FOR years the Scarborough Beach Road and Green Street intersection in Mt Hawthorn has been a confusing tangle of odd angles that results in countless prangs and dire congestion. It’s a known blackspot which made the latest RAC top 10 worst intersections for Perth because of a “poor overall intersection design causing confusion and risk-taking…

JACOB’S LADDER looks like it’s heading for a 7pm to 7am curfew. Early morning exercisers who routinely hit the West Perth steps at the crack of dawn look likely to find themselves facing padlocked gates, with the council siding with nearby residents who claim the early morning crew create too many problems. Built in 1909…

STIRLING city council is taken by Malcolm Turnbull’s Smart Cities Plan. Following a visit by assistant cities minister Angus Taylor last week (“Bayswater ‘prime’ for Turnbull cash‚“ Voice, June 4, 2016), the council is preparing a submission which in draft forms praises the PM’s commitment to infrastructure spending. 57,000 jobs The submission warns that unless…

THE newly revamped Beaufort Street Artisan Markets has broadened its horizons from fine arts to more artisanal wares so local crafty sorts can sell their craft, food, ceramics, fashion and jewellery too. Originally a narrower “art market” for paintings and sculpture, Beaufort Street Network chair Pam Herron explains they’ve also shifted the day to the…

UPDATED June 13: THE team of street hockey youngsters credited with keeping the Bayswater Bowling and Recreation Club alive has been shut down unless it can tone down the noise. The Street Roller Hockey League joined BBRC and set up a rink next to the bowling grounds at 58 Murray Street last year, with members…

VINCENT council went a little more democratic than usual in putting this year’s budget together, asking for ratepayers to suggest where the money should go. Technically every budget is subject to community consultation, but it’s usually done after months of internal budget workshop have pretty much set the spending in stone, and only attracts comment…

VINCENT is no longer home to the youngest councillors in WA; local school kids have been heading along to Bayswater council chambers to play mayor as part of their learning about government and citizenship. Year 4, 5 and 6 students from Morley and Hillcrest primaries have been dropping by to hold mock meetings where they…

AN Osborne Park advocacy group is so enamoured with Beaufort Street they want to turn their Main Street into “the new Beaufort”. The Main Street Co-op has been organising murals on the street and want to start working with businesses, locals and Stirling council to liven up the joint. Car yards The co-op’s co-chair says…

A 70 square metre electronic sign has been deemed “inappropriate” for the tasteful St Georges precinct. The corporate conglomerate that owns 189 and 191 St Georges Terrace wanted to erect the lucrative sign on its building to rent out to advertisers. Perth city council staff reckon “the third party advertising content of the sign will…

STIRLING city council is considering a memorandum of understanding with WA’s housing authority to increase affordable housing options. Both the council and the authority are major land owners within the city’s boundaries, and the non-binding MOU is a pledge to work together to develop those holdings to increase housing diversity. One of the major objectives…