Western Australian Planning Commission Metropolitan Region Scheme Amendment 1100/33 Canning Highway, between Petra Street and Canning Bridge City of Melville TRANSCRIPT OF HEARINGS March 2009 Perth Western Australia L Western AuslTalian 1 0 SEP 2009 Planning, GOVIANtACNT Or Mb TERN AU° t RALIA Commission UHL): Recording and Transcription This transcript is produced from live audio recordings.Whilst every care is taken in itspreparation absolute accuracy cannot be guaranteed. No changes are madeto grammar and syntax. Metropolitan Region Scheme Amendment 1100/33 Canning Highway, between Petra Street and Canning Bridge Transcript of Hearings City of Melville Western Australian Planning, Commission March 2009 © State of Western Australia Internet: http://www.wa.gov.au Published by the Western Australian Planning Commission, Albert Facey House, 469 Wellington Street, Perth Western Australia 6000 MRS Amendment No. 1100/33 Transcriptsof Public Hearings File 809-2-17-6 Pt. 3 Published March 2009 ISBN 0 7309 9972 6 Internet: http://www.wapc.wa.gov.au e-mail: [email protected] Phone: (08)92647777 Fax: (08)92647566 TTY: (08)92647535 Copies of this document are available in alternative formats on application to the disability services co-ordinator. Introduction to Metropolitan Region Scheme major amendments The Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) is responsiblefor keeping the Metropolitan Region Scheme under review and initiating changes where they are seen as necessary. The Metropolitan Region Scheme (MRS) sets out the broad pattern of land usefor the whole Perth metropolitan region. The MRS is constantly under review to bestreflect regional planning and development needs. An amendment proposal to change land use reservations and zones inthe MRS is regulated by the Planning and Development Act 2005. That legislation provides for publicsubmissions to be made on proposed amendments. For a substantial amendment, often referred to as a major amendment(made under section 41of the Act), the WAPC considersall the submissions lodged, and publishesits recommendations in a report on submissions. This report is presented to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and to the Governor for approval. Both Houses of Parliament must then scrutinise the amendment before it can take legal effect. In the process of making a substantial amendment to the MRS, information ispublished as a public record under the following titles: Amendment report This document is available from the start of the public advertising period of the proposed amendment.Itsets out the purpose and scope of the proposal, explains why the amendment is considered necessary, and informs people how they can comment through the submission process. Environmental review report The Environmental Protection Authority must consider the environmental impact of an amendment to the MRS before it can be advertised. Should it require formal assessment, an environmental review is undertaken and made available forinformation and comment at the same time as the amendment report. Report on submissions The planning rationale, determination of submissions and the WAPC's recommendations for final approval of the amendment, with or without modification, is documented in this report. Submissions This document contains a reproduction of all written submissions received by the WAPC on the proposed amendment. Transcript of hearings A person who has made a written submission may also choose to appear before a hearings committee to express their views. The hearings proceedings are recorded and transcribed, and the transcripts of all hearings are reproduced in this volume. MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE HEARING SUBMISSIONS ON METROPOLITAN REGION SCHEME AMENDMENT NO. 1100/33 Canning Highway, between Petra Street and Canning Bridge. Wednesday, 5 October 2005, 6th Floor Conference Room, Albert Facey House,469 Wellington Street, Perth The Committee was established by resolution of the Metropolitan Region PlanningCommittee (MRPC) on 13 September 2005. CHAIRPERSON Ms Verity Allan Member of the Western Australian Planning Committee MEMBERS Cr Richard Graham Chairperson of the South West Districts Planning Committee Mrs Susan Pickford Kreemer Independent with transport expertise IN ATTENDANCE Mr Alan Kleidon Department for Planning and Infrastructure Ms Julie Davey Department for Planning and Infrastructure Presentations to the hearings committee commenced at 9.30am. The proceedings were recorded by 'Spark & Cannon Pty Ltd'. The following people made presentations to the Hearings Committee: 1) Mrs Tonci Erceg for submission number 35. Mrs Erceg represented Mr Brian Erceg and herself. 2) Ms Anna Ward for submission number 34. Ms Ward represented G.M & A Woerlee Pty Ltd & Woerlee Holdings. 3) Mr Ronald & Mrs Sylvia Barclay-Monet-Gadd for submission number 32. Mr & Mrs Barclay-Monet-Gadd represented themselves. 4) Mr Bruce Robinson for submissions numbered 46 & 47. Mr Robinson represented the Transport Coalition and the Cyclist's Action Group, 5) Mr Finbarr Donnan for submission number 43. Mr Donnan represented himself. 6) Mr Noel Eddington for submission number 48. Mr Eddington represented the Cycle Touring Association. 7) Mr John Chortis for submission number 55. Mr Chortis represented Mr Angelo Chortis. 8) Mr David Nicholson forsubmission number 39. Mr Nicholson represented theWA Cycling Committee. 9) Mr Frank Lemma and Mr ConBagios for submission number 30. Messrs'Lemma and Bagios representedNewminster Holdings Pty Ltd. 10) Mr Clifford and Mrs Patricia Tarrantfor submission number 17. Mr & Mrs Tarrant representedthemselves. number 44. 11) Mr David Van Den Dries and MrLindsay Broadhurst for submission Messrs Van Den Dries & Broadhurstrepresented Main Roads WA. Committee: The following person cancelledtheir appointment with the Hearings o Dr Janet Wool lard MLA forsubmission number 20. MS Verity Allan declared thehearings closed at 4.30pm. CHAIRPERSON: DATE: MRS TONCI ERCEG Representing Mr Brian Erceg and herself MS ALLAN: Tonci? MS ERCEG: Tonci, yes. MS ALLAN: Hello. I will just see if we are ready to start because we record the proceedings, so Iwill just check.Are we ready?Yes.Tonci, today we're hearing your views.You have asked to provide some verbal information in addition to yourwritten submission, yours and Brian's, and we would be keen to hear you. Who we are is we are a committee that has been established by the West Australian PlanningCommission and our role is to literally just hear what you've got to say. My name isVerity Allan and I'm on the West Australian Planning Commission, one of the committees there.To my left is Susan Kreemer-Pickford and to my right is Richard Graham who is a councillorof the local authority. Alan Kleidon is helping us today, from the department. MS ERCEG: How are you, Alan, yes. MS ALLAN:Tonci, we have got Tim sitting in too. He's just sitting in, he's a new transport planner to the department, so I hope you don't mind if he's here. MS ERCEG: No, that's fine. MS ALLAN: Itis relatively informal.You have got 15 minutes to talk or to ask some questions if you'd like to but we're happy to hear what you've got to saywhenever you're ready to start. MS ERCEG: Okay. I'm not very good at this and I wish my husband was here but anyway he's off in Sydney with my children.Okay, well, you're aware of the site that we're talking about, are you, or not? MS ALLAN: Yes, the Point Walter Medical Centre. MS ERCEG: That's right.It's on the corner of MS ALLAN: We have got a photograph. You've actually included photographs with your submission. MS ERCEG: Yes, that's right. MS ALLAN:It was very useful, thank you, so thanks for those. MS ERCEG: Thanks to my niece who works for the Main Roads.I haven't got a clue about those digital cameras and that. MS ALLAN: Well, it worked out well. MS ERCEG: Anyway the building was approved by the councilin May 1999 and it was completed in June 2001 and we purchaseditin December 2001.So that's a bit of background on how we managed to get thatbuilding. Foundation Health Care actually run the medical centre there and there areapproximately 10 doctors there. Ithink it varies every now and then.There's a dental surgery, a pharmacy, podiatry,physiotherapy also service, pathology.There's a pool there, so there's hydrotherapyavailable as well and there's a gynaecologist and psychologist alsoavailable at the medical centre. So it offers basically a one-stop service for people who usethat medical centre.It's very handy not having to travel far and wide to get all thesethings done, so it's a really good medical centre. I'm not sure how many people are employed thereby all these different people, you know, the pharmacy and all that.I'm not sure the volume of people that actuallywork there but certainly they do have a lot of need for all theparking that is currently there. This turning lane is going to take approximately 20 car baysI'm not a hundred per cent sure.I tried to do some measuring. We went there onsite trying to picture how many car bays will really be removed but it's basically the whole frontof the medical centre. I think doing that will really impact on thebusiness run from there.I mean, initially to have that building approved they required acertain amount of car bays anyway, according to the gross letable, net letable I don't know how it works.Letable area you have to have a certain amount of car bays for that size building.So if we remove all those car bays, I don't know where any other car bays are going tobe located.I think also removing those would cause problems along PointWalter Road because people would obviously thenbe using, you know, the local parkingin front of peoples homes and that to be able tohave access to the medical centre.