And that's a wrap for Planning Showcase 2025!

More than 240 WA planners came together at this years Local Government Planning Showcase held at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre last week.

WALGA's annual Planning Showcase is an pivitol forum that provides Local Government planners the opportunity to share their ideas, projects updates and innovative solutions from across the State.

The day was opened by WALGA CEO Nick Sloan, followed by an address from Hon John Carey BA MLA, Minister for Planning and Lands; Housing and Works; Health Infrastructure. Next to the podium was WAPC Chairperson, Emma Cole, who joined Nick in a sit down interview to provide attendees with valuable insights into the WAPC .

To all of the amazing speakers who took time out of their busy schedules to share their innovative planning projects with their peers - thank you!

A shout out to our event sponsors, RAC and WAPC for helping us bring this event to life, we couldn’t deliver such a stellar event without your support.

Lastly, a huge thank you to all attendees who helped make this the most successful Showcase yet! We look forward to doing it all again in 2026.

Check out all the presentation slides here:

• Reconnect WA: From Placement to Place
• Chapman Road Tactical Urbanism Project
• Heritage Outcomes Through Education, Engagement and Empowerment: A Community-Centred Approach
• Planning with Purpose: Leadership, Culture, and the Power of ‘Why’
• Problematic Laneways to Vibrant Greenways: The Karawara Journey
• Tree retention, unlisted uses, and other recent planning cases of interest
• Planners and Politics
• Renewables in the Regions
• Managing Growth: Embedding Strategic Planning in Corporate Processes

Read what delegates said about Planning Showcase 2025:

• “Absolutely nailed it! The speakers AMAZING, the MC's brilliant, the topics relevant to both planners, planning and LG sector in general and it just absolutely nailed the beginning of the lean into legacy WALGA convention perfectly”
• “I really enjoyed each of the speakers with topics wide ranging, interesting and meaningful to planning in 2025”
• “Well organised and good networking opportunities”
• "The choice of guest speakers and topics were great and highly relevant to local government planners. Also, the Mentimeter Q&A system worked really well and streamlined the Q&A process”