KARRINYUP / GWELUP Local Area Plan - City of Stirling

Planning Context
The planning frameworks that are in place over the Perth Metropolitan Area and the City
of Stirling must be accounted for as part of Local Area Planning. This helps to ensure that
the Plan is consistent with broader policy and strategic objectives and enables us to
achieve these.
State Sustainability Strategy
Hope for the Future: The Western Australian State Sustainability
Strategy has been developed to facilitate a whole‐of‐government
approach to promote sustainability in government, private sector
and community activities. Local Area Planning similarly aims to
address community, environmental and economic needs in an
integrated manner. Local Area Planning can contribute to the
realisation of the State Sustainability Strategy objectives through
the development of sustainability and regeneration initiatives;
facilitating the creation of a high‐quality built environment and
public places which contribute to the development of a strong
sense of place; building social capital though public participation in
plan‐making; and by focusing on partnership‐building between
State and local governments and other institutions.
State Planning Strategy
The State Planning Strategy (1997) is prepared and administered
by the Western Australian Planning Commission and the
Department for Planning and Infrastructure to guide planning,
development, resource protection and conservation across the
State. The Strategy sets out criteria for plans such as Local Area
Plans in order to deliver on Strategy objectives. These include
the encouragement of mixed‐use development, a range of
housing densities and public transport use; developing central
community focal points; ensuring that community engagement
occurs in the planning process; and that environmental issues
are considered in plan preparation.
The three interrelated pillars
of sustainability
Metropolitan Region
Scheme
The Metropolitan Region
Scheme (1963) is the
overarching statutory planning
scheme for the Perth
metropolitan region and
establishes provisions for
development control across
the region. Local government
schemes are to be consistent
with zonings of the MRS.
Network City
Network City: Community Planning Strategy for Perth and Peel was released in
2004 to guide planning and development over the region for the next 30 years.
The Strategy was developed in response to anticipated population growth,
changing community expectations of the planning system, and the need for a
more sustainable Perth region. Network City is based on reinforcement or
development of ‘activity corridors’ (major roads with good public transport
where activity clusters) and ‘activity centres’ (key commercial and employment
centres), with land use, housing and transport systems developed to support
this network. The Strategy was also developed through participatory decisionmaking
and advocates this approach as part of future plan development.
Network City objectives that are relevant to Local Area Planning include:
• Accommodate urban growth primarily within a network city pattern;
• Align transport systems and land use to optimise accessibility and amenity;
• Protect and enhance the natural environment, open spaces and heritage;
and
• Plan with the communities.
Bush Forever
Bush Forever is a State government
strategy for the conservation of
bushland and natural environments
across Perth. The Strategy aims to
protect ten percent of each of the 26
different types of vegetation complexes
originally found on the Swan Coastal
Plain, and to conserve threatened
ecological communities. The Strategy
identifies valued public or privately
owned sites across the region that
should be reserved, maintained or
rehabilitated for conservation and/or
recreation purposes.
Network City ‐ Conceptual Map
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KARRINYUP-GWELUP LOCAL AREA PLAN
February 2010