PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi has weighed into the debate about surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology being installed throughout the city. Ms Scaffidi, who is currently suspended with the rest of the council, recently woke to find a CCTV camera had been installed directly in front of her Claisebrook Cove home and she’s not…

The EAST Perth Community Group believes consultation over facial recognition cameras in the city was adequate, says chair Anne-Maree Ferguson. Ms Ferguson said she had “no expectation on being consulted on the project before the trial commenced”. She wants a council that’s pro-active: “If you consult on everything before a trial then you don’t ever…

PLANS for a cigar lounge opposite the Inglewood Civic Hotel are hanging in the balance with Stirling council’s planners concerned smoke could billow into a neighbouring house. Michael Dryka Architects have applied to redevelop the disused car yard on the corner of Nelson and Beaufort Streets into a restaurant/cafe, a cigar lounge for up to…

  SWALLOW BAR in Maylands has won the People’s Choice award at this year’s WA Small Bar Association awards. The Whatley Crescent bar was opened in 2012 by Meredith Bastian and Zoe Roy, two Melbourne chefs who met while working at Stephanie Alexander’s iconic Cafe & Larder in Richmond Hill. They hatched a plan to…

SCHOOL canteens are crying out for volunteers. State Perth MP John Carey says P&Cs are telling him “there is a clear need for volunteers, however with both parents working it’s hard to get them”. He’s currently working his way through a volunteer shift at every Perth electorate primary school and is seeing the shortage first…

THE majority of Stirling councillors have voted against creating a public register to declare their political affiliations. Councillor Stephanie Proud wanted to update the councillors’ code of conduct so they had to declare a range of loyalties including party membership, employment by a political party or MP, and whether any immediate family member “is, or…

BIG crowds came out for the launch of Leederville’s new “Village Square” on May 31. The $275,000 collaboration between the City of Vincent and town team Leederville Connect has created a more people-friendly space on the Oxford Street strip. The square includes red brick raised paving and bollards that can block off cars for events.…

A STIRLING council staffer has won an unfair dismissal case over MacGyver-style fixes he made to air cons in beach vehicles. Back in the summer of 2016/17, the city’s beach inspectors were sweltering in their Mazda utes because some air cons were only pumping out hot air. A few inspectors were concerned it was a…

WOOLWORTHS is set to open a store in Highgate late next year. In September 2018 the Voice heard Woolies had bought the block at the corner of Bulwer and Stirling Streets for about $7.2 million, and the land at the rear for $3.97m (technically the suburb of Perth). Woolies has now distributed fliers to locals…

TAKING photos and videos in the changing rooms at Beatty Park Leisure Centre in Vincent are set to be banned under new city laws. Offenders would be smacked with a $500 fine under the proposed changes to the Local Government Property Local Law, which covers all council changing facilities across the city. The city’s briefing…