Perth Planning News Thread

Direct train from Morley to the city, why lol? pollies and exaggerated promises

 

Verge wars: Perth council to tell residents to rip up paved verges

 

"rangers [...] will instruct residents with verges made up of more than 50 per cent hard surface to have them replaced."​

I agree! But a consistent approach is needed.

"Further battles have erupted in Perth's verge 'turf wars', with one council set to rip up verge gardens and trees in favour of concrete"
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I don't agree! Trees and low growing gardens are better than hard stand and/or dead or dying turf/weeds.

Verging on madness: more battles rage in Perth's 'turf wars'

I had no idea verge gardens were so controversial! Check out this story. That's heartbreaking

Wembley couple's garden dream crushed for the last time

 

Oh, so that's the cheaper version! It makes more sense to have them connected 'and' have the service many years quicker, Libullshit

 

Yeah, I'm a bit of a gardener these days so I've read these stories and spoken to the owners of the verge garden. Crazy! There's an older lady a few streets away from me that grows herbs on her verge with a sign that you are welcome to take what you need. Council tried to get her to clear too. So many people protested that it got saved. So handy to get kids to grab a few herbs when your cooking or do a drive by. I don't get these councils that it's ok to have weedy feral lawns/dead lawn/pea gravel but nicer options are not ok.

 

Finbar are refunding deposits on their South Perth development.

 

News article for the above
South Perth uncertainty stalls Civic Heart

 

I can't see all the link but just wow. I thought after all that fighting it would go ahead.

 

Well, the bottom isn't in yet, clearly. I still call May.

 

From UDIA:
Perth and Peel sub-regional planning frameworks – Update
The UDIA understands that the sub-regional planning frameworks included as part of the Perth and Peel @ 3.5million suite of document, were to be considered by the WAPC at its meeting today and it is expected that the new Minister for Transport, Planning and Lands, the Hon Rita Saffioti will be briefed on the detail of the frameworks in the near future. The new Minister will no doubt want to review the frameworks in the context of Metronet, however the UDIA understands that the new government does not have a radically different position to that which has been proposed previously in relation to the strategic planning for Perth and Peel. In fact the new Minister has been quite clear on the need for integrated transport and land use planning in previous presentations.

 

@theperthurbanist are you going to UDIA next week?

 

Work has let me take one of the days - I chose the Study Tour - Northern Neighbourhoods

How about you @Westminster ?

 

I'm trying to - just got to work out schedule and stuff. Might be sharing a ticket
I'm going to the gala dinner which will be interesting - I'm on the James Hardie table.

 

The Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) is seeking public comment on changes to the Development Control Policy 2.2 – Residential Subdivision (DC 2.2).

This policy sets out the WAPC’s requirements for landowners intending to subdivide residential land, and assists to create a diversity of lot and housing types throughout the State.

The proposed changes would introduce new criteria for average lot size variations greater than five per cent, including:

• land with a residential coding of R10 to R30
• a corner lot with frontage to more than one road (excluding a regional road) or dedicated road/right-of-way access to both front and rear boundaries
• compliance with the minimum frontage requirements specified in Table 1 of the R-Codes and is regular in shape
• crossovers and driveways are provided in accordance with Australian Standard 2890 and the R-Codes
• corner truncations are excluded from the calculation of the average lot size
• the applicant has provided information that demonstrates the variation will have a beneficial outcome for the community.

More details here: Draft Development Control Policy 2.2 - Residential Subdivision

 

Thanks, just got it. Was speaking to a planner about it today and glad its now released

What is greater than 5%? 10% . 20%?
I would assume if its only corner lots that are applicable and you meet min lot sizes then any % variation to bring it up to the avg size is fine

 

Interesting. Looks like they are implementing some of the stuff that was successful from their interim policy where they approved at min lot size for awhile.

 

unsure of the need for change, especially with varying the lot area sizes and corner truncation allowances.

seems like a fiddle around the edges for fiddling's sake. if they really want to make an impact they should review the traffic requirements under DC2.6 - road width and planning are still based on 1997 calcs of ten (yep 10) vehicle movements per day per dwelling.

So much nope I don't know where to begin.

 

would these land changes make it better or worse overall for developers?

 

So WA Govt gets about $1.6 billion dollar for Metronet.....That's a big news.

 

I think it was $1.6 billion for road and rail projects, with $792 million to Metronet.
Still a good start though!