BAYSWATER council has been given the thumbs-up by seniors for asking what they want, but reduced membership at its two gyms should be a top priority, they reckon. The council recently started working on its first Age Friendly Strategy and will be holding workshops on February 13, 15, 16 and 17 to hear what seniors…

OPPONENTS of plans to widen Guildford Road say it will lead to an unacceptable loss of mature trees, including many native species. Jonathan Messer from the Sixth Avenue Residents Action Group measured three big gum trees closest to the road around the Maylands town centre and says their girths were between 3.4 and 5.2 metres.…

PERTH’S CBD hasn’t had a cinema since the old Piccadilly closed in 2013, but at the height of movie madness it boasted 15 screens. Heritage Perth’s Richard Offen will relive some of those glory days while hosting free walk-and-talks visiting the sites of Perth’s lost cinema history. It starts where His Majesty’s Theatre now stands:…

REVISED plans have been drawn up for new classrooms at Inglewood Primary School, but parents who lobbied for the changes are cautious about calling it a win. The former plans for a flat, L-shaped building on the school oval were condemned for taking up too much play-space, so the new proposal adds an extra storey…

MT LAWLEY author Tom Goode is on the hunt for a rare piece of trench art he glimpsed at his recent book launch. Last Saturday he launched The Cold Footed Mob about Australian railway units on the front lines during World War I. At the launch a woman briefly dropped by with two brass candlesticks…

STIRLING council will hire an independent planner to look into how its planning department dealt with applications going to the local JDAP. A group of Trigg, Karrinyup and Carine residents were incensed about a smattering of developments, particularly a four-storey building in Trigg which blocked neighbours’ ocean views, and say Stirling’s planning department is too…

WA war veterans are a step closer to a grand new HQ on St George’s Terrace after putting their plans before Perth council’s planning committee on Tuesday night. ANZAC house will be demolished to make way for the new eight-storey building, which will be a “one-stop-shop” for all veterans affairs, and include the RSLWA club…

STIRLING mayor Giovanni Italiano and councillor Andrew Guilfoyle are off to Spain in April for a two-day conference on “coastal cities and their sustainable future”, while CEO Stuart Jardine will spend three days in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the “transforming local government” annual conference. Both trips came under scrutiny during Tuesday night’s meeting of council. Teresa…

LOWLIFES have nicked the Beaufort Street Community Centre’s mini library. Centre manager Lindsay Payne says around Christmas, someone rocked up and unbolted the cabinet that housed the Little Free Library from the external wall of the centre. Mr Payne reckons they’d have needed a ute or large 4WD to take it away. “We’re not sure…

A GROUP of residents in Bayswater say a rezoning by Meltham train station needs a rethink because of a severe transition between high density development and surrounding sitngle-storey homes. Instead, they say, their properties should be given a little up-zoning and the tallest buildings shrunk slightly to make the transition a little smoother. The Meltham…