Bedford Shopping Precincts

Background

The City has completed engagement as part of the Bedford Local Centres Improvement Program to understand the recommended actions to make improvements at each of the five Bedford shopping precincts (view locations maps here) in 2022 and 2023.

Outcomes of the engagement have been collated and summarised in an Engagement Summary. The Engagement activities can be viewed here.

Funding under the Reconnect WA grant and the City has enabled the delivery of a number of place-based initiatives gathered from the feedback received from community engagement.

Project Updates

This project has completed the following:

• Precinct One - Grand Promenade Shopping Precinct - funded in partnership with the RAC, under the RAC Reconnect Program

Local businesses have had bespoke and individually designed and created alfresco areas, inclusive of planter boxes and seating. The precinct has been revitalized with two vibrant murals, festoon lighting, planter boxes with established trees and practical additions of bike racks, water fountain and new rubbish bins.

• Precinct Four - 1000-1004 Beaufort Street Shopping Precinct

1004 Beaufort Street has been repainted in heritage colour scheme. And new alfresco furniture has been designed for in front of 1000 Beaufort Street.

• Precinct Five - 1070 Broun Avenue Shopping Precinct

A bright, vibrant wall mural has been painted on the side of 1070 Beaufort Street building. And the verge has been revitalised with native plants.

See the news feed below for updates on projects being rolled out.

Project Evaluation

We asked the community their thoughts about the improvements that have been delivered as part of the RAC Connect / City of Bayswater project in Bedford. There were two ways to be involved

• 1. Word Cloud

We asked people providing us with a few words about how it looks, how it makes them feel, how many people they see there, how safe they feel there. We asked for words to describe the pre makeover and post project interventions. See results to the right of the page.

• 2. Walking audit

To capture the changes and the impacts the project has made to the precinct we undertook a post intervention walking audit. Participants were asked to rate the same set of metrics both pre and post interventions. The metrics form part of assessing what constitutes a healthy street, the results indicate that the improvements rated an average of 1.96 compared to an average of 0.64 pre the interventions. It is a positive outcome that the street has increased its average post interventions, indicating a much healthier streetscape. See results to the right of the page.