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BANJUP RESIDENTS GROUP General Meeting 27 October 2013 3:00 Your committee Office Bearers: Committee: Coco Franklin Colin Bramwell President: Vice Ian Thurston Neil Cunliffe-Williams President: Treasurer: Neil Raine Dino Elpitelli

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BANJUP RESIDENTS GROUP

General Meeting

27 October 2013

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 2

Your committee

3:00

Rita Zuks Jemma Van Dongen Secretary: Dino Elpitelli Neil Raine Treasurer: Neil Cunliffe-Williams Ian Thurston Vice President: Colin Bramwell Coco Franklin President: Committee: Office Bearers:

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 3

Guests today include:

  • Mayor Logan Howlett
  • Cllr Yaz Mubarakai
  • Adam Harris, Cockburn Environmental Officer
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 4

Apologies

  • Members

– Ron Arnold – Rita Zuks

  • Non-Members

– Joe Francis MLA – Cllr Steve Portelli

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 5

Agenda

  • Formalities
  • Financial position
  • Feral Animals 3:10
  • Fire Safety

3:45

  • Banjup

Development

4:05

  • Footpaths

4:20

  • Aircraft Noise

4:30

  • Anything Else 4:50
  • Next Meeting
  • Refreshments
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 6

Confirmation of Minutes of June General Meeting

  • Minutes posted on BRG web site

– No comments received

  • Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Minutes of the General Meeting held on 16 June 2013 as a true and accurate record

  • Proposer
  • Seconder
  • Vote
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Financial Position Neil Raine

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 8

Financial Position – 27 October 2013

Funds as at 31/1/13 (from AGM Report) 3,822.24

Income Membership 350.00 Donations 179.36 Interest 6.58 Expenses Food (138.19) Hall Hire (268.00) Newsletter (65.85) Postage (67.40) Signage (859.20) Transaction Fees (0.50) WA Newspapers (16.00) Web Site Hosting (80.96)

Funds at 27/10/2013 2,736.08

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 9

Acceptance of Financial Position

  • Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Financial Position as reported

  • Proposer
  • Seconder
  • Vote
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 10

Feral Animal Control Adam Harris Environmental Officer City of Cockburn

3:10

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 11

Adam’s slides

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 12

Fire Safety Ian Thurston

3:45

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 13

Cockburn slipped in a ‘5 metre rule’

  • Fire Control Order put out for public comment

– Change only Fire Break Period – BRG submission dismissed

  • Council adopted change to Fire Break Period
  • AND, without public consultation

– 5 metre clearance around sheds and outbuildings

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 14

Cockburn was confused in its Fire Order

  • “5 metre rule”

– area which is within 5 metres of a shed or outbuilding clear of all dry vegetation, debris, and flammable matter

  • But Fire Order defined “flammable matter” as

– all forms of vegetation both living and dead, and any

  • ther flammable materials and combustible matter
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 15

Hurried and ill-considered ideas lead to bad laws

  • Cockburn officer drafted the rule badly

– BUT - Councillors rely on officers’ expertise

  • Only the month before, we met with

Director

– Sought more discussion – Fully agreed – Came to nought

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 16

BRG made deputation to September council meeting

  • 5 committee members put BRG case
  • Cllr Steve Portelli proposed rescinding 5 metre

rule

– Supported by Mayor Howlett & Cllr Mubarakai

  • Opposed by Cllr Lee-Anne Smith

– And Cllrs Houwen and Pratt

  • Council rescinded 5 metre rule (vote 7-3)

– New fire order posted to all ratepayers

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 17

Bush Fire Reference Group is unrepresentative

  • Councillors pretend BFRG represents

community

  • BFRG is volunteer brigades plus

councillors

  • Residents have no input
  • Cockburn staff and councillors manipulate

BRFG

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 18

Rural residents must be represented at BFRG

  • Impractical ideas will keep coming unless

stopped

  • Banjup and Wattleup must be represented
  • Will councillors support our involvement?
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 19

Why does Cockburn make rules for ratepayers that it does not apply to itself?

  • Many verges not maintained for years
  • Banjup misses out on maintenance

budget

  • Cockburn pretends that firebreak

rules are for our safety

  • How can we escape a fire if verges in

flames?

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 20

Clearance should be regular part of maintenance budget

Gil Chalwell Reserve

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 21

Clearing verges, not ‘pruning’ them will prevent fires starting

Liddelow Road Reserve

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 22

Poor maintenance reduces road ‘firebreak’ by 60%

6 metres 8 Metres 6 metres Liddelow 6 metres 6 Metres 6 metres Boronia

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 23

Bush Fire Reference Group should have been flagging these dangers

  • Supposed to provide expert advice to

Council

  • Ratepayer representation is essential
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 24

What shall we resolve?

  • Motion:
  • 1. The BRG seeks representation on the Bush Fire

Reference Group

  • 2. The BRG urges Cockburn to make Banjup’s

roadside verges safe

  • Proposer
  • Seconder
  • Vote
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 25

This is Bush Fire Action Week

  • Wet spring increased fuel loads
  • Bush fire risk high
  • Fire-fighters and community share

responsibility

  • Make sure you are ready for the worst
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 26

Do you have a written Bushfire Survival Plan?

  • What are your triggers to

leave?

– Loss of electricity – DFES text message alert – Sirens nearby – Police at door

  • Where will you go to?

– Bunnings car park – Aubin Grove Primary School

  • How will you get there?

– Liddelow Road – Beenyup Road – Leave your property gates

  • pen
  • If you cannot leave,

where will you shelter?

– Laundry – 2 exits

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 27

Put your Plan on your fridge

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Banjup Development Jemma Van Dongen

4:05

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 29

Banjup Quarry rezoning approved by Minister

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 30

Urban Stone is being developed

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 31

Native vegetation cleared

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 32

Jandakot Airport clearance continues

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 33

Further development on Water Mound likely

Banjup Quarry Dept of Housing Perron Group

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 34

How important is the Water Mound?

  • Dept of Planning reviewing land use
  • Dept of Water says Water Mound

important

  • But OK with Quarry and Urban Stone
  • Likely OK with Housing and Perron
  • Airport is compromising Water Mound

anyway

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 35

How can water security be balanced with urban growth needs?

  • Planning asked Water for clarity
  • Banjup close to:

– Cockburn Central – Railway – Freeway

  • WAPC makes strategic decision on

Banjup

– Likely end November

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 36

Banjup residents can plan better after WAPC decision

  • Proposing 1 hectare blocks now

would be ignored

  • Discuss how to take forward at AGM
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 37

Footpaths Coco Franklin

4:20

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 38

In 2012, Cockburn voted $350,000 to build 4 km

  • f footpaths in Banjup

770 mtr 490 mtr 1345 mtr 1310 mtr 835 mtr 770 mtr 490 mtr 1345 mtr 1310 mtr 835 mtr 770 mtr

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 39

~$50,000 spent on feasibility

  • Cannot build paths abutting bitumen

road

–Drainage problems

  • More expensive to build paths 5

metres from road

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 40

In June, BRG resolved to spend $300,000 on fire management

  • Clear Banjup’s verges
  • Spread gravel
  • BUT now Cockburn has an alternative

proposal

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 41

$273,000 will pay for Gibbs and Liddelow connector path – part of ‘Trails Master Plan’

460 mtr 200 mtr 880 mtr

Thomsons Lake De Young Reserve

Asphalt Asphalt Limestone Existing

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 42

Additionally, $35,000 can be spent ‘pruning’ roadside verges

  • Beenyup
  • Boronia
  • Follington
  • Gibbs
  • Gutteridge
  • Harper
  • Hausen
  • Kinley
  • Liddelow
  • Oxley
  • Scofield
  • Sheoak
  • Triandra
  • Wilga

But this should be part of normal maintenance budget !!

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 43

What shall we resolve?

  • Motion:

– The BRG requests the City of Cockburn to spend the $300,000 promised to Banjup on …

  • Proposer
  • Seconder
  • Vote
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 44

Aircraft Noise Dino Elpitelli

4:30

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 45

Why are some days noisier than others?

  • Depends on wind direction
  • Easterly winds mean more flights over Banjup

– Jets into Perth Airport – Light aircraft out of Jandakot

  • Jets at 3,000 feet over Banjup
  • Light aircraft must be separated by 2,000 feet

– So, 1,000 feet over Banjup – Same noise as diesel truck at 15 metres

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 46

Jets from East or West turn over Banjup in easterly winds

From North From North From East From East

  • westerlies

westerlies From East From East

  • easterlies

easterlies

  • From West

From West

  • easterlies

easterlies

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 47

Jandakot Tower supposed to control flights within 5.5 km radius

Control Zone Control Zone

Outbound Outbound – – Westerly wind Westerly wind Outbound Outbound – – Easterly wind Easterly wind Inbound Inbound

Circuits Circuits

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 48

Jandakot Airport says it has a “fly neighbourly” policy

  • Pilots supposed to fly on nominated tracks

– Circuits between Armadale and Roe – Southern training area:

  • Out over Thompsons Lake
  • Return over Forrestdale Lake
  • Airport has informally relaxed rules over the

years

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 49

Airport says it cannot control where pilots fly

  • Neither can Air Services Australia nor CASA
  • But Jandakot Airport has “Conditions of Use”

– If do not “fly neighbourly”, then they can deny use

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 50

We just want Jandakot Airport to do what it said it would do

  • The big South African corporate just ignores

residents’ complaints

  • Canberra is not interested in us
  • Consultation Group just a talking shop

– No-one has to do anything – Our elected representatives seldom attend

  • We are being shafted
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 51

We need some ‘big guns’ on our side

  • Can Melissa Parke help us?
  • Can the State Government help us?
  • What can the City of Cockburn do?
  • Jandakot Airport needs State and Council

assistance to access roads etc.

  • Can anything be delayed or withheld?
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 52

What shall we resolve?

  • Motion:

– The BRG requests the State Government and City of Cockburn to …

  • Proposer
  • Seconder
  • Vote
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And finally … Coco Franklin

4:50

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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 54

Is there any other business?

  • 1. -
  • 2. -
  • 3. -
  • 4. -
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 55

When shall we meet again?

  • Sunday 23 February 2014 ?
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27 October 2013 Banjup Residents Group 56

Thank you for your time and your contributions

  • Join us in refreshments
  • Tea
  • Coffee
  • Biscuits