The Folkstone precinct plan.
What the approved plan means for Folkstone: an employment area for industry, business and jobs in Melbourne's north, beside the Hume Freeway and close to the new estates of Mickleham.
Folkstone is planned as an employment area. Vicplan zone maps show Industrial 1 Zone land across a large part of the precinct.
The precinct sits west of the Hume Freeway and south of Donnybrook Road, with freeway ramps at the Donnybrook Road interchange.
Part of the precinct is Commonwealth land, home to the Australian Government's Post Entry Quarantine Facility at 135 Donnybrook Road, Mickleham.
Zone maps show a General Residential Zone pocket around O'Keefe Street, Mickleham, inside the precinct boundary.
Areas of Public Conservation and Resource Zone sit inside the precinct boundary.
The total precinct area in the Victorian Planning Authority's boundary data.
The VPA has not published a jobs figure for Folkstone, so this site does not quote one.
Source: Victorian Planning Authority, Folkstone Employment Area Precinct Structure Plan (VPA 20), approved and gazetted 11 December 2008 under Amendment C098 to the Hume Planning Scheme. Zones: Vicplan planning scheme zones, checked 4 November 2026. Commonwealth facility: Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
How an employment precinct fills out.
A general outline, not a schedule. Actual timing depends on landowners, planning permits and infrastructure delivery.
Approved by the Minister for Planning and gazetted 11 December 2008 (Amendment C098, Hume Planning Scheme) · Next: permits and development as each landowner proceeds.
- 2008 · Step 1Plan approved
Amendment C098 was gazetted on 11 December 2008, setting the planning framework for the precinct.
- Permits · Step 2Planning permits
Landowners apply to Hume City Council for permits to subdivide and build on their sites.
- Works · Step 3Roads and services
Roads, drainage and services are built as each part of the precinct is developed.
- Occupation · Step 4Workplaces open
Warehouses, offices and other workplaces open as sites are completed.
Illustrative images, indicative only.
Workplaces next to the new estates.
Folkstone's employment land sits between the Hume Freeway and the new estates of Mickleham, with Merrifield Central to the north and Craigieburn North across the freeway. For home buyers, that means business land planned close to the estates listed on this site.
Read the plan straight from the source.
Status: Approved. The Folkstone Employment Area Precinct Structure Plan was approved by the Minister for Planning and gazetted on 11 December 2008 under Amendment C098 to the Hume Planning Scheme.
The VPA project page links to Amendment C098 on the Victorian planning schemes website. HALP links to the official source and does not host or alter it.