In short
Short answer: the City Link Project Overlay (CLPO) is a Victorian planning overlay set out in clause 45.07 of the Victoria Planning Provisions and applied to land through each council's planning scheme. In the clause's own words, its first purpose is: “To ensure the efficient construction, operation and maintenance of the Melbourne City Link Project, the Exhibition Street Extension Project and CityLink Tulla Widening Project”. (Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria), verified 27 Sep 2026)
An overlay sits on top of the land's zone and adds controls for one issue, whatever the zone is; a lot can carry several.
What it typically means for a buyer (Delora editorial, not legal advice): Land affected by the CityLink project.
Check whether the City Link Project Overlay applies to an address with Address Check. For a decision on a specific property, the official record is a Planning Property Report from VicPlan, and the council's schedule sets the local detail.
What the clause says
Clause 45.07 of the Victoria Planning Provisions (City Link Project Overlay) states its purposes as: to ensure the efficient construction, operation and maintenance of the Melbourne City Link Project, the Exhibition Street Extension Project and CityLink Tulla Widening Project; and to ensure that the display of a Business identification sign on land no longer required for the Melbourne City Link Project or the Exhibition Street Extension Project is limited to a level that does not compete with the display of signs shown on the plan titled "Melbourne City Link Project - Advertising Sign Locations November 2003". (Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria), verified 27 Sep 2026)
Ask your conveyancer: Which schedule applies to this land, and what does it require?
Shown on planning scheme maps as CLPO.
How much of Victoria this covers
From the 2899 sample suburbs Address Check's export has processed so far — a lower bound, not a statewide total, until the export runs statewide.
669 land parcels and 3,562 addresses in the sample so far.
Councils with the most coverage
- Yarra (511 lots)
- Melbourne (101 lots)
- Port Phillip (24 lots)
- Merri-bek (20 lots)
- Moonee Valley (9 lots)
- Port Of Melbourne (5 lots)
Suburbs with the highest share
- Cremorne — 35% of addresses checked (863)
- Southbank — 6% of addresses checked (2100)
- Richmond — 1% of addresses checked (233)
- Burnley — 1% of addresses checked (5)
- Port Melbourne — 1% of addresses checked (82)
- West Melbourne — 1% of addresses checked (52)