Both scopes in one visit — building to AS 4349.1, timber pest to AS 4349.3. The fuller check, by a registered building contractor. Report within 24 hours.
Shenton Park holds two of the more unusual former-institutional sites in the inner western suburbs: the former Shenton Park hospital campus, a major rehabilitation facility that has been released for residential development, and a former Transperth bus depot that was replaced by a new facility on Brockway Road and whose site is also being converted to housing. The suburb that holds those redevelopment sites also contains established character housing between Subiaco and the western suburbs, sits adjacent to Karrakatta Cemetery, and records Aboriginal registered sites on Lemnos Street and nearby Underwood Avenue. A building and timber pest inspection at Shenton Park reads for those released institutional sites, for the established character stock beside them, and for the Karrakatta boundary as a site context for the relevant homes.
The former hospital campus is the most specific Shenton Park ground context. A major rehabilitation hospital occupies its site for decades before residential development arrives; that institutional use leaves a ground history — building foundations, service corridors, remediated areas — that differs from ordinary residential development ground. Where a new home has been built on the former hospital campus, the site preparation and ground conditions reflect that institutional history, and we read the slab and drainage behaviour with that context in mind, noting the former campus footprint as a site consideration.
The former Transperth bus depot site is a second former-operational site within the suburb, now also being converted to residential. Former transport depot ground carries a different industrial legacy from hospital ground — fuel storage, vehicle maintenance, hard standing — and where new homes sit on the former depot footprint we note that history as a site context alongside the standard build read.
The established character housing in the rest of Shenton Park carries the age read of its era. The suburb holds a mix of character homes from the interwar and postwar periods alongside mid-century stock, and each earns the age read appropriate to its era in a suburb adjacent to a major cemetery and near the Karrakatta rail station.
The Karrakatta Cemetery adjacent boundary is a site context rather than a building concern, but for homes nearest that boundary it is a known element of the address that we note plainly.
The timber pest side follows the character housing and the parkland. Older subfloors on interwar and postwar homes, established gardens and the lake and parkland that sit within the suburb give termites the conditions they use. We read subfloor, roof void and the perimeter carefully.
What you get is a plain reading of the Shenton Park home on its former-institutional or established character ground, with the report inside 24 hours and the real defects separated clearly from the cosmetic.
We run the same two-scope visit across the area, including nearby Subiaco and Nedlands.
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Its former institutional sites. The former Shenton Park hospital campus and a former Transperth bus depot have both been released for residential development, creating specific former-institutional ground contexts alongside the suburb's established character housing.
A major rehabilitation hospital leaves foundations, service corridors and remediated areas when it closes. New homes on the former campus sit on ground whose institutional history is a site consideration we read into the slab and drainage behaviour.
Former transport depot ground carries fuel storage, vehicle maintenance and hard-standing legacy. Where homes sit on the former depot footprint, that operational history is noted as a site context alongside the modern build read.
Interwar and postwar character homes at 70-90 years, and mid-century stock at 60-70 years, each carrying the expected findings for their era.
The cemetery forms part of the suburb's boundary. For homes nearest it, we note the cemetery adjacency plainly as a known element of the address.
Yes. The Register of Aboriginal Sites records a camp site in Lemnos Street, and Underwood Avenue nearby is recorded as a meeting area and place of historical and spiritual significance.
Yes. Older subfloors on interwar and postwar homes, established gardens and the suburb's lake and parkland all give termites the conditions they use.
Yes. The building inspection to AS 4349.1 and the timber pest inspection to AS 4349.3 are done in one visit, with a single report within 24 hours.
A flat $616 inc GST for both scopes, report within 24 hours.
Yes. We read the home on its own terms, noting the former campus as a site context and reading the slab and drainage accordingly.
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