Perth Voice Interactive

GROG barns are so on the nose in Bayswater the local council is planning to amend its town planning scheme to limit where they can go.

Cr Terry Kenyon, the city’s former mayor, has tabled a motion to amend the scheme so new liquor outlets 300sqm and above are banned from residential zones.

Also, planning applications for any liquor outlet would have to go to the council for a vote.

The move is backed by Maylands Labor MP Lisa Baker, who is fighting to stop a 1000sqm Dan Murphy’s being built as part of the $3.5 million facelift of the Peninsula Tavern on Railway Parade.

“The town of Victoria Park and city of Subiaco have recognised the problem of allowing warehouse-style liquor developments in residential areas, and have acted to stop the community from bearing of the cost of campaigns,” she says.

“The city of South Perth is also following this pathway.

“Warehouse-style liquor stores exacerbate the problems of street drinking and anti-social behaviour in Maylands.”

The suburb is home to a number of agencies that tackle alcoholism and its impacts, including Shopfront, Autumn Centre and 55 Central.

Ms Baker says a liquor commission hearing on the Woolworths’ owned Dan Murphy’s application is likely within three months. In 2010 the MP spearheaded a campaign that stopped Coles building a 1250sqm outlet on Guildford Rd.

by STEPHEN POLLOCK