Planning and development
‘I’d rather watch the gardener mow the lawn’: Empty-nesters snap up Perth’s luxe apartments
Perth’s cashed up older community is splashing cash on the ultimate downsize, freeing themselves from the shackles of property maintenance.
- Sarah Brookes
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The photographer turning the focus on Perth’s ‘endless sprawl’
Stark imagery of barren streets, mass-produced houses, and endless roads is the focus of a Perth photographer’s exhibition which captures the ugliness of the great Australian dream on the urban fringe.
- Sarah Brookes
Last dance for striking spider as Perth estate moves into its home
It’s a stunning example of the failure of WA’s planning system, say advocates: the loss of a rare and beautiful species for the “ugly monoculture” of sprawl.
- Sarah Brookes
People ‘just picking up’ starving WA cockatoos as burglars target nests
At what point does a pet become a pest? Meanwhile, here’s why one of Perth’s foremost black cockatoo rehab figures is saying he’s ‘never seen anything like it’.
- Emma Young
Now that’s long term: At this rate, Perth’s long-term cycle network to take 100 years
How good are the primary and secondary cycle routes in your Perth or Peel state electorate? Check it out here with our handy visualisation broken down by area.
- Emma Young
Rural rebellion at plan to populate Perth’s urban fringe
Paving Perth’s paddocks is one way the state’s planning to accommodate the projected 2050 population. But will the city’s most biodiverse wetland suffer?
- Emma Young
Fremantle’s future: What does our port city look like without its port?
For the first time, a vision for a port without its trademark ‘dinosaurs’ has been revealed in a 50–year plan to transform it to a world-leading waterfront city.
- Claire Ottaviano
‘Jinxed’ South Beach change room’s slab to get pulled up in fresh hurdle
The City of Fremantle has notified beachgoers that the under-construction South Beach change room’s concrete slab would need to be removed and replaced.
- Claire Ottaviano
Perth homeowners could be paid to plant trees in bid to thicken canopy coverage
A plan to plant one million trees in Perth in the next 10 years has been announced in an attempt to cool the city down. Here’s how Labor plans to achieve it.
- Holly Thompson
The $400m plan to redevelop Perth’s rundown Carillon City
Will a new proposal to revitalise the Carillon arcade in the CBD turn this ugly duckling into a swan?
- Sarah Brookes
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