The heritage listed Hale House in Perth will be refurbished as part of a move to consolidate Ministerial offices and central Government departments around the state’s Parliament House.
Premier Colin Barnett said the State Government-owned building would become home to a purpose-built State Cabinet meeting room, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Office of the Premier.
Hale House is a heritage listed building dating back to 1914. But it has fallen into disrepair.
Hale House
It is estimated the construction and site costs for this project will cost $17million and bring the building up to the same standard of the adjacent Constitutional Centre and the Old Observatory.
It is proposed the lower level of Hale House would include the new State Cabinet meeting room and house the Cabinet Secretariat. The Office of the Premier will take up the upper level of the building.
Work is expected to being shortly and be completed by October 2012. The State Government will negotiate a short-term extension of the lease on GST.
The neighbouring observatory building. (Images: www.mingor.net/Images-htm/)
