Suburban Rail Loop East Precincts Standing Advisory Committee

Overview

The Suburban Rail Loop East Precincts Standing Advisory Committee was appointed by the Minister for Planning on 1 June 2025. The Committee will provide advice to the Minister on the draft structure plans and draft planning scheme amendments for the areas around the future Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East stations.

SRL will deliver a 90-kilometre orbital rail line connecting Melbourne’s middle suburbs, linking every major train service from the Frankston Line to the Werribee Line via Melbourne Airport. SRL East is the first stage of the project being delivered from Cheltenham to Box Hill, with 26 kilometres of twin tunnels connecting six new underground stations.

The Suburban Rail Loop Authority (SRLA) has prepared draft structure plans, implementation plans and planning scheme amendments for each SRL East Precinct – the neighbourhoods around the new SRL East stations at Cheltenham, Clayton, Monash, Glen Waverley, Burwood and Box Hill. These draft documents are available on the Engage Victoria webpage.

These documents aim to guide future land use and development and support new housing, jobs and services around the stations. SRLA invited public submissions on these documents in March and April 2025.

The Minister for Planning referred specific matters to the Suburban Rail Loop East Precincts Standing Advisory Committee on 7 July 2025.

Referrals

Current referrals

• General Issues
• Box Hill Precinct
• Monash Precinct

Standing advisory committee members

• Sarah Carlisle (Lead Chair)
• Sarah Raso (Deputy Chair)
• Con Tsotsoros (Deputy Chair)
• Tim Hellsten (Deputy Chair)
• Lisa Kendal (Deputy Chair)
• Annabel Paul (Deputy Chair)
• Elizabeth Mclntosh (Deputy Chair)
• Gabby McMillan (Deputy Chair)
• John Roney (Deputy Chair)
• Jonathan Halaliku (Deputy Chair)
• Meredith Gibbs (Deputy Chair)
• Penelope Smith (Deputy Chair)
• Shannon Davies (Deputy Chair)
• Andrew Grear
• Andrew Hutson
• Geoff Glynn
• John Hartigan
• Mark Varmalis
• Paul Tierney
• Peter Edwards
• Peter Elliott
• Prof Rob Adams AM
• Simon Shiel

Pre-briefing

The Suburban Rail Loop Authority (SRLA) presented a pre-briefing to the Suburban Rail Loop East Precincts Standing Advisory Committee (Committee) on 14 August 2025.

SRLA provided a general explanation of how the draft Structure Plans were developed, and how the outcomes sought under the Structure Plans have been translated into the draft controls.

You can find a recording of this pre-briefing on the SRLA Engage Victoria website.

Documents

Terms of reference

Letter of referral

Correspondence

Document list

A document list for documents tabled as part of the General Issues Committee process is provided on the General Issues page.  Document lists will be provided on each Precinct page in advance of each Precinct hearing starting.  These will be updated regularly to reflect new tabled documents as the hearings progress.

More information

For information about the SRL East precinct planning program, please visit the SRL East precinct planning webpage or contact:

Suburban Rail Loop Authority
contact@srla.vic.gov.au
1800 105 105

For information about SRLA’s draft structure plans, implementation plans and planning scheme amendments, please visit the Engage Victoria webpage.

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Page last updated: 27/08/25