Finalised in 2015, the
Gascoyne Regional Planning and Infrastructure Framework was prepared to provide an overall strategic regional context for land-use planning within the Gascoyne region. It identifies a number of priority initiatives required to facilitate comprehensive regional planning and guide local planning processes.
Local governments are involved in planning for local communities by administering local planning strategies and schemes to ensure appropriate planning controls exist for land use and development.
Local planning strategies establish the planning framework for each local government, and provide the strategic basis for local planning schemes. Local planning schemes contain planning controls such as the designation of appropriate land uses, residential densities and development standards.
Where they exist, local planning strategies and local planning schemes for the Gascoyne local government areas are accessible on the Local Planning Strategies, Schemes and Structure Plans page.
Layout plans are a type of plan prepared by the Department of Planning specifically for Aboriginal settlements in WA. A layout plan has been prepared for Burringurrah (Mt Augustus), the only Aboriginal settlement in the Gascoyne.
The Central Regions Land Capacity Analysis provides a broad overview of the land capacity of settlements in the Mid West, Gascoyne and Goldfields–Esperance regions with respect to forecast population growth. Based on the content of applicable local planning instruments, it examines existing and future land capacity in each local government.
Outputs from this project, which includes land-use mapping and associated analysis, are available for each local government area via the above link.