Major Urban Area - location polygons and table

This data provides the major urban area boundaries used when setting noise limits for commercial, industrial and trade premises. \r\n\r\nThe Environment Protection Regulations 2021 and the incorporated Noise Protocol document, Noise limit and assessment protocol for the control of noise from commercial, industrial and trade premises and entertainment venues (EPA publication 1826) set the limits for commercial, industrial and trade noise. \r\nThere are two methods for setting the noise limits depending on the location of the residence or other noise sensitive area.\r\n\r\n•\tmajor urban areas – large regional towns, cities and Melbourne, or \r\n\r\n•\trural areas.\r\n\r\nThe major urban area boundaries are aligned with: \r\n\r\n•\tThe Melbourne metropolitan Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) (Vicmap Planning - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2020) \r\n\r\n•\tIf outside of the Melbourne UGB, the UGB of any other municipality with a population greater than 7,000 persons. Obtained from the relevant authority upon request or digitised from current published documentation. \r\n\r\n•\tIf outside of a UGB, the Urban Centre and Localities (UCL) boundary (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016) of an urban centre with a population greater than 7,000 persons, including land within the whole of any Residential, Industrial, Commercial or Urban Growth zone from the Planning Scheme Zones (Vicmap Planning - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2020) that are crossed by the UCL boundary.\r\n\r\nThe dataset is generated each fortnight based on current planning scheme zones combined with the Melbourne UGB, the Greater Bendigo UGB, and the Urban Centre and Locality (UCL) ASGS Ed 2016 Digital Boundaries in ESRI Shapfile format’ [sic] from https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1270.0.55.004July%202016?OpenDocument.\r\n