The City of Canning mayor, deputy mayor and CEO travelled to three eastern states cities last week to investigate development proposals for Canning.
Mayor Paul Ng, deputy mayor Lindsay Holland and CEO Arthur Kyron visited eastern states cities from Saturday to Tuesday to meet with federal politicians and councils to discuss Canning’s future.
Mr Ng, Mr Holland and Mr Kyron visited Canberra but Mr Ng did not go further. Mr Holland and Mr Kyron flew on to Sydney and Mr Holland visited Melbourne alone.
Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney from Saturday to Tuesday to meet with federal politicians and councils to discuss Canning’s future.
Mr Holland said the council was seeking assistance from cities which had already developed neighbourhoods with high density housing that were still environmentally conscious.
The city’s plan to develop the Canning area to reflect modern demands and standards will be implemented through the Canning City Centre plan and the Bentley Regeneration Project.
The 2016 City Centre Plan said Canning was “a car-dominated environment with most activities located in Carousel Shopping Centre and bulky goods retail premises along Albany Highway.”
“High quality urban development is lacking and large parcels of underdeveloped land, mostly near the train station, contribute to its lack of intensity, diversity and place identity,” it said.
Part of the plan was to develop land alongside Cecil Avenue and adjacent to Carousel Shopping Centre to create a broader commercial precinct of specialty retailers.
In Bentley the city planned to turn an area of undeveloped land on Manning Road near Bentley Primary School into 1500 apartments in buildings between one and 10 storeys tall.
Mr Holland said discussions with interstate councils would give the city better vision for these projects.
“We’re trying to get assistance,” he said.
“We’re going to show them that we want to have discussions.”
He said $300 million upgrades to Carousel, which were underway meant there was a chance to grow the area around the centre.
“It’s quite an exciting time actually.”
The city had proposed building high density accommodation around Cannington train station like was developed in Cockburn.
The plan was to build apartments, business offices and retail buildings in the immediate area around the train station.
