❓ Hon Robin Chapple questions the Minister for Planning on the progress and completion of the Bush Forever initiative, specifically regarding a promised audit and its relation to the Perth and Peel Green Growth Plan. The Minister's answer highlights expenditure and progress on land acquisition and reservation.
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(1) Is the Minister aware that Bush Forever was introduced and commenced in December 2000 and was meant to be completed in 2010?
(2) Is the Minister aware that in 2012 the Urban Bushland Council, with the support of the Department of Environment and Conservation held a Bush Forever Report Card Conference, which revealed the extent of the implementation and the incomplete actions?
(3) Is the Minister aware that at the Bush Forever Report Card Conference in 2012 the Minister for Planning committed to the preparation of an audit as a priority to be completed by early 2013?
(4) I refer to question without notice No. 439 asked on 12 May 2016 by Hon Lynn MacLaren regarding Bush Forever Sites, and ask:
(a) now that the "Perth and Peel Green Growth Plan for 3.5 million'' has been released, will the Minister please table the audit results; and
(b) if no to (a), why not?
(2) Is the Minister aware that in 2012 the Urban Bushland Council, with the support of the Department of Environment and Conservation held a Bush Forever Report Card Conference, which revealed the extent of the implementation and the incomplete actions?
(3) Is the Minister aware that at the Bush Forever Report Card Conference in 2012 the Minister for Planning committed to the preparation of an audit as a priority to be completed by early 2013?
(4) I refer to question without notice No. 439 asked on 12 May 2016 by Hon Lynn MacLaren regarding Bush Forever Sites, and ask:
(a) now that the "Perth and Peel Green Growth Plan for 3.5 million'' has been released, will the Minister please table the audit results; and
(b) if no to (a), why not?
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Answered
6 December 2017
Responded by
Minister for Environment representing the Minister for Planning
Response time
10 days
Since 2000, when the Bush Forever document was released: over $150 million has been spent by the Western Australian Planning Commission on the acquisition of 1680 hectares of Bush Forever land; and there has been: an increase of Bush Forever sites that are reserved for Parks and Recreation to just over 80 per cent (up 16 per cent since 2000); and a decrease of 5 per cent of Bush Forever areas in private ownership to 4.2 per cent.
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