RFT1819-49 Local Planning Strategy & Local Planning Scheme Review

Summary and scope

The Town of Port Hedland invites submissions from suitably qualified and experienced individuals/companies to undertake a comprehensive review of the Town of Port Hedland’s (Town’s) current local planning strategy, the Port City Growth Plan (2012), and prepare a revised local planning strategy and new local planning scheme to reflect the current strategic direction of the Town The Town of Port Hedland’s current local planning strategy, the Port City Growth Plan, was adopted by Council on 23 May 2012 and endorsed by the Western Australian Planning Commission on 27 December 2012. As the Port City Growth Plan was prepared during the height of the resources sector construction boom and the resource sector has since shifted into operational phase, the population and economic growth aspirations listed in the document are no longer appropriate to underpin the provisions of a new local planning scheme. The Town requires a suitably qualified consultant to update the strategy and concurrently prepare a new local planning scheme to implement the revised strategy. The current Town of Port Hedland Local Planning Scheme No. 5 (LPS5) was gazetted on 31 August 2001 and is substantially overdue for review. The Scheme Review process was commenced in 2013 but never eventuated for a variety of reasons including uncertainty over expansion of the Port of Port Hedland and the future of residential development in the West End. The announcement by the State Government in October 2018 that an Improvement Plan and Scheme will be prepared over the West End of Port Hedland with restrictions on residential development has provided the necessary certainty with respect to the future of the area to progress with the Scheme Review process, noting that any provisions in the Scheme for the West End will be superseded by corresponding Improvement Scheme provisions. The successful Contractor will be required to ensure the revised Strategy and new Scheme recognise the State Government’s decision on the West End and synergise where possible with the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage’s processes to prepare the Improvement Plan and Scheme, whilst respecting Council, community and stakeholder expectations and aspirations for the area. The project has been divided into separable portions that include Stop/Start points for each Phase that Respondents are required to price separately. The Principal reserves the right to cease the contact at each Stop/Start point if project deliverables have not been adequately met. A full statement of the Goods/Services required under the proposed Contract appears in the attached documentation.