THE newly formed Sixth Avenue Residents Action Group has had an early win, convincing WA government departments to change plans for their street that would’ve seen “the needless removal of more beautiful trees”.
The WA education department and Constable Care wanted to install a “Safety School” at the corner of Sixth Ave and Guildford Road, which is like a little model town map that teaches kids about road safety.
But the plan would’ve meant buses rolling down quiet Sixth Ave to drop kids off, and resulted in the axing of a big bird-filled street tree.
Carla Jordan started a petition and collected 100-odd signatures to save the trees and oppose big buses. Ms Jordan says Sixth is a “quiet no-through road with residential housing”.
Within a couple hours of the Voice getting onto the story and publicly posting a request for residents to meet for a photo, we took a call from Constable Care, informing us the plans had changed.
CC’s David Gribble says the education department is now on board with a revised plan to save the trees, and buses will now come off the busier Peninsula Road rather than quiet residential Sixth Ave (it’s an outcome the Constable had preferred from the start).
There will also be no more trees removed from the site: a few had to go to make way for the road network and a poisonous cape lilac and a diseased oak were taken as well.
The new plan still has a couple of speed bumps, needing to steer its way through Bayswater council and get a rubber stamp from the WA planning commission.
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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