Planning and Environment Act 1987

to recognise the importance of green wedge land; and

to protect, enhance and promote non‑urban values and non‑urban uses of green wedge land, and to give primacy to those values and uses; and

to enable strategic planning for and management of green wedge land; and

to provide for the beneficial use of green wedge land that contributes to the sustainability, prosperity, health and wellbeing of Victorians; and

to support primary production on green wedge land and to enable its growth by preventing incompatible uses and development; and

to manage threats of land use change that would detract from non‑urban values and non‑urban uses of green wedge land; and

to recognise the connection and stewardship of traditional owners in relation to land that is green wedge land.