BAYSWATER Deserves Better says a town centre structure plan proposed by the council needs beefing up to preserve heritage buildings and ensure future developments are sympathetic to the area. The draft plan is out for comment until September 27 and will set the stage for future developments, proposing up to five-storey buildings in the King…

THE Australian Competition Consumer Commission is taking ticket reseller Viagogo to federal court for allegedly misleading punters. In June the Voice reported Perth federal MP Tim Hammond was calling for a crackdown on sites selling dodgy tickets. One of the companies he named in parliament was Viagogo, a Swiss-based website that resells tickets at highly-inflated…

ONCE used as emergency accommodation for Perth’s homeless, Jewell House in the CBD is now derelict and riddled with squatters and graffiti. With demand for short-term crisis accommodation becoming higher than ever, Terry Maller, a Perth council candidate and long-term advocate for the disadvantaged, says the state government should look at how much it would…

BAYSWATER Urban Tree Network founder Greg Smith wants all trees over five metres to be heritage listed so they can’t be cleared at will. In July Bayswater council voted not to create a voluntary tree register “which I reckon is completely and utterly piss weak,” Mr Smith says. The voluntary register would’ve meant that home…

BAYSWATER councillor Brent Fleeton has been referred to the Local Government Standards Panel over a flyer he hand-delivered to 1000 houses in Noranda and Morley. Cr Fleeton describes the flyer as a budget update which “included a double-sided letter signed by me on my letterhead, and three opinion pieces I had penned in the last…

WITH campaigners against marriage equality already rolling out anti-gay fliers, Vincent councillors have voted to publicly show support for their local LGBTI+ members ahead of the postal plebiscite. On Tuesday night they voted unanimously in favour of mayor Emma Cole’s motion to kick off the “Vincent loves love” campaign and fly the rainbow flag at…

BASSENDEAN is eyeing off a chunk of Bayswater because of concerns it hasn’t enough ratepayers to stay viable. Bassendean councillor Bob Brown put up a motion this week suggesting his council consider taking over the part of Bayswater bounded by the Swan River, Tonkin Highway and Guildford Road. “Because of its small size and limited…

IT would be easy to write off Hollywood flick Machine Gun Preacher as hype, but Sam Childers’ fight to save hundreds of Sudanese children from a life of unspeakable brutality is as real and as confronting as it gets. He’s in Perth next Friday (September 1) to talk about his work and his hopes for…

PERTH deputy lord mayor James Limnios says he’s getting “daily complaints” that steep parking prices are chasing customers away from the city. Earlier this year he tried to push through a 12-month trial of free 30-minute parking in Royal, Lake, James and Hay streets, but with only councillors Reece Harley and Gemma Green supporting the…

AFTER months of preparation and three mini-meetings, the Perth City Summit organised by Perth Labor MP John Carey was packed out on Saturday. The 350 delegates (there were more on a waiting list) voted on ideas to improve the city from a list of 35 that were brought up during precinct meetings in East Perth,…