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❓ Mr. Zempilas questions the progress of the Burt Street apartment development, originally announced in 2020, regarding the number of apartments built, social housing allocation, costs, and completion timeline. The Minister's response details project delays due to COVID-19 and clarifies social housing tenure.

AnsweredQoN 1460Legislative Assembly

Asked

3 December 2025

Member

Mr Basil Zempilas

Portfolio

Housing and Works

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I refer to a media statement published 29 May 2020 from the former Minister for Housing, the Hon Peter Tinley, titled "New milestone for Fremantle's Burt Street apartment development" and the commitment to deliver 265 apartments and new commercial and creative space, and ask, as of 30 November 2025: (a) how many apartments have been built; (b) of these apartments, how many of these are being used for social housing; (c) of the social housing apartments sold, what are the lowest, median, average and highest sale prices achieved for these properties; (d) of those not sold, are they tenanted as social housing; (e) how many dwellings remain under construction; (f) of these dwellings, how many are intended as private, social, and affordable tenures; (g) how many dwellings have not yet commenced; (h) is the target still to deliver 265 apartments as committed in 2017; (i) what is the forecast completion date for all dwellings to be delivered; (j) are all associated commercial, community and creative facilities originally proposed as part of the project completed; (k) if not, why; (l) if not, when will they be completed; (m) what is the total cost of the project to date; (n) what is the anticipated total final cost of the project; and (o) how has the project been funded?

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Answered

26 February 2026

Responded by

Minister for Housing and Works

Response time

8 days

(a - o) The Burt Street development is a commercial build-to-sell apartment development with partners DevelopmentWA and Edge Visionary Living contributing to construction funding, which is recovered from settlement revenue.
There is no state grant funding for the project, other than a $1.48 million Infrastructure Development Fund grant.
Economic conditions significantly changed during COVID-19, greatly impacting feasibility of density projects for private partners.
The current State Government has undertaken significant re-working of projects to enable them to proceed in a post-COVID construction environment.
Stage 1 is under construction and will deliver 153 apartments, of which 23 will now be utilised for social housing. The Member seems unaware that social housing is not ‘sold’ as part of these developments it is tenanted by the Department of Housing and Works or managed by a Community Housing Provider.
Further stages will be announced in due course.

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