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Planning Reform and COVID-19: How We Turned a Bad Dream into an Accomplishment
Kathy Bonus RPIA (Fellow), Chief Planning Advisor | Reform, Design and State Assessment | Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
This presentation will explore the reform journey of Western Australia's planning system amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The talk will reflect on the key ingredients that facilitated the successful delivery of this large-scale project, the measures taken to ensure success, and the approaches that reshaped the planning landscape. Kathy will help us understand how WA's ambitious reform project was delivered and how it shapes our future.
This session will take place in the main conference room - BelleVue Ballroom 1
About Kathy
Kathy is a Registered Planner who has worked in local and State government roles as well as the private sector. Starting her career in a surveying practice before working in land development, she has lived and worked in regional and remote Western Australia as well as the city. Kathy’s work has crossed a broad spectrum of planning—from remote Indigenous communities in the Central Desert to high-density inner-city local government.
As Chief Planning Advisor, Kathy supports the Director General and the Western Australian Planning Commission in delivering Government priorities by providing high-level advice and leading critical planning and infrastructure projects. She is responsible for key projects, including Planning Reform and Design WA. Kathy is a passionate planner who strongly believes in a pragmatic approach that delivers outcomes through stakeholder engagement.
About the Gordon Stephenson Oration
The lecture is in honour of the late Gordon Stephenson who is best known for his role in shaping the modern growth and development of Perth, Western Australia and his work on the 'Stephenson-Hepburn Report' of 1953 which laid down a broad pattern of future land uses including highways and open space, and catered for significant additional population growth.
The overall aim of the lecture is to raise awareness and promote discussion and debate on a wide range of key local, state, national and international issues in urban and regional planning among planning academics and students, the wider planning profession and the general public.