East Perth, Western Australia
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East Perth is an inner suburb of
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, Western Australia, located next to the
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.
Claise Brook Claise Brook is a stream which empties into Claisebrook Cove before running into the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. The area surrounding the stream is on the outskirts of the Perth CBD and is part of the suburb of East Perth. Claise ...
and
Claisebrook Cove Claise Brook is a stream which empties into Claisebrook Cove before running into the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. The area surrounding the stream is on the outskirts of the Perth CBD and is part of the suburb of East Perth. Claise ...
are within the suburb. Formerly characterised by industrial land uses and urban blight, the redevelopment of East Perth was, and remains, the largest inner-city urban renewal project in the state. The design of the new residential neighbourhoods was strongly influenced by the
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movement.


Land use

Primarily an industrial area in the early twentieth century, it was the location of the
East Perth Gas Works East Perth Gas Works was built in 1922 for the Perth City Council to produce town gas from coal, supplying the city of Perth in Western Australia. It could initially supply of gas per day. It was built on the site of the earlier 1886 Perth ...
,
East Perth Power Station The East Perth Power Station is a disused power station in East Perth, Western Australia. For most of its life it was coal-fired, but ran on oil for six years. The site consists of a complex of industrial buildings occupying more than , bounded ...
(which was decommissioned and the building is being renovated for other purposes), the East Perth railway yard, and engine sheds. From the early 1980s, virtually all of the residential real estate on the western side of Lord Street became home to commercial enterprises; the buildings remain, either single or duplex dwellings previously inhabited mostly by migrant families.


Population

In the 2016
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, there were 10,596 people in East Perth. 30.3% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 6.7%, China 4.0%, India 3.7%, Malaysia 3.4% and South Korea 2.9%. 47.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 6.6%, Korean 2.7%, Cantonese 2.6%, Portuguese 2.0% and Spanish 1.9%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 33.3% and Catholic 18.4%.


Cemetery

East Perth is the location of Perth's significant early colonial era cemetery, which contains graves of many early colonial families. Its condition is marginal due to the loss of many headstones and lack of adequate record of graves, only 800 of the estimated 10,000 grave sites have been identified.


Railway

The former East Perth railway yard and engine sheds were removed in the 1960s and have been redeveloped into the Railway headquarters - consolidating a very scattered system of offices and sections for the railways.
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serves as the main hub for country and interstate rail services and Road Coach services. Departing from the station are services such as the ''
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'', ''
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'', tourist trains, and the ''
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''. The original
East Perth railway station East Perth railway station is located on the Midland line and Airport line in Perth, Western Australia. It is operated by Transperth serving the suburb of East Perth. It is adjacent to the East Perth Terminal and Public Transport Centre. His ...
is now called Claisebrook, and while it has the same number of platforms that it did in the 1960s, the original buildings have given way to modern shelters. It is also the location of the
Goongoongup Bridge Goongoongup Bridge is a railway bridge in East Perth, Western Australia which crosses the Swan River and forms part of the Armadale line. It opened on 24 July 1995 as part of the electrification of Perth's suburban railway network."New Perth B ...
on the railway to Bunbury for the South Western Railway.


Redevelopment Authority

East Perth Redevelopment Authority (EPRA) was established in 1991 to manage the redevelopment and urbanisation of the suburb. In 2012 EPRA merged with other redevelopment authorities to become the
Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority (MRA) was a statutory authority of the Government of Western Australia. It was established on 1 January 2012 pursuant to the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Act 2011 and reported to the Minister ...
(MRA). In 2019, the MRA became part of
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. Many parts of East Perth that have been fully developed have been “normalised”—meaning returned to the
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for administration.


Sports

Sporting attractions include the
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and Gloucester Park trotting ground.


Education

Educational facilities include
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, a day school for boys, years 4–12.


See also

* Restaurant Amusé


Notes


References

* Bodycoat, Ronald. (1993) ''East Perth heritage study : prepared for the East Perth Development Authority'' East Perth, W.A. The Authority. 2 volumes (Volume 1 only held in
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). {{Authority control Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia * Suburbs in the City of Vincent New Urbanism communities