City of Fremantle
Coastal Charm
The 2025-26 Budget continues to deliver on the strategic priorities of the community by creating a liveable, thriving, creative, resilient, and inclusive Fremantle.
The City of Fremantle delivers hundreds of services, programs, initiatives, events and activities that benefit everyone – whether you live in the city or our suburbs, you run a local business, or you’ve come for a visit.
The City of Fremantle works hard to deliver capital projects that benefit everyone – whether you live in the CBD or the suburbs, you run a local business or you’ve come for a visit. The 2025-26 financial year will see a continued focus on the achievement of these core objectives, with the delivery of a balanced and fiscally responsible budget.
The majority of the capital projects budget is allocated to projects outside of our CBD reflecting the City’s focus on investing in the suburbs. Capital project highlights include:
With more projects underway and new work scheduled for the upcoming financial year, here are some of the highlights completed over the past year:
The 2024-25 financial year has seen the delivery of a significant capital program with over $8.5m invested in the Fremantle community.
Notable projects completed included:
• Major investment into heritage including upgrades to the Town Hall balcony, electrical upgrades at the Moore’s building and commencement of Façade works to 38-40 Henry Street • Commencement of the federally funded Arts Centre Creative hub Acquisition of two new public toilet facilities to be installed early in the 2025/26 financial year • MRRG High Street, South Street and other road upgrades • Completion of footpath upgrades at Attfield St, Field St, Wood St, Paget St, Swanbourne St, South St, Solomon St, Martha St and Leake St • Completion of drainage upgrades at Wongan Ave and Collick St • Delivery of upgrades to several parks and reserves including BBQ upgrades at South Beach, upgrades to Parmelia Park Playground, Shade Sail at Griffiths Park, additional parking and footpaths at Samson Reserve as well as renewal of irrigation. • Commencement of the commercial fit out of the Walyalup Civic Centre as a result of securing several commercial tenancies. • Over $1.1 million was invested in the renewal of plant, fleet, and equipment to ensure the continued operational capability across key service areas. This included the procurement of a new footpath sweeper, pool vehicles, mowers, and trucks to support the functions of Waste & Cleansing, Construction Maintenance, and Parks & Landscaping.
In addition to the capital program, the City delivered over $30 million in operating activities (excluding staffing) over the 2024-25 financial year which included the following highlights:
• $5.5 million on the maintenance of our parks and landscapes, including over $500,000 invested in the planting and maintenance of trees • Over $5 million invested in the management of waste and resource recovery • Over $4 million invested into the maintenance of our community facilities and buildings • Over $3.6 million invested in arts and culture related programming, events and facilities • Over $2 million invested into the maintenance of existing roads, footpaths and drainage • Over $2 million invested in the delivery of community programs, services, safety and well-being • Close to $1 million in economic development and activation related initiatives • $2.0m towards the delivery of arts, culture and festivals • $2.0m towards community safety
The 2025 Long Term Financial Plan is a way of communicating our 10-year outlook on future financial planning for the City and should be read in conjunction with information provided as part of the annual budget each year.
The City’s Long Term Financial Plan must remain dynamic and adaptive to community need and as such is updated annually as part of the City’s annual budget process.
This document provides a financial roadmap for City over the next 10 years and maps out the key financial strategies and principles the City has adopted in managing its finances over the longer term.
This document and the content within it is indicative in nature and is used for longer term planning as part of the annual budget process. The annual statutory budget and annual financial statements remain as the documents that should be referred to for an accurate reflection of budget and actual expenditure for that respective financial year.
