Magazine - Burswood Firming up as Perth stadium Site

By Editor in General News on 6th Sep 2010 14:00

The Burswood peninsula looks set to become the location for Perth's new outdoor sports stadium, shadow sport and recreation minister Kevin Travers said today.

Mr Travers said he believed an announcement on the new stadium site was imminent after rumours solidified when tourism minister Liz Constable told the crowd at a function last week to 'watch this space' when asked about where Perth is going to get a new stadium.

The location previously earmarked for the stadium was Kitchener Park in Subiaco, next to the existing oval. Mr Travers said the Labor party wasn't fundamentally opposed to Burswood as the location for a new stadium, but said the Burswood peninsula would significantly increase the stadium price-tag.

"The construction costs are a lot more expensive, mainly because it is an old tip and they need to remediate the tip land but also because it is on the edge of the river they need to sink pylons down into the mud to get the foundation, and that's going to make it expensive," he said. "The transport issues around that site are significantly greater than Subiaco, there is already a lot of infrastructure around at the railway station in Subiaco that isn't there at Burswood.

"Access roads for the stadium would also need significant upgrades." Mr Travers said the stadium task force estimated that building at Burwood would add at least $300 million to the total cost of the stadium, bringing it up to more than $1.1 billion.

He said the task force expected building at Subiaco would cost around $800 million.

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