SECURITY patrols have been called into Mercury Place after a decision to remove a verge tree led to protestors driving around the Morley cul de sac. Last month a split Bayswater council voted 6 to 5 to remove one of only two verge trees on the street, at the request of the nearest homeowner who…

DRONES are using teamwork to fight mosquitos and disease in a trial around Bayswater’s infested Berringa and Baigup wetlands. Bayswater council brought in the big bots from OmniDrone and they’re the first local government to trial the new drone team technology to wipe out mozzies in hard-to-target spots. In January they undertook detailed site mapping…

AFTER a lengthy delay and two months from a federal election, a sudden splurge of Commonwealth cash has been pledged for the Perth City Deal. The Deal is a three-way $1.7 billion agreement between federal, state, and local governments to co-fund big infrastructure. Cash has trickled since negotiations started in April 2018, when the deal…

THE value of a uni campus in Perth’s CBD was questionable even before the price tag went up by $160 million, according to Infrastructure Australia. This week prime minister Scott Morrison was talking up the proposed ECU campus as “reinvigorating” the city centre with 10,000 students and staff to fill up bars, restaurants and hotels and…

EIGHT years after Stirling council committed to increase its tree canopy, the level of greenery has fallen below where it started. The poor result forced the council to ask developers for suggestions on how to address the issue, given the industry is behind a lot of the felling while clearing blocks for new homes, but they’ve…

AFTER retirement Chris O’Connor was looking for something to keep him busy, and decided to set out on a quest to visit every single library in the metro area.  It took him a year and a half but the West Perth resident has now visited all 68.  Mr O’Connor says good libraries aren’t just book depositories,…

PLANS to turn an old Bayswater landfill site into a new forest got a $200,000 election pledge from Labor’s federal Perth MP Patrick Gorman this week. For a couple years now Bayswater council’s been hoping to get some federal funding to transform the old riverfront site, which was used as a tip from 1957 to…

COUNCILLORS, guests and staff have been able to enjoy dine-in meals together at council civic centres without having to provide proof of vaccination. While the rest of WA has been forced to fumble with phones to prove their vaccination status before sitting down in a cafe or restaurant, the Voice has confirmed that a “loophole”…

DESIGN works are underway for a $52.4 million redevelopment of the Perth Concert Hall, with Perth based With_Architecture Studio and international firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture appointed lead architects. The hall was built in 1973 and is one of Perth’s last surviving brutalist behemoths. But as it nears 50 it’s in need of some TLC…

A LAST-GASP bid to keep food trucks in Hyde Park has flopped. In December most of Vincent council voted to lease out the park’s western storage shed to the owners of Veggie Mama to set up a food kiosk. One proviso was the existing Hyde Park food trucks would have to move out and not…