At last Tuesday night’s City of Wanneroo council meeting, the Yanchep City local structure plan was approved for advertising.
This plan has been described as the most significant plan the northern corridor has seen for many years.
The Yanchep City local structure plan is a joint venture partnership with Tokyu Corporation and New Orion Investments trading as Yanchep Beach Joint Venture.
The plan covers 612 hectares of undeveloped land north of the existing St Andrews Estate and Sun City Country Club stretching between the Mitchell Freeway reserve and the Marmion Avenue extension north of Yanchep Beach Road.
The plan includes mixed residential, commercial, retail entertainment, hospitality as well as education and health facilities.
The plan would transform Yanchep into a modern metropolis becoming the biggest metropolitan centre outside the Perth CBD.
This plan is part of the much bigger Yanchep Two Rocks District Structure Plan which the WA Planning Commission approved in August subject to some changes.
The plan also identifies the rail alignment and station location and associated transit oriented development precincts.
Seventy-five hectares has been allocated for public open space.
City of Wanneroo council officers have determined the plan is satisfactory for advertising, including holding an information session in Yanchep during the consultation process.
At full ‘build out’ the Yanchep Two Rocks region will accommodate approximately 66,000 dwellings and around 155,000 people, making it the largest single project of its type in the southern hemisphere.
The project says it also has the potential to accommodate up to 55,000 new jobs, which would increase the employment self-sufficiency level in the north-west metropolitan corridor.
As part of a collaborative commitment to the St Andrews IDEA Project, the WA state government, City of Wanneroo and Tokyu Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in August, 2003.
The MOU sets out a process to achieve planning and economic development outcomes.
A feature of the IDEA Project was to create 1,000 jobs between 2003 - 2008.
Current job generation figures are unknown, but are believed to be well short of the 1,000 as promised.
The Yanchep City plan will take considerable time to achieve all the required approvals and would not probably start construction for five years.
There are some people who would like to see Yanchep stay as it is, but equally there are those who want things to happen faster.
Over 30 years ago, Alan Bond created a Yanchep City proposal, this latest plan contains many of Mr Bond’s original concepts and ideas. No doubt within 10 years, Yanchep as its is today, will be unrecognisable.
Many commercial developers and prospective industries are showing a keen interest in relocating to the area.
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