North Freo Folk Celebrate

Three-storey mixed-use proposal over the road from Mojo’s gets admiring glances!

At long last, North Freo folk are saying, there is a sensible application for the development of this well known empty scar of land fronting Queen Victoria Street, over the road from Mojo’s.

The DA is for a three-storey mixed-use development and involves the consolidation of the 1518sq m block at 220 Queen Victoria Street and a 585sq m adjacent lot at 6 Burns Street.

The design allows for three retail premises (totalling 396sq m) and two offices (totalling 165sq m) on the ground floor, six ‘boutique’ apartments across the top two levels, 34 parking bays and 14 bicycle spaces. Here’s some artist’s impressions.

The development has been designed by Matthew Crawford Architects, and, if you’d like to learn more about it, then turn up tonight, Thursday 21 May between 5-5.30 pm to a Community Session in the City of Fremantle Mardoo Room, Library, Civic Centre, 151 High Street, Fremantle.

Here are some more artist’s impressions of the QV Street and Burns Street frontages.

Already the local North Freo cognoscenti are giving the proposal their blessing, with this email exhortation recently arriving in people’s inboxes from Gerry MacGill, long time North Fremantle Community Association spokesperson:

‘This development site has been lying fallow, except for the weeds, for some decades since the service station departed. The proposed development is a welcome contribution to the Town Centre. It has a somewhat bland presentation to Queen Victoria Street but is pleasing and respectful of the scale and heritage values of the street. The inclusion of a residential component is a bonus for North Fremantle, and who knows, the commercial sites may tempt a small grocer or 7/11to set up shop. The success of Wild Bakery shows that people value and will support local shopping.’