After 2 years of development and consultation, Infrastructure Western Australia has tabled WA’s first State Infrastructure Strategy in Parliament, laying the foundations for infrastructure planning, delivery and management for the next 2 decades.
Foundations for a Stronger Tomorrow outlines the state’s significant infrastructure needs and priorities. It provides a long-term vision and infrastructure outlook underpinned by 6 strategic opportunities and 10 strategy objectives and is divided into broad infrastructure types categorised as 7 cross-cutting themes and 9 infrastructure sectors. It reaches across WA’s 10 regions, to identify both build and non-build solutions such as policy reforms and priority projects and programs.
The Strategy recommends that the WA Government embed a target of net zero emissions by 2050, as well as interim emissions reduction targets, in the activities of government and industry.
Throughout the development of the Strategy and its consultation process, a number of core themes were identified that underpin Infrastructure WA’s (IWA) recommendations:
- Managing demand for infrastructure through prevention, early intervention and pricing
- Improving the quality and consistency of strategic infrastructure planning and processes
- Addressing climate change
- Implementing data sharing and other tools to support infrastructure planning and investment decision making
- Optimising the existing infrastructure asset base
- Identifying major infrastructure project and programs.
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