North Fremantle Industrial Area

Photography by Roel Loopers

A large area between Bracks Street and Port Beach Road is about to be developed for housing, and Fremantle photographer and blogger, Roel Loopers, decided to create this pictorial document before it is changed. He put these photos up in his blog, and also gave permission for them to be re-published here.

THE FUTURE OF THE NORTH FREMANTLE DEVELOPMENT PRECINCT

Agenda for Wednesday 6 Apri 2022 Fremantle Council Planning Committee excerpts

The Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) is inviting preliminary comment on a proposed Metropolitan Region Scheme (MRS) amendment for the ‘North Fremantle Development Precinct’.
The subject site is in North Fremantle, approximately 23ha in area and bound by Port Beach Road to the west, Primary Regional Road reserve to the east, Tydeman Road and Freight Rail Reserve to the south, and Walter Place to the north. The land has historically been used for industrial purposes including a fuel terminal and lubricant depot, a former Standard Wool site and Caltex operations.
The amendment proposal requests a rezoning of this land from ‘Industrial’ to ‘Urban’ and ‘Parks and Recreation Reserve.’
The purpose of the amendment would be to create urban development land. The rezoning request is based on the site no longer being required for industrial uses and the site’s close location to Fremantle and North Fremantle, the Fremantle passenger railway line and Port Beach.
The City’s officers consider Urban zoning is, in principle, the logical alternative zoning for the land if it is no longer required for industrial purposes. There are however several issues in relation to the site that would need a greater degree of resolution prior to a rezoning and/or redevelopment. These include:

Past industrial use of the land and remediation requirements.
Proximity of the site to a section of coastline of high regional recreational significance and coastal hazard vulnerability.
Current and future functioning of the Fremantle Port.
Regional and local transport and access considerations.
Future of Fremantle work and impact of future development on the site to the wider area.

References and Links

Roel Loopers' blog entry with these photos.

Fremantle Council Planning Committee agenda 6 April 2022

Freotopia

This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 2 February, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/north/industrial.html (it was last updated on 13 January, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.