Update - December 2025
At its meeting in December, Council endorsed the recommendation to proceed with the amendments to Local Planning Policy: Character Area Guidelines and forward the amended policy to the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) for approval.
The minutes of this meeting are available to view on our website.
Background
The City of Vincent is reviewing the Local Planning Policy: Character Area Guidelines and seeking community feedback.
In August 2025 Council approved the review of Local Planning Policy: Character Area Guidelines for the purpose of community consultation.
This policy establishes standards and local housing objectives to ensure residential development is consistent with the characteristics of areas that are valued by the community.
It has direct impact on how a site can be developed and will therefore be of interest to both community and developers.
The review is in response to changes made to State planning requirements, specifically the Residential Design Codes (R-Codes).
Proposed changes
The review of Local Planning Policy: Character Area Guidelines includes:
- Rewording existing standards and local housing objectives to ensure consistency across all Character Areas.
- Restructuring to align with the format of the R-Codes.
- Providing new deemed-to-comply standards for Character Areas where there are no existing standards, to guide the assessment of the relevant objectives to ensure character is maintained in these areas.
You can view the draft policy in the Documents section to the right of this page.
Share your thoughts
Submissions closed 4pm Tuesday, 11 November 2025.
What will happen next?
The amended policy is being forwarded to the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) for approval.
Information on this page is available in alternative formats on request.
