Tag: Economic Development

Curtin game changer – cancel light rail?

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Yesterday’s Ch 7 news report on Canning’s CBD makeover dropped off affiliate The West Aust’s site quickly. It is a little hard to believe.  All this for $70m and in just 10yrs? Press image to view Are there devils in the lack of detail?  Its likely.  Increasingly there is the sense WE need YOU more than you […]

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Canning’s fab new City plan just collapsed?

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UPDATED CONTENT Just out:  last of the National Stronger Regions Fund money for councils just announced.  City of South Perth the big and only WA metro winner! Oh dear!  The City of Canning’s new CBD plan will struggle immediately…. you see, it’s essentially based around putting a party face on Cecil Ave, the road otherwise dominated by […]

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Tonight: Canning becomes legally precarious?

.Reading time 19 minutes.

Update: the Council waved through, without any discussion, the motion to adopt the Canning City Centre Activity Centre Plan and authorised the commencement of projects a year before the WA Planning Commission is expected to do same. Presumably the Council thinks its going boldly in to the future and “just getting it done”, but I doubt any of them could […]

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