Local Planning Strategy: Planning Cockburn – Our City 2036

The City is in the process of reviewing the Local Planning Strategy, with the following preliminary consultation now complete:

1. Local Profile Papers (identifying key issues for the City) advertised for public comment and refined after consultation.
2. Series of eight community/landowner workshops in targeted areas.

Further information regarding this consultation can be found below, and in the document library.

We are now in the process of preparing a draft Local Planning Strategy, with the timeline as follows:

• Q1-Q2 2020 - Collating analysis and drafting of Local Planning Strategy document
• Q3 2020 – Report to Council seeking support for advertising of Local Planning Strategy
• 2021 - Formal advertising of draft Local Planning Strategy (following Council support and WAPC consent to advertise)
• Consideration of submissions
• Presentation of Local Planning Strategy to Council for support and referral to WAPC for endorsement.

Local Profile Papers consultation

In 2018 we advertised a series of local profile papers about the key issues that the City’s new local planning strategy and scheme should address. Read the consultation report here.

Workshops (August/September 2018)

As part of Preliminary consultation, we hosted workshops to discuss key issues affecting our City so we can together continue Planning Cockburn.

You can select the workshops areas below to read more including copies of the presentations given at the workshops:

1. Australian Marine Complex / Henderson

2. Rural zone (Henderson, Wattleup and Munster - east of Stock Road)

3. Rural Living zone (Beeliar)

4. Resource zone (Banjup and Treeby - not in planning investigation area)

5. Resource zone (Treeby and Jandakot - in planning investigation area)

6. Munster (west of Stock Road)

7. Bibra Lake (industrial) & Jandakot (industrial) - west of Freeway

8. Natural Assets

For more information, please email us