The draft Green Growth Plan for 3.5 million (GGP) is a whole-of-government initiative to provide an unprecedented degree of certainty in relation to future environmental protection and approvals. A comprehensive suite of documents was released in December 2015 for public comment.Additional mapping has now been developed to provide a greater visual context to the draft documents. It will give landowners and other stakeholders a greater understanding of the potential impacts and consequences of the draft GGPcommitments.The contemporary, interactive map is indicative only; it shows areas of land that may be impacted by the GGP commitments. It does not reflect commitments or values on a site-by-site basis, and must be viewed in conjunction with the Terms of Use notice and the existing draft GGP documents.The mapping focuses on urban, industrial and rural residential land only and does not deal with the infrastructure or pines harvesting components of GGP. A separate theme of (draft conservation program) layers in the mapping tool shows existing and proposed conservation reserves/areas. Detailed mapping for basic raw materials is available from the Department of Mines and Petroleum website at www.dmp.wa.gov.au.

The mapping is based on the best available current data from environmental agencies but is not intended to be used to identify environmental values on specific sites. Feedback or additional environmental survey data is welcome.Known existing approvals have also been included as an overlay. It is likely that some existing approvals may not have been captured so users should refer to their approval documentation for any environmental conditions or requirements for clarity, where possible.Large areas of ‘broad commitments and values’ are shown on the maps, which will require further refinement before the mapping is finalised. In some instances the commitments in the draft GGP documents will only require protection of a portion of the areas shown in the maps. Many of these areas relate to matters such as Carnaby’s cockatoo habitat and uncommon types of native vegetation.Guidelines to inform further refinement of these sites will be developed and may include criteria such as: • the quality, size and extent of overlap of

environmental values;• any valid approved structure plans and the

strategic importance of developing an area;• linkages to other conservation/

environmental areas;• meeting overall avoidance targets; and• consideration of relevant biodiversity

strategies and frameworks.

Green Growth Planmapping Fact sheet

The maps provide several layers of information:

indicates areas with some level of known existing approval (including approved local level structure plans). Users should refer to these approvals in conjunction with the draft maps. A ‘right-click’ over this ‘Known Existing Approvals’ layer will identify the type/s of approvals and provide a link to a relevant website.

indicates areas with specific commitments to protect:• threatened flora and threatened ecological communities;• conservation category wetlands and wetlands of international importance;• vegetation complexes with less than 10 per cent remaining;• Bush Forever areas (excluding those within the ‘rural complementary’ and

‘negotiated planning solution’ categories); and• Short Tongued Bee (Leioproctus douglasiellus) distribution.

indicates basic raw materials areas requiring further investigation, where they overlap with urban, industrial or rural-residential areas.

indicates areas requiring further refinement:• threatened fauna habitat (including Carnaby’s Cockatoo habitat, Chuditch and

Ring Tail Possum sites);• vegetation complexes with more than 10 per cent but less than 30 per cent

remaining ‘negotiated planning solution’ and ‘rural complementary’ Bush Forever areas, and Peel Regionally Significant Natural Areas;

• resource enhancement wetlands with remnant vegetation, including a 50 metre buffer; and

• 50 metre buffers for conservation category wetlands.

The consultation period is now extended to 5pm Friday 13 May 2016 to provide stakeholders more time to prepare submissions following the introduction of the new maps.

Please visit www.dpc.wa.gov.au/greengrowthplan for more information.