The Westport Taskforce has today released the consultation report ‘Westport: What you have told us’, which outlines the community feedback received during the first round of consultation on the development of the Westport: Ports and Environs Strategy.
The consultation report outlines the feedback provided via hundreds of responses and how this information will help shape the approach in which the plan for Western Australia’s freight, trade and logistics needs will be developed.
Based on the feedback, Westport has identified 10 packages of research categories that will be pursued for the Westport Strategy. These include factors relating to future port facilities such as location, size, operating model and timing.
Other outcomes of the consultation period include:
- Widening the scope of the strategy to include a review of world’s best practice governance of port facilities;
- Adding questions to the project methodology that define key themes identified during the consultation period as integral to the strategy development;
- Developing a discussion paper explaining why Cockburn Sound has been identified as a potential location for additional port facilities;
- Adding an indigenous heritage representative to the Westport Taskforce Reference Group; and
- Having an innovation and technology specialist within the Westport Project Office.
The next phase of public consultation on the Westport Strategy will take place later this year in conjunction with the release of a discussion paper, which will outline the findings to date and seek feedback on how options should be prioritised.
The ‘Westport: What you have told us’ consultation report is available at http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/westport