1. For the reasons given above, the decision of the responsible authority is affirmed. No permit is granted.
2. I find that, although landscape, bushfire and land contamination issues are not significant, orderly rural land use planning is compromised by the proposal for a dwelling with no links to agriculture as sought by both the zone and policy framework of the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme.
3. A dwelling on the site would lead to further diminution of the retention and protection of productive agriculture in an area that is zoned for this purpose. It would also further erode the physical rural farming context of an area that is distant from Drysdale and on the border between areas that have historically been developed for rural residential purposes and where larger landholdings are more characterised as rural farming land.

[1] The submissions of the parties, any supporting exhibits given at the hearing, and the statements of grounds filed; have all been considered in the determination of the proceeding. In accordance with the practice of the Tribunal, not all of this material will be cited or referred to in these reasons.