Motion to delete Roe 8 from the metropolitan region scheme

Submitted by Kirsty Lawson on Tue, 30/11/2010 - 11:01

Extract from Hansard
[COUNCIL - Wednesday, 24 November 2010]
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Hon Lynn MacLaren

ROE HIGHWAY STAGE 8
Notice of Motion

Hon Lynn MacLaren gave notice that at the next sitting of the house she would move —
That, for the purposes of —
(a) saving the Beeliar wetlands by preserving ecological linkages and a range of other key values
including —
(i) regionally significant vegetation, which is becoming rare as a result of encroaching
urbanisation,
(ii) habitat for a great many fauna species, especially internationally and nationally
significant migratory birds, as well as seriously threatened species like the Carnaby’s
Cockatoo and the Graceful Sun Moth, and
(iii) residential amenity, recreation and education;
(b) protecting our unique Aboriginal heritage; and
(c) redirecting funds into more sustainable transport solutions, such as an expanded rail freight
system and a passenger light rail network,
this house calls upon the Barnett government to abandon proposed stage 8 of the Roe Highway
development, and to request the Western Australian Planning Commission to initiate an amendment to
the metropolitan region scheme in order to delete the current zoning for a road reserve over the area of
proposed stage 8 of the Roe Highway development.