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12 March 2017Banjup Residents Group 1

BANJUP RESIDENTS GROUP

Annual General Meeting

12 March 2017


2016 Committee Members

Ian Thurston

3:00

Some 2016 Committee members moved on


Position Person

President David Beckwith Resigned

Vice-President Helen Pavitt Apology today

Secretary Ian Thurston

Treasurer Corinne Franklin Working in NW

Committee Colin Bramwell Moved house

Dino Elpitelli

Dan Franklin

Liane Lied-Cordruwisch

Malcolm Wilcox Resigned


Guests today include:

• Mayor Logan Howlett

• Cllr Chamonix Terblanche

• Michael Emery – Emergency Coordinator, Cockburn

• Paul Maddern – CBFCO, DFES & Cockburn


Apologies

• Members

– Ron Adams

– Ron Arnold

– Richard Blaquiere

– Tim Bovell

– Jean Davison

– Marilyn Ivas

– Helen Pavitt

• Non-Members

– Daniel Arndt


Agenda


Confirmation of Minutes of 31 July 2016

General Meeting

• Minutes posted on BRG web site

– No comments received

• Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Minutes of the General

Meeting held on 31 July 2016 as a true and

accurate record

• Vote


Notable in 2016

Ian Thurston

3:10

Several matters ran in 2016 and are still

running today

• Cockburn’s strategic plan

– No performance measures

– No financial constraints

– Cockburn dismissed our

concerns

• Cockburn rates

– Increased by 2.5%

– No plans for internal

efficiencies

• Traffic calming on Liddelow

Road

– Roundabout at Gibbs

• 341 Beenyup

– 3 residences now approved

– Immediate family or 6

unrelated people

• Banjup quarry now “Treeby”

• Richgro

– Reviewing 11 environmental

concerns

– Community visit in few weeks

• Warton Road Sand Mine

– Public consultation due

• Future of rural Jandakot and

rural Treeby



Financial Position

Dan Franklin

- Assistant Treasurer


Financial Position – 11 March 2017


Acceptance of Financial Position

• Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Financial Position as

reported

• Vote


Civility and Communications Protocols

Dan Franklin

3:13

Committee proposes formalising our Group’s

good behaviours

• Many organisations have:

– Code of Conduct

– Meeting Rules

– Correspondence Rules

• Committee proposes Civility and

Communications Protocols

– Non-binding

– Just common sense and good manners


From BRG meeting 31 July 2016

At BRG meetings this is what we do anyway

• Listen to others

• Think the best of

others

• Be inclusive

• Build co-operation

• Do not speak ill

• Give and accept

compliments

• Apologise earnestly

• Accept and give

constructive criticism

• Gently remind others

to be considerate


Protocols published on BRG web site

• See

http://banjup.webs.com/officebearersrules.htm

• Committee working to them

• Let us know your thoughts

• Will ask for your approval at next general

meeting

– Which is today


http://banjup.webs.com/officebearersrules.htm


What shall we resolve?

• Motion:

– BRG members approve and adopt the

Civility and Communications Protocols

posted on the BRG web site

• Vote


Fire Breaks

Michael Emery

City of cockburn

3:16

Overview of Compliance

• 895 rural inspections completed since November 2016

• 225 residential inspections completed since November 2016

Within Banjup;

• 51% of non comply due to overhanging trees

• 15% of non complying due to dead-end firebreaks

• 49% of non complying due to ground fuel on firebreak

* Figures are approximate and numerous properties failed for more than one reason.


Fire Control Order Requirements

Firebreak Time – from 1 November to 15 April the following year.

All property (vacant or Developed - 2032m2 or greater:

To reduce the fire hazard on your land and to comply with the requirements of this Fire Control Order you are required to;

2.1Construct a Firebreak (as defined within section 3 of this order) immediately inside all external property boundaries, including those adjacent to roads, drains, rail reserves and any public open space reserves; and

2.2 Remove all dead vegetation surrounding and over all habitable buildings to a radius of 3 metres except living trees, shrubs, maintained green lawns and gardens under cultivation.


Firebreak Specification - 1

A Firebreak is an area of land cleared of flammable material, installed to minimise the spread or extension of a bush fire and to provide suitable access for fire fighting vehicles. The standards of a compliant Firebreak are as follows;

3.1 A Firebreak must be constructed of bare earth, stone, or sealed surfaces and be clear of all flammable materials to create a 3 metre wide trafficable surface;

3.2 Maintained lawn may occupy a Firebreak, providing it does not exceed 50mm in height during the Firebreak Time;

3.3 Overhanging branches must be pruned to provide a 4 metre vertical clearance above the full width of the Firebreak surface; and

3.4 A Firebreak must be a continuous trafficable path for a fire fighting vehicle, clear of any obstructions and must not terminate in a cul-de-sac (dead end).


3.15M

8.2M2.9M


Firebreak Specification - 2

Complying with 2.1 of the Fire Control Order

2.1 Construct a Firebreak

(as defined within section 3

of this order) immediately

inside all external property

boundaries, including

those adjacent to roads,

drains, rail reserves and

any public open space

reserves;


2.2 Remove all

dead vegetation

surrounding and

over all habitable

buildings to a

radius of 3 metres

except living trees,

shrubs, maintained

green lawns and

gardens under

cultivation.


Complying with 2.2 of the Fire Control Order

Cannot Comply?

The City allows residents to apply for a Firebreak Variation.

• Variations must be received by 1 October for view.

• Variations are approved when no effective solution can be practically completed

• Non variation areas must still comply with the Fire Control Order


Recommendation - LPG Gas cylinders

• Place LP gas cylinders on the side of

the house furthest away from the likely

direction of a bushfire.

• Do not place them under a verandah.

Make sure the pressure relief valve is

directed away from the house and that

there is no flammable material in front

of the valve for at least 6 metres.

• Set the cylinders on a concrete or brick

base and fix them to a strong support.

Turn the valve off as a fire approaches

and if the cylinders are exposed to heat,

and if it is safe to do so, hose them

down with water to reduce the pressure.



Future for north of Armadale Road

Ian Thurston

3:33

Rural sandwich is being squeezed


Calleya

DoH

Urban Stone

SchafferAirport

Perron

[email protected] still not published

• 31 July 2015 – submissions closed

– BRG asked for Jandakot rural to be zoned Urban

– 1,000 other submissions

• July 2017 plan might be published

– 2 years sitting on the pot

– Heard it all before

• July 2016

• December 2016

– Minister said she had not seen it


Main Roads dragging its feet

• Armadale Road widening funds promised in September

2015

• MRWA plans still not finalised

– Doing detailed plans

– Seeking environmental approvals

– What have they been doing for a year?

• MRWA must have had concept plans for years

• Why were environmental approvals not sought years ago?

• Earthmoving will not start until mid-2018

– 3 years after funding given

– Bureaucracy grinds exceedingly slow


DoH to build 800 houses east of Ghostgum Ave

• BRG said defer until Armadale Road widened

• Cockburn obliged by law to approve application

– What was the point of public consultation?


DoH

Cockburn is proposing a District Structure

Plan for Treeby


Schaffer Corp has applied to develop

26 hectares bushland on Jandakot Road


Bush

Forever

Rehabilitated

bushland

Applied for its

bushland to

have

“additional

use” (Warehouses,

showrooms)

Urban

Stone

To be

considered

by Council

6 April

Strangely, WA Planning Commission has

approved a roundabout on Pilatus Street


Round

about

Approved

22 Sept

2016

Why didn’t

Cockburn tell

us during

‘Additional

Use’

consultation?

Schaffer is paying for the construction of the

roundabout


Schaffer ‘additional use’

application not yet approved

$½ million gamble

What do they know that we don’t?

Maybe it’s a certainty


“Having examined your

proposals, I believe from a

planning perspective, your

approach to the site has

strong merits in terms of its

current and future uses for

industrial purposes.”

“I understand Jandakot Airport

Holdings (JAH) believes that the

land should be regarded as

part of the airport site for

operational and commercial

reasons … has planning merit.”

[email protected] ??

mailto:[email protected]

What is WAPC’s rationale?


Land within 25 ANEF cannot be residential

BUT can be commercial

Schaffer cannot use the land

except for commercial

We don’t know what we don’t know


WAPC approval

ANEF contours

Treeby plan

Residents spent days and days preparing

submission

• Cockburn did not alert us to very relevant

information

– WAPC roundabout approval

– ANEF considerations

– Treeby structure plan

• Residents at great disadvantage

• To respond to public consultation, residents

need expert help

– Beyond capacity of most

– Are residents just a nuisance to Cockburn?12 March 2017Banjup Residents Group 39

Why not keep the land as ‘Bush Forever’?

• Schaffer knew the

rules when they

bought the land

• Now they are trying

to change the rules

• Does Cockburn

really want to see

26 ha of banksia

woodland

bulldozed?


Banjup and Jandakot residents submission

asked for equity

• Either

– ALL Jandakot rural properties given ‘Additional Use’

• or

– NO properties given ‘Additional Use’

• Give Jandakot rural residents opportunity to

escape the ‘sandwich’ planning blight


Better still, avoid piecemeal planning

• Develop a formal structure plan for the whole

area

– Armadale Road to the Airport

– Not just the Treeby structure plan for south of

Jandakot Road

• Defer Schaffer decision until then




• Motion:

– The BRG requests the City of Cockburn to

develop a formal structure plan for the

whole area between Armadale Road and

the Airport in full consultation with property

owners

• Vote


Roads

Ian Thurston

3:55

Roundabout will be built at Liddelow and Gibbs


Land acquired from

private landowners

Aboriginals yet to authorise

use of Shirley Balla land

Construction may be June 2017

Jandakot Road use has doubled since 2010

• 17,335 vehicles per December 2016 weekday

– 15,000 vpd is limit for single carriageway

• 26,000 vpd at Berrigan in 2031

• 18,000 vpd at Warton Road in 2031

– 8,000 vpd from urban Treeby

– 10,000 vpd from Piara, Harrisdale, etc

• Why is this traffic not on Armadale Road?

– Jandakot Road was built to ‘Rural’ standard

– Where is Cockburn’s vision?

– Why has rural amenity been trashed?


Cockburn now planning dual carriageway

• Stockland will pay for some widening work

– After 900th lot sold in 2018

– Will land needed come from Stockland?

• Land from 20 rural properties to be bought

• Cockburn negotiating with owners

• Several owners rejected Cockburn’s offers

• Meeting of all parties to be arranged


Jandakot Road widening should have been

planned years ago


Why was Stockland

exempted from the

re-alignment?

What land will be

taken from residents

for the widening?

Will the sharp bend

east of Solomon be

dangerous?

What a reasonable man

would have planned

Why do Cockburn’s plans keep to the current

alignment?


Why is

Stockland

not

providing

all of the

land

needed?

Calleya is

creating all of the

extra traffic

volume, not

existing residents



• Motion:

– The BRG requests the City of Cockburn to

replan the alignment of the dual

carriageway Jandakot Road so as to

minimise the impacts on existing

residences

• Vote


Optus Mobile Phone Mast

Ian Thurston

4:07

This has been a contentious and emotional

issue

• Proposal advertised 29 November 2016

• 41 metre high mast in Harper Road


Site on Harper Road surrounded by tall trees


3533

34

25

200

m

200

m

240

m

170

m

90m

100

m39

20

26

15

Many residents were alarmed by the proposal

and 56 objected on these grounds

• Visually intrusive

• Inappropriate for rural area

• No need to improve reception in Banjup

• Only a repeater for Piara Waters

• Nearby properties will be devalued

• Mast may affect future land development

• Radiation will be harmful

• Precedent for more masts

• Why not somewhere else?

• Compromises aircraft safety


Other residents did not object to the mast

• Mast would be obscured in midst of 20 to 35

metre high trees

• Residents further than 250 metres away will not

see the mast

• Mobile reception in much of Banjup needs to be

improved

• Good mobile reception needed in case of fire

and emergencies


BRG Committee did consult widely

• Committee exchanged 10 emails on draft

• Facts were emailed to 232 households - 30 Dec

– Included line of sight diagrams

– Asked for comment

• 6 responses received

– 3 supportive of mast

– 3 against


To reflect residents’ diverse opinions,

BRG made 2 submissions to Council

• Opposing the mast on the grounds listed

• Not opposing based on observable facts

• Cockburn Council resolved unanimously to

reject Optus’ application

• Optus unlikely to appeal to State Administrative

Tribunal


36 of 48 objectors to Cockburn not on BRG

mailing list


• 155 nearby

properties

• 47 on BRG list

• 14 of those

objected

• 33 on BRG list

ambivalent

• Over 100

property owners

ambivalent to

mast

Only 3 on BRG’s list advised Committee of objection

Disingenuous to say BRG does not listen to

residents’ concerns

Committee emphatically refutes the claim


BRG is here for all Banjup and Jandakot

residents

• Rules:

– BRG exists to facilitate improvements in the security,

safety, and amenity of Banjup & Jandakot for its

residents

• Protocols:

– Seek outcomes that accommodate the great majority

of views.

– Speak civilly and build empathy. Rely upon evidence

and logic. Avoid emotional confrontation.

• See http://banjup.webs.com/12 March 2017Banjup Residents Group 60

http://banjup.webs.com/

BRG’s success derives from clear facts

• Rates refund in 2011

• Rates refund in 2015

• Safer junction at Liddelow and Armadale

• Police focus on hoons

• Practical fire regime

• Better risk management at DCP home



Airport

Dino Elpitelli

4:27

Jandakot Airport wants us to endorse its noise

warning paper


Implication would be that we accept the noise

nuisance

• Airport claims it is practical advice

• Endorsing it would undermine our

position

– They would say:

• How can residents seek to change pilots’

behaviour when you buy houses with your

eyes and ears wide open?




• Motion:

– The BRG does not endorse Jandakot

Airport’s advisory paper for those

considering moving to nearby properties

• Vote


Replanting Banjup

Erika Antal

4:30

Replanting went well


After 2 years, banksias now over 1 metre tall


Banjup can be a haven for Carnaby’s

cockatoos


Liddelow Road 30 Jan 17

Banjup has many priority food plants for

Carnaby’s Cockatoos

Trees and many

Shrubs

• Many Banksia

species

• Marri

• Tuart

• Salmon gum

• Wandoo

• Pine trees


For detailed list, contact Erika Antal: [email protected]


BRG supports increasing biodiversity

• Erika volunteers to:

– Source seeds and seedlings for planting;

– Grow seedlings from seeds

– Assist residents in replanting

– Act as focus for biodiversity initiatives


Contact Erika Antal at: [email protected]




• Motion:

– The BRG applauds and endorses Erika’s

biodiversity initiative

• Vote


Elections

Ian Thurston

4:40


We must hold elections for officers for 2017

• All office bearer and committee positions are

now declared vacant

• No office bearer can hold the same position for

more than 2 years

• We must elect:

– President

– Vice President

– Treasurer

– Secretary

– Up to 5 Committee members

Rule 10.4:

Must have been a

financial member of

the Association for

more than 1 year

Who will nominate for President?


Who will nominate for Vice-President?


Who will nominate for Treasurer?


Who will nominate for Secretary?


Who will be a Committee member?

• Up to 5 members



And finally …

Ian Thurston

5:00


Is there any other business?

1. -

2. -


When shall we meet again?

• Sunday 11 June 2017 ?


Thank you for your time and your contributions

• Stay and talk

• Have a cool drink

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