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Northbridge Special Entertainment Precinct
The ALMBC congratulates the WA State Government and WAM for the establishment of Western Australia’s first Special Entertainment Precinct in Northbridge.
The new planning and noise management framework will:
- Protect and support existing and new entertainment venues.
- Provide clarity for developers and new residential projects.
- Safeguard Northbridge’s role as a lively, mixed-use precinct.
A key aspect of the precinct will be the introduction of strategic noise levels across designated ‘core’ and ‘frame’ areas of Northbridge.
The new noise levels for the external boundary of entertainment venues will be:
- 90dB(C) in the ‘core’ area of the precinct; and
- 79dB(C) in the ‘frame’ area of the precinct.
A 56-metre transition zone around the ‘core’ acknowledges that some areas of the ‘frame’ will experience core noise levels.
New planning provisions within the Special Entertainment Precinct will require both entertainment venues and new residential developments to provide noise attenuation measures.
Reforms are currently underway to the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997, which will provide entertainment venues the option to apply for approval to operate at the new noise levels in excess of the current assigned noise levels (which are typically 54dB(C)).
