Local Planning Scheme No 3

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• Clarification on Local Planning Scheme No. 3 requirements

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  The City has been made aware of misinformation circulating to the community in relation to Local Planning Scheme No. 3.

  In response, the City has sought to clarify the planning process in relation to scheme and interpreting the density map – and urges people to visit and read the information available on this engagement page or call or email (council@nedlands.wa.gov.au) the planning department on for the correct information.

  This misinformation comes after Planning Minister Rita Saffioti directed the City to make modifications to LPS3 before it is endorsed and gazetted.

  Planning and Development (Local Planning Schemes) Regulations require the City to provide a copy of the modified scheme to the WA Planning Commission within 42 days (15 March) of receiving the Minister’s direction.

  In the meantime, the Minister’s office has released a map of Nedlands and Dalkeith for public information showing the densities that will result from the modifications. A map showing properties zoned mixed use has also been provided for public information. Both maps are available in the document library.

  Understanding the minister’s schedule of modifications contains technical instructions to the City, describing how officers are to amend the Local Planning Scheme text. For this reason, the schedule of modifications is a confidential document intended for planning officer interpretation.

  The document’s confidentiality should ensure administration has sufficient time to prepare a community engagement strategy, explaining the final scheme’s contents in clear, understandable language.

  Once the scheme is gazetted, the City will hold information sessions to help the community understand and interpret the new scheme requirements.

  The misinformation circulated included scheme requirements associated with laneway widening in the Nedlands area. The requirement to provide land to widen an existing laneway so it can be used for vehicle access and servicing will only apply when landowners themselves decide to subdivide or re-develop with more than one dwelling.

  The requirement to contribute land to widen an existing laneway to an appropriate width is common practice throughout Perth’s metropolitan area and is even applied currently in the City of Nedlands under Town Planning Scheme No. 2.

  A media release has also been prepared in regard to the misinformation. Please visit the City’s website to read the media release.

• Scheme approved by Planning Minister Rita Saffioti

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  Planning Minister Rita Saffioti has signed off on draft Local Planning Scheme No.3 and directed the City of Nedlands to make a number of modifications to the advertised version of the scheme before it receives final approval.

  The City has received the list of modifications and are now required to make the modifications within the next 42 days (15 March) in accordance with the Minister's Order.

  The final version of the scheme will then be returned to the WA Planning Commission and Planning Minister for endorsement.

  Following endorsement, the scheme will be published in the Government Gazette and will then be operational resulting in Town Planning Scheme No.2 (TPS2) being redundant. At this point, the full endorsed copy of the scheme text and scheme maps will be available for public viewing and published in the local newspapers, placed on the City's website, update to the IntraMaps system and this engagement page.

  Letters will also be sent to everyone who made a submission.

• WAPC considered the draft LPS3

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  Draft Local Planning Scheme 3 was considered by the Western Australian Planning Commission’s Statutory Planning Committee on 11 December 2018.

  The Committee meeting agenda and minutes can be accessed through the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage website via the following link:

  https://online.dplh.wa.gov.au/PAM/view.asp?d=Statutory%20Planning%20Committee

  Statutory Planning Committee items relating to Local Planning Schemes are confidential and as such the report from the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage and the Committee’s recommendation is not publicly available.

  The City understands the Statutory Planning Committee’s recommendation has now been provided to the Minister for Planning. The Minister will make the final decision on the Scheme and may:

  1. refuse the Scheme; or
  2. approve the Scheme with or without modifications.

  
  

  Should modifications be proposed, the Minister may or may not require the modifications to be advertised.

  Once the Minister has made a decision, submitters will be notified, and a notice will be published in the local newspaper and on the City’s website. It is noted there is no specified timeframe for the Minister’s decision.