News Articles for Francesca Lefante

Satterley Property Group is set to add commercial developments, including Bunnings and Officeworks, worth $26 million to its Alkimos precinct.

The social and affordable housing provider has downscaled the number of apartments in the project, as costs rise.

A panel has approved a seven-storey serviced apartment building in Subiaco, after other projects on the site failed to proceed.

Karratha is one step closer to getting a $45 million hardware and retail centre, including a 7,600 square metre-Bunnings warehouse, after a panel's approval.

A private boys' school will soon build a new aquatic centre, including a water polo pool, after a development assessment panel greenlit the $12 million proposal.

The eight-storey development will sit near the organisation's recently approved Brown Street project.

Not-for-profit accommodation provider St Bart's is one step closer to building a seven-storey aged care facility in East Perth, estimated to cost $39 million.

Planning authorities have waved through a $200 million plan to build a 34-storey timber tower that the City of Perth hopes will activate the area and aid its population growth goals.

The Forrest family empire's property division's proposal has been described as a gamechanger for the city and an "architectural statement".

The project was approved today, but H-U says it could be difficult to develop given conditions imposed about the skateboarding ledge at the former Elders Wool Stores building.

The shopping centre giant is planning to develop a seven-storey apartment complex near its Westfield Booragoon Shopping Centre.

The developer plans to start construction of the nine-storey North Perth apartment project in mid-2025.

A plan for a 15-storey, 248-room hotel has been given the green light by authorities this week.

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A $3.6m proposal to demolish Hay Street shopfronts has been deferred by authorities, as the developers plans stall in the SDAU.

Cyrenian House will refurbish a vacant and graffitied office building in Perth into a drug treatment centre after a panel approved its multi-million-dollar proposal in a tense meeting.

Angela Bennett's private company AMB Holdings has cleared a planning hurdle for its $20 million office move to another western suburb.

A contentious apartment plan at the Chellingworth Motors site in Nedlands, estimated at $500 million, has been green lit almost a year after it was knocked back by the same panel.

A proposed apartment block in North Perth has been knocked back, with an assessment panel finding the 13-storey project "excessive" and an "overdevelopment".

A West Perth arts precinct, dubbed by locals as the 'Pickle District', is expected to be demolished after an assessment panel approved a five-storey Bunnings to be built on the site.

The $390 million Karrinyup West development has been given the green light by a state government's assessment panel after a five-hour meeting today.

A $9.5 million seven-storey apartment building in Nedlands has been approved to be built near a major health precinct.

In a shock decision, planning authorities have knocked back a $16 million five-storey apartment plan in Dunsborough, despite it receiving the support of local planning officers.

The number of Development Assessment Panels will be reduced from nine to five this week, as plans to streamline Western Australia's planning system come into effect.