Shadow State Development Minister Mark McGowan visited the city this week to find out for himself what was happening.

“I am looking to make sure projects we started under our watch are kept going,” he said.

Mr McGowan praised local MLA Peter Watson for the work he had done to attract projects with a supportive premier in locally-born Alan Carpenter.

“They got the place moving,” he said

“But I am disappointed some things have fallen behind.”

Mr McGowan criticised the government’s budget cutbacks preventing the progress of some projects.

These included the $560million statewide cut in infill sewerage resulting in houses at Bayonet Head missing out.

“The capacity of housing development has been set back in Albany as a result,” he said.

During his visit he visited the biomass pellet plant operation at Down Road and spoke to local business people about seven-day trading, especially with Perth changing to extended trading.

“It’s a different story in regional areas though,” Mr McGowan said.