Last updated: January 30, 2020
The Minister for Environment has requested that the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) inquire into and report on the matter of adding the proposal description and changing the implementation conditions relating to the Additional Tunnel Kiln & Fluoride Scrubber proposal, in order to remove completed conditions, and conditions and commitments managed by other agencies, incorporate relevant commitments onto conditions and updated the remaining conditions. Read more...Last updated: November 2, 2009
Midland Brick Company Pty Ltd (Midland Brick) referred a proposal to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) on 3 May 2002 to indefinitely extend the time limit of its environmental approval for its clay excavation operation at Hallet and Copley Roads, Upper Swan and to expand the environmental approval to include Lot 19 Copley Road, Lots 19, 45 and 46 St Albans Road and Lot 100 Great Northern Highway, Upper Swan for further clay excavation operations. The new areas to be included in the... Read more...Last updated: October 7, 1993
The proposal is to expand the capacity of the Whitemans Brick plant, located on the corner of Great Northern Highway and Middle Swan Road. The proponent seeks approval for the second stage of the plant modernization and expansion, which requires the addition of a second tunnel kiln. Read more...Last updated: July 15, 1992
The land, Swan Location 887, is 16.59ha, and is owned by Midland Brick Company Pty Ltd. The proposal is to subdivide and develop the land to create seven "Special rural" lots ranging in size from 1.02ha to 5.64ha, and a 2.16ha lake foreshore area to be given up as public open space. The site is currently zoned "Special Rural" under the City of Wanneroo's Town Planning Scheme No 1, Zone Number 7. These zones are managed by the local authority through special provisions... Read more...Last updated: May 29, 1992
The proposal is to excavate clay on lots 21 and 22 Apple Street, Upper Swan, immediately west of Great Northern Highway and about 14km north of Midland. Lots 21 and 22, which are mainly cleared of native vegetation and developed for pasture, are situated about 200 metres south of the fenced-off Wildlife Sanctuary at Ellen Brook Nature Reserve and 500 metres east of the upper Swan townsite. The proposed excavation would be within 100 metres of planned extensions to the Wildlife Sanctuary for the... Read more...Last updated: May 29, 1992
The proposal is to excavate clay on Lot 6 Almeria Parade, Upper Swan, west of Great Northern Highway and Ellen Brook Nature Reserve, and about 14km north of Midland. The deposit of highly plastic clay occurs as a shallow clay pan which would be excavated and rehabilitated to a series of interconnecting dams within a three-year period. The clay would be mined in the dry season and carted to Midland for making bricks. Read more...Last updated: May 13, 1992
An application for Renewal of Excavation Licence by Midland Brick Company Ltd was referred to the Environmental Protection Authority by the Shire of Swan in August 1990. the Authority assessed the environmental impact of the proposal by way of a Consultative Environmental Review in conjunction with four other nearby clay excavation proposals which, together with this proposal were thought to potentially impact on Ellen Brook Nature Reserve and to have common regional issues of rehabilitation... Read more...