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Key Performance Indicators<br />

DPI Level Government Desired Outcome: Accessibility to serviced land and infrastructure<br />

Effectiveness Indicator: Number <strong>of</strong> lots given preliminary and final approval<br />

The <strong>Department</strong> seeks to provide sufficient land for housing to accommodate the anticipated future population growth <strong>of</strong> the State. To this end, the <strong>Department</strong><br />

plays an important role by ensuring sufficient zoned urban land and facilitating orderly land release through structure planning and issuing subdivision approvals<br />

throughout the State. The <strong>Department</strong> is partnered with the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) in this process.<br />

The Metropolitan Development Program forecasts a requirement for up to 70,000 residential lots (final approvals) in the Perth Metropolitan Region and Peel Sector<br />

between 2006 and 2011 to keep pace with population growth. The <strong>Department</strong> issued final approvals for 9,008 new residential lots during <strong>2008</strong>/09 (Perth and Peel)<br />

to the land development industry, which decreased applications lodged and requests for final approval, and therefore supply in response to lower levels <strong>of</strong> consumer<br />

demand. The corresponding total Statewide figure for final approvals for residential lots was 12,179.<br />

The <strong>Department</strong> is not the sole determinant <strong>of</strong> land availability, as, for a number <strong>of</strong> reasons, not all preliminary approvals (which reflect a bank <strong>of</strong> developable land<br />

from which developers can draw) go through to the final approval stage. These include external factors such as availability <strong>of</strong> raw materials, interest rates, developer<br />

capacity and market conditions. Therefore, the <strong>Department</strong> (via the WAPC) is only able to respond to applications lodged for preliminary and final approval.<br />

These measures are extracted from the <strong>Department</strong>’s electronic administrative subdivision tracking system and are published in the quarterly bulletin entitled State<br />

Lot Activity.<br />

2005-06<br />

Actual<br />

2006-07<br />

Actual<br />

2007-08<br />

Actual<br />

<strong>2008</strong>-09<br />

Target<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> lots given<br />

preliminary and final<br />

approval<br />

- Residential 54,204 50,445 43,308 50,000-<br />

55,000<br />

<strong>2008</strong>-09<br />

Actual<br />

Reasons for Significant Variance<br />

34,951 The number <strong>of</strong> lots in subdivision applications lodged in <strong>2008</strong>/09<br />

was 26,119 for residential and 4,734 for non-residential, totalling<br />

30,853 proposed lots; a total <strong>of</strong> 9 per cent decline compared with<br />

2007/08. This has translated as a decline in the <strong>2008</strong>/09 actuals,<br />

relative to the 08/09 budget, due to declining consumer demand<br />

given the slumped economy.<br />

- Non-Residential 7,522 7,444 9,510 6,000-7,000 7,714 There has been a decline in the number <strong>of</strong> non-residential lots in<br />

subdivision applications lodged in <strong>2008</strong>/09, relative to the 07/08<br />

budget, due to declining consumer demand.

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