What is a Regionally Significant Commercial Area?

Regionally Significant Commercial Areas (RSCAs) are identified in Plan Melbourne as major activity centres or growth area businesses with residential precincts, identified in the Victorian Government’s Melbourne Industrial and Commercial Land Use Plan (MICLUP). They should provide for and support access to a wide range of goods and services, including office and retail development and provide for a wide range of employment opportunities. RSCAs are expected to deliver more intensive forms of employment uses including office and commercial activity.

Plan Melbourne identifies the Officer South Employment PSP as a RSCA for the area north of Lecky Road. There is a provision in the MICLUP that states RSCA’s should have a primary role for economic and employment purposes with no less than 50 per cent of the land in each precinct being allocated for these purposes.