The Town advertised the draft West Leederville Precinct Structure Plan in late 2024 and it is currently in its final approval processes. For the latest information, please refer to the current project page.
The West Leederville Precinct Structure Plan (WLPSP) area is located less than two kilometres from the Perth CBD and the Subiaco town centre, and less than one kilometre from the Leederville town centre.
The area is located within an 800-metre walkable catchment, or 10-minute walk, to the West Leederville, Leederville, City West, and Subiaco train stations. The WLPSP area is also serviced by an extensive bus network, including frequent bus services along Cambridge Street. Additionally, West Leederville has good accessibility to the freeway and is connected to a network of cycle and pedestrian paths.
This strategic location makes the area suitable for urban intensification an area of urban intensification.
With forecast to grow to over 3.5 million by 2050 the State Government has developed a series of Metropolitan Regional Plans to accommodate this growth. These plans provide for a mixture of growth at the edge of the Metropolitan Urban Area and urban consolidation within existing centres and along of close to public transport infrastructure.
The current Regional Growth Strategy, Perth and Peel @3.5 million, has a growth target for Town of Cambridge of an additional 15,020 people and an additional 6,830 dwellings by 2050.
The Towns Local Planning Strategy allocates where this growth will occur and has identified an additional 1,800 to 2,000 dwellings for West Leederville. The West Leederville WLPSP is Plan for how this will occur. The WLPSP was recommended for approval to the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) in May 2023.
The WLPSP proposes to:
- Provide opportunities for increased commercial and residential developments creating a mixed-use area that takes advantage of its inner-city location and access to public transport;
- Facilitate the creation of a highly activated 'main street' along Cambridge Street between Blencowe St and Kerr/Holyrood Sts, creating a strong focal point for local retail services;
- Retain the residential function to the area between Kimberley to Abbotsford Sts and support a variety of housing types in this area;
- Facilitate further detailed planning to develop the Leederville Hub as a high-density, mixed-use transit-oriented development area and to guide development along the northern edge of the area to protect the amenity of existing low-scale development to the north;
- Facilitate the creation of pedestrian and transit connections through the area, and in particular create a direct and legible pedestrian connection between Cambridge St and Leederville Train Station through the Leederville Hub and the introduction of a laneway network; and,
- Encourage a gradual 'stepping up' of built form and maintaining a human scale to buildings along street frontages and around public spaces.
As the decision maker on a Precinct Structure Plan, WAPC considered the WLPSP in January 2024, requiring several changes and further studies and that is readvertised.