The peak mining body has called for a State Government blueprint to guide infrastructure development as WA faces its biggest potential growth spurt since the gold rush more than a century ago.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy's pre-Budget submission, to be released today, said a Strategic Infrastructure Plan would identify the projects that would best support and encourage economic growth, and help to attract investment into key areas.

Chief executive Reg Howard-Smith called for the plan to prioritise and detail projects over the next four years, and provide a general outlook for the next decade.

The blueprint would require a range of key stakeholders, including all government agencies, to feed their objectives into a list that would be co-ordinated by a minister to help prevent shortages, bottlenecks and other constraints on growth.

The submission said the current portfolio-level approach to infrastructure planning lacked any "overarching logic". It said existing capacity constraints had been exacerbated by strong demand in the resource sector.

Mr Howard-Smith said these constraints could get worse as the State faced its biggest growth surge since the 1890s because of record investment in recent years. "I would not call (planning) a mess, but there are a lot of pressure points . . . and it's becoming critical," he said.

Mr Howard-Smith called on the State Government to urgently prioritise the Gateway WA Project at Perth Airport, where air congestion threatened the growth of the fly-in, fly-out workforce.

CME also wants urgent attention to electricity transmission to the Mid West, the roll-out of the Pilbara cities program to other regions and the expansion of Bunbury and Esperance ports, among other projects.

Mr Howard-Smith said an adequate supply of power, water and appropriately skilled workers were the resource sector's most important infrastructure requirements. WATERSHED 7% The annual increase in the resource sector's demand for water