The Corridor Lockwood Advisory

The Corridor · Concept for discussion

A shared picture of the Western Trade Coast

From the North Fremantle port gateway to Rockingham, the opportunities in front of the Western Trade Coast sit with many different councils, agencies, precincts and proponents, and no single organisation is placed to see them together. The Corridor is a proposal to build that shared picture, beginning with the organisations ready to contribute and widening as it proves useful.

20 yearsof projects, public and private
3levels of government
6layers in one platform
Lockwood Advisory Prepared by Lockwood Advisory
November 2026

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What The Corridor is for

The model maps the economic baseline of the whole footprint as it stands now, then overlays every project due for delivery over the next twenty years, public and private, across local, state and Commonwealth government. It adds the social capacity the region runs on, from schools and hospitals to transport and skills. That picture becomes the basis for conversations between parties who currently plan separately.

Two ways of seeing the same projects
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Today, each council, agency, precinct and proponent plans from its own part of the picture.

The problem

No single organisation can see the whole corridor

Opportunities across the corridor sit in separate hands, and there is not yet one place where those parts come together.

The cost is capital committed without coordination, and infrastructure bottlenecks that are expensive to undo.

The approach

A shared platform and a convener the contributors trust

A live, public platform shows the baseline, the pipeline and the capacity of the region. Lockwood Advisory convenes the conversations it makes possible, and holds sensitive information in a way contributors can trust.

The wider value

Everyone in the region plans from the same information

Business, community, investors and government work from the same twenty-year picture. In time, the platform could also connect to the state's digital twin as a regional node.

The two principles it is built on

Start with what industry already knows

The first version is built from information the private sector is willing to share about its own projects and plans. Public sector information is added as agencies come in, including the longer view beyond the committed budget period, so that the pipeline runs the full twenty years.

Start with the organisations that are ready

The platform begins with the organisations ready to move. Others can join once they have seen how it works and how the information is handled, which builds trust more reliably than asking everyone to commit at the outset.

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What the platform shows

The platform is made of six layers of information about the corridor. Businesses update their own entries, which keeps the information current without depending on any single organisation to maintain it.

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Schematic only. The marks are illustrative and do not show real projects.

The economic baseline of the whole corridor.

  • North Fremantle and the port gateway
  • Fremantle and South Fremantle
  • The freight corridor
  • Kwinana, Henderson and Rockingham

Every project due for delivery, public and private, with the investment and commitments behind each.

  • Local, state and Commonwealth roles made visible
  • The committed budget period, then the longer view
  • Updated by the businesses themselves

The social and physical capacity that decides whether the pipeline can be delivered.

  • Schools and hospitals
  • Road network and freight
  • Public transport
  • Skills, training and jobs

A techno-economic model built for industrial precincts shows how projects co-locate and depend on one another, where the investment gaps are, and which enabling infrastructure would unlock a cluster.

Investment and finance on one side, the training and skills pipeline on the other, so that the region can fund and staff what it builds.

Clusters of proponents, groups of agencies or levels of government working through what is needed and who is placed to do it. Lockwood Advisory holds this layer.

Who the platform is for

BusinessSees where the region is heading and keeps its own information current.
CommunitySees what is coming and what it means for living there.
InvestorsSee where the potential is and what remains unfunded.
GovernmentSees the corridor across all three levels, alongside the private pipeline.
The stateGains a regional view that could connect to its digital twin in time.

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How the platform gets built

The platform needs a regional home before it needs code. The current round of conversations is about who is interested, what each party could bring, and where the platform should sit.

Now

Test the idea and gauge the interest

  • Conversations with councils, industry bodies, agencies and proponents across the corridor
  • A register of the organisations that want to take part
  • A view on where the platform should sit

Next

Build a first working version

  • A demonstrable version of the platform
  • Built from the information the first contributors share
  • Co-funded by the organisations that commit to it

Later

Add contributors and connect to state systems

  • More contributors and more of the footprint
  • The public sector view added alongside the private
  • A connection to the state's digital twin, in time

What the platform needs in order to work

Eight roles
A regional homeAn organisation with the standing to hold the platform on behalf of the corridor, across council boundaries and between industry and government.
A platformThe public, map-based platform that businesses update themselves.
A scenario modelThe techno-economic modelling that shows how the projects in a cluster interact.
A media partnerA public conversation about what each project needs in order to proceed.
ContributorsProponents, councils and agencies sharing what they are planning and delivering.
First fundersThe organisations that back a prototype so the idea can be tested in practice.
GovernmentThe longer view beyond the committed budget period, and a path into the state's digital systems.
Lockwood AdvisoryConvenes the parties, holds sensitive information in trust, and keeps the work moving between them.

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How your organisation could take part

ContributeShare your project pipeline and plans for the layers that concern you.
HostConsider whether your organisation is the right home for the platform, alone or with others.
Co-fundBack the prototype alongside other early partners.
ShapeSay what the picture would need to show to be useful to you.
Lockwood Advisory

To take the conversation further, speak with Nicole Lockwood at Lockwood Advisory.