Jointly funded by the Federal and State Government, NorthLink WA is a key element in guiding a stronger and more prosperous economy for Western Australia, providing a vibrant, state of the art transport link. The objective is to reduce travel times and congestion, and provide significant productivity benefits to the economy, motorists and local communities.  

For design and delivery, NorthLink WA was spilt into three sections, Southern Section | Guildford Road to Reid Highway; Central Section | Reid Highway to Ellenbrook and Northern Section | Ellenbrook to Muchea. Ecoscape were responsible for the landscape architectural design and monitoring of the Central Section.  The Central Section is the largest of the three and has a number of complex social, environmental and economic opportunities and constraints. These complexities were scrutinised to define the core landscape values of this particular section of the network as well as how to intrinsically link into a broader landscape and urban network.

The extensive design process led to solutions that challenged the status quo in the approach to revegetation verge treatments, delivering the second largest native seeding scope and the largest planting scope in the history of Main Roads. The project has facilitated new approaches to fauna interaction with major infrastructure including WA’s first fauna bridge, and integrated a cross-agency program to promote Perth through the Wildflower Capital Initiative.