A LOCAL development assessment panel has approved redevelopment of the Liquorland site in Mt Lawley, despite concerns over a parking shortfall. The site, at the corner of Beaufort Street and Second Avenue, will be a three-storey mixed-use development and include a small bar, two offices and eight multiple dwellings. Stirling city council staff reported the…

PERTH Messiah or union propaganda? The jury is out on a new poll which reveals a glowing 30 per cent net approval rating for Alannah MacTiernan. A massive poll—commissioned by the National Tertiary Education Union and conducted by the research company UMR over June 14-29—covered 23,176 voters in 23 marginal electorates. The survey for Perth…

THE Mary Street Piazza trial is up and running, with a temporary public space on the corner of Beaufort Street open until August 8. Beaufort Street’s long been in need of places to linger, with shoppers and diners passing through. The council (and the Beaufort Street Network) is hoping it takes off to encourage people…

THERE was literally blood on the floor at Vincent council Tuesday after plains-clothed rangers wrestled Leederville trader Stuart Lofthouse to the ground during an attempt to eject him from the public gallery. The Greens and Co cafe owner was left bloodied by the struggle, which resulted in four police attending. He claimed he’d been grabbed…

PLAINS-CLOTHED rangers were planted in the public gallery Tuesday because council bosses had a feeling something might happen. “There has been an escalating increase of non-compliance with the presiding member’s instructions at recent meetings, and also an increase in abusive emails to both staff and councillors in recent weeks,” acting CEO Mike Rootsey said. “There…

VINCENT council approved a million-dollar bike path for Leederville’s Oxford Street Tuesday. Oxford Street’s Tzanis Palioudakis submitted a 75-signature petition signed by himself and neighbours opposing the project, saying “there is a dedicated bike path along Britannia Reserve which is in place and working fine”. He fears cyclists will end up under the cars of…

IT’S taken lots of olives but the first stage of North Perth primary school’s nature playground has been built. The cash was raised thanks to schoolkids who picked clean the trees of willing locals who donated their fruit, along with a $2000 grant from Vincent council. The 52-metre disused area has been transformed into a…

THE Maylands Hawkers Markets has been put on ice by Bayswater city council, leaving locals fuming. Despite a committee recommendation to approve an extension, the council voted Tuesday to defer a decision until August. Mayor Sylvan Albert cast the deciding vote. Catherine Ehrhardt, who runs a group planning to take the markets over from the…

IF Vincent council was a private company, Mt Hawthorn resident Steve Allison says he’d take his business elsewhere. The council’s taken an extraordinary 115 days to process his application to knock down a garage and build a double garage with a bedroom on top. His first version of the plans was submitted in November. Council…

A SMALL group of HIV-positive locals gathered at the AIDS memorial in Roberton Park Friday, looking world-weary after news that AIDS conference delegates died aboard MH17. Diane Lloyd had been preparing to fly to the Melbourne conference the next day: “We didn’t have a choice about having HIV, but these people did choose to devote…