Advocacy Priorities 2024 - 2025
Each year the Council to select priorities projects that we advocate for to State and Federal government to secure funds or support to deliver.
It is important to consider how the Town engages with not only government but also with the community to understand what they need from us. The Town’s Advocacy Strategy reflects honest, sincere, and thorough community engagement at a local level. This in turn will impact on how we are perceived by the State Government and local MPs.
The Town follows a three-tiered approach to advocating for priority projects:
Building community support locally
Building State Government buy-in
Engagement with the Federal Government
The Town collaborates with local Ministers, bureaucracy, grant providers and business. Our Elected Members act as advocates on behalf of these projects and act as partners with administration to achieve our advocacy and grant goals.
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What we are advocating for
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| Urban Forest Program |
- Support the Town to reach its 20% canopy goals by providing funding that offsets current UFS budget spend rather than requiring an expansion of the program to access funding.
- Create a collaborative, clear approach to retaining trees on private land while supporting high quality urban development.
- Reduce the impact of polyphagous shot-hole borer infestation, through a clear, transparent and collaborative approach with Local Government. e. Improve access to quality tree stock and to create programs that encourage seed trials in a variety of soil types.
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| Burswood Station Precinct |
- Combined investment in public realm improvements and the train station upgrade will meet the needs of population growth in the Burswood Peninsula, aligning with the precinct vision as a Transport Oriented Development.
- Attract private development to the precinct, stimulating local economic growth
- Improve Goodwood, Stiles, and Griffiths Streets with tree planting, landscaping, lighting, and pathways, enhancing public spaces and safety.
- Attract private development to the precinct
- Opportunity to reduce municipal expenditure
- Advocate for a collaborative State Government agency and private enterprise approach to progress planning for Burswood Station West.
- Advocate for Burswood Station redevelopment as a key part of the METRONET program, improving pedestrian connections and transport efficiency.
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Archer Mint Street
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Ensure investment of the Carlisle Town Centre is aligned to the METRONET train station upgrade.
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Complete the streetscape works between Raleigh and Bishopsgate.
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Connect the bike path all the way to Hurbert Street.
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Mid – Tier Transit and Short Range Bus Transit (CAT)
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- Advocate to Public Transport Authority and Main Roads WA on the mid-tier transport project to link the Causeway Bus Transfer Station to Curtin University (along Albany Highway and Kent Street).
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Ensure bus stop and intersection designs align with the objectives of the Integrated Transport Strategy and recommendations of the draft Albany Highway Precinct Structure Plan
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Continue to collaboratively advocate for longer term planning for the future second phase of the mid-tier project
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Kent Street Sand Pit
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Restore the site to Banksia Woodland, which will enhance the neighbouring Kensington Bushland
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Provide habitat for native fauna, including Black Cockatoos
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Contribute to our Urban Forest Strategy objective of achieving 20 per cent tree canopy
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Provide a valuable passive recreation asset for surrounding residents and visitors
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Connection to the area’s indigenous heritage, which includes yarning spaces and knowledge exchange nodes for the sharing of Aboriginal stories and history, and conceptual alignment of walking trails in accordance with cultural mapping of the site.
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Rutland Ave Bike Path
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- Relocation of all major services to allow a clean construction corridor
- Narrow the road pavement to 5.5m to reduce the overall road widening
- Regrade residential verges to allow new road grades and compliant driveway reconstruction
- Provide a critical missing link in the Perth to Armadale Principal Shared Path Network
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