“PARKLETS” are set to spring up across Vincent. The council has approved a nine-month installation of the makeshift parking-bay cafes, following a successful trial on the Oxford Street strip. Businesses located along sections of Scarborough Beach, Chelmsford and Raglan Roads and Oxford, William, Angove, Brisbane and Bulwer Streets will be invited to plonk a parklet…

AFTER years of delays Hyde Park’s restoration is almost finished. Last Friday federal Perth Labor MP Stephen Smith and Vincent mayor Alannah MacTiernan launched the lakes’ sparkling new look, but the all-important “bio-filter” to help keep the water clean is not yet installed. Ms MacTiernan says the works will help stop water levels fall in…

GREENS & CO owner Stuart Lofthouse has removed the We Love Naomi Clark sign from his Oxford Street business. Mr Lofthouse told the Voice he took the sign down voluntarily as it had “served its purpose” and the council had not asked for its removal. “The purpose wasn’t to question who she was, but to…

THE Buddhist furnace at the Harold Street Indo-China Benevolent Association will be allowed to stay. Residents had complained the unauthorised incinerator—used to burn paper money and incense for the dead—was smoking out the neighbourhood and causing health issues. Ian Lu, an architect with the association, said they’d be willing to tone down use of the…

NORTH PERTH’S Macedonian community is set to get a new church after using one for more than 30 years that’s pointed the wrong way. In the 1970s local Macedonians moved into the former Anglican church on Angove Street. Its altar points south, not east, and they cannot perform traditional Easter ceremonies as the church abuts…

VINCENT city council has softened its stance on convicting people sleeping rough in cars in the city. Camping out in cars in Vincent’s streets was banned after backpackers ruined it for everyone with their boozy, messy sleepouts. The council will now only enforce the ban after receiving a complaint from a resident, ratepayer or police…

ANOTHER shop in the heart of Beaufort Street is closing. Zakka Box, opposite Lawley’s Bakery, is pulling down its kimono after selling Japanese homewares and gifts for just three years. Zakka owner Yuka Cork pulled out of her monthly lease after the landlord told her he was planning to redevelop. “I had no choice really,…

FOR the first time in nearly a decade the WA Museum will display a rare collection of Australian toys. The toys are drawn from a diverse collection of 24,000 childhood items, donated by Edith Cowan University in 2009. The collection includes toys, clothes, school equipment and other childhood items. Many toys are ingenious home-made creations,…

WA GREENS senator Scott Ludlam describes his political career as on a ”knife-edge”. He says the decimation of the Greens in the March state election—dropping from five to two MLCs—was a wake-up call: “In a perverse way the result has galvanised the party and attendances at party meetings have rocketed since the state election,” he…

WHERE is John Hyde? That is the question people have been asking since the former Perth Labor MP was defeated at the state elections three months ago. The loss meant it was the first time in 18 years Mr Hyde held no elected office. The former journalist and actor joined Vincent council in 1995 at…