Metropolitan Region Scheme

The Metropolitan Region Scheme (MRS) provides the legal basis for future land use planning throughout the Perth metropolitan region. It classifies land into broad zones and reservations and is administered by the Western Australian Planning Commission. It is one of three regional schemes in Western Australia. The MRS is updated via an ongoing process of amendments. Amendments to the MRS are typically informed by a series of strategic plans prepared by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage. Detailed land use planning within the area of the MRS is undertaken by local governments and other statutory authorities which prepare one or more local planning schemes within their administrative boundaries. Local plannings schemes must be consistent with the MRS and require the approval of the WAPC.

Local government areas of the Perth metropolitan region

Background

The MRS derived from Hepburn and Stephenson's 1955 Plan for the Metropolitan Region, Perth and Fremantle and has been in operation since 1963. Hepburn and Stephenson were commissioned by the Government of Western Australia to develop the plan in 1953. The completed report recommended that a regional planning authority be established for the purpose of implementing a regional planning scheme—a recommendation that was passed into law with the MRTPS Act of 1959. The Act centralised sub-division control, keeping it in the hands of the state government, but delegated many local planning responsibilities to local governments.

Since 1963 the MRS has been continuously updated via a series of amendments which change the zoning or reservation of land to allow for a different land use. These amendments are typically informed by regional strategies prepared on a periodoic basis, commencing with the 1955 Plan, followed by the Corridor Plan in 1970, the Metroplan of 1990 and Directions 2031 in 2010.

In 2006 the Planning and Development Act 2005 superseded the MRTPS Act 1959.

See also

References
  • "Schemes". Planning Western Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
  • "Scheme text". Planning Western Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
  • "Honorary Degree Citation, Gordon Stephenson, CBE" (PDF). Murdoch University. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
  • "Statement by the Minister for Planning". Hansard, Parliament of Western Australia. 8 April 1997. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
  • "Background Paper 4" (PDF). Planning Western Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2007.
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