The Future of East Wanneroo Land Use and Water Management in the Context of Network City
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EW Report 2007 20/8/07 10:42 AM Page i August 2007 The future of east Wanneroo Land use and water management in the context of Network City Prepared by the Western Australian Planning Commission Albert Facey House 469 Wellington Street Perth, Western Australia 6000 EW Report 2007 20/8/07 10:42 AM Page ii PAGE II Disclaimer This document has been published Published August 2007 by the Western Australian Planning ISBN 0 7309 9634 4 Commission. 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Professional advice should be This document is available in obtained before applying the alternative formats on application information contained in this to WAPC Communication Services. document to particular circumstances © State of Western Australia Published by the Western Australian Planning Commission Albert Facey House 469 Wellington Street Perth Western Australia 6000 EW Report 2007 20/8/07 10:42 AM Page iii PAGE III Foreword The committee proposes solutions to the competing demands for East Wanneroo has been a groundwater, future land use and traditional market gardening and development, and environmental rural area with a rich and colourful protection. The committee is history. With the drying climate confidant that its proposals will see now being experienced, many the continuation of a horticultural market gardens are having industry in the north-west corridor. operational difficulties because of limited water supplies. Apart from Public consultation is an important this, there have been many part of the planning process and changes in this part of the north- has been an integral part of west corridor and the City of preparing the land use concept for Wanneroo as Perth continues to east Wanneroo. grow and expand. I thank Dianne and her committee These problems became very for their excellent work in apparent to me through developing a broad framework consideration of a large number of within which future land changes appeals against unsuccessful can be accommodated. subdivision applications for horticulture lots where there was no water allocation. To deal with this in a systematic manner, in 2002 I established a Hon Alannah MacTiernan MLA community consultative committee Minister for Planning and Infrastructure chaired by the Member for Wanneroo, Dianne Guise MLA, who has worked with the community to respond to these issues. EW Report 2007 20/8/07 10:43 AM Page iv Contents Minister’s Foreword III Summary VI 1 Introduction 1 2 Study area 2 2.1 Aim and objectives 2 3 Project management and community consultation 4 4 Key land use planning and water resource management issues 5 4.1 Groundwater management and environment 5 4.2 Horticulture and agricultural land use 8 4.3 Future urban land use 10 4.4 Small rural lot subdivision 13 4.5 Tourism, Landscape, Aboriginal and European heritage values 13 5 The proposed land use concept 16 5.1 Provide for new urban development in south-east Wanneroo 16 5.2 New areas for small rural lots and the retention of existing special rural zones 22 5.3 Protect Bush Forever areas, wetlands and environmental values 23 5.4 Retain rural zoning in Carabooda/Nowergup and protect significant areas of basic 24 raw materials 5.5 Establish a new Gnangara agricultural/horticultural precinct in north-east Wanneroo 25 6 Recommended actions 27 EW Report 2007 20/8/07 10:44 AM Page v 7 Implementation of the land use concept 28 Appendices 29 1 Western Australian Planning Commission criteria and information requirements for 29 lifting urban deferment 2 Abbreviations 30 3 Glossary 30 4 Bibliography 31 5 Involved stakeholders 34 Figures 1 Study area boundary and Metropolitan Region Scheme (MRS) zones 3 2 Groundwater resources of the Gnangara Mound 4 3 Geomorphic wetlands, EPP lakes, remnant vegetation and Bush Forever areas 7 4 Acid sulfate soils 9 5 Land use concept 17 6 Land use groundwater modelling 21 Graph 1 Gnangara Mound groundwater storage depletion 5 Table 1 Licensed/extracted/estimated water use (ML/year) from the Wanneroo groundwater area 5 EW Report 2007 20/8/07 10:44 AM Page vi AUGUST 2007 PAGE THE FUTURE OF VI EAST WANNEROO LAND USE AND WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF NETWORK CITY Summary The 1992 North-West Corridor The proposed concept will result in At the same time, a sustainable Structure Plan and the City of major land use changes in south- future urban structure will be Wanneroo’s 2000 Interim Local east Wanneroo from rural to future defined for east Wanneroo, Rural Strategy have provided the urban, and the possible together with future road and planning framework for land use establishment of a new agricultural public transport networks, activity decision-making in the east and horticultural area in northern- centres and corridors and Wanneroo area. These and other east Wanneroo to replace those population targets. Strategies will government policies have southern areas lost to future urban be developed to deliver diverse promoted the retention of rural development. employment opportunities and land in east Wanneroo for movement modes other than the agricultural and horticultural This will be determined through car. There will need to be an purposes. detailed investigation into the agreed implementation process to feasibility of establishing a new support a future Metropolitan Urban development is rapidly agricultural and horticultural area in Region Scheme (MRS) amendment occurring on existing urban zoned north-east Wanneroo, based on from rural to urban deferred for land in the east Wanneroo area the options available for the use of identified areas. and there are increasing land use recycled water from the Beenyup conflicts and pressures for further and/or future Alkimos wastewater change. treatment plants. Any proposed land use changes and water Community uncertainty, climate management strategies need to be change, declining watertable levels coordinated under the overall over the Gnangara Mound, impacts umbrella of agreed sustainable on the groundwater dependent management policies for the ecosystems, declining public and Gnangara Mound water resource. private water supply and changing agricultural economics, have all led The Gnangara Mound is a major to this review of future land uses part of the existing and future and water resource management public drinking water supplies for issues in east Wanneroo. the developing Perth metropolitan area, supporting and protecting Consultation with the community environmental assets and values has been a key consideration. A over much of the north-west preliminary discussion paper was corridor. A more holistic view of the released in 2004, several public broader considerations of the meetings were held, a draft management of the land and water strategy was released in November resources of the Gnangara Mound 2005 on which 688 submissions is being considered in the were received, and a community Gnangara sustainability strategy consultative committee, chaired by that is to be prepared by the the local Member of Parliament Department of Water. Mrs Dianne Guise, has had a significant input. EW Report 2007 20/8/07 10:44 AM Page 1 AUGUST 2007 PAGE THE FUTURE OF 1 EAST WANNEROO LAND USE AND WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF NETWORK CITY 1 Introduction Traditionally, east Wanneroo has State and local government Although horticulture is a been a major centre of local planning policies have been significant social and economic economic and employment activity focused on controlling and limiting activity in Wanneroo, there is little based around agricultural and the development and subdivision prospect of new water licences horticultural land uses. Land use of rural land and promoting and allocations being made decision-making and planning productive agricultural/horticultural available in the Wanneroo policy at the state and local land uses and minimising conflicts groundwater area, particularly the government levels has been based between incompatible land uses. southern area south of Flynn Drive, on the North-West Corridor to enable new or the expansion of Structure Plan. This plan resulted This policy approach has been horticultural uses and land to be in identification of the current implemented based on the irrigated. Overall planning and urban and urban deferred areas assumption that there are few management of the Gnangara east of Wanneroo Road, the constraints to using groundwater Mound groundwater resource is existing special rural zones and the and rural zoned land for rural, entering into a new phase where remaining area in south-east agricultural and horticultural uses. declining watertable levels and Wanneroo retained in the rural Due to climate variation and lower availability of groundwater are zone for rural uses and landscape rainfall conditions the situation has major limiting factors affecting the protection. In north-east now clearly changed. area and the whole community. Wanneroo, a basic raw materials area (Nowergup),