Metropolitan Region Scheme

regional open space — to protect the natural environment, provide recreational and cultural opportunities, safeguard important landscapes and sites of cultural or historical significance and provide for public access;

regional open space — restricted public access — to protect the natural environment, provide recreational and cultural opportunities, safeguard important landscapes and sites of cultural or historical significance with limited or no public access;

primary regional roads — to provide a regional road network to accommodate current and future transport needs on roads declared under the Main Roads Act 1930;

other regional roads — to provide a regional road network to accommodate current and future transport needs on roads for which the planning responsibilities are shared between the Commission and local government;

railways — to provide for the passage of trains, the marshalling, maintenance and storage of rolling stock, and the conveying of the public and freight by rail;

port installations — to provide for current and future expansion needs;

waterways — to recognise coastal and inland waterways and lakes, provide for navigation in, and public access to, those waterways and lakes where appropriate, and to protect environmental, landscape and cultural values;

water catchments — to protect water sources from contamination;

State forests — to recognise State forests;

civic and cultural — to preserve and protect significant civic precincts and buildings;

public purposes — to provide for other public purposes as denoted on the Scheme Map.