Dear NRPG members and interested,

The City of Swan is inviting comments on changes to their Local Planning Scheme No 17 with Amendment 195.  The Executive summary is a useful overview: 1._LPS17-195_-_Executive_Summary_and_Amendment_Maps.pdf

This area (Lot 912, map below) has already been rezoned from ‘Parks and Recreation’ to ‘Urban’ and ‘Urban Deferred’ under the Metropolitan Region Scheme (MRS) Amendment No.1366/57.

However, as the City of Swan presently proposes, this will result in more of the same high density development of Cedar Woods, and will destroy what is presently ‘parkland’ with good native tree canopy, has an area of Threatened Ecological Communities TECs’ (protected under the federal EPBC Act), and bounds along Kadina Brook.

If this type of development proceeds, there will be a massive loss of tree canopy as a minimum, and inadequate buffers from the TEC and Kadina Brook. (From the Google map you can already see the total clearing that’s happened off Ridge Hill Rd to the east of Lot 912).

The NRPG has already made the attached submission, so please feel free to support it and/or take points from this if you like, in your submission.

Please take a few minutes to have your say to the City of Swan at: LPS17-195 Amendment No.195 to Local Planning Scheme No.17 | Proposed Scheme Amendments | Planning | Swan Engage (DEADLINE 16 Jan 2025)

Kind regards,

Steve Gates

President, NRPG Bushcarers

0400-870-887 if you would like to discuss further