Our neglected heritage-listed buildings offer huge opportunities to help alleviate the housing crisis and revitalise the city. But it will need imagination,incentives and willpower to make it happen.
Perth’s love of suburbia has stood in the way of infill,but changes may be on the horizon.
The Satterley Property Group wants to build a sprawling suburban-style town site for thousands of people on land in the Perth Hills.
Housing estates on the fringes should pay a sprawl tax,says a Perth property expert,but others in his industry are “strongly opposed” to such a radical idea.
Too many people living in suburbs right across Perth’s urban sprawl frontier are not yet living the lifestyle they were sold. So,is it coming? And if so,when?
Home buyers’ expectations have evolved beyond chickens and camping equipment,but the man at the helm of Perth’s oldest developer says the formula for building successful suburbs remains largely unchanged.
Perth has the worst tree canopy cover of any Australian capital,with the state government putting it as low as 16 per cent coverage.
WAtoday charts Perth’s spread,and the companies behind the master-planned communities pushing our urban boundary further afield.
The house-and-land package is still at the heart of the Australian dream,but what are we missing out on in this mind-boggling suburban expansion?
Read the full list of Perth suburbs,and how much houses prices have risen over the past year.
There are few West Australian business titans more formidable than veteran developer Nigel Satterley. But there’s more to one of this sprawling city’s founding fathers than some might think.