amendments

• Amendment C156 - Application of Heritage Overlay to 10 Creswick Street, Miners Rest
• Amendment C148 - Rural Land Use Strategy
• Amendment C151 - Ballarat Activity Centres Strategy
• Amendment C157 - 48 Cummins Road, Mount Rowan
• Amendment C161 - 1187, 1189 and 1191 Geelong Road, Mt Clear
• Amendment C143 - 1503 Geelong Road, Mount Clear
• Amendment C159 - Stockland Expansion
• Amendment C149 - Dowling Forest Precinct Master Plan
• Amendment C138 - Ballarat Review of Future Industrial Areas
• Amendment C155 - Expansion of Mount Helen Techology Park
• Amendment C152 - Central Business District (CBD) Strategy
• Amendment C102 - Wildfire Management Overlay
• Amendment C119- 193 Swinglers Road, Invermay
• Amendment C137 - Policy Neutral Revision of Local Planning Policy Framework
• Amendment C95
• Amendment C107- Six Heritage Precincts
• Amendment C145 - Planning Certificates
• Amendment C147 - Removal of Public Acquistion Overlay from Elsworth Street East, Canadian

A full list of all current and completed amendments to the Ballarat Planning Scheme and their status is also available from Planning Scheme Amendments Online.