Perth Voice Interactive

WITH the old Cheriton Street cottage narrowly saved from being sold, the Norwood Neighbourhood Association is turning it into a neighbourhood centre.

Vincent city council is soon to start restorations on the cottage, so the NNA’s asking locals to come out to an ideas day on August 30 to think up plans on how to use the centre.

It’s already turned the backyard into a community garden and set up a BBQ, and it’s looking at ideas like a community kitchen or a coffee window for the house itself when it opens early next year.

The community vision workshop runs 1–4pm at 34 Cheriton Street and there’ll be afternnon tea and stuff to keep the kiddies busy.

The saga of the railway house started back in April 2011 when the WA government tried to sell the house.

Locals feared it’d be lost forever but the deal fell through due to a bungled tender, and both sides of politics lobbied to have it transferred to community hands.

by DAVID BELL