❓ A parliamentary question regarding compensation for residents and businesses affected by the Perth-Mandurah railway and Roe Highway construction, focusing on transparency and fairness in compensation practices. The Minister's response indicates incomplete information and a willingness to discuss specific cases.
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PERTH-MANDURAH RAILWAY AND ROE HIGHWAY - COMPENSATION
I draw the attention of the house to the children from Watheroo Primary School who are in the public gallery today. I note that three residents in Theakston Green, Leeming, plus some Cooloongup businesses have received compensation because of disruption associated with the building of the Perth-Mandurah railway. (1) Is the minister aware that other residents and businesses have been similarly affected by the roadworks associated with the Perth-Mandurah railway and those associated with Roe Highway stage 7? (2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
I draw the attention of the house to the children from Watheroo Primary School who are in the public gallery today. I note that three residents in Theakston Green, Leeming, plus some Cooloongup businesses have received compensation because of disruption associated with the building of the Perth-Mandurah railway. (1) Is the minister aware that other residents and businesses have been similarly affected by the roadworks associated with the Perth-Mandurah railway and those associated with Roe Highway stage 7? (2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
I note that three residents in Theakston Green, Leeming, plus some Cooloongup businesses have received compensation because of disruption associated with the building of the Perth-Mandurah railway. (1) Is the minister aware that other residents and businesses have been similarly affected by the roadworks associated with the Perth-Mandurah railway and those associated with Roe Highway stage 7? (2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(1) Is the minister aware that other residents and businesses have been similarly affected by the roadworks associated with the Perth-Mandurah railway and those associated with Roe Highway stage 7? (2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
I note that three residents in Theakston Green, Leeming, plus some Cooloongup businesses have received compensation because of disruption associated with the building of the Perth-Mandurah railway. (1) Is the minister aware that other residents and businesses have been similarly affected by the roadworks associated with the Perth-Mandurah railway and those associated with Roe Highway stage 7? (2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(1) Is the minister aware that other residents and businesses have been similarly affected by the roadworks associated with the Perth-Mandurah railway and those associated with Roe Highway stage 7? (2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(2) Have any other residents or businesses received ex gratia compensation or act-of-grace payments because of roadworks, the Perth-Mandurah railway or Roe Highway stage 7? (3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(3) Under what are these payments made and who ultimately decides whether a claim for compensation will be met? (4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(4) Is it standard practice to require recipients to sign a confidentiality agreement to hush up the payments? (5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
(5) Where were the payments budgeted? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Notice of this question was given at one o’clock and we have not had an opportunity to gather all the information. Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Mr P.D. Omodei : It’s been around for a couple of months. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We have not had an opportunity to get the information on Roe Highway, which is a new issue thrown in here. The question submitted to me in writing differs - as one would expect - from the question actually asked. Notwithstanding that, I will make some observations. It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
It is important to understand that the three residents from Theakston Green in Leeming who each received a payment did not receive it because of disruption. As I have explained in the past, the buffer between them and their homes was reduced from around 22.5 metres to 1.5 metres. In view of that very considerable encroachment on them, to enable us to achieve the proper sound and auditory protection of those people, we decided that we needed to provide them with the resources to establish sound buffers such as double glazing. That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
That is very different from the situation of the group of residents who the member has been representing and near whose properties works are not being done for the New MetroRail project. They have purchased properties near the intersection of South Street and Kwinana Freeway. To widen South Street, which plan has been on the books for a long time, the distance between the road and people’s homes within the existing road reserve changed from around 12 metres to around 9 metres. Studies we have done indicate that the noise impact of this is about one decibel and is within existing acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that, I acknowledge that people who live beside main highways and freeways have a problem, as they do along Leach Highway, Albany Highway and a raft of other highways. I would like to talk constructively to the member about that quadrant. The long-term solution may not be to upzone the land but to provide the capacity for those people to have their properties redeveloped so that they can gain substantial benefit from that. Their properties are so close to the railway station that it makes sense to consider that as a long-term solution.
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