PERTH city council staff have taken to confiscating signs from homeless people. On Monday the Voice spotted three men, including a uniformed Perth council ranger, approaching a teenage girl holding a begging sign outside the central train station bookstore. “This is the thanks I get,” a burly member of the trio said, leaning down to…

THE Museum of Perth is on the lookout for locals to share personal histories of the city. Museum chair Reece Harley says they’re “aiming to curate a contemporary oral history of the city, so that in 100 years’ time these videos and transcripts will be fascinating for future historians. “Part of the purpose is to…

FUTURE BAYSWATER has welcomed a council decision to delay a structure plan for the area around the Bayswater train station. The group is made up of business owners and community members, who are concerned Bayswater city council might waste $120,000 on an “underscoped and underbudgeted” structure plan. Structure plans guide the zoning of development areas…

THE Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Perth, Jeremy Quinn, took assistant minister for cities Angus Taylor on a tour round Bayswater this week. Local interest groups have been crying out for some federal attention in the quiet village centre, and the train station provided a good example why for Mr Taylor’s visit on…

VINCENT city council has decided to stick with the WA Local Government Association. Mayor John Carey has been fuming since WALGA brass rejected his plan to introduce stricter transparency measures at last year’s state conference, but his CEO Len Kosova has looked into withdrawing and says it’ll be too costly. Mr Kosova says the $50,000…

A PROPOSAL to triple patron numbers at a Coogee Street cafe has divided the Mount Hawthorn community. It was standing room only at this week’s Vincent council meeting as about 20 residents rose to speak for and against Jazz Cellar boss Roy Burton’s application to increase the cafe’s size from 15 to 40 patrons. Councillors…

BAYSWATER city councillors will no longer be able to kick off ambitious projects days before leaving office. This week the council enacted a long-called for caretaker period by unanimous vote. Resident Adam Parsonage led the push for caretaker periods and made it an election issue last year, saying councillors were tabling eleventh hour motions to…

THE new Third Avenue Bridge is up and running, easing a major traffic snag in Maylands. After $9.1million and eight months of construction the raggedy 105-year-old timber bridge has been replaced with a new steel and concrete number with a capacity to handle about 10,000 cars a day.

CASH intended for art around Bayswater could be diverted towards more trees under a plan by councillor Brent Fleeton. Under Bayswater council’s per cent for art program, developers have to set aside one per cent of the cost of big projects for public artworks; a little trade-off to beautify the city while they block out…

UBER is denting traditional taxis’ customer numbers so much it might see the taxi rank in Leederville removed. A Vincent council report says “the taxi industry is currently in a state of flux” with services like Uber and now Shofer chomping into the market. They’re not allowed to use the taxi bay and with so…