A proposal to develop a large landholding across the road from Nigel Satterley’s trouble-plagued Perth Hills housing estate has gained the green light.
On Wednesday night the Shire of Mundaring unanimously approved EastCourt’s plan for five-acre lots on 190 hectares in North Parkerville, a plan in line with the rural residential zoning the shire is trying to regain.
Save Perth Hills protesters in the Supreme Court gardens ahead of a tribunal hearing last month.
This deals a fresh blow to the 33-year fight by Australia’s biggest private land developer, Satterley Property Group, and its business partner, WA’s Anglican Church Diocese, to develop a sprawling 1000-lot town site in North Stoneville in keeping with the area’s existing ‘urban’ zoning.
EastCourt’s original 1990s urban plan proposed up to 740 lots for 2000 people.
The revised plan is for just 67 five-acre lots as well as even larger lots for 200 people, with firefighting tanks on every site.
Following the council decision, the WA Planning Commission will make the final decision in about six weeks.
Debra Bishop, deputy chair of the Save Perth Hills group which has fought the Satterley plan, applauded the move.
“The developer’s decision to overturn their 1990s plan for a rural residential approach recognises the Hills’ 21st-century bushfire dangers, reaffirms the semi-rural amenity of this region, and severely undermines the planning viability of [the Satterley plan],” she said.
“North Parkerville will have no need to share costs, or use North Stoneville’s major infrastructure, including a wastewater treatment plant, as Satterley had intended.
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