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NETS over drain outlets are being considered as a way to keep garbage out of our waterways. Bayswater councillor Elli Petersen-Pik has asked council staff to look into whether there are any outlets that’d benefit from the nets, which were first installed in Kwinana council in 2018. Cr Petersen-Pik says: “During one year, two of…
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I am inclined to agree I AM inclined to agree with G Lorenzo of North Perth, who complains that the City of Vincent is carrying out “beauracratic madness” in its attempt to achieve ticks in boxes under some form of global action plan (“City hall is the common problem,” Voice, March 6, 2021). If the purpose…
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THE level of abstraction from paddock to plate is so great that sometimes we lose sight of where all our food comes from. So it’s great to have events like Farmer on your Plate in Perth’s CBD to remind city slickers what agriculture and farming is all about. This year’s event is particularly relevant, given…
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THIS three storey North Perth home is a little bit special. The design and finishes are all exquisite, from the stunning marble benchtops in the kitchen to the 6.5m waterfall window stretching to the first floor. This three bedroom three bathroom home is so swish it even has its own internal lift. As you open…
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BAYSWATER’S new skate and BMX park has been delayed again amidst allegations councillors and their families are being bullied by supporters. The Wotton Reserve skate and BMX park is being demolished in about a year to make way for state government upgrades at Bayswater station. A new park could take a year or more to…
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THE old Rod Evans Centre is in need of another $250,000 of unbudgeted repairs before it can become a ‘safe night space’ for women. In December 2016 Perth council abruptly closed the Rod Evans centre, moving seniors services from the 160 Hay Street centre to Citiplace at the Perth train station with just a few…
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A CRACKDOWN on shopping trolleys littering Bayswater is underway to force shops to clean them up. Late last year Cr Steven Ostaszewskyj proposed they get tough after seeing trollies abandoned on footpaths, verges, in parks, and even dumped in water reserves. Sometimes the trolleys end up hundreds of metres from their parent shop, or accumulate…
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TREE swings will soon be permitted on Bayswater verges, the change coming shortly after a stickler for the rules dobbed in several fun-lovers over the Christmas holidays. Tree swings became more popular during Covid when playgrounds were closed, but are technically against the rules of what can go on a “thoroughfare” such as the verge.…
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MOUNT LAWLEY’S old Albany Bell Hatchery site on Guildford Road is to get eight storeys of 152 serviced apartments. The state government’s Development Assessment Panel has overturned a Bayswater council recommendation that the development be rejected because of “an undue impact on the amenity of the area”. The council’s planning report notes eight stories is higher…
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BAYSWATER mayor Dan Bull has narrowly avoided getting the unpopular job of handling complaints about fellow councillors. Council CEOs usually handle complaints about councillor or employee breaches of the Local Government Act, and potentially refer them to higher authorities. But freshly minted local government regulations released this month require a complaints officer to handle alleged…
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