Strategic Plan
The Department’s Strategic Plan 2025-2029 provides a big picture view of what we will achieve over the next four years by outlining our vision, purpose and goals.
The new Plan is guided by four strategic goals:
- Shaping communities – We are the sector leader for planning and managing the use of land and places and we work across Government to create and maintain thriving communities.
- Meaningful reconciliation – We use all levers available to the Department to achieve improved outcomes for Aboriginal people which supports meaningful reconciliation.
- Sustainable and responsible management of land – We will proactively manage cultural, built and natural assets held by the State to deliver economic, social and environmental benefit to the public.
- Economic diversification – We will proactively facilitate economic diversification to provide public value.
Strategic Engagement Framework
The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage has a Strategic Engagement Framework that guides how it engages with its many valued stakeholders.
The Framework:
- Establishes the Department’s engagement philosophy and defines how it affects our stakeholders.
- Explains the benefits of good engagement.
- Identifies the eco-system of engagement at the Department to ensure a balanced approach.
- Provides a baseline for how the Department and the statutory authorities services broad engagement requirements.
- Defines high-level stakeholder categories.
- Forms the basis for any future tools and resources created to support engagements specific to each Division.
What is ‘good engagement’?
In strategic engagement, there is a positive cause and effect cycle that occurs when there is a consistent and coordinated approach to engagement practices. The diagram below sets outs how the Department will commit to best practice engagement to enhance stakeholder experience.
This Framework works together with internal policies and procedures, as well as relevant regulatory requirements, to ensure decision making is better informed.
Reconciliation Action Plan
The Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) provides a framework for the Department to support the national reconciliation movement.
The RAP contributes to the five dimensions of reconciliation by supporting the development of respectful relationships and creating meaningful opportunities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Department has developed a Stretch RAP 2025-2028, which outlines the concrete actions to achieve our vision for reconciliation. The RAP contains actions aligned to the goals of Relationships, Respect and Opportunities as defined by Reconciliation Australia.
Multicultural Action Plan
This Multicultural Action Plan has been developed to help establish a clear and future focused framework to respond to our diverse workforce and stakeholder needs. It is designed to ensure the intended benefits of the State Government’s Western Australian Multicultural Policy Framework 2020 are realised.
Disability Access and Inclusion Plan
We are committed to ensuring equal access to our facilities, services and information for all members of the community.
The Department, the Western Australian Planning Commission and the Heritage Council sought public feedback on all aspects of the draft DAIP 2016-2020, particularly the identified barriers and strategies. Following the consultation period, the final DAIP was endorsed by the Department of Communities in October 2018.
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