Upcoming Training
Understanding and Applying Victoria’s Stormwater Planning Requirements
This course provides a practical understanding of Victoria’s stormwater planning requirements (within the Victoria Planning Provisions). The Victorian Government expanded state-wide stormwater planning controls in October 2018 to help protect our waterways, prevent flooding and divert more rainfall / stormwater to our parks and reserves. This training will familiarise you with state-wide stormwater planning controls and recent reforms and teach you to interpret planning application documentation, including engineering reports, to enable you to assess if planning requirements are being met.
This course is designed to help planners and engineers understand the links between water and cities, learn about the role and scope of the new state-wide controls and gain confidence in assessing planning applications in a way that best achieves our new stormwater objectives.
Audience:
- Public and private sector practitioners who want to deepen their stormwater knowledge.
- Local Government statutory / strategic planners and engineers, who play a role in implementing Victoria’s stormwater planning requirements.
- Any other senior and junior staff who is involved in implementing stormwater controls and/or asset management.
When: Thursday, 25th June | 9:30am to 4:30pm
Where: Online – Microsoft Teams
Winter 2026 IWM Webinar Series
Are you driven to implement strong Integrated Water Management (IWM) outcomes in your region (Victoria-specific)? Are you interested to hear about how to embed IWM within an organisation’s culture, processes and decision making? Are you interested to learn how to deliver innovation in projects with multiple stakeholders?
Join Clearwater, DEECA and our presenters to explore best practice in Integrated Water Management (IWM) and practical skills to build support and drive successful projects for your region through this interactive and locally relevant 2026 webinar series.
Audience:
Representatives of IWM Forums across the state (both Regional Vic and Metro Melbourne), Local Government, Catchment Management Authorities, Water utilities and other interested parties working in:
- Strategic and statutory planning
- Stormwater management
- Sustainability and liveability
- Environment / waterway management
- Water / wastewater infrastructure planning.
When: Weekly between 28th July and 26th August 2026 | 12:30pm to 1:30pm (please register for individual webinars)
Where: Online – Microsoft Teams
Maintenance of Street-scale Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Assets
This course is designed to improve participants’ knowledge and skills to effectively maintain water sensitive urban design (WSUD) assets, build organisational capacity, collaboration and commitment on the topic, and identify and drive further action to address priority issues. Street-scale WSUD assets include raingardens (bioretention), tree pits, swales, permeable pavements.
Audience:
- Anyone responsible for the hands-on maintenance, or influencing the maintenance of, street-scale WSUD assets, such as maintenance crews, supervisors and managers.
- Stormwater Engineers and urban designers who wish to enhance their understanding of the maintenance practicalities and to improve asset design.
When: Tuesday, 17th November | 9:00am to 4:00pm
Where: The Hunt Club 775 Ballarat Rd, Deer Park VIC 3023, Australia
