TAKING photos and videos in the changing rooms at Beatty Park Leisure Centre in Vincent are set to be banned under new city laws.

Offenders would be smacked with a $500 fine under the proposed changes to the Local Government Property Local Law, which covers all council changing facilities across the city.

The city’s briefing notes to councillors didn’t suggest a spate of peeping toms, but a review of the law found it “did not expressly prohibit the use of recording devices”.

There was an existing workaround for changing rooms: they had “no filming” signs which carried a $100 penalty under a blanket law, the same fine if you got caught eating in the library.