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Approved - Permanent Extension - Retail Trading Hours for the City of Busselton Local Government District

At the Council Meeting on 22 August 2018, Council agreed to progress an application to uniform retail trading hours across the municipality.

The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety has approved permanent extensions to the retail trading hours across the entire City of Busselton local government district, in line with the following:

Monday to Sunday from 8.00am to 9.00pm inclusive of ALL Public Holidays (including Good

Friday, ANZAC Day and Christmas Day).

The City has received confirmation from the Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Commerce and Industrial Relations; Electoral Affairs; Asian Engagement that this permanent extension to retail trading has been approved.

This approval is timely given the upcoming holiday / tourism trading period, the decision allows for the business and visitor community to take advantage of these extended retail trading hours on an ongoing basis and the City encourages that business take up this opportunity.

To view Council's report click here

Having considered the outcomes of further investigation including the results of an independent community survey, Council (at its 14 November 2018 meeting) made a determination on the progression of road upgrade options applicable to the Busselton City Centre.

The City’s approach remains based on undertaking a suite of projects over time. The outcomes of the traffic modelling and an independent peer review of that modelling, indicated very clearly that combining various scenarios presents the best way forward. Technical assessment undertaken indicates that the City Centre Eastern Link (Stage 1) combined with an upgrade to the intersection of Albert and Queen Street is considered the best strategy. Taking community feedback on board (refer to City Centre Road Network Survey) the City maintains that additional benefit can be achieved by also undertaking upgrades at the intersection of Albert and West Street and Strelly Street and Causeway Road.

Council resolved to (C1811/230)

1. Receives the City Centre Road Network Community Survey Report provided by Catalyse Pty Ltd as an informing document.

2. Subject to environmental approval and municipal funding resources being available in the City’s annual budget and Long-term Financial Plan; progress with Option 5. This involves:

a. construct City Centre Eastern Link (Stage 1);

b. upgrade the intersection of Albert and Queen Street from lights to a roundabout;

c. upgrade the Albert and West Street intersection; and

d. upgrade the intersection at Strelly Street and Causeway Road.

3. Subject to ongoing municipal funding, continues to progress environmental approval for the future development of Ford Road noting that this will require a new and different application to be lodged with the EPA (as per Ministerial advice 14 August 2018).

4. Continue to lobby Main Roads WA for improved directional signage on Busselton Bypass.

Click here to view the Council Minutes and Council Report(External link) which includes all the relevant attachments to that report. Including the City Centre Road Network Survey Report; Riley Consulting Traffic Modelling Peer Review; Cardno Traffic Modelling Reports.

The City was interested to know what the broader community and visitors thought about the removal of a limited number of parking bays to allow for al fresco dining on Queen Street. In a Council meeting on the 25 July 2018 it was decided that further community consultation would be sought with regards to the draft policy relating to al fresco proposals and is now available for comment as part of a broader Busselton CBD Activation survey. The results from both surveys will then be reviewed by Council in the coming months.

View the full project here.

Community responses via the Draft Cycling & Shared Path Network Plan survey identified in excess of 150 proposed paths, all of which will be mapped and carefully evaluated, to assist in the identification of strategic goals and cycling infrastructure projects for the short to medium term. The City will report back on these once the mapping is complete.

View the full project here.

At the Council Meeting on 22 August 2018, Council agreed to progress an application to uniform retail trading hours across the municipality. This will allow trading between 8am - 9pm Monday to Friday, including all public holidays (incl. Good Friday, Anzac Day and Christmas Day).

View the full project here.

At Council Meeting on 27 June 2018, Council endorsed the draft concept designs of the Dunsborough Foreshore Café as a guide for further design development.

The City will now enter into an agreement with Margaret River Hospitality Group Pty Ltd, containing the following features:

• Lease for a period of 30 years
• Opening hours be approved from 7am to 8pm and the number of “Business type after hours events’ be set at no more than 24 each year;
• No weddings, 21st or 18th birthday parties
• Additional parking bays required to be provided in accordance with normal planning assessment
• City infrastructure contributions to the project being:

* $200,000 towards the cost of provision of new public toilet facilities;
* $18,000 for upgrading the existing car park; and

Masterplans for both the Geographe Leisure Centre (GLC) and the Naturaliste Community Centre (NCC) have been developed. The Plans contain a strategic review of current performance levels and recommend options to improve financial sustainability and developments over time to meet the needs of the growing and changing demographic which the centres service.

Council noted outcomes of the GLC and NCC Masterplan and resolved to consider the priorities for staged development and operating resources outlined in the report as guides for future planning and resource allocation in the City’s Long Term Financial Plan.

View the GLC project here and the NCC project here.

At its meeting on 14 March 2018 City of Busselton Council resolved to locate the new Ambergate Volunteer Bushfire Brigade station on the north-eastern side of Apex Park within the Ambergate Heights Estate.

The Apex Park site was endorsed by Council for several reasons:

• the site offers potential to expand the plans for the Ambergate fire shed to incorporate future use by the broader community such is the case in Yallingup and Eagle Bay.
• locating the fire station in Apex Park makes the most sense as it is central and provides better accessibility both for the brigade and the broader community.

On the basis of demonstrated community support; the City has reinstated the livestreaming of CCTV footage of the Busselton Skate Park from the City's website. The survey undertaken to ascertain community sentiment on the issue showed that of the 185 survey respondents, 71% favoured live streaming of CCTV footage. 15% did not support live streaming and 14% supported live streaming only during events.

The footage can be viewed here.

Results from the Discussion Forum and Map It tool will be reviewed by the City, in consultation with the Toby Inlet Community Reference Group and used to formulate management recommendations and strategies for the Toby Inlet Water Management Plan, currently being prepared as part of the Revitalising Geographe Waterways program.

Please view the full project here.