A PROPOSED amendment to metropolitan planning schemes could soon reclassify more than 18,000 hectares of public riverfront land as parks and recreation reserves.
A PROPOSED amendment to metropolitan planning schemes could soon reclassify more than 18,000 hectares of public riverfront land as parks and recreation reserves.
Planning Minister John Day said the proposed amendment to the Metropolitan Regions Scheme included more than 40 proposals to add to foreshore reserves of the Swan and Canning river systems
“These river foreshores and other significant areas, already protected through government ownership, will be further protected by the proposed amendment and will be set aside for community recreation," Mr Day said in a statement.
“We will work with local governments and communities to provide ... increased access to the Swan, Canning, Helena and Southern rivers, and Jane and Ellen brooks.''
The amendment contains 155 separate proposals in the cities of Armadale, Bayswater, Belmont, Canning, Cockburn, Fremantle, Gosnells, Joondalup, Rockingham, Stirling, Subiaco, Swan and Wanneroo, the towns of Bassendean and Kwinana and the shires of Kalamunda, Mundaring and Serpentine-Jarrahdale.
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