Buffer Wars
History tells us that wars are usually about two parties arguing because someone is trying to take something that doesn’t belong to them, or they’re defending something that does.
The Kwinana “Buffer Wars” are not new.
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.Industry in Kwinana has been allocated its land, which includes its buffer zone.
No buffer zone, no industrial area – simple. Property developers want to take buffer land and build homes on it.
The statutory authorities are the arbiter, they make the rules to avoid the conflicts. They made the industrial area, they made the buffer, and they made places zoned for homes.
Property developers want industry’s buffer land, and industry doesn’t want to give it up. Here’s the conflict. The arbiter is making decisions that industry thinks favours the property developers, so they’re creating winners and losers. And that cost for the State will be counted in long term jobs lost.
The conflict is escalating, the fighting is getting dirty, the war is on.
Latest News
Kwinana Industries Council’s perception of a biased planning system. What do you think?
Printed Media
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Expansion integral to future of Western Trade Coast_The West Australian_BW_October 2021
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Opinion - Is Mr Popular really just a one trick pony_The West Australian_BW_February 27, 2021
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Alison Xamon Greens - KIC Political donations issue_Greens WA_BW_February 26, 2021
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Democracy for Sale_Greens WA_BW_February 26,2021
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WA Inc Burkes donatoins tip for Premier_The Australian_BW_February 25, 2021
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Leading property developer backs McGowan_6PR_BW_February 09, 2021
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Air quality doubts_Weekend Courier_BW_December 04, 2020
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Ministers Intervene on planning processes_Sunday Times_BW_November 29, 2020
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Nahan Hansard Valedictory Speech_BW_November 20, 2020.pdf
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Nahan on WA Labor links to business_WA Today_BW_November 20, 2020.pdf
Radio & Television
WA’s biggest push for transparency around political donations
– Liam Bartlett Newstalk Interview with Chris Oughton
What’s all the fuss about the buffer?
Take the Tour and see!
A residential subdivision has just been approved by the Planning Minister, some 6 years after the developer lost all avenues of appeal. How can industry have confidence in a planning system that gives an approval to a rejected proposal? The subdivision is partly inside the industrial buffer zone. Buffer erosion is death by a thousand cuts for an industrial area. Heavy industry is located where it is in Kwinana BECAUSE of the protection from residential encroachment the buffer ensures. KIC wants laws for WA like they have in QLD, NSW, and the ACT to make it illegal for property developers to make political donations. That’s Why.
Why is the Buffer Zone so Important to Kwinana and the Industrial area?
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What makes the Western Trade Coast so attractive to Overseas Investors?
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Contact Us
PO Box 649
Kwinana WA 6966
Tel: (08) 9419 1855
Email: admin@kic.org.au
Contact Us
PO Box 649
Kwinana WA 6966
Tel: (08) 9419 1855
Email: admin@kic.org.au
Acknowledgement of Country
Kwinana Industries Council acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country, the Nyoongar people and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.