Author: Your Herald
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THE WA government’s housing density rollout continued to be felt acutely through Vincent this week: Five of the six planning items in front of the council were applications to demolish single homes and erect units or mixed projects. Real estate agents are embracing the gold rush in their advertising. On the corner of Vincent and…
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THE Mt Lawley subway is to be beautified after two years of bureaucratic wrangling. In June 2012 Bayswater city council accepted a state graffiti grant of $15,000 from WA Police and committed $5000 towards an urban art facelift of the underpass. But red tape stymied the project and it fell into a bureaucratic limbo: situated…
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AFGHAN interpreters who’d helped Australian troops fight the Taliban are working minimum wage jobs in rural WA. For their own safety some 800 Afghanis who’d aided the Allies were relocated here after Australia’s withdrawal last year. Around 30 ended up in WA and are being helped to build a new life by the Multicultural Services…
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Up to the artists I AM writing to correct a statement attributed to me (“Jarrah bridges old and new,” Voice, June 7, 2014). The article states I’d said, “we surveyed the community on what they would like to see in the artwork and then conveyed that to the artists. This is not correct. Creative Maylands…
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TOAST, Fremantle by JENNY D’ANGER: STREETBAND’S 1970s one hit wonder Toast is a humorous ode to the humble slice of bread. [And] cafes couldn’t cater for the finer things in life: The upper crust was not for me, I could tell that. So I’d go back home, switch the kitchen light on, put the grill…
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ITOSHII JAPANESE RESTAURANT, Morley: You’ve tried all the others, now try the best – Itoshii! This fantastic new eatery serves the freshest Japanese cuisine at great prices. Conveniently located in the food court of the Morley Galleria Shopping Centre, Itoshii has been delighting diners since its opening, with fans taking to Urbanspoon to share their happy experiences:…
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WINDY Perth is a city at the mercy of the changing winds of the mining industry, so a play about a red dust storm completely blanketing the metropolitan area has resonance. The inspiration for Dust was the 2009 dust storm that closed Sydney, but the content is pure Western Australia—and its mining culture. Living in…
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SWEEPING terraces step down to gently rolling grass and two jetties at this grandiose Maylands property. Imagine mooring your boat in your own back yard, a privilege enjoyed by a mere handful of Maylands residents, with only around 12 private jetties on the Swan River. It’s hard to believe in an age of homes shoe-horned…
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ALFRESCO red tape is being slashed in Vincent and—gasp!—buskers are being allowed to play without a permit. The council’s new “place managers” David Doy and Di Shaw are desperate to scale back the bureaucracy that holds back strips like Oxford, Angove and Beaufort Streets. Mr Doy says old rules on alfresco are too restrictive, such…
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STIRLING city council’s plan to ban multiple dwellings on suburban blocks coded below R60 could impact house prices, says REIWA president David Airey. The council is consulting the public about amending its town planning scheme to reverse a recent decision by the WA government to allow more multiple dwellings on land coded below R60. “If…
