Empowering with Knowledge

Initiatives

Bassendean Enquiry by Design

The State Government determined that Bassendean would receive $5.5 million to upgrade the Bassendean Station

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Review of Alkaline Lime Sand Routes

Communities involved were able to develop a better understanding of the wide-ranging issues associated with the future transport of lime sand along Routes 1 and 2

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North East Corridor Extension Strategy

State planning strategies had determined that a general industrial area would be established in the North-East Corridor to give a better balance between jobs and population.

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East West Freight Route

Perth, like many capital cities, has been facing an increasing freight task, together with increasing population growth, often with a conflict of interest between the two.

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Corporate Concurrent Citizens’ Juries

The Citizens’ Juries were a means of addressing two issues – enabling DPI staff to experience a community engagement technique, the Citizens’ Jury, being trialled with the community; and encouraging staff to deliberate on innovative ways to better integrate the two critical functions of the Department – transport and land use planning.

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Albany Administration Centre Site

The Albany City Council requested a rezoning of land to relocate the Albany administration building approximately 1.4 km from the centre of Albany’s Central Business District.

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Leighton Rail Marshalling Yards

The Leighton Rail Marshalling Yards were located between the beach and the railway line, north of the Fremantle Port. The site was long and narrow, approximately 17 hectares in area. The natural landform had been completely modified, having been leveled to accommodate buildings and railway infrastructure. There was very little remaining vegetation.

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Taxi Industry Forum

The National Competition Council (NCC) indicated that the taxi system was uncompetitive and as a result wanted to deregulate the taxi industry.

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Gascoyne Muster

In Western Australia, there are about 548 pastoral leases covering some 870,000 square kilometres of rangelands – more than one third of the State’s landmass.

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Freight Network Review

As with most capital cities, the transport of freight has become a crucial issue, not just to the economics of the state, but to its quality of life.

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Road Train Summit

Considerable community concern had been expressed over the increasing incursion of long vehicles and road trains into the metropolitan area on routes that were perceived to be neither safe nor appropriate from an environmental and public amenity viewpoint.

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Scarborough Deliberative Survey

Coastal development in and around Scarborough Beach has been a contentious issue in Perth for many years, both before and since the high-rise Observation City development.

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Reid Highway Extension

The issue of the proposed traffic flow on and off the new Reid Highway Extension had been a highly contentious issue in the Karrinyup / Carine community over the past decade, particularly at the Everingham St. intersection.

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Dialogue with the Pilbara: Newman Tomorrow

Rich in resources, Newman’s mining economy is booming. Such growth offers both challenges and opportunities. It was determined to engage the Newman community to develop a sustainability strategy that would optimize the current boom and encourage long-term growth beyond the iron ore industry.

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Scarborough Senior High School Plan

The prior Government had determined that the Senior High School was no longer required due to declining numbers of school aged children in the area. The community opposed the closure of the school, however it was closed, with minimal consultation.