North Metro Issues

HON DONNA FARAGHER (East Metropolitan) [ 1.08 pm ]: I move —

That this house notes both the significant concerns being raised across the community and the lack of consultation undertaken by the McGowan government on its Education Central policy, particularly the proposed relocation of the state’s only fully academically selective senior high school, currently at Perth Modern School, to a high-rise inner-city school within the Perth City Link, and calls on the government to —

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [ 8.49 pm ]: I rise tonight to speak about the future of the Claisebrook Road North area in East Perth. I am particularly concerned about what will happen to the concrete batching plants in this area in the future. For those members who may not be aware of the precinct that I am referring to, it is the part of Claisebrook that is bounded by Lord Street, Summers Street, the railway and the Graham Farmer Freeway. It was initially part of the East Perth redevelopment area but it passed back into local government control in 2002.