BAYSWATER locals have raised a stink over their council’s approval of a public toilet at the Seventh Avenue bridge in Maylands. Last month the council voted to move an $85,000 public artwork created out of jarrah sleepers from the original 1913 Seventh Avenue bridge to make way for the new dunny. But the Maylands Ratepayers…

A RESIDENT campaign against proposed changes to the intersection of Carrington Street and Second Avenue in Mt Lawley got a fillip from a Perth rich-lister this week. Pharmacist turned multi-millionaire property mogul Con Berbatis, who lives on First Avenue, has commissioned a traffic study into mini-roundabouts and hired a PR consultant to convince Stirling council…

• Road safety minister Michelle Roberts, Perth MP John Carey, Vincent mayor Emma Cole and her kids on Mary Street in Mount Lawley. ALL residential streets in the southern half of Vincent will have a 40kmh speed limit as part of a two-year trial starting April 29. It’ll affect most local roads south of Vincent…

DINERS could soon be able to enjoy a tipple in parklets across Vincent. Under council rules, liquor has been prohibited in the little sitting areas that have popped up in car bays throughout Leederville and other town centres. There’s rarely anyone in the one on Newcastle Street near Pinchos, as Spanish wine, sangria and cerveza…

DON’T eat fish, crabs or other shellfish collected from the Swan River between the old Swan Road Brewery and Garratt Road Bridge. An algal bloom is plaguing the river and the Department of Health says recent testing has confirmed high levels of potentially toxic microscopic algae, which can produce “paralytic shellfish poisoning”. Cooking won’t kill…

THE three-bin “FOGO” system is scheduled to be rolled out in Vincent in October 2020 after unanimous support from councillors this week. The third bin is for food and garden organics, which on average is about 55 per cent of the waste in a resident’s bin. Currently the organic waste gets shipped to the tip…

A LOCAL resident who’s also the CEO of a southern council about to incinerate its waste, says Vincent council shouldn’t bother with FOGO. Stephen Cain’s day job is heading up Cockburn council, but he fronted Vincent’s public question time on Tuesday as a resident to voice his concerns about the three-bin system. His plea fell…

THIS year’s Autumn River Festival will be scaled back after Lotterywest pulled funding. For the past three years Bayswater council has got a $20,000 Lotterywest grant, almost half the cost of the festival. But this year Lotterywest said it had already doled out enough cash in Bayswater, citing events such as the Ninja Warrior Park…

PEOPLE in Maylands town centre will no longer have to cross their legs after Bayswater council approved a new public toilet near Seventh Avenue bridge. There’s no outhouse within 350m of the Maylands train station and locals have been complaining for nearly a decade about people peeing and defecating there. But Marie Havila, who is…

VINCENT mayor Emma Cole says she copped “horrible abuse” this week following a media report that misled people into thinking her council wanted to ditch its Australia Day citizenship ceremonies. Last Friday, The West Australian ran a story under the headline “Council’s Jan 26 fury” based on a letter Ms Cole wrote to citizenship minister…