:Burt Street, Fremantle
{{Short description|Street in Fremantle, Western Australia}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2017}}
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File:Fremantle heads from Burt Street.jpg
{{Infobox Australian road
| type = street
| road_name = Burt Street
| state = wa
| image = Burt Street from hill towards harbour.jpg
| caption = Looking down Burt Street towards harbour and Gage Roads - the structures mid photo on the right is the Army Museum
| length = 0.53
| direction_a =
| end_a = East Street, Fremantle
| direction_b =
| end_b = Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle
| exits =
| through = Fremantle
}}
Burt Street is a street located in Fremantle, Western Australia. It runs between Queen Victoria Street and East Street and rises up the prominent hill that lies to the south of Cantonment Hill.
The lower part of the street is the current location of the Army Museum of Western Australia which is based in the former Army Artillery Barracks.{{Citation | author1=Western Australian Planning Commission | title=Metropolitan region scheme amendment 1163/57 (minor amendment) : Fremantle Artillery Barracks : City of Fremantle : report on submissions, submissions, transcript of hearings | date=2009 | publisher=Western Australian Planning Commission | isbn=978-0-7309-9897-6 }}{{Citation | author1=Australia. Parliament. Senate. Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee | author2=Hogg, John Joseph | title=Inquiry into the disposal of Defence property : artillery barracks, Fremantle : interim report of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee | date=2001 | publisher=The Committee | isbn=978-0-642-71114-4 }}{{Citation | author1=Considine and Griffiths Architects | title=Artillery Barracks, Fremantle : conservation plan | date=1996 | publisher=Considine and Griffiths Architects | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28008606 | accessdate=13 January 2017 }} This section of Burt Street was in the late 19th century considered part of Skinner Street.{{citation |url=https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/fremantle-sheet-3-tally-no-504252-0637 |title=Fremantle Sheet 3 [Tally No. 504252].}}
Burt Street is the northern boundary of a block of State Housing Commission land that formerly had three apartment complexes (named 'Keli', 'Buli', and 'Kerta') but as of 2018 these had all been demolished and the site was to undergo redevelopment into a "new affordable community that enriches the unique character of Fremantle"{{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-07-06_1653_Burt_Street_development_sign.jpg |title=Burt Street Redevelopment sign}} with 15% being reserved for public housing.{{cite web |url=https://heraldonlinejournal.com/2015/01/16/burt-street-brouhaha/ |title=Burt Street brouhaha |date=January 16, 2015 }}
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