MUMBLINGS of “demolition by neglect” reverberated around Perth city council’s planning committee as councillors pored over an application to knock down three rapidly deteriorating buildings on Beaufort Street. Westop Investments wants to demolish 108–120 Beaufort Street without a replacement plan. That’s usually a no-no, but it’s arguing it’s necessary because the places are dangerous and…

BAYSWATER city council’s refusal to deal with 10 issues passed by the annual general meeting of electors has infuriated residents. The council says it makes more sense to put off debate on issues including a tree register, recording of meetings and heritage status for Halliday Park till after the merger with Bassendean. But residents’ association…

A TOILET BLOCK at Wellington Square in East Perth may be demolished as part of a bid to deal with on-going anti-social behaviour. Homeless people shelter under the block’s eaves but fed-up nearby residents say they also engage heavily in illicit drugs use, fight, harass passers-by and defecate in their front yards. The sturdy but…

RON WALLEY, left, is one of the people who shelters by the toilet block and uses the threadbare facilities there. Most of the rough-sleepers stay here while in town for medical care, but Mr Walley’s been in Perth a few years now, and homeless for about six months since his brother and mother died last…

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GERRY MAIO is Bayswater’s Mr Soccer and on Monday was made the city’s citizen of the year. When his kids starting playing the roundball game 40 years ago he didn’t have a clue. For the past 10 years he’s been president of the Bayswater city soccer club: “My kids started playing and they asked me…

ART venues across Perth are closing at an alarming rate but wife and husband artists Liz Marruffo and Campbell Whyte are taking a punt on a new space in Bayswater they’re calling milktooth. They’re soon to start kids’ art classes there, but long-term they want to offer it as a space for emerging artists who…

BRUNO MRKIC is tired of drinking the dirty water that comes from his tap. The Mount Lawley man says he pays first-rate fees for water but gets a third-world product. Two months ago he was getting consistently murky water every morning for days in a row. Getting on the phone to Water Corporation results in…

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Time to grow up I READ with interest, and more than a little disappointment, the community response (Voice, January 24, 2015) to the cover picture on your paper a couple of weeks ago. Your editorial last week listed responses ranging from prurient to straight up sexist, and none agreeing with the right of the woman…