The City of Karratha is developing a Community Infrastructure Plan (CIP) to ensure everyone in our community has access to high-quality facilities, both now and in the future.

The CIP will identify the City of Karratha’s community infrastructure requirements for the next 10-15 years.

The Draft CIP 2025-2035 is now complete. This is your opportunity to review the draft plan and provide feedback on the identified directions.

The public comment period is now open and closes 29 May 2025.

The Draft CIP has been developed by assessing our community infrastructure needs, identifying gaps, and understanding the requirements of our growing and diverse population.

Our approach is based on best practices, industry standards, and trends, along with valuable input from the community and other stakeholders.

This assessment has been further guided by the Community Infrastructure Planning Principles and Provision Standards, which were endorsed by the Council at the December 2024 Ordinary Council Meeting.

To help shape the Draft CIP, the City ran several engagement activities from November to December 2024 to get a feel for what our community needs, where the gaps are, and what the priorities should be.

Around 270 people got involved and shared their thoughts through:

• A community survey

• A survey for specific facility user groups

• In-person focus group meetings

• One-on-one stakeholder meetings

Thank you to everyone that took the time to provide feedback.

The Draft CIP identifies a range of community infrastructure needs and provides directions at both a city-wide and catchment-based level:

• City-Wide Directions: These directions apply across the entire City of Karratha to optimise the use of facilities and improve community access. There are a total of 8 recommended directions at the City-wide level.

• Catchment-Based Directions: These directions are specific to the towns of Karratha, Dampier, Wickham, Roebourne, and Point Samson. They include investment projects for new facilities, upgrades or improvements to existing facilities, and further planning and investigation. There are a total of 58 recommended projects.

You can view the Draft CIP 2025 – 2035 in full by clicking here.

To assist understand the outcomes of the plan, we’ve provided:

• A high-level summary of the Draft CIP - available here.

• A break down of the projects recommended by town - summarised below:

• Karratha

• Dampier

• Wickham

• Roebourne (leramagadu)

• Point Samson

There are other ways you can provide feedback on the draft plan.

Feedback Station

• A hardcopy of the Draft CIP is available to read on site, and paper feedback forms at Customer Service on Welcome Road, Karratha from 29 April – 27 May 2025.

Send Us an Email

• You can email your feedback to community.planning@karratha.wa.gov.au