Lettuce leave IT saddens me to tell you the Station Village fruit and vegetable shop in Maylands is closing at the end of this month due to the increased pressure of a raise in rent to $7,000 a month. This highlights the difficulty you reported of shop tenants struggling to meet expenses in order to…

Greens failing GREG SMITH like many of the urban greens is failing his profession by being political rather than keeping up with the transformation of his locale. Bayswater like many of Perth’s older suburban areas (Mt Lawley, North Perth, Leederville, etc) has been dealing with densification for the past 20 years or more. The renovators…

Lightning rod of angst OVER the last couple of months the Voice has written about the Skipper’s Row wetland destruction, including the removal of 40 to 60 paperbark trees. This reporting has grasped the “lightning rod” of community angst. What have the regulators (for the town planning side the WAPC and City of Bayswater and…

Climate maths REG HOWARD-SMITH of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA (“Miners are contributors”, Voice Letters, October 15, 2016) seems to love figures, so I’d like to point out a few significant figures for him. 2 – The number of degrees Celsius by which we can afford to warm the planet before feedback…

No buses on Eighth, please DEAR Lord, who has these brain(dead) waves about our public transport? Please, keep buses out of that one-block strip of Eighth Ave in Maylands, and pretty please, don’t close Meltham station or any of the other sidings that serve us all so well along that stretch of railway line. We…

Miners are contributors VINCENT council’s recent decision to amend its investment policy fails to recognise the economic importance of the resources sector and the need for a range of commodities in clean energy technologies. The move to preference against those banks supporting resources projects will impact on ratepayers, who will ultimately foot the bill for…

Name and shame signs in Stirling  STIRLING mayor Giovanni Italiano was on radio this morning being questioned about Stirling’s verge trees. He announced what seems a human rights violation whereby Stirling puts up signs where a verge tree has been damaged or killed. He declared that these name and shame signs remain in place for…

Long wait for bus, minister So former transport minister, Dean Nalder, lamented recently that he couldn’t get a meeting with the premier for six months. Boo Hoo! We tried to get a 15 minute meeting with Mr Nalder for over a year about the reduced number 15 bus service in Mt Hawthorn that was affecting…

Tree in trouble I AM writing to express my concern that a healthy tree on council-owned land is to be destroyed to make way for a high-density development. I have spoken to the developer who says the tree makes it difficult to maximise the development potential of the block, it’s located on council-owned land and…

Well said, Greg THE letter “Wasted opportunities” (Voice, August 20, 2016) would hardly have come as any surprise to Bayswater ratepayers who have ever attempted to get straight and verifiable answers from the City of Bayswater. Greg Smith deserves commendation, and his letter deep consideration, for exposing an instance of the city’s council not being…