TWO BUCKS for train station parking doesn’t sound like much but for cancer carer Ray Payne its contributing to a $700 a year hit he could do without. The 64-year-old looks after his friend Jennifer Porter (57) recently diagnosed with kidney cancer. Ms Porter doesn’t have a car so every week Mr Payne drives her…

A YELLOW CARD has been issued to Paddington Alehouse’s bid to screen World Cup games throughout the night and into the early morning. A 4-3 vote at Vincent council looks like cruelling the bid, with councillors concerned noise, parking and general soccer-related hooliganism may upset Mt Hawthorn locals. The application now goes into extra time,…

BAYSWATER and Bassendean councils are at it again. The soon-to-be-amalgamated pair has fallen out over proposed ward boundaries for the new super council, with Bayswater resolving that Bassendean’s proposal “treats the existing Bayswater residents with disdain and irrelevance by not having any regard to the existing north, central and west wards which have been in…

VINCENT city council is considering legal action against the Barnett government over mergers says mayor John Carey. Mr Carey broke the news at a special electors’ meeting Monday night, addressing a 90-strong crowd who’d gathered to debate local government reform. He said the council was involved with the councils for democracy group—which is lobbying for…

NERVOUS kangaroos and Yagan’s genitals are proving to be sticking points for staging 5km runs on Heirisson Island. Organisers of Parkrun stage a weekly event around Claisebrook Cove and are keen to start another at Heirisson Island, an area known as Matagarup to local Nyoongars. The Whadjuk working party, which provides advice on sites of…

AFTER a fierce propaganda war was waged on the streets for and against underground power, Vincent councillors have decided to roll it out in North Perth’s Brookman and Moir Streets precinct. Some residents like Mark Greenshields are keen to get power lines buried, hoping it’ll improve the heritage streetscape by no longer having to butcher…

A BIG loophole that gives developers freebies in Vincent will be closed. A rash of recent developments has been able to stack an extra storey on top of their projects by calling it a “loft”. In recent cases like the Pacific Motel development and the Brewer Street six-storey units, a divided development assessment panel has…

BAYSWATER city council has double-faulted on its decision to slash the number of courts at Maylands Tennis Club. Two months ago the council decided to reduce courts from 17 to 11, after a council review revealed the club only had 78 members and was costing ratepayers around $1400 per member. The council is responsible for…

NEARLY 30 Mount Hawthorn locals fronted Vincent council meeting this week to oppose a set of units in their quiet residential street. Lynton Street residents don’t want the four dwellings built on the block which at the moment holds just one house which will be demolished. The owner’s hired gun developer Tuscom says the development…