Lake Street Extension

The Lake Street Extension delivers a new connecting road from Cecil Avenue to Wharf Street.

The Canning City Centre Regeneration Program is a 10-year, $76 million program that aims to create Canning as Perth’s southern CBD. Part of that plan is to revitalise the Canning City Centre and realise its potential as a Strategic Metropolitan Centre in Perth. The focus is to create a City Centre that is vibrant and offers a range of activities and options to its users.

Phase 2 of the program included the Lake Street Extension project, which delivers a new connecting road from Cecil Avenue to Wharf Street. The new road:

• provides a direct link between Cannington Leisureplex and Cecil Avenue
• promotes the viability and accessibility of the Leisureplex
• provides direct access from the Leisureplex to the heart of the City centre and Carousel shopping centre.

As part of achieving the future vision for the Canning City Centre, the City worked closely with Development WA to enable new secondary roads to be developed in line with the Western Australian Planning Commission approved Activity Centre Plan. In 2020 and early 2021, key State government agencies approved the City’s request to include the Lake Street Extension as part of land negotiations for Cecil Avenue East.