PERTH AIRPORT Master Plan 2009

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7. Airport development plans
About this Chapter
This chapter describes the development plans in each of
Perth Airport’s precincts to meet forecast demand during
the next 20 years. An indicative ultimate configuration for
Perth Airport is also described, based on the estate being
developed to its full potential.
7.1 General Overview
As indicated in the previous chapter, the precinct structure
and intended land uses which form the basis of the Master
Plan 2004 are continued, those precincts being:
• Airfield Precinct;
• Terminal Precincts;
• Conservation Precincts 5 and 7; and
• Commercial Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.
These land use precincts are shown on the site plan at Figure 6.2.
There were a number of significant developments during the
past five years that result in changes to the projected nature
and timing of infrastructure development on the airport
estate compared to that contained in the Master Plan 2004.
This trend had the following impacts on demand for
Perth Airport services:
• Significant growth in the number of aircraft at and below
Code-C size seeking to operate from the Domestic and
General Aviation Precincts and parking overnight.
• Significant growth in air services in the period from 0500
hours to 0700 hours, resulting in this becoming the peak
period for airfield activity. During this period apron and
runway capacity is almost fully utilised, resulting in the
need to accelerate apron and taxiway construction.
• The growth in intrastate air services is demonstrated in
Figure 7.1 which shows that General Aviation/Charter
activity at Perth Airport, as measured by Landed Tonnes,
doubled in the period from 2005 to 2007.
There are several easements in existence over sections of
the airport estate, these are identified in Figure 9.1. All
development undertaken on the airport estate will be
cognisant of these easements and the relevant needs of
the operators of the services within the easements will be
incorporated into development proposals.
Those changes, which are summarised in Chapter 1 – Background,
are more fully described in this chapter.
In the past five years the extent of demand for Perth Airport’s
aviation and property services far exceeded forecasts due
to the unanticipated strength of global, national and the
Western Australian economies. This economic strength
resulted in the following trends and impacts on Perth Airport:
• High global demand for minerals and energy resulted in
rapid growth in the Western Australian resources sector
as resources companies sought to capitalise on very
favourable trading conditions.
• Rapid growth in intrastate air services, particularly closed
charter services responding to the fly-in/fly-out mode of
workforce deployment preferred by the resources sector.
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