Metropolitan Improvement Act (WA)

Those who are familiar with Perth will have noticed how clean and well-planned a city it is and how well served with parklands. This undoubtedly is due largely to its Metropolitan Improvement Act (WA) 1983 under which an annually increasing fund, amounting to $7 million is raised by a rate of a fraction of 1% on Perth's site values to defray the cost of providing roads, parks, open spaces and similar amenities within the Perth Metropolitan Region Planning Authority.