Barbara Pedersen & Kirsten Knox

Score card assessment of WA’s strategic land use planning: has the past decade seen less sustainable planning?

Barbara Pedersen & Kirsten Knox
Cardno, WA

Abstract:
Over the past decade WA’s population and economy have grown while budgets for State Government agencies have shrunk. The demand for urban zoned land has become politically fraught with intermittent outbreaks of media frenzy over land affordability accompanied by demands for someone to do something.

Has the land use planning system become unsustainable? The aim of sustainability is generally to ensure that economic, environmental and social systems interact in a way that meets the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations. Sustainability discourse and techniques embrace the concept of tracking our progress towards goals and scorecards have been developed to aid in review and continuous improvement.

Can we apply a scorecard to WA’s strategic land use planning effort over the past decade?

This proposed presentation will offer a sustainability scorecard assessment of WA’s strategic planning effort over the period from 2000 to 2009 for debate and discussion.

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