The state government's push for extended retail trading hours has started with the expansion of the Perth tourism precinct to include parts of Subiaco, Victoria Park and Mt Lawley, and the extension of closing times.
A portion of development sites in Victoria Park will be allowed to be built up to 18 storeys high after the state government approved a lift in building height limits.
THE Town of Victoria Park was quick to declare victory last week when the Department for Local Government announced on its website that the City of Belmont had lost its bid to incorporate the Belmont
Its days of pioneering land sales in Western Australia on terms of a one-pound deposit and interest-free repayments of 10 shilling per month may be long gone, but property stalwart Peet Ltd has not lost any of its entrepreneurial spirit.
The eastward view from Perth across the river could soon change beyond recognition, under an ambitious planning move by the Town of Victoria Park, with the Causeway precinct at Burswood the subject of plans for up to six 18-storey apartment towers.
Perth-based Broad Construction Services will commence work on a new train station worth $9.2 million in Victoria Park next month, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan announced today.
A turf war, quite literally, has erupted between the neighbouring councils of Victoria Park and Belmont over control of the valuable riverside racecourse of Belmont Park.
THE City of Perth has labelled as blatant favouritism the State Government’s push to give Perth City Council’s breakaway towns an ownership stake in Tamala Park.
