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The City of Gosnells agrees with community concern over suggestions that Orange Grove may be suitable for investigation into its potential for industrial development.
The Council has considered the Department of Planning’s draft Industrial Land Strategy (ILS) and resolved to make a submission to the State Government outlining a series of concerns.
Residents also presented a petition with 179 signatures against the proposal at the Ordinary Council Meeting on March 9.
The petition states residents object on the grounds that the proposed strategy has the potential to destroy a unique rural environment that provides a habitat for vulnerable and endangered fauna.
The draft ILS seeks to ensure an ongoing supply of industrial land in the Perth and Peel regions to cater for forecast business demand for the next 20 years and beyond, with four sites identified in the City of Gosnells for potential industrial development.
"Our main concerns with the strategy are in relation to the suggestion that Orange Grove may be suitable for industrial development in the future,” Mayor Olwen Searle said.
"Council objects to the identification of Orange Grove as a potential industrial area as it goes against our planning strategy that recommends the area remain rural.
"The local community has come out and strongly expressed a very similar view.”
The Mayor said she believes it is vital that the Department of Planning listens to the local community and consults with them correctly.
About 300 people attended a recent meeting on the subject with many voicing objections to the draft plans.
"It is absolutely critical that plans are put in place to provide for economic development of our City,” the Mayor said.
“And we appreciate that recognition has been given in the draft strategy about the potential to develop places for business and employment in areas like Maddington and Southern River.
"It is however more urgent and important that the State Government look at ways to help overcome the constraints that are delaying plans to bring forward development in areas where it is needed and wanted by the local community."
Mayor Searle said the Maddington Kenwick Strategic Employment Area is a case in point.
The area has been identified in the draft strategy for industrial development and many landowners have told the City they are keen to see the development occur.
"The development of this area will be of immense value to our City and the broader economy," the Mayor said.
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