The Metropolitan Region Scheme (MRS) is the legal land plan covering urban planning

Urban planning

Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....

 throughout the Perth Metropolitan Region

Perth Metropolitan Region

The Perth Metropolitan Region is an urban planning term to describe the region surrounding Perth, Western Australia. It includes the coastal strip from Yanchep in the north to Rockingham in the south, and inland to The Lakes and Helena Valley in the east....

. It classifies land into broad zones and reservations and is administered by the Western Australian Planning Commission

Western Australian Planning Commission

The Western Australian Planning Commission is a statutory authority of the Government of Western Australia that exists to coordinate planning for future land use and transport needs. It describes itself as Western Australia's "peak representative body of land use planning and development"...

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The scheme defines the future use of land, dividing it into broad zones and reservations. It requires local government town planning schemes to provide detailed plans for their part of the region. Local government schemes must be consistent with the MRS.

The MRS derived from Hepburn and Stephenson

Gordon Stephenson

Gordon Stephenson was a British-born town planner and architect. He is best known for his role in shaping the modern growth and development of Perth, Western Australia.-Early career:...

's 1955 Plan for the Metropolitan Region, Perth and Fremantle and has been in operation since 1963. Hepburn and Stephenson were commissioned by the Government of Western Australia

Government of Western Australia

The formation of the Government of Western Australia is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1890, although it has been amended many times since then...

to develop the plan in 1953. The overall structure was updated and extended in the Corridor Plan of 1970 and the Metroplan of 1990.