Shire of Roebourne Local Planning Strategy

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Shire of Roebourne Local Planning StrategyTechnical Report A1: Economic Development StrategyCompetitiveness IndexElementPilbara Situationservicing of new projects outside of the region, either off-shore or inthe Canning Basin. Land cost Land cost generally is very high for all classes of accommodation. Themedian cost of buying a house in December 2012 was $747,000 inKarratha; $844,000 in Port Hedland; $840,000 in Newman and$890,000 in Onslow. It was $495,000 in Perth.Access to hospitalservices and to alliedhealth servicesWith the establishment of the Nickol Bay Hospital in Karratha and theSouth Hedland Health Campus, there are good quality district andregional hospitals, but limited specialist services. There is evidencethat people need to leave the region for long periods for specialisttreatment. There is limited aged care available.Police services: Number of people employed in policeservices per capitaAccess to tertiary education services: (% of working agepopulation attending)Access to hospital services: Number of people employedin hospitals in a region per capitaAccess to GP services: Number of per capitaAccess to technical or further education (% of working agepopulation attending)Access to allied health services: % of workforce employedin health services (excl hospitals)Regional Relative Strengths: Essential Services-1 -0.75 -0.5 -0.25 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1Relative Strength33
Shire of Roebourne Local Planning StrategyTechnical Report A1: Economic Development StrategyPolice services: Number of people employed inpolice services per capitaAccess to hospital services: Number of peopleemployed in hospitals in a region per capitaAccess to technical or further education (% ofworking age population attending)Access to tertiary education services: (% of workingage population attending)Access to allied health services: % of workforceemployed in health services (excl hospitals)Access to GP services: Number of per capitaLGA Relative Strengths: Essential ServicesEast PilbaraAshburtonPort HedlandRoebourne Shire-1 -0.75 -0.5 -0.25 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1Relative StrengthOverall:The region has good transport connections and infrastructure. However it ranks poorly in allaspects of access to health services and education services. These are critical areas if thepopulation is to be to retained and expanded. Extended GP, specialist and aged servicesare required to service population growth and to meet Pilbara Cities objectives. There is acritical need for vastly expanded access to tertiary education and also technical and furthereducation.The Shire of Roebourne matches the regional pattern across all measures, with low rankingsfor all essential services except police services. On a per capita basis, Port Hedland ranksmuch higher than The Shire of Roebourne for access to health services.4.3 Macroeconomic conditionsCompetitiveness IndexElementPilbara Situation Population churn The population turnover is high. This makes it difficult to develop alarge and consistent group of regional ‘champions’.Stability of the localeconomy (local inflation)Building approvals – valueof new investmentLocal inflation is high – local costs generally are high comparedwith elsewhere in the country.The rate of building approvals is generally high, showing goodevidence of business willingness to invest in the local community. Total income per person The average income is much higher than the national average,with a very high proportion of individual workers earning very highincomes.34
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