Shire of Roebourne Local Planning Strategy
Shire of Roebourne Local Planning Strategy
Shire of Roebourne Local Planning Strategy
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<strong>Shire</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Roebourne</strong> <strong>Local</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong>Technical Report A1: Economic Development <strong>Strategy</strong>Police services: Number <strong>of</strong> people employed inpolice services per capitaAccess to hospital services: Number <strong>of</strong> peopleemployed in hospitals in a region per capitaAccess to technical or further education (% <strong>of</strong>working age population attending)Access to tertiary education services: (% <strong>of</strong> workingage population attending)Access to allied health services: % <strong>of</strong> workforceemployed in health services (excl hospitals)Access to GP services: Number <strong>of</strong> per capitaLGA Relative Strengths: Essential ServicesEast PilbaraAshburtonPort Hedland<strong>Roebourne</strong> <strong>Shire</strong>-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 <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>Shire</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Roebourne</strong> 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 <strong>Shire</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Roebourne</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> regional ‘champions’.Stability <strong>of</strong> the localeconomy (local inflation)Building approvals – value<strong>of</strong> new investment<strong>Local</strong> inflation is high – local costs generally are high comparedwith elsewhere in the country.The rate <strong>of</strong> building approvals is generally high, showing goodevidence <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> individual workers earning very highincomes.34
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