Ms. Saffioti questions the Minister for Planning's delay in initiating the Metropolitan Region Scheme amendment for the Roe Highway Stage 8 extension following the EPA's advice in 2013. The Minister deflects, stating it's primarily the Minister for Transport's responsibility.

AnsweredQoN 939Legislative Assembly
Asked
11 November 2015
Portfolio
Planning

QuestionView source ↗

ROE HIGHWAY STAGE 8 EXTENSION —
METROPOLITAN REGION SCHEME AMENDMENT
939. Ms R. SAFFIOTI to the
Minister for Planning:
I have a supplementary question. Why did the Minister for
Planning not take the Environmental Protection Authority advice in 2013 and commence
the metropolitan region scheme amendment back then?

AnswerView source ↗

This is a project that is primarily
the responsibility of the Minister for Transport. It is in the transport
portfolio and Main Roads Western Australia has responsibility for implementing
the project. The government in relatively recent times has made a decision to
confirm the intention to go ahead with the project, and the planning system is
accommodating, and indeed facilitating in part, the decision within government
and being put into effect through the transport portfolio to undertake the
extension of Roe Highway stage 8, which has actually been intended since the
1960s.

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