Great Northern Highway Muchea to Wubin Upgrade – Stage 2 - Bindoon Bypass - Public Environmental Review

Overview

Main Roads Western Australia (the proponent) proposes to construct and operate a new section of the Great Northern Highway(GNH), the Bindoon Bypass. This will be a new 48 kilometre (km) section of the GNH within the Shires of Chittering and Gingin. The new section of road will bypass the town of Bindoon and consist of a combination of four-lane dual carriageway, four-lane single carriageway and two-lane single carriageway as well as a bridge over the Brockman River. The Bindoon Bypass will divert from the existing GNH at the Chittering Roadhouse, running to the west of Bindoon and re-joining the GNH north of Calingiri Road.

The proposal includes the clearing and disturbance of 503 hectares (ha) of native vegetation, trees over pasture and cleared land within a 2,552.5 ha development envelope. This consists of 120 ha of native vegetation, 374 ha of trees over pasture and nine hectares of cleared land.

The Environmental Review Document (ERD) may be downloaded below or from the EPA website here.

Copies of the ERD will be available at:

• Legal Deposit, State Library of Western Australia, 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000
• Shire of Chittering Library, 6117 Great Northern Highway, Bindoon.
• Shire of Gingin Library, 1 Lily King Place, Gingin.

The Environmental Review Document is available for a public review period of six weeks from 25 May 2020, closing on 6 July 2020. 

The EPA prefers submissions to be made on this site, by completing the online survey below.

Alternatively submissions can be:

• Posted to: Chairman, Environmental Protection Authority, Locked Bag 10, JOONDALUP DC WA 6919, or
• Delivered to: the Environmental Protection Authority, Prime House, 8 Davidson Terrace, JOONDALUP 6027.

If you have any questions on how to make a submission, please contact EPA Services of the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation on 6364 7000.

*Please note when making your submissions that the maximum upload size of documents to the consultation hub is 8mb.