Main Roads’ statewide clearing permit CPS 818 conditionally allows it to undertake clearing to deliver critical road safety projects, improve the usability of the road network and undertaken essential maintenance. Our focus on improving road safety thoroughly considers all environmental, economic and community benefits and impacts. We operate on a hierarchy of avoiding, minimising, reducing which in some cases, can be achieved through changes in project scope and design and then, if required, offsetting the environmental impacts. We regularly reduce the clearing footprint by restricting earthworks limits for projects, steepening batters, installing barriers, establishing borrow pits (material pits) in cleared paddocks and avoiding temporary clearing for storage, stockpiles and turn around bays to avoid and minimise its impacts where possible.

 CPS 818 Clearing Map 

The CPS 818 Clearing Map details where clearing was approved (internally and externally) and clearing activities under that approval have been completed. These sites are available for a period of 12 months following the completion of clearing.

 Annual Clearing Reporting

In the 2023 calendar year, Main Roads cleared a total of 257.85 ha using CPS 818. The amount of clearing undertaken using CPS 818 for each region is shown below:

• Kimberley – 97.56 ha
• Pilbara – 58.65 ha
• Mid West-Gascoyne – 23.32 ha
• Goldfields Esperance – 54.74 ha
• Wheatbelt – 18.18 ha
• Metropolitan – 1.64 ha
• South West – 3.35 ha
• Great Southern – 0.41 ha

Total 257.85 ha

 View the written report of the clearing activities undertaken in the 2023 calendar year using CPS 818.

 To view the clearing summary report for a specific project, visit the Annual Clearing Map