Limiting the number of rent increases and allowing tenants to have pets without seeking owner approval are among a raft of changes to WA’s rental laws being considered.
Perth is the sprawl capital of the nation and the city’s Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas wants suggestions to provide incentive for developers to build up instead of out.
An amazing carbon-neutral vertically-integrated community that will transform our city or a huge folly that will cause traffic chaos? Only time will tell.
Why not simply stop allowing development on the urban fringe to stop urban sprawl? That wouldn’t be “sensitive” to the market,the state government says.
We have lived in apartments before. We now live in a tiny villa with a toddler. We need to upsize and were considering apartments. But they don’t consider us.
Building a home in Perth has never been pricier,with the annual pace of growth the fastest outside the 2001 GST introduction and almost the fastest in Australia.
In the latest of a series of controversial Perth council decisions,a wealthy inner-city area has decided not to provide a new facility for residents.
Our city already stretches 150 kilometres,it is sprawling at a greater rate than it was in 2013 and at this rate,Bunbury will soon be its southernmost suburb.
The greater Perth area had the lowest percentage of flats and apartments out of all Australian capital cities,according to the latest census data.
Some of Perth and Fremantle’s most recognisable historic buildings are getting decidedly modern fit-outs and parents are signalling wholehearted approval.
On Friday,Lendlease confirmed it was exiting the $1 billion project,leaving state-owned development agency DevelopmentWA to decide on its future.