WAToday Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is pushing for ideas to nearly double the inner-city’s population to 55,000 people over the next 14 years in the face of high building costs and a stalled pipeline of high-rise residential development. Zempilas is seeking the backing of the broader council to task the local government’s administration with […]
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The West Australian The multi award-winning community of Alkimos Beach, which received Western Australia’s first six-leaf accreditation under the Urban Development Institute of Australia’s (UDIA) EnviroDevelopment scheme in 2012, has obtained re-accreditation in all six ‘leaves’ under the program in 2020. To achieve an EnviroDevelopment rating, a project must meet rigorous criteria and achieve a […]
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The West Australian Community resistance and a lack of sizeable development sites are major barriers to medium density development in Perth. Perth and Peel@3.5m promotes higher density residential developments around activity centres, station precincts and along high-frequency public transport routes, to create housing diversity and choice. However, WA Planning Commission chairman David Caddy told an Urban […]
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