ONE City of Bayswater representative will sit on a panel of five that will make decisions about the future of the Bayswater town centre. DevelopmentWA’s “land redevelopment committee” will set policy and determine significant development applications. The local representative is meant to “enable the community and local government to be involved in the development and…

A BAN on wheel clamping might lead to even pricier tow truck operators filling the gap in the market, according to WA’s transport department. The clamp ban idea came about after Stirling mayor Mark Irwin asked for an investigation August 2019, as he’d seen clamps used for “detaining of people and their property and extorting…

MARIA WILLIAMS spent nearly 20 years trying to piece together who she is. A member of the Stolen Generation, she was taken to Sister Kate’s Cottage Home for Children as a seven-year-old, banned from speaking her native tongue and told nothing of her family history. Notorious for the physical and sexual abuse the children had…

VINCENT council will hold off rubber-stamping a WA government bike plan until it does its own community consultation. That will see it risk missing out on funding by blowing past an “incredibly unusual” deadline. The WA Department of Transport wanted all councils to endorse the new “Long Term Cycle Network” plan by July 16 in…

VINCENT council says it has “no legal basis” to intervene in an internal battle at Mt Hawthorn’s Anzac Cottage, but will still offer to broker an armistice. The council owns the 38 Kalgoorlie Street building and the Vietnam Veterans Association (WA) has a long term lease on it through to 2041. The Friends of Anzac…

AN army of volunteers is needed to plant 40,000 native seedlings along Bayswater’s foreshore and bushlands to create future homes for frogs, birds and other critters. Bayswater council’s winter tree planting program is putting down 2000 youngster trees in July and August along with the seedlings, and mayor Dan Bull says “we are focusing on…

GREENERY has mostly been restored to plans for the Beaufort Street block that’ll replace the old laundromat. The plan first floated in 2019 was a verdant oasis featuring large trees sprouting from balconies. Vincent council loved it and approved it, but recently the applicant Baltinas Architecture came back and said it might be too heavy…

THE rate in the dollar Vincent council collects from homeowners will have to go up nearly 16 per cent to keep the rates income “frozen” at last year’s level. On average homeowners will have the same rates bill as last year, but any lucky homeowner whose rental value has bucked the downward trend will face…

THE depressingly stark dog pound run by Bayswater council is set to get a $41,000 upgrade to meet “community expectations”. In December mayor Dan Bull asked for the state of the council’s Wright Street pound to be reconsidered in light of new animal welfare standards currently working their way through WA parliament. A new report from…

NINETEEN trees are on the chopping block because residents near Embleton Golf Course don’t like mulching being done near them. The City of Bayswater is planning to remove the trees at Lightning Park trees so their main mulching operations can be moved from the golf course to the park. The golf course is an ideal…