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32 Business View Australia - March-April 2016
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the winner of the GK Waters Local
Government Engineering Excellence
Award for the Mandurah Road
Pedestrian Bridge project.
Peel Regional Leaders
Forum
Mandurah’s Council has formedmany
good working relationships inside and
outside the city. One group is the Peel
Regional Leaders Forum.
A collection of the region’s major
stakeholders, the group has influence
in development, environment and
community. CEO’s of all the local
governments in the region are
members and the group meets on a
regular basis to update each other
and work together on projects they
are engaged in.
AdamDenniss, Manager of Economic
Development and Projects at the City
says the collaboration benefits the
Peel region immensely.
“The outcome of that is local
governments are getting much more
involved in economic development.
City space activation and community
focused work is looking at how they
fit into the greater good. Supply chain,
comparative advantage and this
is a very different place for a lot of
governments to be thinking. The City of
Mandurah is a leader in this,” he says.
One of the big projects to come out
of the blueprint was Transform Peel.
The project targets a new industrial
estate of almost 1,000 hectares. This
is an environmental plan recognising
that the area has a very sensitive
environment. Water, environment
and economic development makes
up Transform Peel and the City of
Mandurah will play a major part in all
of this.
Denniss says the Forum also acts
as an intermediary for councils to
understand where their plans fit in
with State and Federal government
plans.
“The Forum allows local governments
to see where exactly their plans fit
in. As a lot of projects require State
and Federal funding, it’s important.
Otherwise people would go off and
work in silos all alone.”
“The joint projectsarecoming through
joint staff sharing, joint sharing of
resources. Sharing capabilities lead
to a stronger region,” he says.
Denniss is excited about the growth
potential of Mandurah and the greater
Peel area.
“There is a business case sitting up
at the State Government level in the
Treasury. And if it gets the tick, it’ll be
a $70 million project. It’ll only work if
the two groups work together.”
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