Kwinana industrial air buffer zone - extension

Extract from Hansard
[COUNCIL — Tuesday, 22 November 2011]
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Hon Lynn MacLaren; Hon Helen Morton

KWINANA INDUSTRIAL AIR BUFFER ZONE — EXTENSION

4845. Hon Lynn MacLaren to the Minister for Mental Health representing the Minister for Planning

In regard to the decision recently to extend the Kwinana Industrial Air Buffer Zone made by the Western
Australian Planning Commission in September 2010 —

(1) How long has the buffer existed?

(2) How long is the buffer projected to exist?

(3) What permits, licences and statutory authority allow Alcoa to operate in the area?

(4) What alternative uses are anticipated and/or planned for land affected by the decision to extend the
buffer?

Hon HELEN MORTON replied:

(1) A buffer has existed in this area since 2002. The extended buffer area was designated by resolution of
the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) in September 2010 and confirmed in May 2011.

(2) The WAPC resolved to review the buffer area in five years (from the 2011 decision) to take into
account any changing circumstances that may influence the extent of the buffer.

(3) The Department of Environment and Conservation licenses Alcoa. Alcoa also operates under the
Alumina Refinery Agreement Act 1961 administered by the Department of State Development.

(4) No changes to the Urban, Urban Deferred or Rural zones in the Metropolitan Region Scheme in the
buffer area are proposed. However, the intention of the buffer area is that no residential subdivisions
and sensitive uses (such as child minding centres, kindergartens and schools) should be approved,
therefore alternatives to residential development need consideration. Any proposals to modify land uses
in town planning schemes, to accord with Department of Health advice, would be subject to discussion
between State and Local Governments and, if amendments to local schemes were proposed, they would
be subject to public consultation.