Planning and Development Act 2005.

This Planning and Development Act, consisting of 268 sections divided into sixteen Parts and completed by nine Schedules, aims at performing the following activities: a) consolidate the provisions of the Acts repealed by the Planning and Development (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005 (the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959, the Town Planning and Development Act 1928 and the Western Australian Planning Commission Act 1985) in a rewritten form; b) provide for an efficient and effective land use planning system in the State; and c) promote the sustainable use and development of land in the State. The Act also establishes a body called the Western Australian Planning Commission as a body corporate with perpetual succession. The Commission is an agent of the State and has the status, immunities and privileges of the State. The Commission is to establish a committee to be known as the Coastal Planning and Coordination Council aimed to advise the Commission on matters relating to coastal planning and coordination throughout the State.
The functions of the Commission are: prepare and keep under review (i) a planning strategy for the State; and (ii) planning policies, to plan for the coordinated provision of transport and infrastructure for land development; provide advice and assistance to any body or person on land use planning and land development and in particular to local governments in relation to local planning schemes and their planning and development functions; undertake research and develop planning methods and models relating to land use planning, land development and associated matters; keep under review the strategic planning for the metropolitan region and any other part of the State to which a region planning scheme applies and to make recommendations to the Minister on that strategic planning; prepare and amend State planning policies; prepare regional planning schemes, etc.
The Act is divided as follows: Preliminary (Part 1); Western Australian Planning Commission (Part 2); State planning policies (Part 3); Region planning schemes (Part 4); Local planning schemes (Part 5); Interim development orders (Part 6); Planning control areas (Part 7); Improvement plans and schemes (Part 8); Relationship between planning schemes, planning control provisions and written laws (Part 9); Subdivision and development control (Part 10); Development Assessment Panels and development control (Part 11); Financial provisions (Part 12); Enforcement and legal proceedings (Part 13); Applications for review (Part 14); Subsidiary legislation (Part 15); Miscellaneous (Part 16).