Perth Voice Interactive

IT’S the plan that’s been hovering around for a decade, but at long last there are serious moves to get a new CBD helipad on Riverside Drive.

Perth city council’s been wanting to get a new helipad to cater for high flyers ever since the old one was pulled off the foreshore 10 years ago.

There was a temporary one in East Perth but it had to go to make way for the state government’s Waterbank development.

The council wrestled with a previous plan for months but it fell in a heap last February when the state government refused to kick in funds.

At the time lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi said “I haven’t given up on this” and now a two-year trial for two helipads is back on the table, to be operated by private company Skyline Aviation.

It’ll have to meet a bunch of strict environmental requirements and safety issues (like stopping water spray making the nearby dual-use path slippery), and the noise impact will have to be lower than other states’ standards.