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much more accessible to those within the Town.In recent years, significant numbers of younger individuals andyounger families have moved into the area and have gentrified olderdwellings or have demolished and rebuilt. There is also ongoingsubdivision of residential backyards to create new building lots, withright-of-ways proving attractive as a means of giving a back lot a‘street’ frontage.By the 1990s, the City of Perth was considered to have grown toolarge and populous, covering from City Beach through to VictoriaPark. On 1st July 1994 the Town of Vincent was formed along withthe Towns of Victoria Park and Cambridge. The Council offices forthe Town of Vincent were constructed on the corner of Loftus andVincent Streets in Leederville and were opened on 22nd March1996.ConclusionAs population, industries and transport patterns alter, suburbschange in function, character and status. The processesof building and re-building, and the cycles of land use andresidential developments are reflected in the dynamic nature ofthe inner urban environment. The communities which have beenestablished in the area now known as the Town of Vincent haveeach evolved in distinct ways, although the type of change has, toa significant extent, been caused by their close physical proximityto the central Perth district. Many people are attracted to innercitysuburbs because of their unique atmosphere and character,enhanced by their heritage component. Retaining this, whileallowing development for modern life, is the challenge of moderntown planning.Should you have any questions about the information in thisbrochure, you can contact the Town of Vincent and speak to oneof the Town’s Heritage Officers. Please telephone (08) 9273 6000.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThe information in this brochure is based on the informationcontained in the document ‘Report on an ethnohistoricalinvestigation into the Aboriginal Heritage of the Town of Vincent’by Rodney Harrison and the history compiled by the HockingPlanning & Architecture Collaboration for the Town of VincentDistrict Survey & Municipal Heritage Inventory Review, and theTown of Vincent freely acknowledges the use of these documents.