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PLANS for a $320,000 heritage facelift of Barrack Street have come unstuck following opposition from Perth city councillors. Officers had recommended that building owners be issued grants to spruce up their properties, but councillors refused to back the idea, sending it back for a rethink. The street is currently being upgraded to the tune of…
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WA’s biggest local government, Stirling city council, has set its lowest rate hike in almost 20 years. As part of its 2015/16 budget, the council this week locked in a 1.9 per cent rate rise—the lowest since 1997/98 and likely the most modest of any across Perth. Homeowners will get an average rates bill of…
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STIRLING city council is getting frustrated with the Barnett government over a planning rule that allows high-rise apartments to be built in quiet suburban streets. The council says it alerted the government to its concerns three years ago and asked for a specific amendment to be made last year. Meanwhile, the towers, worth hundreds of…
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A BARDON park food truck trader says a ban on footpath advertising is killing their business. Ian and Annie Gibson, who run Annie’s Woodfired Pizzas food van, say they need signs and a banner to attract customers to his secluded spot at the park. “Not many people realise what I’m doing because they’re not used…
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SALLY PALMER is keen to get back on Bayswater city council and will stand for central ward in October. If successful the former councillor and well-known local real estate agent would replace either deputy mayor Michael Sabatino or Cr Chris Cornish (Cr Barry McKenna’s term ends in 2017). Ms Palmer, 69, hopes it’s Cr Sabatino…
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BAYSWATER city council rates will rise by 3.75 per cent in 2015/16. The council passed its budget Monday night after rejecting deputy mayor Michael Sabatino’s bid to lower the hike to three per cent. Cr Sabatino had told colleagues the “economy is ballistic” and residents shouldn’t be hit with the larger rise. Cr Chris Cornish…
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VEGIE scraps from local cafes, supermarkets and shops aren’t going to waste thanks to a group of volunteers. Over the past five months, folk from the environmental group Transition Town Mount Hawthorn have been collecting green waste and chucking it on a compost heap at North Perth Community Garden to make potting mix. The year-old…
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Design puzzle I AM puzzled by Andrew Main’s comments about the City of Vincent’s design advisory committee (“Designs on transparency,” Voice Mail, June 13, 2015). The DAC was set up in 2011 to provide professional advice on larger development proposals in the City of Vincent. The committee is made up of design professionals, including architects…
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ERIC MOXHAM is the convenor of the Rottnest Society. He says the WA government’s plans for a big private marina on the island are a risk to its status as a holiday getaway for ordinary Western Australian families. OF all the development thought bubbles proposed by the WA tourism minister and Rottnest Island Authority, a…
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WE’VE had more versions of Storm Boy than we’ve had popes: it’s had a book, a film and a half-dozen stage plays. But Tom Holloway’s stage adaption for Barking Gecko and Sydney Theatre Company is the top-shelf gold standard of Colin Thiele’s tale about a boy who makes friends with a pelican called Mr Percival…
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