Coastal Centre Approved as WA Retail Runs Hot

A regional shopping development has been approved 180km south of Perth as the neighbourhood retail market intensifies in WA.

The Regional Development Assessment Panel for the Shire of Capel has approved the Coles-anchored project, Dalyellup Village.

Plans for the centre were submitted in November, 2023.

A report prepared by Element on behalf of Coles Group Property Developments Ltd said that the proposed shopping centre development would be a “key component of the Dalyellup District Centre”.

It will deliver a Coles supermarket of 4027sq m, plus three specialty retail tenancies up to 323sq m—one potentially a liquor store.

Internal figurations would be adaptable to future leasing opportunities, the development application said.

Hodge Collard Preston Architects designed the project, 10km from Bunbury town centre.

▲ Woolworths will anchor a new retail precinct at Cedar Woods' Eglinton Village, 44km north of Perth.

As the Perth market heats up, supermarkets have been eyeing Western Australia’s growing regional and suburban areas with new developments cropping up thick and fast.

Last week, Saracen Properties filed plans for a $55-million Woolworths-anchored retail precinct with self-storage and specialist disability accommodation in an outer suburb of Perth.

And Coles was approved this year for a $29.1-million development at Ravenswood. 

Private developers are also benefitting from the heightened supermarket activity in the West. 

Cedar Woods announced this week it had sold a 2ha plot at its Eglinton development to Woolworths’ development arm Fabcot for $13 million. 

It had acquired the wider 86ha site in 2021 for $49.5 million and has developed the site as a masterplanned community. 

Cedar Woods has retained a 1200-lot pipeline of residential lots on the site and said it had been the company’s top-performing project nationally.