Sustainable Land Management Rebate Scheme EOI 2026-2028

The Sustainable Land Management Rebate Scheme is an incentive program designed to support and encourage sustainable land management practices on private properties. It offers eligible landowners a rate rebate to undertake and/or maintain land management activities that enhance the quality of land and water resources, protect or improve local biodiversity, and address land degradation issues. The rebate applies over a two-year period.

To be eligible for the Rebate Scheme, a property must be:

• Within or partly within the Green Wedge A, Green Wedge or Rural Conservation Zone in the City of Whittlesea. Properties partly within any of these zones are only eligible when the area of the property within the zone is 8 hectares or greater, and when the zone covers the majority of the property.
• 8 hectares or greater in size, or be an aggregation of land at least equal to the minimum size, which is in one ownership and contiguous, i.e. adjacent to each other.
• Properties that are operated for commercial primary production, e.g. registered primary producers, or managed as hobby / lifestyle farms or for environmental purposes, e.g. bush blocks are eligible to apply under the Scheme.

Further information can be found in the Sustainable Land Management Rebate Guidelines which can be downloaded here and are available on the City of Whittlesea website.

FOR APPLICANTS RENEWING, DO NOT COMPLETE THIS FORM UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE REQUIRED ACQUITTAL FORM FOR THE PREVIOUS ROUND OF THE REBATE.