Western Suburbs Greening Plan Western Suburbs Regional Organisation of Councils Prepared by: Ecoscape (Australia) Pty Ltd 9 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle 6159 Telephone: (08) 9430 8955 Facsimile: (08) 9430 8977 [email protected] www.ecoscape.com.au 3817-0821-02Final March, 2002 Table of Contents Western Suburbs Greening Plan Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... v Summary ................................................................................................................... 6 1.0 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 8 1.1 What is a Greening Plan? ...............................................................................................8 1.2 The Relevance of a Greening Plan .................................................................................8 1.3 Aims of the WESROC Greening Plan .............................................................................9 2.0 Existing Environment ................................................................................... 10 2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 10 2.2 Biophysical Attributes ...................................................................................................13 2.2.1 Geomorphology .......................................................................................................................... 13 2.2.2 Landforms and Soils ................................................................................................................... 13 2.2.3 Wetlands .................................................................................................................................... 14 2.2.4 Bushland .................................................................................................................................... 15 2.2.5 Threatened Flora ........................................................................................................................ 19 2.2.6 Fauna ......................................................................................................................................... 22 2.2.7 Landscape Character Types ...................................................................................................... 23 2.3 Conservation Reserves ................................................................................................27 2.3.1 Bush Forever Sites ..................................................................................................................... 27 2.4 Heritage and Social Values in the Western Suburbs ....................................................29 2.4.1 Aboriginal Heritage ..................................................................................................................... 29 2.4.2 Municipal Heritage ...................................................................................................................... 31 3.0 The Greening Plan ........................................................................................ 32 3.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 32 3.2 Classification of Vegetation Density .............................................................................33 3.3 Greenway Values and Prioritisation..............................................................................35 3.3.1 Regional Linkage Areas ............................................................................................................. 36 3.3.2 Areas for securing linkages ........................................................................................................ 37 3.3.3 Areas for developing linkages .................................................................................................... 37 3.4 Greening Plan Objectives and Strategies .....................................................................40 3.4.1 Objective 1 : Protection and Management of Existing Bushland ................................................ 40 3.4.2 Objective 2 : Develop and Maintain Greenways ......................................................................... 41 3.4.3 Objective 3: Establishing Greenways on Publicly Owned Land .................................................. 42 3.4.4 Objective 4: Greening of Private Land ........................................................................................ 48 3.4.5 Objective 5 : Community Education, Awareness and Involvement ............................................. 50 4.0 Greening Plan Implementation .................................................................... 51 4.1 Greening Plan Policy and Management .......................................................................51 4.1.1 Future Development ................................................................................................................... 51 4.2 Greening Plan Project Sites ..........................................................................................51 4.2.1 Regional Green Plan Project Sites ............................................................................................. 51 4.2.2 Local Green Plan Project Sites ................................................................................................... 52 4.3 Greening Plan Working Groups and Other Community Involvement ........................... 52 4.4 Funding ......................................................................................................................... 53 4.4.1 Bushcare .................................................................................................................................... 53 4.4.2 Coasts and Clean Seas and Coastcare ..................................................................................... 53 © WESROC Page ii 4.4.3 Gordon Reid Foundation ............................................................................................................ 54 4.4.4 Greening WA .............................................................................................................................. 54 4.4.5 Community Environment Art and Design Funding ...................................................................... 54 4.4.6 Corporate Sponsorship .............................................................................................................. 54 4.5 Methodology ................................................................................................................. 54 References .............................................................................................................. 55 Appendix One: Bradley Method of Bush Regeneration ...................................... 57 © WESROC Page iii LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Population of the Western Suburbs from the 1996/2001 Census Records. ............. 10 Table 2: Vegetation Complexes in the Western Suburbs .......................................................17 Table 3: Declared Rare and Priority Flora species previously recorded within the Western Suburbs. ........................................................................................................................ 19 Table 4: Landscape Character Types within the Western Suburbs. ......................................23 Table 5: Area of Proposed Greenways ...................................................................................36 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Location map ........................................................................................................... 11 Figure 2: Landuse within the Western Suburbs. .....................................................................12 Figure 3: Vegetation complexes .............................................................................................18 Figure 4: Location of Recorded Threatened Flora within the Western Suburbs. .................... 21 Figure 5: Landscape Characteristics of the Western Suburbs. .............................................. 26 Figure 6 : Location of Bush Forever Sites in the Western Suburbs ........................................ 28 Figure 7: Registered Aboriginal Heritage Sites within Perth Western Suburbs. ..................... 30 Figure 8: Distribution of Vegetation Density Levels. ............................................................... 34 Figure 9: Greening Plan Map for the Western Suburbs. .........................................................39 LIST OF PLATES Eastern lake of Perry Lakes. ................................................................................................... 15 Bold Park from Reabold Hill .................................................................................................... 15 Point Resolution (Karrakatta Complex) ...................................................................................16 Floreat Beach (Quindalup Complex) .......................................................................................16 Examples of Landscape Characteristics in the Western Suburbs. ......................................... 25 Bold Park ................................................................................................................................. 27 Example of potential expansion site for existing remnant bushland though restoration processes