Following on from the withdrawal of the Mangles Bay Marina proposal on 01.03.18, why is that the WA State Government are now setting up to do a planning investigation into the future long-term use of the area?
Why won’t the WA Government simply exercise its executive powers now and gazette Point Peron as an ‘A’ Class reserve?
With ‘A’ Class protection it then can’t be sold off and privatized unless it gets passed by both houses of WA Parliament.
The strong, longstanding community support has always been, not just to stop the unwise Mangles Bay Marina proposal (as affirmed by the WAPC) or any other such development on Cape Peron, but to (a) create an A Class classification for the whole of Cape Peron and (b) create the Cape Peron Coastal Park.
These community wishes are in accord with more than 60 years of Federal and State Government agreements, plans and studies including the:
Stephenson Hepburn Plan (1955), Federal-State Agreement (1964), State Cabinet decision (1985),
Cape Peron Study (1988), Bush Forever designation (2000) and
Rockingham Lakes Regional Park Management Plan (2010), that all concur with the original Stephenson Hepburn Plan’s affirmation that the whole of Cape Peron should permanently be retained as public open space
This land is still not safe. Powerful vested interests are still after it and will continue to do so until it has some protection in law.
