Keith Noble
Rural + Land Use Planner
Land Use Planning is the consideration of land use options and their associated social, environmental and economic costs/benefits through a planning process that engages all levels of the affected community.
"Ours is a human landscape.
Wherever you go easily, someone has been before, and before. Our environment reflects this, and for those at ease in the landscape, this recognition is a comfort. Without people, ecology would have no problems . . . nor solutions. The responsibility to manage the landscape is ours, given by our forebears since time began. For time is as human a construct as wilderness.
People + ecology, hand in hand. We cannot deny our heritage."
Land Use Planning involves multiple stages, generally early in a project's development:
- Identification of affected community sectors
- Devising and implementing consultation processes with affected parties
- Identification of social, environmental and economic outcomes through research and the consultation process
- Facilitating consideration of alternative schemes
- Facilitation of group decision making process
Keith is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia (www.planning.org.au) and a Certified Practising Planner
Recent projects include:
- the Cardwell Shire Floodplain Program Steering Committee
- QFF representative on the FNQ2025 RPAC
- Industry representative on the Mission Beach Habitat Network planning group
- Growcom Banana Waste to Energy project
- Cyclone Larry Horticulture Industry Recovery
- The Ngaanyatjarra Indigenous Protected Area Plan - located within the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of Western Australia, and Australia's largest terrestrial protected area
"Pirni-ya kutjuparringu nyangka tjukurrpa-lampa tirtu ngarala. Nyangka yakirri-lan tjiinya kanyira walypalaku purturru. Nyangka kutjulpirtu-ya wayurta purrmungka yakirri palyalpayi. Puru-ya Yarnanguku mangkangkatja kartara palyalpayi. Nyangka kuwarri-kuwarri-latju walypalaku purturrungka karrpira kanyira. Tjiinyamarntu-latju walypalawana nyinarranytjalu yakirri kanyira. Nyangka walypalalu-ya nintilu nyakula ngurrkarntara. Munta yuwa ngaalu-yanku tirtu tjukurrpa puru pikangurluwanalu manta miranykanyira."
Things change, but the idea can remain the same. The yakiri we wear is made of wool. It used to be made of possum skin or human hair, but now it's made of wool and white fellas make the wool. But it's still a yakiri, and it still represents the Law. These IPAs could be like this -- a white fella way (of doing the job we used to do). - Senior Ngaanyatjarra Custodian, 1998.
