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THE bike boulevard battle continues along Mount Hawthorn’s Shakespeare Street, with a local dobbing in pro-bike Christmas decorations on verge trees as rubbish. A Vincent city council ranger visited the street and has told locals that Christmas decorations do constitute littering under local laws and require removal. Locals had hung the “all I want for…
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LOCALS want to get their hands dirty — literally — to make Bayswater better. Community group the Baysie Rollers is offering to chip in “in any way” as part of a $100,000 redevelopment of the Bert Wright Park playground. The offer comes as the council this week posted an online survey asking for ideas for…
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THE developer of an apartment complex proposed for Bayswater’s King William Road is sticking to seven storeys despite the council’s five-storey limit. Yolk Property Group reckons it can win approval for its 27-apartment complex after making design changes. The stance follows the metro central development assessment panel’s October rejection of Yolk’s application over ”bulk and…
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THE Searchers’ Frank Allen puts the band’s longevity down to a nostalgia revival–and the pure enjoyment they still get out of playing more than 50 years on. “We are retirement age and financially secure, so the only reason to do it is because you enjoy it,” he tells the Voice from his London home. With…
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AS I ambled towards PappaRich I half-expected to see Anthony Bourdain pop out from an alleyway to bend me over and ram his spatula into my groin. “Pollock, why are you reviewin’ a chain?!” he’d have yelled in New Yorkese. I would have replied that a friend, a chef who’d spent time in Malaysia, reckons…
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Vassi Loucaides and his son Paul opened Estia in April 2010. Vassi has been part of Perth’s food industry for more than 40 years, working in various restaurants following his immigration from Cyprus. His impressive culinary CV includes King Arthur’s Revolving Restaurant, then ownership of Casa Pepe, Maccas Seafood Restaurant, and of late the acclaimed Aegean Restaurant…
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JARRAH or karri, was the debate as I lapped up the delicious 1920s’ ambience of this North Perth home, taking in features such as the rich brown floors under discussion. I bowed to the vendor’s superior knowledge–as a Heritage Perth board member he knows his stuff when it comes to these gracious older homes. Ornate…
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DEVELOPERS are being fined $500 a day over an inner-city site that resembles a rubbish dump. Vincent city council CEO Len Kosova says some material “appeared to be surplus to the material from the demolition” and the site is being treated as an “unauthorised open air storage yard”— in other words, an illegal tip. The…
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THEY take their dogwalking seriously down at Woodville Reserve in North Perth, with word that a mafiosa-esque group is telling others to shove off from its patch of the park. Voice reader “Anne” says she was walking her dog when assaulted by a member of the group, who was out walking their own pooch. She…
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VINCENT mayor John Carey has criticised his Bayswater counterpart for attending a dinner hosted by a property developer. Mr Carey says attending developers’ soirees doesn’t inspire ratepayers’ confidence in arms-length decision-making. He says there was no need for Barry McKenna and Bayswater council CEO Francesca Lefante and their partners to attend the Satterley Property Group…
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