AN Osborne Park advocacy group is so enamoured with Beaufort Street they want to turn their Main Street into “the new Beaufort”. The Main Street Co-op has been organising murals on the street and want to start working with businesses, locals and Stirling council to liven up the joint. Car yards The co-op’s co-chair says…

A 70 square metre electronic sign has been deemed “inappropriate” for the tasteful St Georges precinct. The corporate conglomerate that owns 189 and 191 St Georges Terrace wanted to erect the lucrative sign on its building to rent out to advertisers. Perth city council staff reckon “the third party advertising content of the sign will…

STIRLING city council is considering a memorandum of understanding with WA’s housing authority to increase affordable housing options. Both the council and the authority are major land owners within the city’s boundaries, and the non-binding MOU is a pledge to work together to develop those holdings to increase housing diversity. One of the major objectives…

LABOR’S contender for the federal Perth seat Tim Hammond says his party will restore funding for community radio if they win government (“Gasping for air,” Voice, May 13, 2016). The Turnbull government has pulled $1.4million a year out of the budget for digital community radio as part of a platform of “keeping government spending growth…

PERTH councillor Jim Adamos is off to Melbourne for a two-day “Making Cities Liveable Conference,” costing $2,355 of public money. Lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi, who’s recently been defending her frequent interstate and overseas travel as hard yakka on behalf of ratepayers, gave short shrift to councillors who had questions about the trip at Tuesday’s full…

A BIG chunk of Oxford Street around the Leederville town centre could be closed off on Friday nights. Local precinct group Leederville Connect is pushing for a trial of the closure, arguing a more pedestrian-friendly strip will create a buzz and boost economic activity. Leederville Connect says outside businesses or stalls won’t be bought in…

PERTH city council staff have taken to confiscating signs from homeless people. On Monday the Voice spotted three men, including a uniformed Perth council ranger, approaching a teenage girl holding a begging sign outside the central train station bookstore. “This is the thanks I get,” a burly member of the trio said, leaning down to…

THE Museum of Perth is on the lookout for locals to share personal histories of the city. Museum chair Reece Harley says they’re “aiming to curate a contemporary oral history of the city, so that in 100 years’ time these videos and transcripts will be fascinating for future historians. “Part of the purpose is to…

FUTURE BAYSWATER has welcomed a council decision to delay a structure plan for the area around the Bayswater train station. The group is made up of business owners and community members, who are concerned Bayswater city council might waste $120,000 on an “underscoped and underbudgeted” structure plan. Structure plans guide the zoning of development areas…

THE Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Perth, Jeremy Quinn, took assistant minister for cities Angus Taylor on a tour round Bayswater this week. Local interest groups have been crying out for some federal attention in the quiet village centre, and the train station provided a good example why for Mr Taylor’s visit on…