Industrial

Northlink Industrial Park

A landmark industrial development, undertaken in joint venture with the Noongar Charitable Trust.

The last significant land release in and around the Wangara industrial precinct, Northlink Industrial Park is a premium industrial location that offers excellent access and high levels of amenity for businesses. 

Status Completed 2019
Location Wangara
Partners Noongar Charitable Trust
Overview
80ha

industrial development

$30m

delivered for Aboriginal community initiatives

5 years

from commencement to 100% sold

Project Background

Northlink presented significant complexity in its development, due to a range of planning, environmental and major cultural and heritage considerations.

Hesperia worked in joint venture with the Noongar Charitable Trust, a not-for-profit entity established by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC) to navigate the cultural and heritage aspects of the project. Delivery of Aboriginal housing, preservation and restoration of heritage sites including an Aboriginal cemetery, and vesting of land into the trust were just some of the initiatives manged by Hesperia in the delivery of Northlink.

At its conclusion, the project delivered $30 million to the trust to be reinvested in local community initiatives including education, training, preservation of culture, business funding and housing assistance.

Recognition

UDIA Awards for Excellence, Rising Star Award (2016)

Project Details

A rapid planning and design program.

In addition to the requirements of the joint venture partnership, the Northlink project site presented a number of challenges. The first of these was the requirement for a rapid planning and design program that saw the site rezoned and development approvals secured in under two years.

Extensive site remediation was then required to remove historic contamination and successfully reclassify the site as ‘decontaminated’. It was also essential that site vegetation and wetlands, critical to cultural and heritage sites in the area, were preserved. 

At the conclusion of development, 20 hectares of the 80 hectare total landholding had been reserved as ‘Bush Forever’, along with the preservation of wetlands and feeding habitat for black cockatoos.