Plans Filed for 226-Key Highrise on Perth Hotel Strip

A highrise hotel is being planned for an eastern Perth suburb as interest in the sector in the West ramps up.

Property Development (WA), whose sole director is listed as Angela Tilli, has filed the plans for the Wyndham Hotel on a site at 250 Great Eastern Highway at Ascot, within the City of Belmont.

If approved, the vacant site would become a 15-storey, 226-key hotel with a public rooftop restaurant and bar. 

Rooms would be in a variety of configurations regarding size and beds. Twenty-two serviced apartment on levels 2 and 3 are also part of the proposal.

The plans by Scanlan Architects show a hotel lobby, a bar or care, a library, common lounge and back of house areas, as well as a swimming pool On the ground floor. 

It will also offer 125 car parking spots on the site that is 6.5km from the Perth CBD, 4km east of Perth Airport and 500m south of the Ascot Racecourse overlooking the Swan River.

▲ A render of the hotel proposed for east of the WA capital.

The Great Eastern Highway carries 60,000 vehicles a day. The site shares a boundary with the Belmont RSL club and borders its lawn bowls green. 

The site is within the limits of the Great Eastern Highway Urban Corridor Strategy, which was tabled with the Belmont council in September.

The strategy aims to increase the range and diversity of accommodation for visitors in the neighbourhood, given its proximity to the airport as well as entertainment precincts such as the Optus Stadium, Burswood and the Swan River.

CBRE’s 2024 Hotel Outlook reported that visitor nights spent in domestic-dominated Perth were up 15 per cent.

In May of this year. two Perth hotels near the site of the propsal were sold—the Great Eastern Motor Lodge and Flag Motor Lodge.

The Great Eastern Motor Lodge at 81 Great Eastern Highway, Rivervale was acquired by Singapore’s Hiap Hoe Limited for $40 million—about $200,000 per room.

The motel is on a 11,892sqm freehold site, comprising 198 apartments.

The Flag Motor Lodge at 29 Great Eastern Hwy, Rivervale is on a 9865sq m site has 116 rooms, a restaurant, swimming pool and parking.

An unnamed US investor making its Australian hotel debut paid for $17 million, or $147,000 per room, for the property.

Counter-cyclical Perth has been heating up in the past few years with residential affordability attracting buyers, as well as investments in major tourism opportunities such as the $100-million Perth wave pool which recently signed on Rip Curl.