A future vision of Perth emerged at the Landcorp C2030 summit on Friday 31^st July 2010.

Prepare for a future of opportunity with Perth taking its place at the centre of a booming economic powerhouse – Western Australia. A glowing jewel of water and light on the pacific rim, boasting a thriving arts culture, cutting edge infrastructure, world class living standards and education centre of choice for many Asian students.

• A planning culture needs to be developed
• Leadership is needed for looking at complexity & reducing to simplicity so as to be able to communicate the plan
• Focus on most urgent & achievable parts of the plan
• Solve problems laterally but deploy the plan in a linear fashion
• Leaders envisage the end outcome and articulate the vision
• Leaders have to be good at picking the right experts
• Leaders need to be able to cope with adversity
• Condition the team to cope with setbacks
• Build agility into the team

• Western Australia is the most exciting state
• We need a vision
• Government has a leading role
• Approval processes are flawed
• Urgent need to adjust
• An independent public service needed (independent of government)
• Future of Perth needs long term thinking
• Road network is critical but neglected
• Perth needs to remain affordable
• Perth should not compare itself or its’ needs with Sydney or Melbourne

• Perth should be home to more scientific bodies
• High speed trains with monorails linking major centres away from the central rail network including the airport, universities and city centres
• Cultural centre on the Indian Ocean rim
• World centre of indigenous culture
• River of lights along the river
• Mix of retail, residential and business in the CBD
• Make Perth attractive for the type of people we want here including innovative, community minded people
• Home to international students from around the world
• Retain people with quality of life & critical mass
• Adapt time to our needs. Longer opening hours for shops & cultural centres given our long working days
• Bold leadership required
• Link Kings Park to the city of Perth
• Develop a sense of identity
• Change collective mindset to say yes more often
• Look to the future
• Develop Cottesloe foreshore

• All about process
• Process in development in Western Australia is poor
• Like to see long term plans
• Will be a leading economy
• Perth sits on the Indian Ocean Rim
• Perth should be a centre for the provision of health services, research and tourism
• There are too many vested interests
• Perth could be home to the performing arts and have multiple cultural precincts
• Maximise access, reduce regulation
• Build a world class modern stadium
• There are issues with planning & politicians
• Perth needs adaquate infrastructure to sustain the population on the future
• There needs to be active planning and provisioning of infrastructure, most importantly, active government engagement
• Rather than rush projects through without enough capital, wait until they can be funded properly i.e. Bell Tower & Convention Centre
• Government needs to get better at recognising infrastructure needs
• Need to encourage an art culture incubator
• Planning has failed – no great strategy
• Government never had a direction
• There are over 600 submissions to the federal government for projects across the country
• Need a better process for getting projects onto that long list
• Too many cost blowouts on projects
• Planning for a new sports stadium has been a failure
• People should come first
• Need good planning process

Professor Richard Weller presented a fascinating topic on what the future holds for Perth at the C2030 Perth summit. Some of the major topic points included –

• Perth is currently network centric
• By 2050 Perth will have doubled in size, the magnetism if the CBD will have given way to multiple nodes and the city will be polycentric
• The city will be far from self sufficient
• The population will have expanded from 1.6 million to between 3 and 4.2 million
• 1.1   million new homes or 1.4 million new apartments will have been built
• 85% of all new development will be urban sprawl
• Suburbs are not necessarily a negative and will still be good places to live in though expect the size of the backyard to keep decreasing as it is used less & less
• Massive amounts of land are still available, at least 118,000 hectares inland
• Already, Perth is the biggest sprawled city on the planet
• Spread out cities are not the optimal configuration. Density & size brings the benefit of inverse power requirement ratios
• If everyone on the planet were to live like we do in Perth, we’d need 5 planets the size of Earth

• Change is a constant
• Vision is necessary for considering where we want to be in the future
• Vision and planning go hand in hand

• There will be lots of dollars ($) available for future development
• The Federal government will spend $43 billion to build a national fire to the curb network
• The goal is to generate 20% of Western Australian energy from renewable by 2020