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East Perth Primary School plan relies on complex deal between West Australian government and the City of Perth

The Queens Gardens car park site is the preferred site for the new school.  (Supplied: WA government)

Plans to build the first public school in Perth's CBD in more than 100 years have been unveiled, but the proposal relies on a complex deal between the state government and the City of Perth.

The City of Perth owns 2.6 hectares of land next to Queens Gardens and the WACA in East Perth, but a 1960s law means that space can only be used as a car park.

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