Where we work
Accessibility modifications across Perth
Based in Melville, WA, we work across the whole Perth metro area. These are some of the suburbs we work in.
Not sure whether we come out your way? Call us and we will let you know.
Each area page sets out the local housing stock and what it means for your home. It genuinely matters - an old limestone cottage near the port needs a different approach to a 1990s brick-and-tile on a flat block.
9 suburbs
Melville & riverside
Our own patch. Everything here is minutes from the workshop, so a site visit is easy to arrange and nobody is driving across the city to reach you.
Melville
Melville is AccessAble's operational base - our workshop and office are on Williams Road, so when you call from a Melville address you are calling your neighbours. Site visits here fit around short-notice availability more readily than anywhere else we work.
Melville detailsApplecross
Applecross is one of Perth's most established riverside suburbs, with housing that ranges from substantial 1950s and 1960s brick homes on sloping blocks to grander riverfront properties rebuilt or heavily extended in more recent decades. The suburb's terrain matters for accessibility work: many blocks slope west and south toward the Swan River, so a level entry that would be a simple threshold ramp job on the flat may require regrading the approach and thinking about drainage.
Applecross detailsBooragoon
Booragoon is a quiet residential suburb centred on the Garden City shopping precinct, with housing stock that is predominantly mid-century brick - single-storey homes built from the late 1950s through to the 1970s on flat or gently undulating blocks. The terrain works in your favour for accessibility: most properties have a level or near-level approach to the front door, which keeps external modifications straightforward.
Booragoon detailsMount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant sits between Canning Bridge and the Canning River, with a housing mix that reflects the suburb's long development: modest 1950s and 1960s brick homes on the flatter eastern streets, and larger, often two-storey homes - including significant knock-down rebuilds - on the sloping land closer to the river and the foreshore reserve at Point Walter.
Mount Pleasant detailsBicton
Bicton runs south from the Canning River foreshore through quiet residential streets of predominantly 1950s and 1960s brick-and-tile homes, with some earlier post-war construction closer to Bicton Beach and the Canning River Regional Park. It is a settled suburb where many residents have been in the same home for decades, and the calls we receive here are often from homeowners who want to make their home work for longer rather than sell up.
Bicton detailsAttadale
Attadale is a quiet suburb wedged between Leach Highway to the south and the Swan River foreshore to the north, with housing that ranges from modest 1950s and 1960s brick homes on the southern streets to more substantial properties on the slopes running down toward the river. The riverfront end of Attadale has some of the most significant grade change of any suburb in the area, which is a meaningful consideration when someone asks about level entry.
Attadale detailsAlfred Cove
Alfred Cove is a small, well-established suburb sitting between Melville and the Canning River estuary, with homes largely from the 1960s and 1970s on blocks that can vary considerably in how they meet the street. Properties on the river side can face a significant drop or slope from the street to the front door, while those on the inland streets are far flatter and more straightforward for external access work.
Alfred Cove detailsWillagee
Willagee is one of Perth's former State Housing areas, developed from the early 1950s onward with a consistent pattern of compact single-storey brick homes on flat blocks. The suburb is notably flatter than the riverside suburbs to the north and west, which is straightforward for external access work - there are few sloping sites and no limestone close to the surface to complicate footing depths.
Willagee detailsPalmyra
Palmyra sits between Willagee to the east and Bicton to the west, a flat, quiet suburb of predominantly 1950s and 1960s brick homes on modest blocks. Like Willagee, it was developed as part of the post-war suburban expansion south of the river, and the housing follows a compact, functional pattern - small bathrooms, narrow hallways, and separate toilets that open off a central passage.
Palmyra details
1 suburb
Fremantle
Limestone, jarrah floorboards and narrow hallways. Older homes down here need a different approach to a brick-and-tile house, and we know where the surprises hide.
Fremantle
Fremantle has some of the oldest residential housing stock in Perth - limestone cottages, Federation-era brick terraces, and interwar homes built long before wheelchair clearances or level shower entries were part of anyone's thinking. The charm of a Freo cottage comes with a specific set of access challenges: hallways as tight as 750 mm, small original bathrooms, high door thresholds, and jarrah floors throughout that run continuously from room to room and complicate any modification to floor level.
Fremantle details
6 suburbs
South of the river
Established family suburbs and riverside apartments. A lot of 1970s and 80s homes with generous floor plans and small original bathrooms.
Como
Como sits between the Canning River and Manning Road, with housing that spans interwar bungalows, solid brick homes from the 1950s and early 1960s, and a large number of apartment buildings along the ridge toward Canning Bridge.
Como detailsSouth Perth
South Perth runs from the zoo foreshore along the Swan River to the Canning River, with a cross-section of housing that reflects the suburb's gradual densification: single-storey brick homes from the 1950s and 1960s in the quieter streets, and a significant number of apartment buildings along Mill Point Road and the riverside frontage.
South Perth detailsBull Creek
Bull Creek was developed mainly through the 1970s and early 1980s, and the homes reflect the design thinking of that time: solid brick-and-tile construction on flat blocks, generous floor plans with large living areas, but bathrooms that are surprisingly compact given the size of the house around them.
Bull Creek detailsWilletton
Willetton developed through the 1970s and 1980s as a family suburb, and it has stayed that way. The housing is predominantly single-storey brick-and-tile on flat blocks, with floor plans that were designed for families - large living areas, multiple bedrooms, but bathrooms that are still quite compact by today's standards.
Willetton detailsCanning Vale
Canning Vale was built up mainly in the 1990s and early 2000s as a master-planned estate, and the homes reflect the preferences of that period - larger floor plans, double garages, and ensuites that were designed to look generous rather than to function well for anyone with reduced mobility.
Canning Vale detailsRiverton
Riverton developed through the 1970s and 1980s on flat ground between the Canning River and South Street, and it has the feel of a settled, established suburb where many residents have been in the same home for twenty or thirty years.
Riverton details
3 suburbs
Southern corridor
Newer estates and coastal homes. Salt air changes which fittings last, and we are upfront that these are a longer run from the workshop.
Cockburn Central
Cockburn Central is one of Perth's newer residential areas, built up from the late 1990s onward as part of the southern corridor's growth. The homes here are mainly double-storey, on compact lots, with the main bathroom and all the bedrooms upstairs.
Cockburn Central detailsRockingham
Rockingham's residential areas cover a range of eras - established streets around the city centre with 1970s and 1980s brick-and-tile homes, retirement and lifestyle villages scattered through the municipality, and the newer estates extending south toward Baldivis.
Rockingham detailsBaldivis
Baldivis is one of Perth's fastest-growing outer suburbs, with most of the residential stock built from the early 2000s onward. The homes are estate-built on sandy lots - double or single storey, brick-and-tile, with larger floor plans than the older southern suburbs and bathrooms that were designed for families rather than for a person who has had a stroke or a hip replacement.
Baldivis details
1 suburb
Northern suburbs
The northern end of our coverage. A longer drive, planned into the schedule rather than pretended away.
Joondalup
Joondalup and the surrounding northern suburbs - Beldon, Edgewater, Heathridge, Connolly - were developed through the 1980s and 1990s as part of the Joondalup new city project. The homes are brick-and-tile, often double-storey, with larger floor plans than the older southern suburbs and ensuites that were designed to look generous rather than to function well for someone with changed mobility.
Joondalup details
Just outside?
Call us and we will tell you straight
If you are close to one of these suburbs, give AccessAble a call and we will tell you honestly whether we can get to you. If we cannot, we would rather say so than waste your time. Asking for a quote costs nothing either way.
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Monday to Friday, 7:00am - 5:00pm. Based in Melville, working right across Perth.