Claremont

The Town of Claremont has teamed up with the ‘placesforme’ website to provide you with an opportunity to assist the Strategic Planning Section in finalising the Local Planning Strategy by leaving your feedback about key themes:

This website can take your written comments, any comments you attach to a map of the Town, photos of places in Claremont that you use, and sketches of your idea.

In understanding where the Town is heading, and where it wants to go, the next stage of the Local Planning Strategy will be to translate the information you leave into actionable solutions, focused on areas of application within the locality.

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Here's some 'Place Ideas' received from others... do you agree with them?

Craig S's idea for Enjoying Claremontposted 27th October 2009, 11:59am

Its great that so many new ideas are being implemented into the Town Centre of Claremont. Now, lets focus on the neighbourhood centres, such as the one on Ashton Avenue.

I believe that mixed use developments with the encouragement for cafes or a coffee shop would really lift the profile of this area.

Lift the restrictions with the Town Planning Scheme and see how the markets react - allow reduction in car parking due to its proximity to Loch St Traino and allow a generic 'commerical' zoning.

Although the land-use needs to be complimentary to surrounding areas, its important to allow some innovation and personality into all neighbourhood centres.

Anita L's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 24th September 2009, 8:30pm

I agree - make Bay View Terrace into a mall - street trees, paving, places to sit, drink coffee, street art, music performance etc. A place for people, not cars.

Anita L's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 24th September 2009, 8:27pm

Underground the power in the area East of the Lake and North of the Railway.

Warwick C's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 8th May 2009, 1:30pm

Creating development bonuses for developments along Stirling Highway that provide student housing/ disadvantaged housing would allow for diversification of the population as well as make use of existing public transport routes. There are Universities at either end of the highway (Notre Dame and UWA). Students also provide a great source of employees - they're usually the people serving you your coffees.

Toby W's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 7th May 2009, 5:03pm

The Traffic Management Plan lists Graylands Road as the only north-south bike link between Swanbourne and Brockway Road - and yet I challenge any town planner to ride a bike down it during peak hour. It's barely wide enough for two cars, and certainly not wide enough for a bike plus the vast numbers of oversized heavy vehicles that use it as a through road all day rather than Davies Road, as the Plan indicates that they should.
It's just one example of creating policies that are pointless when they are not observed in the real world, please keep this in mind when creating these many new plans and policies that sound great on paper but won't work in practice.

Practical suggestions: relocate the bike route or otherwise resume some of the Showgrounds verge for widening/bike lanes, enforce use of Davies Road either by policing or Graylands road modification to make heavy vehicle access impossible, signage on Lapsey Rd redirecting heavy vehicles, all Showgrounds access for trucks should be via Ashton Ave or the underpass gate.

Toby W's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 7th May 2009, 12:05pm

Unlike the rest of Claremont south of the railway, the north-east precinct has not been upgraded for over 50 years. Roads, kerbs, overhead power lines are an ageing contrast to the extensively upgraded riverside precincts, yet we pay the same rates north of the line. Only a few streets are invloved, most of the area is occupied by the Showgrounds, oval and Lake, so it wouldn't take much to bring the area up to the standard that surrounds it.

Toby W's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 7th May 2009, 11:54am

Keep as many car bays on the north side of Claremont Station as possible for Park & Ride - perhaps underground under the new development in the NE precinct. Substantially reducing the number of bays and relocating them nearer to Showgrounds Station, where trains do no stop, will encourage those who currently park there to keep driving into the city to park, being more convenient than say walking 2km from Mt Claremont/ N. Swanbourne or waiting 20 mins for a bus (if at all available in your area) to the station.

Claremont Station holds an important status as an "all trains" stop, it is busier than any other between Perth and Fremantle, and Government policies to have less cars generally on the road need to be assessed with more realistic and effective strategies than "replace 80% of Park & Ride spaces with massive rate-paying flats". Please remember your existing ratepayers rather than calculating the financial benefit of twice as many new ones.

Andrew M's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 5th May 2009, 5:08pm

Pedestrianise Bay View Terrace

Andy H's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 4th May 2009, 10:34pm

Provide, contra-flow bike lane along one-way section of St Quentin Avenue to allow easier access to town centre shops by cyclists.

Andy H's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 4th May 2009, 10:33pm

Provide bike lanes along Stirling Road to connect Queenslea Drive bike path to PSP, Gugeria St and bike-friendly Barnfield Road.

Use advance stop areas for bikes at traffic lights at Stirling Highway, to facilitate crossing onto on-pavement bike path which runs along Stirling Highway.

Andy H's idea for Connecting Claremontposted 4th May 2009, 10:25pm

Extend bike lanes from junction of Gugeri St/Leura Ave, all the way along to the traffic lights at Stirling Road. The current bike lane ends without warning at the Leura Ave roundabout.

Alex F's idea for Enjoying Claremontposted 1st May 2009, 11:24am

'Hidden Lane'...currently a carpark, home to a family of pigeons and clad with old aircon units; it has a great sense of scale by the surrounds of vacant walls...Use these as projection screens for evening films. Could Mountain Designs construct a rock climbing wall to showcase their mountaineering equiptment? Simply an event space.