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  • Trees Saved on Welshpool Road

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    Council has approved an Application to Amend Development Approval – Place of Worship – Lot 36 (831) Welshpool Road East, Wattle Grove from the St Peters Jacobite Syrian Church Perth Inc at a Special Council Meeting on 17 April 2018, with a series of conditions.

    The approval ends a long running saga, over the future of 13 Lemon Scented Gums along the front boundary of the property. In working through the constraints and opportunities, a revised design was prepared that shortened the eastbound slip lane to 66m and the west-bound slip lane to 75m. The revised design provides an allowance for the bus embayment to be included within the shortened westbound slip lane.


    Council has approved an Application to Amend Development Approval – Place of Worship – Lot 36 (831) Welshpool Road East, Wattle Grove from the St Peters Jacobite Syrian Church Perth Inc at a Special Council Meeting on 17 April 2018, with a series of conditions.

    The approval ends a long running saga, over the future of 13 Lemon Scented Gums along the front boundary of the property. In working through the constraints and opportunities, a revised design was prepared that shortened the eastbound slip lane to 66m and the west-bound slip lane to 75m. The revised design provides an allowance for the bus embayment to be included within the shortened westbound slip lane.

    All Councillors in attendance voted unanimously on the amendments, with officers noting, “It is considered that this process has modified the engineering design to the greatest extent possible, without inappropriately compromising the safety and functionality of access to the subject site. This has been balanced against and minimising the extent of the impact on trees within the Welshpool Road East road reserve.”

    Mayor John Giardina said, “I am pleased that officers, the developer and state government agencies have been able to work together to find a solution that is more aligned with the communities expectations.”

    “We are also in the process of listing the trees on the Municipal Heritage Inventory.”

    In late 2016 an application as approved for a place of worship at Lot 36 (831) Welshpool Road East, Wattle Grove (OCM 184/2016). A component of this application included a 95m long slip lane within the west-bound portion of the Welshpool Road East Regional Reserve, which would have resulted in the removal of up to 13 existing trees.

    During, and since, September 2017 the City received a significant number of enquiries from the community regarding the subject place of worship and concern about the potential removal of lemon scented gum trees adjacent to the subject site, which led to the Council, and the City’s officers, reconsidering options regarding the existing approval and access arrangements.

    The City, Main Roads WA and the applicant met in late 2017 to address how the approved design could be modified to mitigate the removal of trees. The outcome of the meeting resulted in agreement to reduce slip lane lengths and tighten up lane widths to absolute minimum standards. The Public Transport Authority advised that it supported the inclusion of the bus stop within the left slip lane as modified on condition that the existing facility is upgraded to reflect current bus stop standards.

    The modifications to the design for both slip lanes and proposed upgrading of the existing bus stop has reduced the original requirement to remove 13 trees to only one, with this being a smaller tree located in the central median where the proposed right slip lane is to be located. Other trees will require careful monitoring and assessment to determine any potential impact of roadworks and an independent arborist report will be prepared during construction works as per one of the conditions for the revised development.

  • Special Meeting of Council: 17th April 2018 @ 6.30pm

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    Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of Council will be held in the Council Chambers, Administration Centre, 2 Railway Road, Kalamunda, on:

    Tuesday 17 April 2018 commencing at 6.30pm.

    The purpose of the meeting and order of business is:

    1. Application to Amend Development Approval - Place of Worship - Lot 36, 831 Welshpool Road East, Wattle Grove

    John Giardina
    Mayor