REVISED plans have been drawn up for new classrooms at Inglewood Primary School, but parents who lobbied for the changes are cautious about calling it a win. The former plans for a flat, L-shaped building on the school oval were condemned for taking up too much play-space, so the new proposal adds an extra storey…

MT LAWLEY author Tom Goode is on the hunt for a rare piece of trench art he glimpsed at his recent book launch. Last Saturday he launched The Cold Footed Mob about Australian railway units on the front lines during World War I. At the launch a woman briefly dropped by with two brass candlesticks…

STIRLING council will hire an independent planner to look into how its planning department dealt with applications going to the local JDAP. A group of Trigg, Karrinyup and Carine residents were incensed about a smattering of developments, particularly a four-storey building in Trigg which blocked neighbours’ ocean views, and say Stirling’s planning department is too…

WA war veterans are a step closer to a grand new HQ on St George’s Terrace after putting their plans before Perth council’s planning committee on Tuesday night. ANZAC house will be demolished to make way for the new eight-storey building, which will be a “one-stop-shop” for all veterans affairs, and include the RSLWA club…

STIRLING mayor Giovanni Italiano and councillor Andrew Guilfoyle are off to Spain in April for a two-day conference on “coastal cities and their sustainable future”, while CEO Stuart Jardine will spend three days in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the “transforming local government” annual conference. Both trips came under scrutiny during Tuesday night’s meeting of council. Teresa…

LOWLIFES have nicked the Beaufort Street Community Centre’s mini library. Centre manager Lindsay Payne says around Christmas, someone rocked up and unbolted the cabinet that housed the Little Free Library from the external wall of the centre. Mr Payne reckons they’d have needed a ute or large 4WD to take it away. “We’re not sure…

A GROUP of residents in Bayswater say a rezoning by Meltham train station needs a rethink because of a severe transition between high density development and surrounding sitngle-storey homes. Instead, they say, their properties should be given a little up-zoning and the tallest buildings shrunk slightly to make the transition a little smoother. The Meltham…

PLANS to reincarnate Hay Street’s Piccadilly Theatre were put on ice during a meeting of the Perth sponsorship committee on Tuesday night. The art deco building housed Perth’s last inner-city cinema before falling into disrepair and closing down in 2013 when the lease-holder started missing rent payments. It’s still vacant (although it’s rumoured to be…

SEASONED Bayswater councillor Terry Kenyon is appealing his bankruptcy. On January 16 a federal circuit court ordered Cr Kenyon’s estate be sequestrated under the Bankruptcy Act after Laval Legal sued him over unpaid legal fees. But on January 25 judge Toni Lucev ordered a stay until the previous decision can be reviewed, with a hearing…

LABOR will fund a $45 million school within the city link precinct if elected, says leader Mark McGowan. Due to open in 2020, it would be integrated with a relocated and expanded Scitech and the two would take over Perth Modern’s role as the go-to school for Perth’s smarties. It would revert to being the…