Brooklands was originally owned by Dr Carl Geogeff and used for grazing cattle. In 1983 the property was subdivided into 5 acre special rural lots which were sold to the open market, predominantly for equestrian use.
Back then there was no Ellenbrook, Morgan Fields or Brabham. There was no Lord Street and Park Street was a dead end. People could enjoy riding their horses around the local rural areas, Whiteman Park, Gnangara Pine Plantation and along the designated bridle paths throughout Brooklands with safety.
After a period of approximately 21 years it had become very obvious that the encroachment of urban development had severely impacted the original intent of the zoning and access by horses to surrounding rural areas and bridle paths. As a consequence in 2004 the majority of landowners living in Brooklands felt strong enough to make submissions (103 in total) to the WAPC in relation to ground water protection with the the main concern not to prevent future urbanisation of their land. Our submissions were upheld!
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In October 2013 an email was sent to the Planning Manager, Metropolitan Planning North East, Department of Planning highlighting the seriousness of the planning debacle which allowed two totally different zoning’s to co-exist on Park Street. MRS Amendment No. 1036/33 was also brought to their attention and the fact that the outcome of this state level amendment was never included within the Directions 2031 and Beyond strategic level framework document – a gross oversight on the part of the Western Australian Planning Commission and the City of Swan. Our concerns were passed on to the NESRSP development team for consideration. We strongly believe that it was this action that precipitated the changing of Brooklands to “urban expansion” within the Draft North-East Sub Regional Planning Framework document .
As an outcome of a meeting with Ms Rita Saffioti MLA (West Swan) and landowners on November 4, 2014 the following questions were asked in the Legislative Council on November 18, 2014 :
On May 1, 2015 the Draft North-East Sub Regional Planning Framework (relevant map – page 19) was released by the WAPC which identified Brooklands for urban expansion which represents a ‘rounding off’ of the existing urban areas, namely; Ellenbrook and Brabham. It should also be noted that Brooklands has now been added to the Ellenbrook local structure plan which has been adopted by council.
A significant amount of property owners have already signed contracts with a prominent property developer to purchase their properties for future residential development.
The project is being managed by Progress Developments, a team of highly experienced professional property developers based in Perth, Western Australia.
Drone footage of Brooklands and the surrounding urbanisation…
