❓ The Minister for Planning confirms the approval of a substantial expansion of the Karrinyup Activity Centre by the metropolitan north west development assessment panel, highlighting the benefits of the DAP system for efficient and balanced decision-making.
AnsweredQoN 616Legislative Assembly
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KARRINYUP
ACTIVITY CENTRE — REDEVELOPMENT
616. Mr A. KRSTICEVIC to the
Minister for Planning:
I would like to acknowledge the student leaders and staff
from Eddystone Primary School from the electorate of the hardworking member for
Joondalup.
I understand the development
assessment panel recently considered an application to redevelop Karrinyup
Activity Centre. Can the minister please advise the house on the outcome of the
application?
ACTIVITY CENTRE — REDEVELOPMENT
616. Mr A. KRSTICEVIC to the
Minister for Planning:
I would like to acknowledge the student leaders and staff
from Eddystone Primary School from the electorate of the hardworking member for
Joondalup.
I understand the development
assessment panel recently considered an application to redevelop Karrinyup
Activity Centre. Can the minister please advise the house on the outcome of the
application?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for the question. Given that this area is
in his electorate, I know that he has taken a strong interest in the proposal.
Development assessment panels have had a very important role to play in our planning
system since they were introduced four years ago, particularly in getting a
balance of professional expertise and local input from local government
councillors in decision-making for major development applications. I am pleased
to advise that last Friday the metropolitan north west development assessment
panel approved a development application for a substantial expansion of the
Karrinyup Activity Centre. The expansion will double the centre's floor
space from 64 000 square metres up to 113 000 square metres, including 93 000
square metres of shops, new food and beverage premises, non-retail spaces
including offices and a medical centre, an additional 1 716 car bays, as well
as, importantly, some residential apartments to be developed on the site. This
approach of having mixed-use developments in major activity centres is in
accordance with the state planning policy on activity centres that we put into
effect about four years ago. It is quite deliberately intended to encourage,
and in fact require, the development of higher density and mixed-use
developments with retail, office employment and housing developments supported
by high-frequency public transport. This particular approval was supported
unanimously by the members of the panel—the three professional members
and the two local government representatives. I think approvals such as this
demonstrate the value of development assessment panels. This particular
application involved a 1 000-page planning report and over 80 proposed
conditions. It took a number of hours to consider; in fact, I think the panel
had two meetings. There was a deferral initially and then a finalisation last
Friday. There was a large amount of effort involved in understanding all the
technical and legal aspects, and I credit the members of the panel for doing
so.
Another important aspect
of the development assessment panel system is that in the past with major
projects such as this, two approvals would have to have been given—one
by the local government, which in this case is the City of Stirling, and the
other by the Western Australian Planning Commission. With this system, only one
approval is needed, given that the panel replaces both the local government and
the Planning Commission as the decision-maker. In the past, it might have been
possible to get one refusal and one approval and I would expect that it would
have ended up at the State Administrative Tribunal for a finalisation, so it is
a more efficient system.
In the past six months, three major shopping centre applications,
with a total value of about $1.4 billion, have been lodged for determination by
DAPs. That is obviously very important for the economy and job creation
activity in Western Australia. These applications include the Karrinyup
Shopping Centre, which is an approximately $600 million project and, as I said,
was approved last Friday with some conditions. There is also the Westfield
Innaloo shopping centre project, which is a $450 million expansion that was
approved by the relevant panel in July this year. Also currently under
consideration is a $400 million expansion of the Garden City Shopping Centre in
Booragoon. I think that projects such as these demonstrate the value of having
a more professionally based system in decision-making for major projects.
in his electorate, I know that he has taken a strong interest in the proposal.
Development assessment panels have had a very important role to play in our planning
system since they were introduced four years ago, particularly in getting a
balance of professional expertise and local input from local government
councillors in decision-making for major development applications. I am pleased
to advise that last Friday the metropolitan north west development assessment
panel approved a development application for a substantial expansion of the
Karrinyup Activity Centre. The expansion will double the centre's floor
space from 64 000 square metres up to 113 000 square metres, including 93 000
square metres of shops, new food and beverage premises, non-retail spaces
including offices and a medical centre, an additional 1 716 car bays, as well
as, importantly, some residential apartments to be developed on the site. This
approach of having mixed-use developments in major activity centres is in
accordance with the state planning policy on activity centres that we put into
effect about four years ago. It is quite deliberately intended to encourage,
and in fact require, the development of higher density and mixed-use
developments with retail, office employment and housing developments supported
by high-frequency public transport. This particular approval was supported
unanimously by the members of the panel—the three professional members
and the two local government representatives. I think approvals such as this
demonstrate the value of development assessment panels. This particular
application involved a 1 000-page planning report and over 80 proposed
conditions. It took a number of hours to consider; in fact, I think the panel
had two meetings. There was a deferral initially and then a finalisation last
Friday. There was a large amount of effort involved in understanding all the
technical and legal aspects, and I credit the members of the panel for doing
so.
Another important aspect
of the development assessment panel system is that in the past with major
projects such as this, two approvals would have to have been given—one
by the local government, which in this case is the City of Stirling, and the
other by the Western Australian Planning Commission. With this system, only one
approval is needed, given that the panel replaces both the local government and
the Planning Commission as the decision-maker. In the past, it might have been
possible to get one refusal and one approval and I would expect that it would
have ended up at the State Administrative Tribunal for a finalisation, so it is
a more efficient system.
In the past six months, three major shopping centre applications,
with a total value of about $1.4 billion, have been lodged for determination by
DAPs. That is obviously very important for the economy and job creation
activity in Western Australia. These applications include the Karrinyup
Shopping Centre, which is an approximately $600 million project and, as I said,
was approved last Friday with some conditions. There is also the Westfield
Innaloo shopping centre project, which is a $450 million expansion that was
approved by the relevant panel in July this year. Also currently under
consideration is a $400 million expansion of the Garden City Shopping Centre in
Booragoon. I think that projects such as these demonstrate the value of having
a more professionally based system in decision-making for major projects.
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