Graylands Forensic Campus ExpansionMount Claremont Community Network
Aerial view of the Graylands campus and the surrounding Mount Claremont residential streets and schools, captioned Graylands Forensic Campus Expansion.
The Graylands campus, surrounded on three sides by Mount Claremont homes and schools.
$698 million.  Four schools.  Zero consultation.

A $698 million decision the community was never shown.

The State Government is progressing a major forensic mental health expansion at Graylands, in the middle of a residential suburb. Stage 1 is already in design. Before construction proceeds, residents and school communities deserve the full evidence, the safety plan, and genuine consultation.

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In 60 seconds
  • Graylands is proposed to become WA's only large-scale forensic mental health campus.
  • Stage 1 would take forensic beds from about 45 to about 85.
  • The long-term plan is 136 forensic beds and 40 mental health recovery beds, at an estimated total capital cost of $698.3 million.
  • Four schools — one just 270 metres away — sit within 1km of the campus.
  • No formal public consultation with residents or schools has been identified in the public record.
  • The community is asking the Government to pause, release the evidence, and consult properly before the design is locked in.
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Eight documented concerns

Each one is drawn from a government document, a parliamentary record, or credible reporting — not from speculation. Tap a card for the short version, or jump straight to the full sourced case.

1Law changed

The law changed after the plan was made

The entire expansion was planned under a law that's since been replaced. The Criminal Law (Mental Impairment) Act 2023 — in force the same month the project was funded — actively drives more community reintegration than the old law did. The government hasn't published evidence the planning was updated to reflect it.

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2Business case gaps

The government's own advisor found the case insufficient

The State's own independent infrastructure advisor found the business case had "insufficient information on which to base an investment decision," citing six specific gaps. The government committed $218.9 million three weeks later, with no public explanation of what changed.

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3Decommissioning reversed

A promised decommissioning was reversed, unexplained

For years the official plan for Graylands was decommissioning, not expansion. In Parliament, the Minister described the same Taskforce as recommending both closure and expansion in the same breath — and the public bed count has since shifted, from 53 to 40. No document explains the reversal.

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4No consultation

The community was never consulted

The Taskforce consulted clinical professionals and public servants — not the residents and schools next door. After reviewing every publicly available document, no evidence of a public meeting, direct notification, or resident engagement process was found.

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5Heritage costs unresolved

Environmental and heritage concerns

A heritage-listed site since the early 1900s, with heritage costs the government's own advisor flagged as inadequately assessed. The environmental referral cleared threatened black cockatoo habitat while formally denying the project is staged — the answer that kept the assessed impact small.

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6Safety undisclosed

Community safety protocols are undisclosed

A 2014 escape went unreported to the community for a week. No public protocol confirms that's changed in the twelve years since — and it isn't a uniquely local risk: a comparable facility in Sydney had two escapes and three deaths within a fortnight in February 2026.

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7Property impact unassessed

No independent property impact assessment

The government's own advisor found the social impact assessment incomplete. No public analysis exists of the effect on nearby property values, and no compensation or redress mechanism has been disclosed if one is ever carried out.

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8Security never assessed

The site was never assessed for security

Twenty sites were compared — on transport access and location, not security. Not one was assessed against community safety or school proximity, unlike comparable facilities in NSW and Victoria, which sit inside correctional precincts.

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If these eight concerns trouble you as much as they trouble us, here's where that goes.

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Every claim is checkable

Wherever you see a small tag like this — Infrastructure WA, Mar 2023 — it marks a claim drawn directly from a named, publicly available source: a government report, Hansard, or credible media. The full list is on the Sources page, and every source is independently verifiable.