A South West MLC’s fight over a closed golf course has suffered a potentially major blow in the form of a new planning scheme.
Ben Dawkins and other disgruntled Binningup landowners have been at loggerheads with the Shire of Harvey and Andrew Forrest-owned property developer Fiveight over the Lakewood Shores Golf Course, which closed in 2020.
But the fight could soon be over, with council giving the green light to the draft Local Planning Scheme No. 2 on July 25, with only minor amendments being made to the document.
The draft scheme will now go to the Western Australian Planning Commission for the final tick of approval before it is implemented.
Once in force, it will repeal both the current 1996 district planning scheme and the 1987 Binningup town planning in their entirety.
Mr Dawkins and his supporters have been using clauses in the Binningup town scheme to argue their case against…