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Perth Now
06-05-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
South of the river tavern gets tick of approval despite fuss
State planners have approved the long sought-after expansion of Kwinana Marketplace and along with it a new, albeit controversial, watering hole that will be located in an area once designated purely for retail shopping. In granting approval last week, decision-makers also said the tavern could help create a safer street along Gilmore Avenue because it would include increased outward-facing CCTV cameras. 'It's very well located in the context,' Metro Outer Development Assessment panel member Karen Hyde said in response to views that another tavern so close to Kwinana Local would result in increased antisocial behaviour. Your local paper, whenever you want it. 'It provides a function which can be reasonably associated with shopping and retail, and create something of an entrance and additional surveillance to pedestrian activities, and offers an extra evening activity.' The owner of The Kwinana Local and other Chisham Avenue businesses told the panel last Thursday it was wrong to locate the new tavern in a designated retail precinct because it will split the destination and dining function away from Kwinana's 'main street' of Chisham Avenue. 'We are the people that brought a couple properties on Chisham Avenue . . . we liked the vision of the city to establish a main street with entertainment, it made a lot of sense to us,' Sullivan Property Consultants owner Brian Sullivan said. 'You are moving that entertainment precinct away, you are splitting it in two, and you will create, potentially, a dead main street. 'It is not better for the city and it is certainly not better for the residents to have the entertainment precinct split in two and have a weak, less vibrant and less workable main street.' Allerding & Associates Urban Planning owner Steve Allerding held a similar position on the 'inappropriate' move to build a tavern in the retail precinct. 'The proposal has the potential to undermine the purpose by creating a new entertainment destination,' he said. 'Through the city's various planning documents, Chisham Avenue has consistently been described as the main street to be promoted to consolidate uses related to entertainment and eating activities. 'We don't believe this is an appropriate development in its current form.' An artist's impression of how the proposed beer garden and outdoor seating at Kwinana Marketplace could look. Credit: Supplied / Lateral Planning Speaking on behalf of the shopping centre redevelopment, Lateral Planning's Sean Fairfoul reassured the panel the pub's planned location would not undermine the city's masterplan for the Kwinana town centre. 'In terms of the submitter's concern that the main street is going to be moved, relocated or fragmented, we don't share that belief,' he said. 'The scheme and the masterplan do make it quite clear that whilst there are precincts it is not the only location for each individual use and there was to be a mix of uses throughout the precinct.' A licensed restaurant, dining venues, shops, children's playground and an amusement centre will also all open in space created by the expansion, which spills into 19 existing car bays. The redevelopment will increase the size of Kwinana Marketplace by 406sqm.
Perth Now
29-04-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
Contentious pub on menu for shopping centre south of Perth
Another tavern for Kwinana and a revamp of dining options at the suburb's central shopping location is on the cusp of being ticked off for development. The new tavern headlines a long desired but now controversial quest to improve offerings at Kwinana Marketplace, which is recommended for approval by State planners due to meet on Wednesday afternoon. A licensed restaurant, dining venues, shops, children's playground and an amusement centre could also all open in space created by the expansion, which spills into 19 existing car bays, and remodelling the inside food court. Locals say any facelift is well overdue but many questioned — or have outright railed against — the need for a new watering hole, especially so close to Kwinana Local in area designated purely for retail. Most who spoke up during a recent consultation period said a new pub in the area would only increase existing antisocial issues, while other eateries along the Chisham Avenue 'Main Street' say creating a new food and entertainment precinct will be detrimental. The Local also weighed in, claiming new competition would not only affect their business but their sponsorship and support of the area's sporting teams and community groups. 'There is no evidence in the proposal that it will not have an adverse effect on existing businesses or provide better amenity for the community than that which already exists,' Kwinana Local director Paul Tropiano wrote in a submission. An artist impression of the proposed alfresco precinct at Kwinana Marketplace. Credit: Supplied / Lateral Planning He strongly objected to another tavern licence being granted in the Kwinana town centre, given a further three already operate within 5km of his venue. 'The four taverns together provide the local community with sufficient choices, but another tavern would be the tipping point for the viability of these businesses,' Mr Tropiano said. 'If we lost business to another tavern, we would not be able to continue with the same level of community support that we presently provide, which would be a great loss to the community.' If approved, the redevelopment would increase the size of Kwinana Marketplace by 406sqm and bring outdoor seating to the western edge, including a beer garden for the tavern. The new dining and drinking precinct would be about 150m from Callistemon Court Aged Care Facility, just across Gilmore Avenue. Applicant Lateral Planning spruiked that the council's Kwinana City Centre Master Plan encourages street activation, and in its report the City of Kwinana agreed the application was 'generally consistent with the vision, objectives, concept and design guidance of the Master Plan'.
