❓ The Minister for Planning updates the house on the achievement of reaching 2,000 planning scheme decisions since coming into government, highlighting key examples and ongoing efforts to address growth pressures and demographic changes in WA.
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PLANNING
SCHEME DECISIONS
598. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Planning:
I would like to also welcome Future Perth president, Mr Sean
Morrison, and his committee, who are in the gallery this afternoon.
I understand that a major milestone was achieved with the
planning portfolio recently. Can the minister please update the house on this
achievement?
SCHEME DECISIONS
598. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Planning:
I would like to also welcome Future Perth president, Mr Sean
Morrison, and his committee, who are in the gallery this afternoon.
I understand that a major milestone was achieved with the
planning portfolio recently. Can the minister please update the house on this
achievement?
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I thank the member for the question. I am pleased to learn
that members of Future Perth are here because they have certainly been very
supportive of many of the planning decisions and changes over the past six
years, and it is a good, happy coincidence that they are in the gallery today.
We have made further substantial progress in the planning portfolio in the past
few weeks. As I mentioned last week, I was very pleased to put out the
discussion paper titled, ''Planning makes it happen: phase two''
of the planning reform. This paper contains a range of proposals and actions
that will be put into effect to further streamline and ensure that our planning
system is responsive to the growth pressures and demographic changes in Western
Australia. In the last three or four weeks I am pleased to say that we have
reached the point of 2 000 planning scheme decisions in the almost six years
since we came into government, and obviously since I have been the Minister for
Planning, which is a very substantial number reflecting a large amount of work
in the Department of Planning, the WA � Planning Commission and my office. The 2 000
planning scheme decisions comprise 159 regional scheme decisions and 1 841
local planning scheme decisions, and they reflect the very strong desire we
have to ensure that we make decisions that respond to the state's
growth pressures and other economic development changes and developments within
Western Australia.
Some of those planning scheme decisions have been very well
publicised. In recent times, for example, the Town of Cottesloe Planning Scheme
was finalised, which was under consideration for many years. The planning
scheme amendment for the Subiaco Pavilion Markets site in Subiaco will now
allow for a substantial and very desirable redevelopment on that site. However,
there are a few other examples that are significant but not quite so well publicised.
For example, in the City of Fremantle, planning scheme amendment 49 has
modified development standards for some of the key sites within the city centre
of Fremantle to increase retail and commercial activity and residential
population. That amendment will allow for an increase in the number of workers
and residents at a density that will support a sustainable future for the city.
Planning scheme amendment 111 in the City of Gosnells has increased the density
coding of approximately 36 000 residential lots within the City of Gosnells and
created the potential for an additional 11 000 dwellings in the locality.
Within the City of Cockburn, metropolitan region scheme amendment 1221/41 has
rezoned approximately 152 hectares of land from the rural water zone to the
urban zone in the Banjup urban precinct in Cockburn, which is also in the
electorate of the member for Jandakot—I acknowledge that he is not here
today. The Banjup urban precinct is strategically located and suited to urban
development and is in close proximity to the Cockburn Central activity centre,
which will therefore provide many employment opportunities and retail and
service facilities. In the south Bullsbrook precinct within the City of Swan,
429 hectares of land has been rezoned from rural to industrial following the
identification of the area as a priority industrial site in the economic and
employment land strategy. There are many others that I could mention but that
is an example of the sorts of decisions that have been made over the past six
years, and that we intend to keep making to ensure that we continue to respond
to the growth pressures in Western Australia.
that members of Future Perth are here because they have certainly been very
supportive of many of the planning decisions and changes over the past six
years, and it is a good, happy coincidence that they are in the gallery today.
We have made further substantial progress in the planning portfolio in the past
few weeks. As I mentioned last week, I was very pleased to put out the
discussion paper titled, ''Planning makes it happen: phase two''
of the planning reform. This paper contains a range of proposals and actions
that will be put into effect to further streamline and ensure that our planning
system is responsive to the growth pressures and demographic changes in Western
Australia. In the last three or four weeks I am pleased to say that we have
reached the point of 2 000 planning scheme decisions in the almost six years
since we came into government, and obviously since I have been the Minister for
Planning, which is a very substantial number reflecting a large amount of work
in the Department of Planning, the WA � Planning Commission and my office. The 2 000
planning scheme decisions comprise 159 regional scheme decisions and 1 841
local planning scheme decisions, and they reflect the very strong desire we
have to ensure that we make decisions that respond to the state's
growth pressures and other economic development changes and developments within
Western Australia.
Some of those planning scheme decisions have been very well
publicised. In recent times, for example, the Town of Cottesloe Planning Scheme
was finalised, which was under consideration for many years. The planning
scheme amendment for the Subiaco Pavilion Markets site in Subiaco will now
allow for a substantial and very desirable redevelopment on that site. However,
there are a few other examples that are significant but not quite so well publicised.
For example, in the City of Fremantle, planning scheme amendment 49 has
modified development standards for some of the key sites within the city centre
of Fremantle to increase retail and commercial activity and residential
population. That amendment will allow for an increase in the number of workers
and residents at a density that will support a sustainable future for the city.
Planning scheme amendment 111 in the City of Gosnells has increased the density
coding of approximately 36 000 residential lots within the City of Gosnells and
created the potential for an additional 11 000 dwellings in the locality.
Within the City of Cockburn, metropolitan region scheme amendment 1221/41 has
rezoned approximately 152 hectares of land from the rural water zone to the
urban zone in the Banjup urban precinct in Cockburn, which is also in the
electorate of the member for Jandakot—I acknowledge that he is not here
today. The Banjup urban precinct is strategically located and suited to urban
development and is in close proximity to the Cockburn Central activity centre,
which will therefore provide many employment opportunities and retail and
service facilities. In the south Bullsbrook precinct within the City of Swan,
429 hectares of land has been rezoned from rural to industrial following the
identification of the area as a priority industrial site in the economic and
employment land strategy. There are many others that I could mention but that
is an example of the sorts of decisions that have been made over the past six
years, and that we intend to keep making to ensure that we continue to respond
to the growth pressures in Western Australia.
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