❓ Ms. Saffioti questions the Minister for Planning about the Roe Highway Stage 8 extension and the use of a planning control area. The Minister defends the project and its planning process, but initially avoids directly answering the number of affected landowners.
AnsweredQoN 938Legislative Assembly
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ROE
HIGHWAY STAGE 8 EXTENSION — METROPOLITAN REGION SCHEME AMENDMENT
938. Ms R. SAFFIOTI to the
Minister for Planning:
I refer to the fact that the government is building the Roe 8
project outside the current metropolitan region scheme reservation and the
minister's additional statement in this place yesterday that the
government is now proposing a planning control area on the relevant land
outside the MRS.
(1) Has the minister signed off on the planning control area?
(2) How many landowners are affected by this decision?
(3) Have notices of intention been served on landowners in
the area; and, if so, how many?
HIGHWAY STAGE 8 EXTENSION — METROPOLITAN REGION SCHEME AMENDMENT
938. Ms R. SAFFIOTI to the
Minister for Planning:
I refer to the fact that the government is building the Roe 8
project outside the current metropolitan region scheme reservation and the
minister's additional statement in this place yesterday that the
government is now proposing a planning control area on the relevant land
outside the MRS.
(1) Has the minister signed off on the planning control area?
(2) How many landowners are affected by this decision?
(3) Have notices of intention been served on landowners in
the area; and, if so, how many?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(3)
As I indicated yesterday and as just referred to in the question, the use of a
planning control area is intended to be put into effect for Roe Highway stage 8—the
extension of Roe Highway—which has been planned in the transport
planning for Perth and the metropolitan region scheme for over 50 years. In
fact, as I said yesterday, there has been a reservation in the metropolitan
region scheme for Roe Highway stage 8 since 1963. Fortunately, the previous
Labor government, in its planning vandalism in removing the Fremantle eastern
bypass, did not remove this reservation from the region scheme. Just as an
aside, all the people along Leach Highway, Palmyra and so on who are now facing
some uncertainty about the future of their homes can thank the Labor Party in
government for deleting the Fremantle eastern bypass. Had that not happened,
they would not be facing the uncertainty that they are now. It is as simple as
that. I suspect the Labor Party has some question about the normality of the
use of planning control areas in relation to major road projects. It is
actually quite a routine process.
Ms R. Saffioti :
How many landowners are affected? I am asking for facts.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : I
will come back to that.
Quite a number of planning control areas are in place at the
moment—Lloyd Street southern extension in the Midland area; Hutton
Street, Osborne Park; Charles Street, North Perth; Scarborough Beach Road;
Anketell Road, City of Kwinana; Rowley Road, Cities of Kwinana and Cockburn;
Curtin Avenue extension in the City of Fremantle area; Canning Highway between
Riseley Street and Hindley Street; and also Sabrina Road, Baldivis. It is not
an unusual procedure at all. Have I approved a planning control area? That is
currently in hand and I expect it to be gazetted within the next week or so
because it is, as I said, quite a normal process in these major road projects.
Only some relatively small modifications need to be made to the reservation
that, as I said, already exists, and has done since 1963, in the metropolitan
region scheme. The essential reason for some variations being made is to
accommodate the Environmental Protection Authority approval that was given last
year in which a land swap is occurring to reduce any environmental impact so
that the project is undertaken in a responsible manner. One of the major
changes, in fact, is that about 13 hectares of land that is currently in the
MRS amendment will ultimately be returned to the conservation estate; it will
ultimately be rezoned to parks and recreation. All those people who protest
about this project and complain about it and so on need to look at what is
actually happening.
Ms R. Saffioti :
How many landowners are affected?
Mr J.H.D. DAY : In
relation to landowners, as I understand it, almost all the land affected by the
planning control area is owned by the state government in one form or another—Western
Power in one case; the Western Australian Planning Commission in a number of
cases. One exception to that is some land owned by Murdoch University, which is
also affected.
As I indicated yesterday and as just referred to in the question, the use of a
planning control area is intended to be put into effect for Roe Highway stage 8—the
extension of Roe Highway—which has been planned in the transport
planning for Perth and the metropolitan region scheme for over 50 years. In
fact, as I said yesterday, there has been a reservation in the metropolitan
region scheme for Roe Highway stage 8 since 1963. Fortunately, the previous
Labor government, in its planning vandalism in removing the Fremantle eastern
bypass, did not remove this reservation from the region scheme. Just as an
aside, all the people along Leach Highway, Palmyra and so on who are now facing
some uncertainty about the future of their homes can thank the Labor Party in
government for deleting the Fremantle eastern bypass. Had that not happened,
they would not be facing the uncertainty that they are now. It is as simple as
that. I suspect the Labor Party has some question about the normality of the
use of planning control areas in relation to major road projects. It is
actually quite a routine process.
Ms R. Saffioti :
How many landowners are affected? I am asking for facts.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : I
will come back to that.
Quite a number of planning control areas are in place at the
moment—Lloyd Street southern extension in the Midland area; Hutton
Street, Osborne Park; Charles Street, North Perth; Scarborough Beach Road;
Anketell Road, City of Kwinana; Rowley Road, Cities of Kwinana and Cockburn;
Curtin Avenue extension in the City of Fremantle area; Canning Highway between
Riseley Street and Hindley Street; and also Sabrina Road, Baldivis. It is not
an unusual procedure at all. Have I approved a planning control area? That is
currently in hand and I expect it to be gazetted within the next week or so
because it is, as I said, quite a normal process in these major road projects.
Only some relatively small modifications need to be made to the reservation
that, as I said, already exists, and has done since 1963, in the metropolitan
region scheme. The essential reason for some variations being made is to
accommodate the Environmental Protection Authority approval that was given last
year in which a land swap is occurring to reduce any environmental impact so
that the project is undertaken in a responsible manner. One of the major
changes, in fact, is that about 13 hectares of land that is currently in the
MRS amendment will ultimately be returned to the conservation estate; it will
ultimately be rezoned to parks and recreation. All those people who protest
about this project and complain about it and so on need to look at what is
actually happening.
Ms R. Saffioti :
How many landowners are affected?
Mr J.H.D. DAY : In
relation to landowners, as I understand it, almost all the land affected by the
planning control area is owned by the state government in one form or another—Western
Power in one case; the Western Australian Planning Commission in a number of
cases. One exception to that is some land owned by Murdoch University, which is
also affected.
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