{"id":38031,"date":"2026-06-25T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/38031\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:02:11","slug":"missing-half-of-gateway-to-perths-hillarys-boat-harbour-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/38031\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Half of Gateway to Perth\u2019s Hillarys Boat Harbour Decided"},"content":{"rendered":"

The northern half of a $400-million gateway to Perth\u2019s Hillarys boat harbour has been approved against the wishes of 503 objectors, a city council and a state decision-maker who says the project flies in the face of New Urbanism.<\/p>\n

At a Western Australian Planning Commission committee meeting on June 24, two members opposed the $240-million mixed-use The Hillarys Village proposal by Cottesloe-based Locus Property.<\/p>\n

One of the project\u2019s opponents, WAPC commissioner Megan Adair, said she had no prima facie problem with the buildings\u2019 design but they strayed too much from the existing planning scheme and the low-density nature of the suburb.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis part of Hillarys was planned and developed by [former owner the Adelaide Development Company] and it was guided as an interpretation of [the town of] Seaside, Florida and New Urbanist development,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve visited Seaside and I have to say that this proposal in no way reflects that kind of vision.<\/p>\n

\u201cLandmarks in that kind of vision [have] visual references [and] terminating vistas and this is the last piece of the puzzle to complete the picture of that overall [Hillarys] development and I don\u2019t believe that it fits that context.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A\u25b2 The two-tower Hillarys Village has been approved against the wishes of 503 objectors, the City of Joondalup and two state decision-makers.<\/p>\n

Planning tragics know Seaside as the first town conceived using New Urbanist design principles that emerged in the US in the early 1980s. The town entered mainstream consciousness when fictionalised as the shiny but sinister home of a lead character played by Jim Carrey in the 1998 hit flick The Truman Show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Committee member Claire Franklin joined Adair in voting against the 87-apartment, $240-million project that includes 1367sq m of retail floorspace in one building of 11 levels and another of eight on a 6385sq m site.<\/p>\n

Turning the tide toward the end of the meeting, WAPC chair Emma Cole said the site had remained undeveloped for 30 years despite sitting on district distributor roads and overlooking the boat harbour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a really great location for enhanced density,\u201d she said of the project mooted for the northern side of the three-way roundabout intersection of West Coast Highway and Whitfords and Hepburn avenues.<\/p>\n

As they had in the months leading up to the meeting<\/a>, City of Joondalup staff opposed the project at this week\u2019s meeting, arguing it was too dense and high for the desired character of the area. Of 601 public submissions received on the project, 98 supported it and 503 opposed it.<\/p>\n

\"Seaside,\u25b2 Seaside, Florida: The first town conceived using New Urbanist design principles of the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

The boat harbour, 28km north-west of the Perth CBD, is metropolitan Perth\u2019s third-most-visited tourist destination, behind the CBD and the historic port city of Fremantle. It is home to a yacht club, restaurants, bars, shops, accommodation, artificial beach, the state aquarium and a Rottnest Island ferry terminal.<\/p>\n

In May 2025,\u00a0Stage 1 of the project<\/a>, an 83-apartment building called Harbour Sorrento, was approved. Across Hepburn Avenue from where Stage 2 is proposed, that development was also opposed by the city.<\/p>\n

Stage 2 will make the gateway project the largest in the Hillarys area since the harbour was built there partly to service yachts competing in the failed 1987 America\u2019s Cup defence 30km south at Fremantle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The northern half of a $400-million gateway to Perth\u2019s Hillarys boat harbour has been approved against the wishes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5460,10157,855,29167,335,857,1002,15801,353,860],"class_list":["post-38031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-apartments","tag-design-architecture","tag-development-applications","tag-northern-suburbs","tag-perth","tag-planning-approvals","tag-retail","tag-urban-design","tag-western-australia","tag-zoning-density"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}