City of Joondalup statement – Shalom House

The City of Joondalup will ask Planning Minister Hon Rita Saffioti MLA and the Western Australian Planning Commission to review the Commission’s advice to Shalom House that it could accommodate participants in Shalom’s Women’s program at this site without needing to obtain approval under the Metropolitan Region Scheme.

The City considers that the Commission’s advice was incorrect.

The City will also ask Shalom House to substantiate how its proposed operations at the property meet the land use definition of ‘Community Purpose’ under the City of Joondalup Local Planning Scheme No. 3.

At the same time, the City will engage with representatives of Shalom House, and other key stakeholders, to address a range of community concerns about the proposed use of the site and to discuss potential management measures and strategies that Shalom House might consider incorporating if it is able to operate from the property.

The City will also ask the West Australian Local Government Association to advocate to the Minister for Planning on behalf of the local government sector to urgently progress changes to the relevant State planning instruments to impose a State-wide change to the ‘Community Purpose’ land use definition to exclude rehabilitation facilities and also to prepare a separate land use definition that more appropriately captures rehabilitation facilities.

The decisions were made by the Council of the City of Joondalup at its meeting on Tuesday 28 February.

The property bought by Shalom House at 252 – 254 Camberwarra Drive, Craigie is next to a primary school and day care centre.