Here’s some news good enough that it puts a bounce in my day.
After public consultation the State Government has published the new Bush Forever amendment today. As soon as the amendment is no longer subject to disallowance (after 12 sitting days) it becomes legally effective in the Metropolitan Region Scheme.
The purpose of this major amendment is to reserve and create special controls over Bush Forever sites in the Metropolitan area.
I’ll provide more detail and comment later. A map of the Perth South areas proclaimed can be viewed here.
Areas included in South Perth are along the Canning River shores beside the Freeway near Mount Henry, at Mount Henry and the wetlands of Manning and Waterford around Bodkin Park.
This makes formal declaration of residents’ passionate belief that this bush should be given special preservation in a time of change.
1 comment:
While it is very important to retain the Bush Forever areas - some, such as at Aquinas, privately owned - there are other remnant government-owned bushlands in the City of South Perth - both associated with primary schools - Manning and Curtin. These are of local significance and the government should pass them over to the council for management, rather than think about selling them off. What will they do when there's no more bushland to sell? Why not do that now and save these areas of bush? It would also be good if Aquinas was prepared to manage or allow others to manage its botanically-valuable remnant bushland in Redmond St.
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