❓ Question regarding the Perth Hills Planning and Tourism Strategy and how it supports small businesses in Kalamunda and the Perth Hills. The Minister's answer highlights initiatives like the new bus service, addressing challenges in Pickering Brook, and the formation of a working group to support sustainable town sites and tourism opportunities.
AnsweredQoN 880Legislative Assembly
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PERTH HILLS PLANNING AND TOURISM STRATEGY
880. Mr M. HUGHES to the Minister for Planning:
Third time lucky, Mr Speaker!
I refer to the McGowan Labor government's focus on
delivering good planning outcomes across the Perth hills to help drive tourism
throughout the region. Can the minister update the house on the Perth hills
planning and tourism strategy that was established earlier this year, and can
the minister advise the house how this strategy will support actual small
businesses in Kalamunda and the Perth hills?
880. Mr M. HUGHES to the Minister for Planning:
Third time lucky, Mr Speaker!
I refer to the McGowan Labor government's focus on
delivering good planning outcomes across the Perth hills to help drive tourism
throughout the region. Can the minister update the house on the Perth hills
planning and tourism strategy that was established earlier this year, and can
the minister advise the house how this strategy will support actual small
businesses in Kalamunda and the Perth hills?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for the question and his advocacy for
people and landowners in the hills.
This is a good time for the hills and Swan Valley
communities. The new bus service started on Saturday, and that is all about
growing tourism in key parts of the metropolitan area. In relation to the
hills, of course, we have some challenges around the town site of Pickering
Brook, and there are issues confronting many of the landowners. We have of
course met a number of the landowners a number of times about the future of
Pickering Brook town site and the fact that people want to be able to stay in
that community and downsize in that community from their orchards, and want to
make sure that the town site has a future. On top of that, of course, we have
seen an enormous increase in tourism ventures throughout the hills—whether
it be Roleystone, Pickering Brook, Carmel or Bickley. There are many new
tourism ventures, and a lot are based on the orchards and agricultural region.
I think this working group, headed by the member for Kalamunda, with the
involvement of the local councils of Armadale and Kalamunda and all the key
agencies, including the Department of Agriculture and Food, will be fundamental
to not only making sure we have sustainable town sites in the hills, but also
grabbing those tourism opportunities that are growing on a weekly basis and are
really focused on what is produced on the land, how value can be added, and how
enormous and exciting day destinations can be created for all those overseas
and interstate visitors we want to attract. It is a great announcement. I know
the community is very much looking forward to working with the member for
Kalamunda and the working group to ensure that we plan for the hills into the
future.
people and landowners in the hills.
This is a good time for the hills and Swan Valley
communities. The new bus service started on Saturday, and that is all about
growing tourism in key parts of the metropolitan area. In relation to the
hills, of course, we have some challenges around the town site of Pickering
Brook, and there are issues confronting many of the landowners. We have of
course met a number of the landowners a number of times about the future of
Pickering Brook town site and the fact that people want to be able to stay in
that community and downsize in that community from their orchards, and want to
make sure that the town site has a future. On top of that, of course, we have
seen an enormous increase in tourism ventures throughout the hills—whether
it be Roleystone, Pickering Brook, Carmel or Bickley. There are many new
tourism ventures, and a lot are based on the orchards and agricultural region.
I think this working group, headed by the member for Kalamunda, with the
involvement of the local councils of Armadale and Kalamunda and all the key
agencies, including the Department of Agriculture and Food, will be fundamental
to not only making sure we have sustainable town sites in the hills, but also
grabbing those tourism opportunities that are growing on a weekly basis and are
really focused on what is produced on the land, how value can be added, and how
enormous and exciting day destinations can be created for all those overseas
and interstate visitors we want to attract. It is a great announcement. I know
the community is very much looking forward to working with the member for
Kalamunda and the working group to ensure that we plan for the hills into the
future.
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