Industrial land in the South West of Western Australia
DevelopmentWA owns Lot 9000 Boys Home Road, located within the Coolangatta Industrial Estate approximately 8.5 km east of Collie and has been created to attract and support large-scale industries and help diversify Collie’s economy. The area is suitable for energy production, mineral processing and potentially heavy industrial use.
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1. Location
The Lot 9000 Boys Home Road site is located approximately 8.5km east of the Collie townsite within the Coolangatta Industrial Estate.
Collie is situated 47km from Bunbury (approximately 45-minute drive) and 200km south of Perth (approximately 2-hour drive).
2. Land Tenure
The Lot 9000 Boys Home Road site has a net developable area of 150ha and is owned in freehold by DevelopmentWA.
3. Planning
Lot 9000 Boys Home Road is located within the boundaries of the Shire of Collie.
Under the Shire's Local Planning Scheme No. 6 (LPS6), the site is designated Industrial Development. You can view the details here.
In 2026 the Coolangatta Industrial Estate Structure Plan was approved by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage. Boys Home Road is designated General Industry by the Structure Plan.
This Structure Plan promotes industrial development within Coolangatta Industrial Estate that will provide for large-scale general industrial uses, with a major focus on alternative energies production and mineral processing to support the diversification of the economy in Collie. The Estate is designed to support a wide variety of general industrial uses and will allow for emerging industries to develop when appropriate. Guiding principles for Coolangatta Industrial Estate include:
- Providing an industrial estate to suit a range of strategic industry and largescale general industry proponents.
- Providing for a development layout which is flexible and can be adapted to meet evolving market demands.
- Providing a development layout which allows for a permeable road and movement network which accommodates heavy transport vehicles and facilitates connections to the wider road network.
- Providing consistency with the portions of Coolangatta Industrial Estate which contain existing development.
It is supported by the Structure Plan Report
4. Sustainability
Industries are encouraged to co-locate within the Lot 9000 Boys Home Road site to create synergies such as the re-use of products or by-products and the efficient use of land.
5. Environment
The Coolangatta Industrial Estate Structure Plan has been developed to manage bushfire hazard, protect ecological water systems, native vegetation and manage potential pollution emissions, air quality and noise levels. Proponents may be required to undertake additional environmental studies.
6. Services
The Lot 9000 Boys Home Road site is strategically positioned between the Bluewaters Power Station and Synergy's Collie Battery Storage System.
The Western Australian Government has committed up to $134 million to support the delivery of major infrastructure upgrades to service the Coolangatta Industrial Estate, including:
- upgrades to the surrounding road network
- common user water infrastructure to supply potable and process water
- common user electricity upgrades to provide connection options to the transmission network
- rail access
Proponents requiring significant services will be encouraged to utilise the common user infrastructure and may also be required to provide those services on-site or extend service infrastructure to their sites.
