The Greens (WA) will push for Satterley's North Stoneville development to be permanently scrapped, citing bushfire concerns and the impact on important habitat for threatened native species including the Chuditch, Phascogale and all three species of Black Cockatoo.
The North Stoneville development proposal remains a dangerous and destructive plan from more than three decades ago that fails to acknowledge climate risk and is totally inappropriate for Perth's future.
Quotes As put by the Greens (WA) Kalamunda candidate Janelle Sewell:
"I will stand alongside the community to ensure dangerous and environmentally destructive developments in the highly vulnerable and increasingly volatile Perth Hills - such as the despised Satterley North Stoneville development - will never proceed.
"I've rallied with Save Perth Hills against the Satterley Hills development from the beginning of the campaign and will continue to fight to protect our environmentally vulnerable region.
"It's a fundamental duty of care for the Greens - and for me - to ensure that any development in our region, safeguards, not endangers our bushfire-risk communities; recent fires in California have only fortified this position.
"In the last 20 years the Liberals have accepted almost $300,000 in donations from Nigel Satterley and Satterley Property Group while Labor have accepted just under $240,000 in the same period, including more than $36,000 in the last 18 months.
"Only the Greens can be trusted to protect and preserve Perth Hills because we are the only party that does not take corporate donations from property developers, like Nigel Satterley, and we have a proud history of supporting this community campaign from the beginning, through consecutive Liberal and Labor governments that had ample opportunity to stop it."
As stated by WA Greens Environment spokesperson and Legislative Council candidate, Jess Beckerling:
"The impacts of back-to-back record dry summers remain for all to see throughout the Perth Hills, from Pickering Brook to Worooloo and across to Darlington; it is unthinkable that Satterley would be allowed to clear 60,000 native trees across 200 hectares of bush at a time when our natural environment is under so much pressure.
"Endangered Black Cockatoos are already starving and this project will further reduce their crucial habitat, as well as impact on other endangered wildlife including Chuditches and Phascogales.
"The offsets proposed for this disastrous project will do nothing to protect these species because offsets are notoriously problematic and Satterley has 110 years to implement them!
"This project has been knocked back multiple times because of environmental impact and bushfire risk; It is a testament to the influence of property developers in this state that this project is still on the table after more than thirty years of community opposition."
As stated by WA Greens MLC Dr Brad Pettitt:
"Nothing about this development makes sense and the Perth Hills community will be rightly disappointed in the federal Labor government for granting this approval to offset the destruction of critical habitat for endangered black cockatoos and chuditches.
"Perth desperately needs to stop the urban sprawl, which means not clearing important bush habitat to build these kinds of car-dependent developments in bushfire prone areas that have limited access to essential services and employment opportunities.
"When this project was first conceptualised way back in 1991 there was less of an understanding of the impacts of climate change; now there is no excuse. This development no longer makes sense and to build it would put future residents at serious risk of climate-related impacts, especially bushfires.
"Perth needs smarter and more sustainable infill, not dangerous fringe development. Let's preserve Perth Hills' environmental biodiversity and create a more liveable Perth by rethinking how we build houses and communities for our growing population."
