Metropolitan Region Scheme

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

The MRS derived from Hepburn and Stephenson'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 to develop the plan in 1953.

The MRTS is a special purpose tax recommended by Gordon Stephenson's report, and introduced in 1959.

One estimate calculates that MRTS has funded more than $1 billion of land acquisitions since 1963 (unadjusted for inflation).