PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 119
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 119
119 . Preparing and making improvement plan
(1) The Commission may
—
(a)
certify in writing to the Minister that for the purpose of advancing the
planning, development and use of any land —
(i)
the land should be dealt with in all or any of the
following ways, namely, planned, replanned, designed, redesigned,
consolidated, resubdivided, cleared, developed, reconstructed or
rehabilitated; or
(ii)
provision should be made for the land to be used for such
residential, commercial, industrial, public, recreational, institutional,
religious, charitable or other uses, buildings, works, improvements or
facilities, or spaces for those purposes, as may be appropriate or necessary;
and
(b)
recommend to the Minister that the land should be so dealt with or used for
that purpose and made the subject of an improvement plan.
(2) The recommendation
is to be accompanied by a copy of the improvement plan and such supporting
maps and texts as the Minister may require.
(2A) A recommendation
under subsection (1) may relate to land in 1 or more districts.
(3A) The power in
subsection (1) cannot be exercised in respect of any land that is —
(a) land
to which an approved redevelopment scheme under the
Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Act 2011 applies; or
(b) in
the redevelopment area as defined in the Hope Valley-Wattleup Redevelopment
Act 2000 ; or
(c) in
the development control area as defined in the Swan and Canning Rivers
Management Act 2006 ; or
(d) in
the Swan Valley.
(3B) Before making a
recommendation under subsection (1) in relation to any land, the Commission
must consult with —
(a) the
local government for the district in which the land is situated; or
(b) if
the land is situated in more than 1 district — each of the local
governments for those districts.
(3C) An improvement
plan that authorises the making of an improvement scheme must set out the
objectives of the improvement scheme.
(3) If the Minister
accepts the recommendation, the Minister is to forward the recommendation to
the Governor for acceptance.
(4) An improvement
plan comes into force on the day on which notice of the acceptance of the
recommendation of the Governor, and a summary of the improvement plan, is
published in the Gazette .
(5A) The Minister
must, as soon as is practicable after notice in respect of an improvement plan
is published under subsection (4), cause a copy of the improvement plan to be
laid before each House of Parliament or dealt with under section 268A.
(5) Section 195
applies in respect of the acquisition of land included in an improvement plan
in force under this section.
[Section 119 amended: No. 28 of 2010 s. 10; No. 45
of 2011 s. 141(8); No. 26 of 2020 s. 97; No. 45 of 2020 s. 72.]