Recommendation
30. Ensure the protection of strategic industrial land uses, infrastructure and resource inputs by:
- finalising and gazetting the draft State Planning Policy 4.1 - Industrial interface
- reviewing the Environmental Protection Authority’s Guidance Statement 3 – Separation distances between industrial and sensitive land uses, to ensure alignment with the finalised State Planning Policy 4.1. – Industrial interface
- protecting, preserving and maintaining flexible uses in key industrial sites, particularly inner-metropolitan areas
- reviewing the effectiveness of State Planning Policy 2.4 – Basic raw materials and the updated State Planning Policy 4.1 – Industrial interface, after they have been operational for 5 years
- updating and maintaining basic raw materials resource mapping to understand the impacts of extraction, changing land-use patterns and environmental restrictions.
WA Government response
The WA Government responded to Foundation for a stronger tomorrow in February 2023. Recommendation 30 (a,b,c,e) is fully supported; (d) is not supported. For further information please refer to the response document.
Vision – strategic opportunity
A global location of choice
Approaching the technology frontier
Promoting and leveraging Aboriginal cultural heritage and enterprise
Value-adding for strategic commodities
Strategy objectives
Enable environmental sustainability and resilience, and address climate change
Enhance cross-government coordination and planning