New Planning Scheme

Save Perth Hills

This is something Save Perth Hills has been working towards for 5 long years…

Council acceptance that the Shire’s important Local Planning Scheme 4, (LPS4), has been failing us all for way too long.

SPH gave a passionate deputation to Council outlining how LPS4 was contributing to potentially dangerous and destructive outcomes - eg - North $toneville urbanisation, as it lacked any relevancy for today’s realities such as increasing bushfire risks and environmental sensitivity. And Council agreed!

Hail LPS5… it will take time - but it will mean a safer and more sustainable approach to planning in the future.

Paige McNeil President Shire of Mundaring

This Echo Newspaper article has prompted Community members to ask me what Council’s decision means for planning in the Shire of Mundaring. Simply put, it’s positive news! Council agreed that our Shire’s current Local Planning Scheme is outdated and no longer fit for purpose. We’re seeking WA Planning Commission approval to create a new and contemporary Scheme that aligns to our Community’s expectations and our growth opportunities.

Creating a new Scheme is a large piece of work. It will offer Community input into improvements, zonings and land uses, to ensure our new Scheme meets our future needs, supported by infrastructure, bushfire risk management and environmental protection. Importantly, our new Scheme will define appropriate, sustainable development and housing choice in our Shire!

Houses, no trees

A letter in The West featured by our friends at Melville Tree Canopy Advocates…

Acutely relevant for our own circumstances as $atterley and WA’s Anglican Church Diocese push ahead, blindly and arrogantly, in their appeal to enable a dangerous and destructive quest to bulldoze 60,000 trees at Stoneville, and replace them with black bitumised networks of roads for 3000+ people.

Fortunately - our Local Govt, Mundaring Shire Council, AND the WA Planning Commission oppose this crazy plan - but our planning process allows $atterley seemingly endless appeals - which is what we face right now.

Stick with us folks - we can - and must - stop this madness…

Shift away from Urban townsites

The ‘increasing ‘shift away from Urban townsites’ in Mundaring Shire’s Hills, features in a double article in this week’s Echo Newspaper.

A great example of Council and Community unity, on the desire for sustainable and safer planning in our Hills.

It comes as the second Fire Weather Warning in a week is issued for the Hills with 80kms winds forecast Friday 22 March. A Total Fire Ban and Extreme Fire Danger are also in place.

This week’s intense Red Hill Fire rapidly escalated into a massive blaze putting thousands on high alert.

It’s still smouldering.

And so, again, we urge $atterley and the Anglican Church to heed the warnings, follow the common sense lead of other developers, and put people ahead of your profits.

Abandon your dangerous 1990s Urban notion of cramming thousands of people inside an Extreme Bushfire Zone.